John W. Canady, MD
Professor
Department of Surgery
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
john-canady@uiowa.edu
Office Telephone: 319-356-2168
Plastic Surgery Clinic
Telephone: 319-356-7941
Medical School:
- University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Internship:
- LaCrosse Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, WI
Residency:
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Otolaryngology),
- Kansas University, KS (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
Certification:
- American Board of Otolaryngology
Societies, Organizations, and Honors:
- American Medical Association Candidate
- American College of Surgeons
- American Academy of Otolaryngologic Allergy
Research Interests:
- Fetal wound healing
- In utero cleft repair
- Cutaneous blood flow
- Flap survival
- Graft survival
- Molecular basis of wound healing
Speech mechanisms
Molecular basis of craniofacial development
Current Projects:
- Improved skin graft and flap survival
- Fetal cleft lip and palate surgery
- Growth factor analysis in wound healing
- Physiology and movement mechanics of the soft palate
- Mechanisms of scar formation and regulation
- Tissue expansion
- Allele loss analysis in craniofacial development
- Wound healing in both post natal and fetal models, and particularly how modified mechanisms of wound healing can be applied to craniofacial surgery
- Transplanted fat physiology with applications to improvement of velopharyngeal incompetency
- Developing new fixation methods for use in pediatric craniofacial surgery
- Molecular analysis of scar formation and regulation
- Electrophysiologic analysis of palatal motion control mechanisms
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
- Canady JW. Thompson SA. Colburn A. Craniofacial growth after iatrogenic cleft palate repair in a fetal ovine model. Cleft Palate Craniofacial J., 34(1):69-72, 1997 Jan.
- Canady JW. Means ME. Wayne I. Thompson SA. Richman LC. Continuity of care: University of Iowa Cleft Lip/Palate Interdisciplinary Team. Cleft Palate Craniofacial J. 34(5):443-6, 1997 Sep.
- Barsoumian R. Kuehn D. Moon JB. Canady JW. An anatomic study of the tensor veli palatini and dilatator tubae muscles in relation to eustachian tube and velar function. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J. 35(2):101-10, 1998 Mar.
- Moon JB. Thompson SA. Jaeckel E. Canady JW. Muscle fiber type distribution in the normal human levator veli palatini muscle. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J. 35(5): 419-24, 1998 Sep.
- Thompson SA. Canady JW. Coberly DM. Sandra A. Chun ML. Pang JC. Effects of TGFb2 on collagen synthesis in cultured normal and wounded fetal mouse palates. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J, 36(5):425-33, 1999 Sep.
- Nopoulos P. Berg S. Canady J. Van Demark D. Richman L. Andreasen NC. Abnormal brain morphology in patients with isolated cleft lip, cleft palate, or both: a preliminary analysis. Cleft Palate Craniofacial J 37(5):441-6, 2000 Sep.
- M Karnell, K Schultz, J Canady. Investigations of a pressure sensitive theory of marginal velopharyngeal inadequacy. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J. 38(4) 346-57, 2001 July.
Abstracts:
- Barsoumian R. Kuehn D. Moon J. Canady JW: An anatomic study of the tensor veli palatini and dilatator tubae muscles in relation to eustachian tube and velar function. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, November 1997.
- Papers Submitted for Publication:
Thompson SA. Phan B. Ortega JD. Morgan MB. Leupold JA. Pang JC. Canady JW. The effect of PDGF and TGFß2 on wound healing in a fetal mouse palate in vitro. (Submitted) - Nopoulos P. Berg S. Van Demark D. Richman L. Canady J. Andreasen NC. Increased incidence of a midline brain anomaly in adult males with non-syndromic clefts of the lip and/or palate. Journal of Neuroimaging (submitted)
- Moon JB. Collins DR. Canady JW. Single Motor Unit Activity in Levator Veli Palatini During Speech and NonSpeech Tasks. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial J (submitted)
- Canady JW. Cable BB. Karnell MP. Hynds Karnell L. Pharyngeal Flap Surgery: Protocols, Complications and Outcomes at the University of Iowa. Plastic & Reconst Surg (submitted)
- Papers in Preparation:
Cram AE. Chang P. Canady JW: Adjunct study protocol for Silicone-gel filled mammary prostheses. - Canady JW. Angeli SI. Bone grafting of alveolar clefts, a biological and clinical review.
- Canady JW. Primary cleft lip and palate treatment. Introduction to the Treatment of Facial Clefts and other Craniofacial Deformities: A Color Atlas. W.H. Olin (ed). Oshiyaku Euro American, Inc.
- Moon J. Kuehn D. Canady J. Induced velopharyngeal fatigue effects in speakers with repaired palatal clefts.
- Nopoulos, P., Berg, S., VanDemark, D., Richman, L., Canady, J., Andreasen, N.C. Cognitive dysfunction in adult males with non-syndromic clefts of the lip and/or palate.