USU Department Chair, Navy Transplant Surgeon to Serve on National Face, Hand Transplant Committee
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)Capt. (Dr.) Eric Elster, a Navy transplant surgeon and chair of the Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences here, is among 18 experts named as members of a new committee to develop standards and policies for face and hand transplantation.