Justin M Sacks, MD, MBA, FACS

Board Certification
American Board of Plastic Surgery

Medical School
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University, New York, N.Y., 1998

Graduate School
MBA, Carey School of Business, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 2016

Residency
1999 Internship, General Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
2001 Residency, General Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
2004 Residency, Plastic Surgery (Combined Program), Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y.

Fellowship
2004-2006 Plastic Surgery/Microsurgery Research and Clinical Fellowship, Division of Plastic Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

2006-2007 Hand, Upper Extremity and Microsurgery Fellowship, Division of Plastic Surgery/Department of Orthopedics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

2007-2008 Microsurgery Cancer Reconstruction Fellowship, Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

• American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society of Reconstructive Transplantation
• American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery
• European Plastic Surgery Research Council
• Plastic Surgery Research Council

• 2019 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Co-Founder LifeSprout
• 2019 The Core Surgery Clerkship Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
• 2018 Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 2018 The Core Surgery Clerkship Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery
• 2018 Living the Hopkins Mission honoree, selected for 125th anniversary of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 2018 Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery: Reconstructive. Baltimore Magazine, The Maryland General Assembly
• 2017 Top Doctor in Plastic Surgery: Reconstructive. Baltimore Magazine, The Maryland General Assembly.
• 2017 The Core Surgery Clerkship Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Surgery
• 2017 Resident Research Award (Senior Author). 34th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons. Newport, R.I.
• 2017 Outstanding Paper and Poster Presentation Award (Senior Author). PSTM 2017. Next- Generation Dermal Filler: Nanofiber- Hydrogel Composite. Orlando, Fla.
• 2017 “Pitch and Play” – The Association of University Technology Managers. Venture Challenge. Business plan competition. Selected from 43 national academic-based tech ventures
• 2016, Mercury Patch: a low-cost, targeted monitoring system for the detection and prevention of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients
• 2016 Second Place, Johns Hopkins University Design Day
• 2016 The Core Surgery Clerkship Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Surgery
• 2015 Best Resident Presentation (Principal Investigator), American Association of Plastic Surgery, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• 2014 Clifford C. Snyder, MD Best Paper Award (Co-Author), Plastic Surgery Research Council, 59th Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y.
• 2014 Best Clinical Research Project, Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Resident Research Day, Baltimore, Md.
• 2013 J.K. Hardesty, MD Best Poster Award (Co-Author), Plastic Surgery Research Council 58th Annual Meeting, Santa Monica, Calif.
• 2012 National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute Travel Award (Senior Author), 8th Annual Meeting of American Physician Scientists Association, Chicago, Ill.
• 2012 Third Best Clinical Vignette (Senior Author), 97th American Medical Womens’ Association Annual Meeting, Miami, Fla.
• 2012 J.K. Hardesty, MD Best Poster Award (Senior Author), Plastic Surgery Research Council 57th Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 2008 James Barrett Brown Manuscript Award Nomination, American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Boston, Mass.
• 2008 Joseph L. Posch, MD Award. Resident Scientific Paper Competition. Best Research Paper (Co-Author), The Annual Meeting of the American Association Hand Surgery (AAHS), Los Angeles, Calif.
• 2007 Best Poster Presentation (Co-Author), Department of Surgery Research Day, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• 2007 Best Clinical Research Presentation, Plastic Surgery Resident Research Day, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• 2007 Best Basic Science Research Paper (Co-Author), The Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Bermuda
• 2007 First Place, Basic Science Paper (Co-Author), The Annual Meeting of Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, Indianapolis, Ind.
• 2007 Second Place, Basic Science Paper (Co-Author), Robert H. Ivy Society and the John Staige Davis Society, Hershey, Pa.
• 2006 Joseph L. Posch, MD Award. Resident Scientific Paper Competition. Best Basic Research Paper, The Annual Meeting of the American Association Hand Surgery (AAHS), Tucson, Ariz.
• 2006 Best Poster Presentation (Co-Author), Department of Surgery Research Day, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• 2006 American Society of Transplant Surgeons Abstract Travel Award, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, State of the Art Winter Symposium, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• 2005 Best Basic Science Paper (Co-author) – Second Place, The Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, Aurora, Ohio
• 2005 Best Basic Science Research Paper (Co-Author), The Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Naples, Fla.
• 2005 Best Clinical Paper – Second Place (Co-Author), The Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, Aurora, Ohio
• 2000 Medical Student Teaching Award in Surgery for Outstanding Teaching by a Junior Resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, N.Y.
• 1998 Outstanding Clinical Skills Award – 4th Year, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
• 1997 Alpha Omega Alpha, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.

• Advancements in the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation, tissue engineering and vascular perfusion assessment.
• Clinical reconstruction of all forms of acquired, oncological and traumatic defects ranging from the head and neck to the breast, chest, abdomen, pelvis and extremities.

Innovations

• Composite synthetic scaffold of soft-tissue reconstruction
• Biomedical device to reduce the incidence of pressure sores

Financial Disclosures
Sacks is the co-founder of Lifesprout.