Emily Krauss

Hospital affiliations

• Active staff: QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Consultant staff: IWK Health Centre, Halifax Nova Scotia

 Education

• Peripheral Nerve Surgery Fellowship (University of Washington St. Louis)
• Plastic Surgery Residency (Dalhousie University)
• MD (University of Calgary)

MSc (University of Alberta)

 Employment

• Assistant professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Dalhousie University

 Clinical interests

Dr. Krauss is a board-certified Plastic Surgeon, with a practice focus on Hand, Wrist, and complex Nerve Reconstruction in addition to general plastic surgery.

Dr. Krauss is widely considered a national expert in the area of nerve transfer surgery for peripheral nerve injuries and spinal cord injuries, having given numerous invited presentations for this topic. 

Additionally, she pioneered several surgical techniques in nerve transfers for spinal cord injury and for the treatment of spasticity for patients with neurological disorders including spinal cord injury and stroke.

 Research interests

Dr. Krauss’s research interests include patient outcomes following peripheral nerve surgeries such as nerve transfer, nerve grafting and repair

Selected publications

Krauss EM, Moore AM, Tung TH. (2016) Free functional muscle transfers to restore upper extremity function. Hand Clinics. 32(2):243-256.

Mundschenk MB, Krauss EM, Poppler LH, Klingensmith ME, Mackinnon SE, Tenebaum MM. (2016) Resident perceptions on pregnancy during training: 2008 to 2015. American Journal of Surgery. 212(4):649-659.

Domeshek L, Krauss EM, Snyder-Warwick A, Laurido-Soto O, HasakJM, Skolnick GB, Novak CB, Moore AM ,Mackinnon SE. (2017) Surgical treatment of neuromas improves patient-reported pain, depression, and quality of life. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.139(2): 407-418.

Noland SS, Krauss EM, Felder JM, Mackinnon SE. (2018) Surgical and clinical decision-making in isolated long thoracic nerve palsy. Hand. 13(6):689-694.

Moore AM, Krauss EM, Parikh RP, Franco MJ, Tung TH. (2018) Femoral nerve transfers for restoring tibial nerve function: An anatomicstudy and clinical correlation: a report of 2 cases. Journal of Neurosurgery. 129(4):1024-1033.

Fox IK, Novak CB, Krauss EM, Hoben GM, Zaidman C, Ruvinskaya R, Juknis N, Winter AC, Mackinnon SE. (2018) The use of nerve transfers to restore upper extremity function in cervical spinal cord injury. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 10(11):1173-1184.e.2.

Roth Bettlach CL, Hasak JM, Krauss EM, Yu JL, Skolnick GB, BodwayGN, Kahn LC, Mackinnon SE. (2019) Preferences in sleep position correlate with nighttime paresthesias in healthy people without carpal tunnel syndrome. Hand. 14(2):163-171.

Krauss EM, Shankar V, Mackinnon SE. (2020) Medical malpractice in nerve injury of the upper extremity. Hand. Feb 28 2020, epub ahead of print.

Chapman KM, Berger MJ, et al. among authors Krauss EM. (2021) Recommendations for patients with complex nerve injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.48(1): 50-55.

Berger MJ, Robinson L, Krauss E. (2021) Lower motor neuron abnormality in chronic cervical spinal cord injury: implications for nerve transfer surgery. Journal of Neurotrauma. Epub ahead of print.

Krauss EM, Noland S, Hill E, Jain N, Kahn L, Mackinnon SE. (In Press) Outcome analysis of medial triceps motor nerve transfer to axillary nerve in isolated and brachial plexus-associated axillary nerve palsy.Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.