Larry A. SargentDr

Larry A. Sargent, MD. FACS is a native of Atlanta, ga. where he excelled in both academics and athletics growing up.  he was a recipient of the bobby Dodd scholarship to the Georgia institute of technology, where he studied mathematics and played baseball.   Upon graduating from Georgia tech, he attended medical school at Emory university school of medicine.  He completed general and plastic surgery training at johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore,Maryland.  while at johns Hopkins he studied craniofacial surgery under dr. PaulManson and then furthered his education under dr. PaulTessier in Paris, France.

​Dr. Sargent served four years in the united States army at Walter reed army medical center in Washington, dc.  there he trained military plastic surgeons and was on faculty  at uniformed services university of health sciences.   for his service and starting the first armed services Craniofacial Center he was a recipient of the army commendation medal for distinguished service. 

Dr. Sargent was recruited to Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee where he has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the UT College of Medicine for the past 20 years as well as the senior partner of The Plastic Surgery Group. He has been Program Director of an outstanding Plastic Surgery Residency for 18 years, and under his leadership has graduated over 60 board certified plastic surgeons.

​Dr. Sargent is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, International Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, and an active member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Association of Academic Chairman of Plastic Surgery,  Plastic Surgery Research Council, and numerous other societies. He is past President of the Tennessee Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.