BWF in the News
Plastic surgeons offer help to veterans (Union-Tribune)
October 05, 2009
SAN DIEGO — A major group of plastic surgeons meeting in San Diego launched a national program yesterday to give free consultations and low-cost surgeries to veterans who suffered facial injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Doctors attending the academy's conference at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel heard from Bob Woodruff, an ABC News reporter who was nearly killed on Jan. 29, 2006, in Iraq, when shrapnel and rocks from a roadside bomb tore through the left side of his skull and face. [click here to view] (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/02/plastic-surgeons-offer-help-veterans/?metro&zIndex=175914)
