Amir H. Dorafshar, MBChB, FACS, FAAP

Biography

Amir H. Dorafshar, MBChB, FACS, FAAP, joins Rush as the chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and program director of the Plastic and Reconstructive Fellowship.

Dorafshar has distinguished himself as an national and international leading expert in microvascular reconstruction and adult and pediatric craniofacial surgery for congenital, oncological or traumatic conditions. He received his medical degree from the University of Manchester School of Medicine, U.K. He completed his plastic surgery residency at the University of Chicago and subsequently entered the Johns Hopkins program for his craniofacial surgery fellowship. He was the first faculty member recruited to their new department in 2010 and held a joint appointment at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

During his early career at Johns Hopkins, he helped to further develop the fields of craniofacial microsurgery, virtual surgical planning in craniofacial surgery and bone tissue engineering. He has co-authored more than 140 indexed articles, written several book chapters and co-edited a textbook on facial trauma surgery. He is foremost recognized as a critical member of the team that performed a pioneering facial transplant at the University of Maryland and was subsequently named the clinical co-director of the facial transplantation program at Johns Hopkins. He was an integral member of their education program as director of the craniofacial fellowship program and director of the resident comestic program.

Honors and Activities

2018 Best Teacher Award, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2014 The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Gold Doc Award for recognition by a grateful patient for skill, sensitivity, caring and compassion in the practice of medicine

2014 James Barrett Brown Award, First author “Total Face, Double Jaw and Tongue Transplantation”. American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Miami, FL

2013 Shock Trauma Hero Award, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2013 “Best Normal Case” Award, Total Face, Double Jaw and Tongue Transplantation. World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Chicago, IL

2012 Senate Resolution 677, Senate of Maryland, awarded for leading the multidisciplinary team of surgeons completing the most extensive full-face transplant to date on March 20, 2012

2012 Best Clinical Paper Award, Total Face, Double Jaw and Tongue Transplantation: An Evolutionary Concept. American Society of Reconstructive Surgery, Chicago, IL

2012 House Resolution 437, Maryland House of Delegates, awarded for leading the multidisciplinary team of surgeons completing the most extensive full-face transplant to date on March 20, 2012

2009 Best Reconstructive/Burn Award, Prospective randomized study comparing gauze suction negative pressure wound therapy with standard vacuum assisted closure device, American Society of Plastic Surgeons Senior Resident’s Conference, Austin, TX

2009 Best Paper Prize, Lateral iliac crest chimera flap: utility of the ascending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex vessels, Aesthetic Facial Reconstruction in Adults and Children Symposium, San Diego, CA

2009 American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons Biomet Resident Scholar Award2009 2nd Prize for Best Clinical Paper, Prospective randomized study comparing gauze suction negative would pressure therapy with standard vacuum assisted closure device, Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago, IL

2004 Nominee for Resident’s “Humanism and Excellence in Teaching” Award, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Publications

Dr. Dorafshar’s publications.

Education