Walter Lin, MD
Dr. Lin is an attending Plastic Surgeon with subspecialization in reconstructive microsurgery and hand surgery. After graduating with honors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Neuroscience, he remained in Boston and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in the highly selective Health Sciences & Technology program (Harvard-MIT HST). From there, he transitioned to the west coast and completed residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). With a strong drive to subspecialize and advance the field of microsurgery, he completed an additional year of fellowship training in Hand, Microvascular, and Transgender Surgery at The Buncke Clinic in San Francisco.
Dr. Lin joined The Buncke Clinic after completion of fellowship and is Board Certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery. He has particular interest in advancing care in microsurgical reconstruction of the extremities, breast, and lymphatic systems.
He currently serves as the elected Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, CA.
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Undergraduate:
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMedical School:
Harvard Medical SchoolResidency (Plastic Surgery):
University of California, San FranciscoFellowship (Hand & Microsurgery):
The Buncke Clinic -
Plastic Surgery: American Board of Plastic Surgery
Hand Surgery: American Board of Plastic Surgery
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The Buncke Clinic:
Attending Plastic, Hand and Microsurgeon -
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Member, American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery
Member, California Society of Plastic Surgeons
Member, American Society of Gender Surgeons
Fellow, American College of Surgeons -
Gruber RP, Shih HB, Lin WC. Commentary on: Managing the Difficult Soft Tissue Envelope in Facial and Rhinoplasty Surgery. Aesthet Surg J. (2017): sjw206.
Chen J, Lin W, Cha JW, So P, Nedivi E. Structural basis for the role of inhibition in facilitating adult brain plasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 14(5):587-94. (2011)
Fujino T, Leslie JH, Eavri R, Chen JL, Lin WC, Flanders GH, Borok E, Horvath TL, Nedivi E. CPG15 regulates synapse stability in the developing and adult brain. Genes Dev. 25(24):2674-85. (2011)
Chen JL, Flahders GH, Lee WC, Lin WC, Nedivi E. Inhibitory dendrite dynamics as a general feature of the adult cortical microcircuit. J. Neurosci. 31(35):12437-43. (2011)
Fujino T, Wu Z, Lin WC, Phillips MA, Nedivi E. cpg15 and cpg15-2 constitute a family of activity-regulated ligands expressed differentially in the nervous system to promote neurite growth and neuronal survival. J Comp Neurol. 507(5):1831-45. (2008)
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