Background & Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery; Fellow, the American College of Surgeons, Medical Board of California

Professional Background

June, 2004  Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship with John Q. Owsley, MD, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 
June, 2003  Plastic Surgery Fellowship (3 years) University Hospitals of Cleveland / Case Western Reserve University Affiliate Program, Cleveland, OH
June, 2000  General Surgery Internship and PGY 2-3 Residency (3 years)  
University Hospitals of Cleveland / Case Western Reserve University Affiliate Program
Cleveland, OH
May, 1997  Doctorate in Medicine (4 years) Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, TX
June, 1992  Biochemistry B.S., Magna Cum Laude (4 years), Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Publications and Presentations

Mosser, SW Chapter 2: Suture Materials in Southwestern University Plastic Surgery Handbook, Janis, J ed.  Submitted for publication
Mosser, SW Chapter 39: Lip Reconstruction in Southwestern University Plastic Surgery Handbook, Janis, J ed.  Submitted for publication
Mosser, SW Chapter 76: Facelift in Southwestern University Plastic Surgery Handbook, Janis, J ed.  Submitted for publication
Matsuoka, H, Seto, M, Mosser, SW, Seitz, WH.  Complications of Pin-Plate "Fragment Specific Fixation" for Distal Radius Fractures.  Poster presentation at American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA, 2/5/03-2/9/03
Mosser, SW, Guyuron, B, Janis, J, Rohrich, R.  The Anatomy of the Greater Occipital Nerve:  Implications on the Etiology of Migraine Headaches.  Plast. Recon. Surg 113(2):693-7.
Janis, J, Rohrich, R., Mosser, SW, Guyuron, B.  Anatomy of the Greater Occipital Nerve - Implications regarding the Etiology and Treatment of Migraine Headaches", presented at the 2002 Annual Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons Scientific Meeting, September 20th, 2002.
Mosser, SW, Guyuron, B, Janis, J, Rohrich, R.  The Anatomy of the Greater Occipital Nerve and Migraine Headaches.  Presented at the Ohio Valley Plastic Surgery Society Annual Meeting, June 7, 2002
Mosser, SW, Blinkhorn, R, Bernard, SB, Jordan, R, Malangoni, MRapidly Growing Mycobacteria Infections:  Support for Combined Surgical and Antibiotic Treatment.  Presented at the Ohio Valley Plastic Surgery Society Annual Meeting, June 8, 2001.
Friedman, J, Mosser, SW, Chapter 4: Closure Material in Operative Plastic Surgery, Evans, GR, ed. McGraw-Hill 1999.
Evans, GR, Friedman, J, Shenaq, J, Mosser, SW   Plantar flap reconstruction for acral lentiginous melanoma.  Ann Surg. Onc. 1997;4(7):575-78.
Friedman, J, Evans, G, Shenaq, J, Mosser, SW Reconstruction of Soft Tissue Defects Post Melanoma Resection: Experience with 114 Closures.  Presented at American College of Surgeons Meeting, March 16, 1996 San Antonio, TX
Di Maio, D, Mills, NS, Gum, A, Mosser, SW Attempted Synthesis of Hexamethyl Fulvene,  Microchemical Journal 47:167-71, 1993

Hobbies and Interests

Volunteer cleft lip and palate surgery in countries in development, travel, fiction writing.