Roles
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
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Biography
Mark Shafarenko, M.D. F.R.C.S.C., is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and a reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgeon at the University of Miami Health System.
Dr. Shafarenko earned his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 2019, where he also completed his plastic surgery residency. During his training, he received multiple awards for his clinical research involving augmented reality simulation.
Dr. Shafarenko also completed a microvascular surgery fellowship at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center, with comprehensive training in all aspects of oncologic and microvascular reconstruction. He is board-certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is board-eligible by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. His clinical interests include breast reconstuction (both autologous and implant-based reconstuction), surgical management of lymphedema, and bone and softt tisue sarcoma. He has research interests in surgical simulation, targeted muscle reinnervation, and outcomes in sarcoma and lymphatic reconstruction. He has presented at numerous national and international meetings and has a number of research publications spanning topics from surgical simulation to new operative techniques. He is a candidate member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He also serves as a peer reviewer for the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. -
Education & Training
Education
Post Graduate Training
Licensures and Certifications
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Teaching Interests
Dr. Shafarenko believes that there are numerous opportunities for medical student, resident, and fellow education. He incorporates some element of teaching wherever possible, including clinic, preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. Dr. Shafarenko enjoys conducting teaching conferences at least once every 2 weeks.
In all teaching settings, he strives to make the material engaging and interesting. From an operative perspective, Dr. Shafarenko believes in a system of graded responsibility for the learner and allowing them to perform progressively more difficult parts of an operation over time. -
Research Interests
Dr. Shafarenko's interests include surgical simulation, targeted muscle reinnervation, and outcomes of sarcoma and lymphatic reconstruction. During residency, he was involved in the creation of an augmented reality simulator of K-wire fixation of hand fractures. He is interested in pursuing further research centered on surgical simulation and its utility as a teaching tool.
Clinically, Dr. Shafarenko is interested in pursuing outcomes research focusing on TMR, lymphatic reconstruction, and sarcoma reconstruction. -
Publications
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