Jiaxi Chen, MD
RESIDENT
Surgery
School of Medicine

Jiaxi Chen received his MD from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas in 2017 and subsequently completed his general surgery residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA in 2023. He studied under the direction of Dr. Randy Sherman at Cedars-Sinai during the dedicated research year of his surgery residency.

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Dr. Chen joined the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at University of California San Francisco as a plastic surgery resident in 2023. His clinical interests include hand surgery and microsurgery.

Awards

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• Outstanding Paper Presentation, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2021
• 2021 Best Paper Award, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2021

Education & Training

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• Residency General Surgery Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 06/2023
• MD Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Southwestern Medical School 06/2017
• BBA/BS Finance University of Texas at Austin 06/2013

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
MicrobubblesContractureAcellular DermisPancreasDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalRegenerationInsulin-Secreting CellsGene Transfer TechniquesGlucagon-Like Peptide 1MammaplastyAngiopoietinsCyclin D2Thoracic WallBlood GlucoseGenetic Therapy

• Masculinizing hormone therapy effect on breast tissue: Changes in estrogen and androgen receptors in transgender female-to-male mastectomies.
  Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2023 Chaum M, Grossi S, Chen J, Hu V, Ray E, Giuliano A, Bose S
• Defining sexual dimorphism in masculinizing chest surgery using 3-dimensional imaging.
  Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS 2023 Azadgoli B, Samaha Y, Chen J, Ray E
• ADMs and synthetic meshes improve implant-based breast reconstruction aesthetics, but at what cost?
  Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS 2023 Samaha Y, Chen J, Ray EC
• The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Effect on Public Sentiments Regarding Elective Plastic Surgery in the United States.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Chen J, Ray EC
• Engineering brown fat into skeletal muscle using ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction gene delivery in obese Zucker rats: Proof of concept design.
  IUBMB life 2017 Bastarrachea RA, Chen J, Kent JW, Nava-Gonzalez EJ, Rodriguez-Ayala E, Daadi MM, Jorge B, Laviada-Molina H, Comuzzie AG, Chen S, Grayburn PA

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• ANGPTL8 reverses established adriamycin cardiomyopathy by stimulating adult cardiac progenitor cells.
  Oncotarget 2016 Chen S, Chen J, Meng XL, Shen JS, Huang J, Huang P, Pu Z, McNeill NH, Grayburn PA
• In vivo targeted delivery of ANGPTL8 gene for beta cell regeneration in rats.
  Diabetologia 2015 Chen J, Chen S, Huang P, Meng XL, Clayton S, Shen JS, Grayburn PA
• Myocardial regeneration in adriamycin cardiomyopathy by nuclear expression of GLP1 using ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction.
  Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2015 Chen S, Chen J, Huang P, Meng XL, Clayton S, Shen JS, Grayburn PA
• Successful β cells islet regeneration in streptozotocin-induced diabetic baboons using ultrasound-targeted microbubble gene therapy with cyclinD2/CDK4/GLP1.
  Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2014 Chen S, Bastarrachea RA, Roberts BJ, Voruganti VS, Frost PA, Nava-Gonzalez EJ, Arriaga-Cazares HE, Chen J, Huang P, DeFronzo RA, Comuzzie AG, Grayburn PA
• Stimulation of adult resident cardiac progenitor cells by durable myocardial expression of thymosin beta 4 with ultrasound-targeted microbubble delivery.
  Gene therapy 2012 Chen S, Shimoda M, Chen J, Grayburn PA
• Ectopic transgenic expression of NKX2.2 induces differentiation of adult pancreatic progenitors and mediates islet regeneration.
  Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2012 Chen S, Shimoda M, Chen J, Matsumoto S, Grayburn PA
• Transient overexpression of cyclin D2/CDK4/GLP1 genes induces proliferation and differentiation of adult pancreatic progenitors and mediates islet regeneration.
  Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2012 Chen S, Shimoda M, Chen J, Matsumoto S, Grayburn PA