Dr. Ash Patel: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of surgery in the division of plastic, maxillofacial and oral surgery at Duke University
- Quoted on
- Plastic & reconstructive surgery
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“These are highly effective weight-loss tools, and they are changing the patient population we see in body contouring. We're operating on people whose bodies have undergone rapid, profound changes, and that affects healing.”
What Dr. Ash Patel has said
“Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Ash Patel enters an operating room at Duke University Hospital.”
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon · Plastic & reconstructive surgery · 30 Sept 2026 · How Weight Loss Drugs Pose Challenges for Plastic Surgeons ↗
“Thinking about global surgery that led us to think about the situation in the Hamas-Israel conflict, really thinking about how do we know what resources are needed, how do know what the degree of injuries are in terms of helping people there.”
Professor of surgery in the division of plastic, maxillofacial and oral surgery at Duke University · Plastic & reconstructive surgery · 29 Sept 2026 · Up to 46,000 injuries in Gaza require reconstructive surgery: Study ↗
Where Dr. Ash Patel has been quoted
- How weight loss drugs pose challenges for plastic surgeonsmedicalxpress.com · 30 Sept 2026
- How Weight Loss Drugs Pose Challenges for Plastic Surgeonstoday.duke.edu · 30 Sept 2026
- Up to 46,000 injuries in Gaza require reconstructive surgery: Studyabcnews.com · 29 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
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