FACULTY

Currently the full time clinical faculty includes Drs. Steven J. Blackwell, Robert L. McCauley, and John D. Bauer. Drs. Blackwell, McCauley, and Bauer are certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Steven J. Blackwell has been a member of the faculty at the University of Texas Medial Branch (Galveston) since completion of his residency program in 1975. He was promoted to Professor in 1990 and was awarded the Stephen R. Lewis Chair. Dr. Blackwell has primary responsibility as Director of the Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Project. As such, he attends this Clinic on Wednesday afternoon and performs cleft palate and craniofacial procedures at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) and at the Shriners Burns Institute. He coordinates all of the activities of the Cleft Palate Project, which is certified by the State of Texas. Dr. Blackwell operates at the Shriners Burns Institute on those children on Thursdays. He operates at the John Sealy Hospital on Tuesday and Friday. Dr. Blackwell performs outreach clinics for the Cleft Palate Project for both the University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Burns Institute. In addition, he has maintained an active aesthetic practice and performs a large bulk of those procedures at John Sealy Hospital, with the exception of aesthetic breast cases performed by Dr. Phillips. Dr. Blackwell is a geographically full time faculty member who has no outside assignment or private practice.

Dr. Robert L. McCauley has been a member of the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), Division of Plastic Surgery since July, 1986. His primary responsibility is to serve as the administrative Chief of Plastic Surgery Services at the Shriners Burns Institute. There he coordinates plastic surgery services, completing the operative assignments and performing outreach clinic activities. Dr. McCauley attends the Plastic Surgery clinic at Shriners Burns Institute on Tuesday afternoons. He reviews plastic surgery patients and accepts or denies them for admission into the program at the Shriners Hospital at Galveston. In addition, Dr. McCauley rotates with remaining faculty in the plastic surgery call schedule at John Sealy Hospital. He has regular outpatient office on Thursday morning at John Sealy Hospital. He is assigned a wide variety of plastic surgery cases, concentrating on burn reconstruction and proliferative scar disorders. At the Shriners Hospital, he has recently instituted a laser program for vascular malformations and has now gotten approval for an expansion of services to include osseo-integrated implants. Dr. McCauley was promoted to full Professor in September, 1995. He is geographically full time and has no outside appointments.

Dr. John D. Bauer earned his M.D. at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his general surgery residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and his plastic surgery residency at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. As an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Dr. Bauer's special interests are general plastic surgery, facial cosmetic surgery, aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, liposuction, cosmetic and therapeutic BOTOX, laser hair and tattoo removal, and cosmetic and therapeutic hair transplantation. His research project is gene and cytokine induction of collagen synthesis, scarless fetal wound healing.

Dr. Ted T. Huang is a member of the clinical faculty. Prior to 1979, Dr. Huang was a geographic full time member of The University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston). Dr. Huang has a national reputation for clinical plastic surgery research and publications. He has particular expertise in the area of burn reconstruction. He has a private practice centered on Galveston and the nearby mainland. He is the only private plastic surgeon in the area.

Dr. Thomas Baker oversees the rotation in his private office in Miami, Fla. A former graduate of the UTMB program, Dr. Baker has been awarded the distinguished service award by the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation as well as by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. The Baker/Gordon conference is one of the most respected aesthetic conferences yearly. The month long rotation at his office (housing is provided) affords the residents an intensive aesthetic surgery experience as well as knowledge of the working of a well run private practice.

Dr. Geoffrey Robb is Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the M.D. Anderson Hospital. He is certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology. He has also had a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in Microvascular and hand surgery. He is a well respected plastic surgeon who has served many visiting professorships particularly for head and neck cancer and cancer reconstruction. Dr. Robb is active in the committee structure of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation. He is on numerous editorial boards and is an active member of his local and regional medical association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Faculty at participating institutions are selected and supervised by the Program Director. Dr. Phillips remains the geographic Program Director for the Shriners Hospital and at the John Sealy Hospital. In addition, she closely oversees the residents' activity on their rotations with Drs. Baker and Stuzin in Miami in their private offices and Dr. Robb in Houston at the M.D. Anderson rotation. The rotation with Drs. Baker and Stuzin is intended to broaden the second year residents' experience in aesthetic surgery. The experience at the M.D. Anderson Hospital is expected to strengthen the microsurgical reconstruction experience of the plastic surgery residents, particularly in the area of the head and neck reconstruction, under the direct supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Robb who is the Chief of Plastic Surgery at that institution.