Luis VillarDr

Dr. Villar is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and certified by the American Board of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery.  He has eight years of surgical residency training rather than the usual five to seven. He is a fully trained trauma surgeon, general surgeon, and reconstructive plastic surgeon. He gained his surgery and plastic surgery training on the Harvard Surgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Nassau Medical Center in New York. He interned at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Unit when it opened in 1973 and did a Trauma fellowship at Boston City Hospital. His burn expertise was achieved at the Shriner's Burn Unit at MGH Boston. He has been in private practice since 1982 and is on staff at Martin Memorial Hospital, Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Villar has been a creative sculptor and artist since kindergarten. He used to sculpture his cleft lip patient’s deformities to study how best to repair them. Now he makes his hand painted Christmas cards every Christmas. These are inspired by Anne, a 30 yr old red head who died on the elevator with him straddled over her on the gurney as the doors opened into the Baltimore Hospital Shock Trauma Unit, first of its kind in the world in 1973. The awaiting team brought her back to life from certain death. To this day he gets a hand painted Christmas card from this talented artist that went on to have a daughter as beautiful as herself. “We are bonded for life, though I have not seen her since.”