Dr. David Brogan studied biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University where his undergraduate research focused on image guided surgery. He then received a Marshall Scholarship for post-graduate study in the United Kingdom, where he earned a Master’s of Science in Medical Engineering and Physics from King’s College, University of London. In his second year of study, he received a Master’s in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics. Dr. Brogan attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by a residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He underwent additional sub-specialty training in Hand, Upper Extremity and Microvascular Surgery at Duke University. Dr. Brogan’s clinical expertise is in the treatment of patients with brachial plexus, peripheral nerve injuries and mangled limbs, he focuses on microvascular free tissue transfer and complex nerve injuries as well as rotational flaps and muscle transfers.
Dr. Brogan has received a KL2 Career Development Award and a K08 Mentored Career Development Award from the NIH to study nerve repair and regeneration and muscle atrophy. He has also received Clinician Development Awards from the Orthopedic Research & Education Foundation, the American College of Surgeons and the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand. He currently holds clinical and basic science research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand. He was the 2023 recipient of the J. Leonard Goldner Pioneer Research Award from the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand and has received the Lee T. Ford Academic Achievement Award. He was the inaugural recipient of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and benefited from traveling throughout the United Kingdom to visit centers of excellence in hand surgery. Dr. Brogan continues to seek ways to improve techniques for peripheral nerve repair and regeneration and has an interest in developing methods to quantitatively assess nerves intra-operatively.