Certification/Licensure:

• Board Certifired, American Board of Plastic Surgery Nov 2006
• Board Certified, American Board of Surgery April 2000
• Chief of Surgery Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill , SC 2010- 2011

Plastic Surgery

• Akron Summa Healthcare Systems
  Akron, OH
  Department of Plastic Surgery
  Plastic Surgery Residency
  July 2002 to June 2004
  
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  Department of Plastics Surgery
  Hand Surgery Fellowship
  July 2001 to July 2002

General Surgery

• Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Department of Surgery
  Residency
  July 1992 to July 1999

Medical School

• Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM)
  Rootstown, OH
  Doctor of Medicine, 1992
  Graduated with Honors

College

• University of Akron
  Akron, OH
  Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude 1990
  Major: Natural Sciences
  Graduated with Honors

Honors and Awards:

• Graduated with Honors from Medical School 1992
• Approinted tutor to Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry to 1st year Medical Students.
• National Golden Key, University of Akron, 1986
• Phi Sigma Alpha Honor Society, University of Akron, 1986
• Cum Laude Society, University of Akron, 1990

Research Experience:

• Laboratory of Cellular Therapeutics
  Direction of Suzanne T. Ildstad, M.D.
  Pittsburgh, PA
  July 1994 to June 1996
  
• Research Fellow
  Projects included Morphologic analysis of Graft Facilitating Cells, Imaging of Graft Facilitating Cells, and Bone Marrow Chimerism In a Primate Model.
  
• Techniques: Rare event cell sorting, fluorescent cell labeling and imaging, Flow cytometry, and Fluorescent in-situ hybridization.
  
• Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  Vascular Research Laboratory
  Direction of Steven P. Schmidt, PhD. And William V. Sharp, M.D.
  June 1989 to August 1989
  Projects included Intimal hyperplasia in autogenous vein grafts.

Presentations:

• VPI in noncleft patients, Ohio Valley Society of Plastics Surgeons
  May 2003
• Grand Round Presentations For The Plastic Surgery Department at SUMMA, Akron, OH
  • Soft Tissue Injury of the Head and Neck, May 2003
  • Integumeny , December 2002
  • Biomaterials in Plastic Surgery, September 2002
• Grand Round Presentations For the Hand Conference at UVA, Charlottesville
  • Vascular Disorders of the Hand, April 2002
  • Hand Tumors, February 2002
  • Congenital Disorders of the Hand, October 2001
  • Nerve Compression Syndrome, September 2001
  • Hand Infections, August 2001
• Treatment of Acute Intractable Rejection in Cardiac Transplant Patients with FK-506, Wisconsin Surgical Meeting, Madison, WI October 1997
• Bone Marrow Transplant Facilitating Cells – Tracking and Characterization by Optical Imaging, First International Tissue Engineering Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1996
• Morphologic Analysis of Graft Facilitating Cells: Evidence for a myeloid derivation, Wisconsin Surgical Meeting, Madison, WI, September 1996
• Morphologic Analysis of Graft Facilitating Cells: Evidence for a myeloid derivation, American Society of Transplant Physicians, Dallas, TX, May 1996
• Intimal hyperplasia in Autogenous Vein Grafts, Midwest Medical Student Research Forum in Omaha, NE, February 1990

Abstracts and Publications:

• Pillai MV, Kaufman CL, Colson YL, Ildstad SI. Dichotomy between Bone Marrow Engraftment and Graft versus Host Disease. Journal of Hematotherapy
  
• Pillai MV, Farkas DL, Fisher G, Schmidt G, Ildstad SI. (Meeting Abstract). Bone Marrow Transplant Facilitating Cells- Tracking and Characterization by Optical Imaging. Tissue Engineering Supplement pages 69-70, First International Tissue Engineering Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1996
  
• Pillai MV, Kaplan SL, Ildstad ST. Morphologic analysis of Graft Facilitating Cells: Evidence for a Myeloid Derivation. (Meeting Abstract). American Society of Transplant Physicians, Dallas, TX, May 1996
  
• Kaufman CL, Michaels MG, Colson YL, Pham S, Huneke R, Pillai MV, Gaines BA, Greenberger J, Ildstad ST. Human bone marrow engraftment in a sublethal primate model of bone marrow transplantation. (Meeting Abstract). Third International Symposium on Tolerance Induction, Breckenridge, CO, January 1995
  
• Michaels MG, Kaufman CL, Huneke R, Colson YL, Pillai MV, Pham S. Gaines B, Greenberger J, Ildstad ST. Multilineage mixed chimerism in non-human primates using a nonlethal conditioning approach. (Meeting Abstract). Third International Symposium on Tolerance Induction. Breckenridge, CO, January 1995
  
• Pillai MV, Workman JL, Schmidt SP, Donovan DL, and Sharp WV. Intimal Hyperplasia in Autogenous Vein Grafts. (Meeting Abstract). Midwest Medical Student Research Forum in Omaha, NE, February 1990

Professional Organizations:

• American Board of Surgery
• American Medical Association
• American College of Phlebology