Dr. Amy Moore is a plastic surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She specializes in super microsurgery for peripheral nerve injuries and peripheral neuropathies including complex hand and trauma reconstructive surgery. She regularly performs procedures to reanimate limbs, relieve patients’ debilitating pain, and restore sensation for those with nerve injuries.
She is one of the few peripheral nerve surgeons in the world, and she has a focus on improving her patients’ quality of life. Nerve growth is a years-long process, and she supports her patients the entire way through recuperating and regaining function after surgery.
Her research is focused on developing treatments to make nerve regrowth more efficient and faster. She is also exploring strategies for rewiring nerves with the goal of preventing muscle atrophy, restoring motion and relieving pain.
She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in addition to other publications.she also leads a federally funded translational scientific research investigation of advanced limb reconstruction.
In addition to this she helps to train the next generation of physicians. She is a professor ands serve as the chair of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is on the scientific advisory board for the International Symposium of Neural Regeneration, the board of the American Association for Hand Surgery and the American Society for Peripheral Nerve.
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