Dr. Fereydoun Don Parsa is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii. He completed his plastic surgery and microsurgery training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston-Texas and was a faculty member before moving to Hawaii to join the Department of Surgery. He has received several Excellence in Teaching awards from the medical students and surgery residents and more recently he was honored with the coveted “Physician of the Year” and “Lifetime Achievement” awards from The Hawaii Medical Association. He is the founder of the John A. Burns School of Medicine Osler Society and the Program Director of the Hawaii Plastic Surgery Symposium/Pan-Pacific Surgical Association. In this capacity, he organizes once every two years a 3-5 days national meeting in Honolulu. He has volunteered to multiple medical missions to the Philippines and elsewhere to repair and teach the repair of congenital deformities such as cleft lip and palates.
Dr. Parsa is the author of more than 100 surgical publications and book chapters. His more recent investigations focus on the importance of patient education in avoiding opioid analgesic use and on the improvement of patients’ wellbeing after surgical procedures. His longstanding interest has been in the teaching of students and residents in surgery and in the art of microsurgery. More recently his research activities have focused on the importance of endogenous endorphins and on the elimination of opioid analgesics in the practice of surgery. The findings of this major study were recently published (“Effect of Preoperative Patient Education on Opioid Consumption and Well-Being” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: 145, No. 2: 316e-323e, 2020).
F. Don Parsa, M.D.
Professor & Chief of Plastic Surgery Division