Graduate Education

• Northwestern University
  Division of Plastic Surgery
  Plastic Surgery Resident, 1998- 2001
  
  
• University of Texas- Houston, Department of Surgery.
  General Surgery Resident, 1992- 1998.
  
  
• Thomas D. Cronin Fellow in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Texas
  Houston Division of Plastic Surgery1994-1995.
  
  
• Louisiana State University School of Medicine
  New Orleans, Louisiana, 1988-1992.

Undergraduate Education

• Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA
  BS in Microbiology, 1984-1988.

Honors

• Summa cum laude- LSU, 1988
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Mortar Board
• Baton Rouge Medical Society - premedical student of the year, 1988. Charles E. Coates Award, 1988.
• LSU Board of Supervisors Scholarship, 1989-1992.
• Outstanding Young Man of America, 1998.

Affiliations

• American Medical Association
• Fellow, American College of Surgery, 2006
• Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Harris County Medical Society
• Texas Medical Association
• Houston Society of Plastic Surgery

Appointments

• Medical Director, Laser Hair and Skin Center, 2004- present.

CME

• American Association Plastic Surgery, NY 1995 Am S Reconstructive Microsurgery, Miami 1999
• ASPS, Los Angeles 2000
• ASAPS, NY 2001
• Plastic Surgery Senior Resident conf, Rhode Island, 2001
• ASPS, San Antonio, 2001
• Obagi Training Course, 2002
• Baker Gordon Cosmetic Symposium, Jan. 2004
• Karen Zupko Practice Management, 2005
• Dallas Aesthetic Symposium, 2005
• ASAPS, New Orleans 2005
• Inamed Breast Surgery Academy, 2005
• Laser Training Institute, Dallas 2005
• ISAPS, Houston 2005
• QMP Aesthetic Conference, St Louis 2005
• Baker Gordon Cosmetic Symposium, 2006
• Vail Aesthetic meeting, 2006
• Atlanta Breast Symposium, 2006
• QMP Aesthetic Conference, 2006

Awards

• HCMS D-Tag Laser Tatoo removal Program 2003
• HCMS D-Tag Program 2004
• Top Doc for Women, Houston Magazine 2005

Presentations

• Casas LA, Depoli P, Sukkar SM. Nine year experience Following Autologous Breast Reconstruction in the Irradiated Patient: An Evolution in Technique. Presented at ASAPS May 17, 2001. New York, New York.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Marcus JR, and Vicari FA. Minimally Invasive Placement of Tissue Expanders in the Pediatric Patient. Presented at ASPS October 17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA.
  
  
• Lewis VL, Sukkar SM, Daw J. The Fleur-de-lis: an Alternative Abdominoplasty. Presented at ACS October 2000, Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Dumanian GA. Challenging Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: One Center’s Approach to Reconstruction. Presented at Midwestern Association Plastic Surgeons MAPS 2000, March 11, 2000 Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Daw J, Chandler J, and Dumanian GA. Gracilis muscle free flap transfer utilizing a radial artery/ venae comitantes composite vascular pedicle. Presented at ASRM January 8-11, 2000, Miami, FL.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Corral CJ, Goldman M, and Dumanian GA.
  
  
• The musculocutaneous radial forearm free flap. Presented at ASRM January 8-11, 2000, Miami, FL.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Szczerba S, Tellez MG, Dumanian GA. Challenging Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: One Center’s Approach to Reconstruction. Presented at ASPRS October 23-27, 1999, New Orleans, LA.
  
  
• Casas LA, Depoli P, Sukkar SM. Nine year experience Following Autologous Breast Reconstruction in the Irradiated Patient: An Evolution in Technique. Presented at ASPRS October 26, 1999. New Orleans, LA.
  
  
• Hueneke, ML, Sukkar, SM, Xue, H, Andrassy, RJ, and Lally, KP : Monocyte but not lymphocyte transfusion attenuates Adriamycin-induced wound healing impairment. Presented at the South Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. March 14-16, 1996, San Antonio, TX.
  
  
• Hueneke, ML, Sukkar, SM, Xue, H, Andrassy, RJ, and Lally, KP : Monocyte transfusion attenuates Adriamycin-induced wound healing impairment. Presented at the Society for University Surgeons. February 8-10, 1996, Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Sukkar, SM, Hueneke, ML, Griffey, ES, Wainwright, DJ and Livesey, SA: Human Keratinocyte Delivery to a Dermal Matrix in the Nude Mouse Model. Presented at the Plastic Surgery Research Council. May, 1995, New York, NY.
  
  
• Griffey, ES, Hueneke, ML, Sukkar, SM, Wainwright, DJ and Livesey, SA: Production of a Human In-vitro Reconstituted Skin and Grafting to a Nude Mouse Model. Presented at the Wound Repair and Regeneration Forum. April, 1995, Minneapolis, MN.

Publications

• Sukkar SM, Daw J, Chandler J, and Dumanian GA. Gracilis muscle free flap transfer utilizing a radial artery/ venae comitantes composite vascular pedicle. ASRM Forum, p 93, 2000.
  
  
• Sukkar SM, Corral CJ, Goldman M, and Dumanian GA. The musculocutaneous radial forearm free flap. ASRM Forum. p 138, 2000.
  
  
• Sukkar, SM, Szczerba, S, Tellez, G, Dumanian, GA. Challenging abdominal wall defects. One center’s approach to reconstruction. Plastic Surg Forum 22: 255,1999. Casas, LA, DePoli, P, Sukkar, SM. Nine year experience following autologous breast reconstruction in the irradiated patient: An evolution in technique with long term results. Plastic Surg Forum 22: 149,1999.
  
  
• Griffey, ES, Hueneke, ML, Sukkar, SM, Wainwright, DJ, Livesey, SA: Production of a Human In-vitro Reconstituted Skin and Grafting to a Nude Mouse Model. Wound Repair and Regeneration, 1995, 3(1): 92.
  
  
• Griffey, ES, Hueneke, ML, Sukkar, SM, Wainwright, DJ, and Livesey, SA: Application of a composite skin graft to nude mice: dynamic interaction between cells of the epidermis and the dermal graft. In-vitro Cell and Develop Biol, 1995, 31(3):31A