G. Patrick Maxwell

G. Patrick Maxwell is a plastic surgeon and an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University, based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Maxwell is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Medical School, and trained in general and then plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He also completed a fellowship in microsurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, with the microsurgical pioneer, Harry J. Buncke, and in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore.

Maxwell was the surgeon and co-author of the first successful report of microsurgical transfer of the latissimus muscle flap,[1] at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s, he relocated to Nashville, where he founded the Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute and established a fellowship training program in breast and cosmetic surgery.

Maxwell is credited with a significant advancement in the design of tissue expanders used for breast reconstruction by co-developing textured surfaces[2][3] (to decrease capsular contracture) and helping to introduce prostheses which more closely resemble the shape and feel of the natural breast. The two-stage method of expander-implant reconstruction as described by Maxwell and Spears has become the most widely used technique for implant-based breast reconstruction.[4]

His work on concepts of matching implants and surgical techniques to individual soft-tissue characteristics in cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery[5] led to a method called the "biodimensional approach" which advanced dimensional analysis[6][7] rather than volume when using breast implants and expanders.[8] In 2003, Maxwell helped found the Inamed Academy, a series of international educational symposia focusing on breast surgery.[9]

He has contributed a number of articles to the anatomic descriptions, clinical applications, and aesthetic refinements of the transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM)[10] and latissimus flap procedures[11] for breast reconstruction, and is an authority on silicone breast implants and ultrasonic liposuction technologies.[12]

Maxwell was also the co-founder of the Tennessee-Kentucky chapter of Operation Smile, past president of the Nashville Chapter of the American Cancer Society, a founder and board member of the Aspen Center for Integrative Medicine, and co-founder and Executive EVP Diversified Specialty Institute.

On April 17, 2007, Maxwell was recognized for his contributions to medicine by Representative Marsha Blackburn (Republican-Tennessee) through a resolution written into the US Congressional Record.[13]

Professional recognition

External links

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Maxwell GP; Stueber, K; Hoopes, JE (September 1978). "A free latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap: case report". Plast Reconstr Surg. 62 (3): 462–466. doi:10.1097/00006534-197809000-00033. PMID 358230.
  2. ↑ US patent # 5,092,348 source:US Patent Office http://patft.uspto.gov/
  3. ↑ Barone FE, Perry L, Keller T, Maxwell GP (July 1992). "The biomechanical and histopathologic effects of surface texturing with silicone and polyurethane in tissue implantation and expansion". Plast Reconstr Surg. 90 (1): 77–86. doi:10.1097/00006534-199207000-00012. PMID 1615095.
  4. ↑ Maxwell GP, Falcone PA (June 1992). "Eighty-four consecutive breast reconstructions using a textured silicone tissue expander". Plast Reconstr Surg. 89 (6): 1022–1034. doi:10.1097/00006534-199206000-00003. PMID 1584864.
  5. ↑ Maxwell GP and Spear SL "Two-Stage Breast Reconstruction Using the Biodimensional System." McGhan Medical Corp 1995
  6. ↑ Hammond DC, Perry LC, Maxwell GP, Fisher J (August 1993). "Morphologic analysis of tissue-expander shape using a biomechanical model". Plast Reconstr Surg. 92 (2): 255–259. doi:10.1097/00006534-199308000-00009. PMID 8337275.
  7. ↑ Maxwell GP "Immediate Breast Reconstruction Using Biodimensional Anatomical Permanent Expander Implants: A Prospective Analysis of Outcome and Patient Satisfaction" (discussion) Plast Reconstr Surg. Jan 2003 111(1): 139-40
  8. ↑ MCGhan Product Catalog pg. 17 http://www.medics.ch/images/products/plastic/mcghan.pdf
  9. ↑ | Inamed Academy Faculty Bio Page http://www.inamedacademy.com/doctors/drmaxwell
  10. ↑ Maxwell GP, Andochick SE (April 1994). "Secondary shaping of the TRAM flap". Clin Plast Surg 21 (2): 247–53. PMID 8187418.
  11. ↑ Maxwell GP (April 1981). "Latissimus dorsi breast reconstruction: an aesthetic assessment". Clin Plast Surg. 8 (2): 373–87. PMID 7273637.
  12. ↑ Maxwell GP, Gingrass MK (January 1998). "Ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty: a clinical study of 250 consecutive patients". Plast Reconstr Surg. 101 (1): 189–202. doi:10.1097/00006534-199801000-00034. PMID 9427937.
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  14. ↑ LOUISdb.org: Congressional Record: HONORING DR. PATRICK MAXWELL: published:
  15. ↑ Walter Scott Brown Award (Retrieved June 2006)
  16. ↑ In Chul Song Award (Retrieved June 2006) Archived October 13, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Bestdoctors.com
  18. ↑ James Barret Brown Award recipients(Retrieved June 2006)
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