Overview
Pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgeon, taking care of children with cleft lip/palate and other facial differences.
Dedicated to the improvement of multidisciplinary team-based care, especially by way of standardized, prospective outcomes measurement ("If you don't measure it, you can't improve it.")
Passionate about causal inference for real-world data (RWD) in observational studies.
Dedicated to the improvement of multidisciplinary team-based care, especially by way of standardized, prospective outcomes measurement ("If you don't measure it, you can't improve it.")
Passionate about causal inference for real-world data (RWD) in observational studies.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Surgery
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2022 - Present
Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery,
Surgery
Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences
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2022 - Present
Population Health Sciences,
Basic Science Departments
Affiliate Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
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2024 - Present
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
A Rating Scale for Obtaining Specific, Actionable Evaluations of Nasolabial Aesthetics After Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair.
Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg · September 23, 2025 BACKGROUND: Surgeons pursuing improvement in the aesthetic outcomes of their cleft lip repairs may benefit from a granular scale evaluating individual objectives of the repair. METHODS: A working group of nine surgeons convened to develop an assessment sca ... Full text Link to item CiteA 5-Step Simplification of the Fisher Anatomical Subunit Cleft Lip Repair.
Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg · September 3, 2025 Unilateral cleft lip repair methods have evolved from straight-line repairs to geometric procedures, rotation-advancement, and contemporary hybrid techniques. The Fisher anatomical subunit repair is a versatile, effective, and highly reproducible technique ... Full text Link to item CiteDiscussion: Radical Overlapping Intravelar Veloplasty during Primary Cleft Palate Repair Results in Decreased Secondary Speech Surgery.
Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg · June 1, 2025 Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Optimizing Pain Management in Infants and Young Children Undergoing Cleft Palate Repair
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Gerber Foundation · 2026 - 2028Computational modeling of the mature unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity for objective assessment of patient nasal function and treatment outcomes
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025Directing Stem Cells to the Adipocyte Lineage in Infantile Hemangiomas
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2024View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Texas Medical School, Houston ·
2003
M.D.