Deepak Narayan Traveling Scholarship will enable future leaders in melanoma care to advance surgical techniques, pursue research opportunities and establish multidisciplinary collaborations globally. Through his contributions as a skilled surgeon-scientist, a beloved educator and mentor to 39 Fellows – as well as always being a loyal colleague and friend – Deepak's legacy lives on.Īt Yale, we have initiated designation for an annual traveling scholarship in Deepak's name, which will be available to any senior resident or junior faculty member in the United States who wishes to focus his or her career on melanoma. He was 56 years young – a full professor of plastic surgery at Yale School of Medicine and program director for the residency program.
Deepak Narayan, MD, a respected ASPS member, was a shining example of this, having committed his life to advancing our collective understanding and the treatment of worldwide melanoma. Academic plastic surgeons play a critical role in leading the reduction of the global surgical burden of disease.
