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Niv Milbar, MD

Niv Milbar
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Undergraduate: Princeton University

About Dr. Milbar

Dr. Niv Milbar is currently a Chief Resident in the Division of Plastic Surgery. He graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University with a degree in Molecular Biology and minor certificates in Global Health & Health Policy as well as in Hebrew Language & Culture. He then went on to work as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company before obtaining his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Milbar’s research interests focus on medical device innovation for facial reanimation and in clinical outcomes after reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. His clinical interests focus on complex microsurgical reconstruction for trauma and cancer as well as aesthetic surgery. Following residency, Dr. Milbar will be completing a fellowship in Reconstructive Microsurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Societies

  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Resident Program
  • The Aesthetic Society, Resident and Fellows Forum
  • American Association for Hand Surgery, Resident Member
  • Sigma Xi Research Society
  • ASPS/PSF 2024 Coding and Payment Policy Committee
  • ASPS Technology, Innovation, Disruption, and Entrepreneurship Committee

Awards

  • The Saitama Medical University of Japan – Johns Hopkins Exchange Program
  • The Persky Family Foundation Fellowship
  • Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society
  • Molecular Biology Research Grant, Princeton University
  • Global Health and Health Policy Research Grant, Princeton University

Research

2019 – Present
Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA

2018 - 2019
Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore, Maryland
Advisor: Justin M. Sacks, MD, MBA, FACS

2016 - 2019
The Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore, Maryland
Advisor: Trinity J. Bivalacqua, MD, PhD

2012 - 2013
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey
Advisor: Leon E. Rosenberg, MD

2011
Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic| Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
Advisor: Rüdiger Ettrich, PhD

2010
Penn Cardiovascular Institute/Molecular Cardiology Research Center | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Advisor: Kenneth B. Margulies, MD

Publications

  1. Kim CYJ, Yang L, Anbuchelvan A, Garg R, Milbar N, Vitale F, Sung C. Origami-Inspired Bistable Gripper with Self-Sensing Capabilities. Submitted to 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft). San Diego, CA, April, 2024. 
  2. Amro, C, Desai A, Milbar N, Ryan I, Hu S, McGraw JR, Broach RB, Azoury SC, Levin LS, Kovach SJ. The Burden of Lower Extremity Fasciotomies: An Indication for an Early Multidisciplinary Approach. Submitted for Publication. 
  3. Azoury SC, Milbar N, Kimia R, Nguyen JC, Othman S, McAndrew C, Kovach SJ, Carrigan RB, Steinberg DR, Bozentka DJ, Lin IC, Levin LS, Chang B. Four-Year Follow-Up of the World's First Pediatric Bilateral Hand-Forearm Transplants: Do They Grow as Expected? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020 Dec;146(6):1325-1329. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007338. PMID: 33234963.
  4. Azoury SC, Othman S, Milbar N, Elfanagely O, Piwnica-Worms W, Kozak G, Serletti JM, Fischer JP, Kovach SJ. Are You Thinking About Going Back to School? An Analysis of Plastic Surgery Residents, Alumni, Faculty, and Program Leaders With Advanced Degrees. J Craniofac Surg. 2020 Oct;31(7):1942-1945. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000006803. PMID: 32890159.
  5. Azoury SC, Milbar N, Kimia R, Nguyen JC, Othman S, McAndrew C, Kovach SJ, Carrigan RB, Steinberg DR, Bozentka DJ, Lin IC, Levin LS, Chang B. Abstract 46: 4-year Follow-up of the World’s First Pediatric Bilateral Hand-forearm Transplants: The Growth and Progress Continues. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open. 2020 Apr; 8(4 Suppl): 30-30. Published online 2020 May 13. doi: 10.1097/01.GOX0000667248.53262.5d
  6. Daniels MJ, Barry E, Milbar N, Schoenberg M, Bivalacqua TJ, Sankin A, Kates M. An evaluation of monthly maintenance therapy among patients receiving intravesical combination gemcitabine/docetaxel for nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol. 2020 Feb;38(2):40.e17-40.e24. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2019.07.022. Epub 2019 Aug 28. PMID: 31473090.
  7. Milbar N, Bridgham K, Azoury SC, Canner JK, Haut ER, Sacks JM. Abstract 141: Outcomes Associated with Free and Local Flap Reconstruction for Lower Extremity Open Fractures: 2010 – 2016 Nationwide Readmissions Database. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019 Apr; 7(4 Suppl): 98-99.  Published online 2019 Apr 29. doi: 10.1097/01.GOX.0000558415.20683.94
  8. Gupta M, Milbar N, Tema G, Pederzoli F, Chappidi M, Kates M, VandenBussche CJ, Bivalacqua TJ. Impact of intravesical therapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer on the accuracy of urine cytology. World J Urol. 2019 Oct;37(10):2051-2058. doi: 10.1007/s00345-018-02624-3. Epub 2019 Jan 23. PMID: 30671639.
  9. Semerjian A, Milbar N, Kates M, Gorin MA, Patel HD, Chalfin HJ, Frank SM, Wu CL, Yang WW, Hobson D, Robertson L, Wick E, Schoenberg MP, Pierorazio PM, Johnson MH, Stimson CJ, Bivalacqua TJ. Hospital Charges and Length of Stay Following Radical Cystectomy in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Era. Urology. 2018 Jan;111:86-91. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2017.09.010. Epub 2017 Oct 13. PMID: 29032237.
  10. Milbar N, Kates M, Chappidi MR, Pederzoli F, Yoshida T, Sankin A, Pierorazio PM, Schoenberg MP, Bivalacqua TJ. Oncological Outcomes of Sequential Intravesical Gemcitabine and Docetaxel in Patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. Bladder Cancer. 2017 Oct 27;3(4):293-303. doi: 10.3233/BLC-170126. PMID: 29152553; PMCID: PMC5676758.
  11. Hsiang EY, Breithaupt AG, Su P, Rogers AT, Milbar N, Desai SV. Medical student healthcare consulting groups: A novel way to train the next generation of physician-executives. Med Teach. 2018 Feb;40(2):207-210. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1387647. Epub 2017 Oct 12. PMID: 29025302.
  12. Kates M, Chappidi MR, Brant A, Milbar N, Sopko NA, Meyer C, Terezakis SA, Herman JM, Efron JE, Safar B, Tran PT, Ahuja N, Pierorazio PM, Bivalacqua TJ. High dose-rate Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy During High Risk Genitourinary Surgery: Initial Observations and a Proposal for its Study in Bladder Cancer. Bladder Cancer. 2017 Jul 27;3(3):191-199. doi: 10.3233/BLC-170104. PMID: 28824947; PMCID: PMC5545919.
  13. Semerjian A, Milbar N, Kates M, Gorin M, Chalfin H, Stimson C, Yang W, Frank S, Hobson D, Robertson L, Lee K, Johnson M, Pierorazio P, Bivalacqua T. PD67-11 Enhanced recover after radical cystectomy reduces cost and length of stay: The Johs Hopkins Experience. The Journal of Urology. 2017 April; 197(4):e1280-e1281. Doi 10.1017/j.uro.2017.02.2987
  14. Milbar N, Kates M, Chappidi M, Schoenberg M, Bivalacqua T. Examining gemcitabine and docetaxel for recurrent NMIBC. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2017 Feb 35(6_suppl); 322-322. Doi 10.1200/JCO.2017.35.6 supply.322.
  15. Sinha D, Shamayeva K, Ramasubramani V, Řeha D, Bialevich V, Khabiri M, Guzanová A, Milbar N, Weiserová M, Csefalvay E, Carey J, Ettrich R. Interdomain communication in the endonuclease/motor subunit of type I restriction-modification enzyme EcoR124I. J Mol Model. 2014 Jul;20(7):2334. doi: 10.1007/s00894-014-2334-1. Epub 2014 Jun 28. PMID: 24972799.
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