Dr. Anita T Mohan

Anita Mohan MBBS PhD MBA is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr Mohan graduated medical school from Imperial College London, UK together with a Bachelors with honors in Management (BSc). After completing core surgery residency training in London in the United Kingdom, she completed a clinical fellowship in plastic surgery, hand surgery and burns in Cape Town, South Africa. This was followed by plastic surgery training in Cambridge, United Kingdom. During her plastic surgery training program, Dr Mohan was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons (England) Blond McIndoe research scholarship which she used to pursue a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota. In this time Dr Mohan completed her PhD from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) on the study of perforator anatomy and physiology of the microcirculation in breast reconstruction, for which she received the Royal College of Surgeons of England Aris and Gale Lectureship. Dr Mohan also worked on clinical outcomes studies for breast and sarcoma reconstruction, surgical stimulation training, human factors research and in the lab in the study of nerve regeneration in facial allotransplantation at the Mayo Clinic. Dr Mohan then went on to complete an integrated plastic surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota. Dr Mohan also completed her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Minnesota during her residency training. Dr Mohan completed advanced training in reconstructive microsurgery at Stanford University and studied medical innovation within the Stanford Biodesign program. 

 Dr Mohan has a joint appointment at the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto and Stanford University campus. Dr Mohan’s specializes in general reconstructive surgery, microsurgery and super-microsurgery techniques.  Dr Mohan currently performs a broad scope of plastic surgery procedures, gender affirming top surgery with nipple neurotization, breast and abdominal procedures following massive weight loss, abdominal wall reconstruction, microsurgery reconstruction following cancer and trauma, lymphedema/lipedema and skin cancer surgery. Dr Mohan’s research interests include the study of microcirculation and lymphedema research, clinical outcomes projects and simulation training.