MUSC Health General Surgery at East Cooper Medical Pavilion
1600 Midtown Avenue, 2nd Floor,Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
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Stephen Austin Fann, M.D.
General Surgery
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Stephen Fann, M.D. is a fellowship-trained general and acute care surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina. He specializes in treating all types of abdominal wall hernias; ventral, incisional, inguinal, flank, and parastomal hernias. He also has expertise with complex wounds such as chronic mesh infections and intestinal fistulae.Dr. Fann performs both open abdominal wall reconstructions as well as robotic and minimally invasive hernia surgery to afford patients all potential options for their hernia repair. He strives to match each patients unique anatomy to the best hernia repair for that individual. With twenty years experience in skeletal muscle tissue engineering, Dr. Fann strives to move hernia care forward through applications of regenerative medicine and better biomaterials. He received his medical degree at the Body School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina and performed his critical care fellowship in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and maintains certification in Surgical Critical Care. He speaks nationally on topics of hernia repair trauma and acute care surgery.
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Mike M Mallah, M.D., FACS, FICS
General Surgery
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Dr. Mike M. Mallah is a double-board certified fellowship-trained trauma and acute care surgeon in Charleston, South Carolina. He specializes in the care of both critically ill patients and patients with traumatic injuries. Dr. Mallah has extensive knowledge of how to manage complex injuries and delivers compassionate care to help his trauma patients through their journey of recovery. Dr. Mallah is also a general surgeon experienced in minimally invasive procedures to treat patients with hernias and other complex general surgery issues.
Dr. Mallah has as a strong interest in global surgery and surgical education and serves MUSC as the Director of the Global Surgery Program. He has operated on five continents and traveled to over 55 countries. Not only did this work expose him to pathology and surgical technique not often seen or practiced in the United States, but it also allowed him to gain an understanding about barriers and lack of access to safe surgical and anesthesia care.
He has published articles in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the General Surgery News, and presented at several regional, national, and international conferences, including chapters of the American College of Surgeons and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
Dr. Mallah earned an undergraduate degree in Biology with a Chemistry minor and his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then completed General Surgery Residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC and a Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University's Level I Trauma Center in Richmond, VA.
Dr. Mallah has certification and course training in Robotic Surgery, Advanced Burn Life Support, Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Trauma Operative Management, Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness.
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Bruce Alan Crookes, M.D.
General Surgery
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Dr. Bruce Crookes grew up in northern New Jersey in the New York metropolitan area. He graduated with a degree in biophysics from the University of Michigan. He then attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, graduating in 1996. He then completed a residency in general surgery at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania, where he fell in love with trauma and critical care. Dr. Crookes then attended the prestigious Ryder Trauma Center at the University of Miami, where he completed a trauma and critical care fellowship. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Crookes joined the faculty at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and rose to the position of trauma medical director. In 2009, he joined the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina in the same role.
To date, he continues to be a busy intensivist, trauma surgeon, and general surgeon. He is recognized nationally as a leader in the care of the injured and is the former president of the nation's largest academic trauma society -- the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Clinically, Dr. Crookes has a myriad of interests, including hernias, complex abdominal wall reconstruction, robotic and minimally invasive surgery (particularly for hernia repair), pulmonary embolisms and venous thromboembolic disease, the surgical treatment of rib fractures, and complex general surgery.
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Heather Leigh Evans, M.D., MS
General Surgery
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Dr. Heather Evans is a Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Veterans Affairs in the Department of Surgery. She serves as the Chief of Surgery at the Ralph H Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Evans is a general surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive hernia (rupture) surgery. She has performed laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs (TEP) since 2009 and now routinely performs robotic-assisted laparoscopic repairs for groin, umbilical and ventral hernias. Dr. Evans' practice includes the care of patients with ventral and incisional hernias that can develop after open abdominal surgery. One of only two surgeons in the Charleston area offering robotic-assisted abdominal wall reconstruction, Dr. Evans also performs open ventral hernia repairs, choosing the best approach based on prior surgery, the size of the hernia, and other conditions. She coaches patients on pre-operative conditioning in order to prepare them for the surgery and its recovery. In some cases, she advises patients on how to manage hernias without surgery. Each patient has their own story, and she considers the unique risks and needs of each person who comes to her clinic. Last year, she was featured on an episode of the Advance with MUSC Health podcast to [discuss the different considerations of hernia surgery for women](https://advance.muschealth.org/library/2022/march/women-and-minimally-invasive-hernia).
Dr. Evans' practice also includes the care of patients with ventral and incisional hernias that can develop after open abdominal surgery. She coaches patients on pre-operative conditioning in order to prepare them for the surgery and its recovery. Dr. Evans offers both open and robotic-assisted ventral hernia repairs, choosing the best approach based on prior surgery, the size of the hernia, and other conditions. In some cases, she advises patients on how to manage hernias without surgery. Each patient has their own story, and she considers the unique risks and needs of each person who comes to her clinic.
The COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges to, but also new opportunities for the care of surgical patients. Dr. Evans is pleased to offer both new patient consultations and post-surgical visits via telemedicine, providing convenience and additional clinic capacity. The South Carolina Telehealth Alliance recently featured a story about her adoption of video visits ([Seeing a doctor without leaving home gets a lot more popular during pandemic](https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2020/10/22/seeing-a-doctor-without-leaving-home-gets-a-whole-lot-more-popular-during-pandemic)). If you are interested in whether remote pre-operative visits are right for you, please contact Dr. Evans' office for more information.
Dr. Evans earned her medical degree at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. She completed a general surgery residency at the University of Virginia and a fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle WA, where she worked for 10 years prior to coming to MUSC. In addition to her elective surgery practice, Dr. Evans cares for trauma and surgical emergencies and provides surgical critical care at MUSC's level 1 trauma center in downtown Charleston. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Evans has worked with patients, nurses, doctors, and other researchers to create mobile health solutions to improve the care of surgical site infections ([www.mpowercare.org](https://www.mpowercare.org/)).
Dr. Evans' work has been featured on National Public Radio, in the Seattle Times, the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, as well as on iHeart Radio and Al Jazeera America. With a grant from the CDC, she studied how patients use their own mobile phones to help surgeons detect and monitor post-operative wound infections. She partnered with MUSC Center for Telehealth on a new remote wound monitoring program for surgical patients, building on the successful MUSC remote patient monitoring system for people with COVID-19.
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MUSC Health General Surgery at East Cooper Medical Pavilion
1600 Midtown Avenue, 2nd Floor,Mount Pleasant, SC 29464