Ty Tuggle Lectureship
Reconstruction of Pelvic Defects Following Oncologic Resection
Thursday, April 23, 2026
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Speaker: Dr. Steven Moran, MD
Human Development Center
Auditorium, Room 130
This lecture will also be available via zoom
Dr. Moran is a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, and staff surgeon at the Shrine Clinic for Sick Children in Minneapolis. Dr. Moran is the former Chairman of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Mayo Clinic and is now the Surgical Director of the Mayo Clinics’ vascularized composite tissue allotransplant program and the Surgical Director for the Mayo Microsurgical Training Center. Dr. Moran's practice focuses on disorders of the upper extremity as well as microsurgical reconstruction. His primary interests are congenital hand surgery, wrist arthritis and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper and lower extremity. Dr. Moran has published over 400 peer reviewed papers, over 100 book chapters and has edited four textbooks. He was the Associate editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery, Hand and the Yearbook of Hand Surgery. He is presently the Associate Editor for The Journal of Wrist Surgery. Dr. Moran is a member of 14 professional societies and is presently a board member of the IFSSH. He was a founding member of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation. He is a past Director and Executive Board member for the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a former member of the American Board of Surgery. He is the past President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and a past President of the International Society for Wrist Arthroscopy, and a former board member of the American Association for Hand Surgery and American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation. He has been a co-investigator on six NIH grants which were devoted to the study of tissue engineering, tendon healing, carpal tunnel syndrome and ligament injury. Dr. Moran’s present research focus is on tissue engineering for which he has extra-mural and institutional directed funds. Dr. Moran was named the 2008-2009 Sterling Bunnell traveling fellow by the American Society of Surgery of the Hand and the 2012 Marco Godina traveling fellow by the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is a recipient of the Weiland Award and the Goldner Awards by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. In 2019, Dr. Moran was awarded the inaugural Harold Kleinert Visiting Professorship by the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. Dr Moran lives in Rochester Minnesota with his wife and three children.
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