Yifan Guo, MD - Plastic Surgery

08/18/2023

Proud to be a member of the CHKD CF team

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia Beach family is celebrating their son’s new smile thanks to a therapy now being offered at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters to repair c…

08/24/2022

Honored to be part of this child’s incredible journey!

08/21/2021

Ballistic injuries to the head and neck region can lead to devastating trauma to the cerebral vascular system. Check out our study presented @ Plastic Surgery Research Council

Every year in the US, over 100,000 people are shot, among these victims almost a third die from whereas the others may have lasting deficits. About 50% of patients that survive all GSW trauma will have adverse effects after treatment. In this study Olajide Olatidoye () and his co-authors from The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University investigated the prevalence of penetrating cerebrovascular injury and the association with certain fracture patterns of the skull in regard to ballistic trauma. Fracture patterns may discern specific types of cerebrovascular injury and from this, quicker evaluations may be made to prevent traumatic brain injury from facial gunshot wounds. Prevalence Of Penetrating Cerebrovascular Injuries In Craniofacial Ballistic Trauma Olajide Olatidoye, BS ; Joshua Scarcella, BS ; Duy Huynh, BS ; Yifan Guo, MD The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
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09/14/2020

Check out this beautiful story of Luke Haithcock, a local East Carolinian, a fellow Pirate, a courageous cancer survivor, who not only beat an extremely rare form of sarcoma, but who is now helping others in their fight against cancer.

By all accounts a typical teen, Luke Haithcock loved to high-five his friends. The school-hallway equivalent to a handshake, the greeting punctuated Haithcock’s days at South Central High School in Winterville. One day, he noticed that a routine high-five caused a twinge of pain in his right...

08/31/2020

Extremely honored to be featured on Plastic Surgery News

04/27/2020

Let’s take a moment and thank all the front line workers

A lot of people from Greenville want to say thank you to everyone working on the frontline of the coronavirus fight. The pictures of 148 of those heroes are published in The Daily Reflector today thanks to the efforts of Caroline C. Doherty, Yifan Guo and Matthew Koester and our sponsors from GUC. Thanks to Caroline, Yifan and Matthew for pulling together a great presentation. And thank you heroes for all you do. Check it out in the Sunday-Monday expanded edition of The Daily Reflector.

04/22/2020

Stay safe everyone! As some states are starting to re-open, it is more important than ever to protect yourself with face masks. Since there is still shortage of surgical / N-95 face masks, why not make them from common items that you have at home? Learn how:

Created by our own local Greenville, NC talents: Carolina Doherty and Matthew Koester

Learn how to make face masks out of t-shirts so you can help keep yourself and others safe from COVID-19, a.k.a. the coronavirus. - Presented by Caroline Doh...

03/26/2020

Dear friends, the number of coronavirus cases in the US has surpassed that of Italy and China, making USA the country with highest number of patients infected with the deadly virus. As many of you know, due to lack of proper testing, this number greatly underestimates the true incidence of positive cases, and many patients are asymptomatic, and are spreading to other people, making them sick.

Please stay home. I’ve talked to many of my colleagues, who are surgeons and academic leaders around the country. Most urgent surgeries have been canceled at Vidant, in NC, and around the country. If you were injured from trauma (car accident, assaults), unless it is life or limb threatening, surgical treatment will be delayed. So be safe, be smart, be informed. Stay home!

Major outbreaks in so-called hot spots such as New York threaten to overwhelm the local hospital systems, which have a limited number of beds, staff and equipment.

06/14/2019

Honored to be part of the plastic surgery team that took care of Paige. She is a strong young woman with with amazing spirit despite of her injuries. Read her story on CNN.

Paige Winter, who lost her leg in a shark attack earlier this month, says she's determined to turn it into a positive situation.