S. Anthony WolfeDr

S. Anthony Wolfe, M.D. is Director of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, and Director of an ACGME accredited Craniofacial Fellowship that has trained over 60 fellows. Dr. Wolfe graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed a General Surgery Residency at The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under Francis 0. Moore. He then went through a Plastic Surgery Residency at the University of Miami under D. Ralph Millard, Jr., M.D. Following this, he spent a year as Assistant to Paul Tessier, in Paris, and then returned to Miami to go into practice with Dr. Millard.

Dr. Wolfe is the author of numerous books (Plastic Surgery of the Facial Skeleton, with orthodontist Sam Berkowitz; a book on Facial Fractures, and a two volume biography of Paul Tessier entitled A Man from Héric) and translator of other (The Planning of Plastic Operations on the Body Surface, Alexander Limburg, from the Russian; Plastic Surgery of the Orbit and Eyelids, Paul Tessier and others, from the French; Rhinoplasty by Gilbert Aiach, from the French).

He was a member of the Florida Governor’s Advisory Council on Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies, and has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health Special Studies Sections Meetings. His sits on The Medical Advisory Board of Smile Train. He is a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Florida and Florida International Universities, and a Professor of the Voluntary Professor at The University of Miami.

Dr. Wolfe is certified by The American Board of Surgery and The American Board of Plastic Surgery, and serves as a Senior Examiner for the latter. He is a Founding Member and past President of The International Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, and Past President of The American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and The Rhinoplasty Society. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and The Annals of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of numerous organizations, including The American Association of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, The American College of Surgeons, and The American Cleft Palate Association. His Curriculum Vitae can be accessed by clicking here.

He is an Honorary Member of the Plastic Surgery Societies of Ecuador, France, Columbia, Argentina, Cuba, and Finland. He has been invited to operate in a number of American Centers (University of Texas, Galveston; University of Florida; Walter Reed Medical Center) and Centers abroad (Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, China.

Dr. Wolfe feels that Plastic Surgery is composed of two often overlapping areas— reconstructive surgery, and aesthetic surgery, and it has been one of his particular interests to apply techniques and principles from one area to the other, presiding thereby in the marriage of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, like Yin and Yang.