Maria Siemionow, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.

I wish to thank Dr. Maria Siemionow for serving as guest editor and for the exceptional group of knowledgeable authors that she has brought together to write on “Allograft Transplantation” for Seminars in Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Siemionow is known nationally and internationally for her 20 years of experimental work on composite tissue allografts and tolerance-inducing strategies. She received her medical degree from Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland, in 1974 and completed residency training at the Institute for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Medicine in Poznan, Poland, in 1977 and a Neurosurgery and Traumatology residency at Municipal Hospital in Piekary, Slaskie, Finland. Dr. Siemionow secured additional years of specialty training at University Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, in hand surgery and at the University of Louisville Hospital as a Christine M. Kleinert Fellow in Hand Surgery and Research Fellow in Hand and Microsurgery.

Dr. Siemionow worked as research director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine for 5 years before joining the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in 1995 where she heads Cleveland Clinic's Section on Plastic Surgery Research and is on staff with Cleveland Clinic's Transplantation Center and Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Immunology. She is also professor of surgery at the Department of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.