Background & Specialties

Board Certification

Diplomat, American Board of Plastic Surgery

Professional Background

7/01-6/04
Emory University Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Fellow, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Chairman: T. Rod Hester, M.D.

7/00-6/01
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
Categorical Resident, General Surgery
Chairman: H. Leon Pachter, M.D.

6/98-6/00
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Craniofacial Research Fellow
Preceptor: Michael T. Longaker, M.D.

7/95-6/98
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
Categorical Resident, General Surgery
Chairman: H. Leon Pachter, M.D., Frank C. Spencer, M.D.

09/91-5/95
Medical Degree
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY

09/87-5/91
Bachelor’s Degree
Columbia College, Columbia University
New York, NY

Publications and Presentations

Dr. Greenwald has published over fifty peer-reviewed manuscripts and given numerous presentations.  For a comprehensive list, please contact our office. 

Greenwald, JA, Mehrara, BJ, Spector, JA, Smith, LP, Ueno, H, Warren, SM, Fagenholz, PJ, Bouletreau, PJ, Longaker, MT. Targeted in utero adenovirus-mediated over-expression of FGF-2 results in plagiocephaly. Presented at the Plastic Surgery Research Council, Seattle, WA, May, 2000. (Peter J. Gingrass, M.D. Memorial Award)

Greenwald, JA, Mehrara, BJ, Spector, JA, Warren, SM, Fagenholz, PJ, Crisera, FE, Nijher, NS, Detch, RC, Longaker, MT. Regional differentiation of cranial suture-associated dura mater in vivo and in vitro. Presented at the Plastic Surgery Research Council, Seattle, WA, May, 2000. (Peter J. Gingrass, M.D. Memorial Award)

Greenwald, JA, Mehrara, BJ, Spector, JA, Ueno, H, Smith, LP, Fagenholz, PJ, Chin, GS, Longaker, MT. In vivo modulation of FGF-signaling alters cranial suture fate. Presented at the Americal College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL, October, 2000.

Greenwald, JA, Mehrara, BJ, Spector, JA, Smith, LP, Ueno, H, Warren, SM, Fagenholz, PJ, Bouletreau, PJ, Longaker, MT. Gene therapy of cranial sutures with a truncated, dominant-negative FGF receptor in vitro and in vivo. Presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2000.

Greenwald, JA. Cranial suture biology: gene expression and therapeutic interventions. Presented at Emory Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, November 2001.

Greenwald, JA. Peripheral Nerve Compression Syndromes. Presented at Emory Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, March, 2002.

Greenwald, JA. Soft tissue coverage of the digits. Presented at Emory Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, November, 2002.

Greenwald, JA. Cranial suture biology, DO and ORN: what is going on in the inside… Oral Surgery Grand Rounds, Emory University; Arpil, 2003.

Hobbies and Interests

Swimming, Scuba