CURRICULUM VITAE

OVERVIEW

Personal

Business Address

530 Hammill Lane, Reno, NV 89511

Phone

775-825-1234

Fax

775-825-2633

Email

kiener1234@aol.com

Citizenship

USA

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Education

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE

  • Case Western Reserve University

    Cleveland, Ohio | B.A. Biology | 1974

MEDICAL DEGREE

  • University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

    Cincinnati, Ohio M.D | 1981

Continuing Medical Education

  • Available Upon Request

Postgraduate Training

RESIDENT

  • University of Illinois at Chicago: Department of Surgery

    Chicago, Illinois | 1981-1983

  • University of Illinois at Chicago: Department of Surgery

    Chicago, Illinois | 1985-1988

  • University of California at San Francisco: Division of Plastic Surgery

    San Francisco, California | 1989-1991

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

  • Albany Medical College: Department of Physiology

    Albany, New York | 1983-1985

  • Resident,

Professional Experience

PLASTIC SURGEON

  • Northern Nevada Plastic Surgery Associates: Plastic Surgery Associates

    Reno, Nevada | August 1991 – May 1995

  • Plastic Surgeon, Joseph L. Kiener MD Chartered

    Reno, Nevada | May 1995 – Current

ATTENDING SURGEON

  • Cook County Hospital: Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care

    Chicago, Illinois | 1988-1989

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Honors

  • Eleanor B. Pillsbury Research Fellow

    University of Illinois | 1983-1985

  • NIH Postdoctoral Trauma and Burn Research Fellow: Department of Physiology

    Albany Medical College | 1983-1985

  • Administrative Chief Resident, Department of Surgery

    University of Illinois at Chicago | 1987-1988

  • Best Resident Teacher, Department of Surgery

    University of Illinois at Chicago | 1988

Licensures

  • Physician and Surgeon, State of Illinois

    License # 036-065327, Inactive

  • Physician, New York

    License # 155-526,

  • Physician and Surgeon, State of California

    License # G065389, Active

  • Physician and Surgeon, State of Nevada

    License # 6269, Active

  • Controlled Substance License, Federal Drug Enforcement Agency

    License # AK1852652, Active

  • Physician and Surgeon, State of Washington

    License # MD60109623, Inactive

SERVICE WORK

Community Work

  • State of Nevada Medical-Legal Screening Panel

    1995-2002

  • School Board Member, Our Lady of Snows

    Reno, Nevada | 1996-1997

International Volunteer Missions

  • Philippine-American Medical Society of Northern California

    Tagbilaran, Bohol, P.I. | January 1999

  • Hospital De La Familia Foundation

    Nuevo Progresso, Guatemala | May 2000

MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

Society Memberships

FELLOW

  • American College of Surgeons

MEMBER

  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  • International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  • Karl Meyer Surgical Society
  • Nevada Medical Society
  • Rocky Mountain Association of Plastic Surgeons
  • Warren H. Cole Society

Administrative Activities

  • Washoe Medical Center: Operating Room Committee

    Reno, Nevada | 1994-2000

  • Washoe Medical Center: Chief, Department of Surgery

    Reno, Nevada | 1996-1998

  • Washoe Medical Center: Executive Staff Committee

    Reno, Nevada | 1996-1998

  • Quail Surgical and Pain Management Center: Management Committee

    Reno, Nevada | 2000-2009

Invited Presentations

  • St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center: Postoperative Care Seminar

    “Postoperative Care of the Plastic Surgery Patient”

    Reno, Nevada | April 1992

  • University of California: Plastic Surgery Dinner Lecture Series

    “Current Concepts in Blepharoplasty”

    San Francisco, California | October 1992

  • Washoe Medical Center: Trauma Section

    “Lower Extremity Reconstruction” November 1992

  • Washoe Medical Center: Hand Therapists

    “Soft Tissue Coverage of Hand Injuries”

    Reno, Nevada | November 1993

  • Washoe Medical Center: Trauma Section

    “Maxillofacial Trauma”

    Reno, Nevada, August 1993

  • Trauma Section, Washoe Medical Center

    “The Mangled Extremity : Acute and Chronic Management”

    Reno, Nevada | October 1993

  • American Society of Critical Care Nurses

    “Evolution of Breast Reconstruction”

    Reno, Nevada | December 1993

  • Washoe Medical Center: Trauma Section

    “The Mangled Extremity: Acute and Chronic Management”

    Reno, Nevada | August 1994

  • Washoe Medical Center: Trauma Section

    “Burns: A Paradigm of Injury”

    Reno, Nevada | October 1994

  • University of California: Plastic Surgery Dinner Lecture Series

    “The Lateral Femoral Circumflex Axis: In Search of the Perfect Donor Site”

    San Francisco, California | November 1994

  • University of Nevada Surgical Clerkship Lectures, Per Schedule

    “Wounds and Wound Healing”

    1991 – 2000

  • University of California at San Francisco Plastic Surgery Alumni Meeting

    “Transaxillary Breast Augmentation: Before and After the Endoscope”

    June 2001

  • University of California at San Francisco Plastic Surgery Alumni Meeting

    “Anterior Latissimus Flap for Immediate Breast Reconstruction”

    June 2003

  • University of California at San Francisco Plastic Surgery Alumni Meeting

    “Suction-Assisted Lipectomy: From Loathing to Loving”

    June 2003

  • University of California at San Francisco Plastic Surgery Alumni Meeting

    “Vertical Reduction Mammoplasty”

    June 2003

  • University of California at San Francisco Plastic Surgery Alumni Meeting

    “Peri-Oral Rejuvenation”

    June 2009

APPOINTMENTS

Academic Appointments

  • University of Illinois at Chicago: Instructor, Department of Surgery

    Chicago, Illinois | 1987-1988

  • University of Illinois at Chicago: Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

    Chicago, Illinois | 1988-1989

  • University of Nevada: Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

    Reno, Nevada | 1997-Present

Hospital Appointments

  • St Mary’s Regional Medical Center: Active Staff

    Reno, Nevada

  • Renown Regional Medical Center: Active Staff

    Reno, Nevada

  • Renown South Meadows Medical Center: Active Staff

    Reno, Nevada

  • Seton Medical Center: Courtesy Staff

    Daly City, California, Courtesy Staff

Publications

Manuscripts

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Saba, T.M.

    Comparative effects of circulating bacterial or non-bacterial particles on plasma fibronectin: Relationship to lung deposition of blood-borne foreign particles. Circ. Shock 19:357-370, 1986

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Saba, T.M.

    Factor XIIIa as a modulator of plasma fibronectin alternations during experimental bacteremia. J. Trauma 26: 1013-1023, 1986

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E. and Blumenstock, F.A.

    Clearance and distribution of plasma fibronectin in septic rats: Relationship to synthetic rate. Amer. J. Physiol.251:R724-734, 1986

  • Kiener, J.L., Hoffman, W.Y., and Mathes, S.J.

    Influence of radiotherapy on microvascular reconstruction in the head and neck region. Am. J. Surgery 162: 4040-4047, 1991

Abstracts

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Saba, T.M.

    A potential role for factor XIIIa deficiency in the etiology of the elevation of plasma fibronectin during sepsis in rats. Fed. Proc. 43: 705, 1984

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Saba, T.M.

    Rebound elevation of plasma fibronectin during experimental bacteremia: Increased fibronectin synthesis or Factor XIII deficiency. Circ. Shock 13: 102, 1984

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Saba, T.M.

    Reticuloendothelial function following infusion of particulates: Relationship to plasma fibronectin. Current Surgery 43: 37-39, 1985

  • Kiener, J.L., Cho, E., and Blumenstock, F.A.

    Plasma fibronectin synthesis and clearance in post-operative septic rats. Surg. Infec. Soc., Abstract volume, p. 65, 1990

  • Marschall, M.A., Haviv, Y., Kiener, J.L. and Cohen, M.

    Effects of rigid fixation on the growing craniomaxillofacial skeleton. Plastic Surgery Research Council, Abstract volume, p. 65, 1990

  • Kiener, J.L., Hoffman, W.Y., and Mathes, S.J.

    Influence of preoperative radiation on the success of subsequent microvascular reconstruction. Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, Abstract volume, p. 130, 1991

  • Kiener, J.L., and Rand, R.P.

    Early experience with the anterolateral thigh flap. Plastic Surgical Forum, Volume 16, p. 115-116, 1993

  • Kiener, J.L.

    Anterolateral thigh free flap: Coverage of upper extremity defects. American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Abstract volume, 1995

Case Reports

  • Robin, A.P., Kiener, J.L., Martin, M.A., and Barrett, J.A.

    diaphragmatic hernia with liver injury presenting as bilious hydrothorax.Digestive Surgery 7: 182-184, 1990

Book Chapters

  • Kiener, J.L. and Ratych, R.L.

    Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis. Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Editor George Zuidema, W.B. Saunders Co., 1990

  • Mathes, S.J. and Kiener, J.L.

    Oral and Pharyngeal Reconstruction with Transposition Flaps. Mastery of Plastic Surgery Editor Mimis Cohen, Little, Brown and Co., 1994

Research Presentations

  • FASEB

    “A Potential Role for the Factor XIIIa Deficiency in the Etiology of the Elevation of Plasma Fibronectin during Sepsis in the Rat”
    St. Louis, Missouri | April 1984

  • Shock Society

    “Rebound Elevation of Plasma Fibronectin during Experimental Bacteremia: Increased Fibronectin Synthesis or Factor XIII Deficiency?”
    Toronoto, Ontario, Canada | June 1984

  • Society of University Surgeons

    “Reticuloendothelial Phagocytic Function Following Infusion of Particulates: Relationship to Plasma Fibronectin”
    Boston, Massachusetts | February 1985

  • Surgical Infection Society

    “Plasma Fibronectin Synthesis and clearance in Post-operative Septic Rats”
    Chicago, Illinois | April 1986

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons

    “Complications of Cranial Radiation: Management with Free Muscle Transfer”
    San Francisco, California | March 1991

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons

    “Perioperative Tobacco Use in Free Flap Patients”
    San Francisco, California | March 1991

  • Society of Head and Neck Surgeons

    “Influence of Preoperative Radiation on the Success of Subsequent Microvascular Reconstruction”
    Maui, Hawaii | May 1991

  • American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

    “Early Experience with the Anterolateral Thigh Flap”
    New Orleans, Louisiana | September 1993

  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand

    “Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap: Coverage of Upper Extremity Defects”
    Marco Island, Florida | January 1995

  • Rocky Mountain Plastic Surgery Society

    “Immediate Breast Reconstruction with Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap and Saline Implants: Elimination of the Posterior Scar”
    Cancun, Mexico | April 2002

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting

    “Lateral Flap Mastopexy”
    Las Vegas, Nevada | June 2006
    California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, June 2007 “Immediate Breast Reconstruction with Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap and Implants: Elimination of the Posterior Scar”

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting

    “Supra Zygomatic SMAS Flap and Lower Eyelid Aesthetics and Function”
    Dana Point, California | June 2008

  • First American Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting

    “Peri-Oral Rejuvenation”
    Park City, Utah | February 2009

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting

    “Modification of the Weston Corner of Mouth Lift”
    Squaw Creek, California | June 2009

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting

    “Combined Abdominoplasty and SAL of the Posterior Trunk: Safety and Efficacy”
    Coronado Island, California | May 2012

  • Vegas Cosmetic Surgery 2012

    “Retrospective Analysis of Periocular Complications and Aesthetic Outcomes Following Routine Suprazygomatic SMAS and Orbicularis Oculi Transection in Facelifts”
    Las Vegas, Nevada | June 2012

  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting

    “Direct to Implant Breast Reconstruction with the Anteriorly Harvested Latissimus Flap”
    San Francisco, California | June 2013,