Tommaso Addona's CV

Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, PC
999 Franklin Ave. Suite 300 Garden City, NY 11530

Tel 516.742-3404 Fax 516.535.6735

Place & Date of Birth

East Rockaway, New York
April 10th, 1976

Phone

(646) 642 – 7473

Citizenship

U.S.A.

Licensure

New York No. 233762 (exp. 03.31.2022)
DEA- FA0807024 (exp. 06.30.23)
NPI- 1306004353

Education

Professional

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, August 1998-June 2002

Honors:
Honors in Plastic Surgery Research

Awards:
National Cancer Institute Research Fellowship

Activities:
Student
Member, Curriculum Committee
Einstein Surgery Club
Intramural Basketball

Undergraduate

Binghamton University, NY
B.S. Molecular Psychobiology, August 1994 - June 1998

Honors:
Summa Cum Laude
Distinguished Independent Research in Psychobiology
Dean’s List – 8 semesters

Activities / Societies:
Phi Beta Kappa
Golden Key National Honor Society
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
University basketball
Intramural basketball, softball, football

Secondary

Chaminade High School, Mineola, NY, May 1994

Honors:
Highest Honors in Science
Highest Honors in Math

Activities:
Interscholastic Basketball, Football & Baseball
Glee Club
Hospital Volunteers Group

Research Experience

Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, Director of the Microvascular Research Lab, NYUMC.
A project to determine the effects of diabetes on flap survival in a mouse model., June 2001-May2002

T.S. Ravikumar, M.D., Chief of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center
National Cancer Institute Research Fellowship:
A project to determine the effects of cryosurgery or radiofrequency ablation on metastatic colon carcinoma, June 1999 - May2002

Robert VanBuskirk, PhD., Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Binghamton University
Honors Thesis Research: A project that evaluates the effects of hypothermic solution additives on MDCK cells and apoptosis. September 1996 – May 1998

Richard Esposito, MD Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYUMC.
A project to determine the pre-operative risk factors for mortality in octogenarians undergoing open heart surgery May 1996 – August 1997

Employment Experience

ATTENDING – President of Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, P.C. 7/09 – Present
(President since 2019) Garden City, New York
FELLOWSHIP – Microvascular and Reconstructive, 7/08 – 6/09
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
POSTDOCTORAL – Resident, Division of Plastic Surgery 7/05 - 6/08
TRAINING The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Intern and Resident, General Surgery 7/02 – 6/05
The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
CERTIFICATION – Diplomat, American Board of Plastic Surgery (2010)
NBME (2004)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS – Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Member of Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons
Member American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery

Publications

Re-excision Rate after Partial Mastectomy in Oncoplastic Breast Conserving Surgery: A Single Institutional Experience and Review of the Literature. Martin Benjamin, Catherine Sinnott, Sheina Bawa, David Kaufman, Katie Guarino, and Tommaso Addona. Annals of Plastic Surgery, December 2018.
Leadership Trends in Plastic Surgery. Tommaso Addona, Michael Polcino, Lester Silver, Peter J Taub. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. 2009; 123 (2): 750-53.
Safety and Reliability of Tattooing Colorectal Neoplasms prior to Laparoscopic Resection. Daniel Feingold, Tommaso Addona, Kenneth Forde, Tracey Arnell, Joseph Carter, Emina Huang, and Richard Whelan. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2004;8:543-546.
The Temporal Sequence of Periosteal Attachment after Elevation. Sean Boutros, Robert Bernard, Robert Galiano, Tommaso Addona, Barry Stokes, Joseph G McCarthy. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. 2003; 111 (6): 1942-1947.
Apoptosis Induced by Cryo-injury in Human Colorectal Cancer Cell is Associated with Mitochondrial Dysfunction. Weng-Lang Yang, Tommaso Addona, Deepak Nair, and T.S. Ravikumar. International Journal of Cancer. 2003; 103: 360-369.
Vitamin E and EDTA Improve the Efficacy of Hypothermosol - Implication of Apoptosis. Aby J. Mathew, Tommaso Addona, John G. Baust, Ph.D. and Robert Van Buskirk, Ph.D. In Vitro Molecular Toxicology.
1999; 12 (3): 163-172.

Abstracts and Presentations

Post-Operative Outcomes and Patient Satisfactions Following Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction. Aliano, K., Korsh, J., Guarino, K., Kaufman, D., Addona, T. (2014, September). Oral presentation presented at: Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons; Providence, RI.
Facial Artery Myomucosal Flap for Reconstruction of Partial Glossectomy Defects. Aliano, K., Korsh, J., O’brien, K., Kilgo, M., Addona, T., Saltman, B., Davenport, T., Frank, D. (2014, July). Oral presentation presented at: International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies/American Head and Neck Society Meeting; New York, NY.
Facial Artery Myomucosal Flap for Partial Glossectomy Defects: Speech and Swallow Outcomes. Aliano, K., Korsh, K., O’Brien, K., Stavrides, S., Addona, T., Frank, D., and Davenport, T. (2013, December). Oral presentation presented at: Combined Meeting of the Nassau Surgical Society, Inc. and the Brooklyn and Long Island Chapter of the American College of Surgeons; Uniondale, NY.
Spinal reconstruction with free vascularized fibula grafts, a modification in technique. Aliano, K., Low, C., Stavrides S., Agulnick M., Cohen B., Addona T., Goncalves J., Shin D., Kilgo M., Davenport, T. (2013, October). Oral Presentation presented at: American Society of Plastic Surgeons; San Diego, CA.
Facial artery myomucosal flap for reconstruction of partial glossectomy defects. Aliano K., Layliev J., Stavrides S., Addona T., Kilgo M., Frank D., Davenport T. (2013, October). Oral Presentation presented at: American College of Surgeons; Washington, DC.
Aliano K., Layliev J., Stavrides S., Addona T., Kilgo M., Frank D., Davenport T. (2013, September). Facial artery myomucosal flap for reconstruction of partial glossectomy defects. Oral Presentation presented at: Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons; Washington, DC.
Spinal reconstruction for osteomyelitis with free vascularized fibular grafts using intra-abdominal recipient vessels: A series of three cases. Aliano, K.A., Agulnick, M., Cohen, B., Gonya, G., Low, C., Stavrides, S., Addona, T., Goncalves, J., Shin, D., Kilgo, M.S., Davenport, T.A. Microsurgery. 2013 Sep 6. doi: 10.1002/micr.22150. [Epub ahead of print].
Facial artery myomucosal flap for reconstruction of partial glossectomy defects. Aliano K., Layliev J., Stavrides S., Addona T., Kilgo M., Frank D., Davenport T. (2012, December). Oral Presentation presented at: Annual Clinical Day-Combined Meeting of the Brooklyn and Long Island Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and Nassau Surgical Society; Uniondale, New York.
Anterior lumbar spine fusion using an expandable titanium cage fixation and intra-abdominal donor vessels, overcoming the challenges of vascularized fibula grafts to the spine. Davenport, T., Agulnick, M., Cohen, B., Addona, T., Goncalves, J., Shin, D. , Kilgo, M., Aliano, K. (2011, January). Oral Presentation presented at: American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Annual Meeting; Cancun, Mexico.
Component separation of the back: a simple modification for the closure of complex spinal wounds. Dazley, DM., Agulnick, M., Aliano, K.A., Stavrides, S., Kilgo, MS., Addona, T., Vellinga, RM., Davenport, T. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2010 Oct; 126(4 (Supplement)): 80.
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Annual Meeting. Reconstruction of partial glossectomy defects: The role of the FAMM flap. Tommaso Addona, Douglas Frank, Matthew Kilgo, Thomas Davenport. 2011.
The New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons Residents’ Night. Diagnostic
Biopsy of Median Motor Nerve Branch: Indications, Technique, and Applications. Tommaso Addona, Jess Ting. 2007. Winner Resident Presentation Award
Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons 24th Annual Meeting. Leadership Trends in Plastic Surgery. Tommaso Addona, Michael Polcino, Lester Silver, Peter J Taub. 2007.
American College of Surgeons 87th Clinical Congress. Sublethal Cryoablation triggers a Caspase Cascade in Human Colon Cancer Cells. Weng-Lang Yang, Lixin Qi, Tommaso Addona, T.S. Ravikumar, MD. 2001
American Association for Cancer Research 92nd Annual Meeting. Apoptosis induced by Cryo-Injury in various Human Colon Cancer Cell Lines. Tommaso Addona, W.L. Yang, & T.S. Ravikumar, MD. New Orleans, LA. 2000