Over 550 research articles published in a variety of journals.
Education
B.S.: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
M.D.: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Residency: Surgical: UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Plastic Surgery: New York University, New York, NY
Fellowship: Craniofacial: UCLA, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Research: Fetal Treatment Program, UCSF, San Francisco,
CA
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Longaker received his Bachelor of Science
degree in physiology at Michigan State University in 1980.
He received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School
in 1984. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1987 and
as a Research Fellow in 1991. Dr. Longaker completed his
general surgery residency training in the Department of
Surgery at UCSF in San Francisco in 1993. He then completed
his plastic surgery from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1996
he completed his craniofacial fellowship training in the
Department of Surgery at UCLA.
In 1996 Dr. Longaker was appointed the John
Marquis Converse Professor of Plastic Surgery Research
and Director of Surgical Research in the Department of
Surgery at NYU. In 2000 he was appointed as Professor of
Surgery and Director of Children's Surgical Research in
the Department of Surgery at Stanford University Medical
Center.
Dr. Longaker is the recipient of numerous
awards and honors such as: Valedictorian at Warren High
School in 1976, Member of the NCAA Men's Championship Basketball
Team in 1979, Rhodes Scholar National Finalist in 1980,
Summa Cum Laude at Michigan State University in 1980, in
1988 and 1989 he was awarded the Young Investigators Award
from the American Academy of Pediatrics, in 1991 he was
awarded first place by the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation
for the Scholarship Contest. He was the recipient of the
Peter J. Gingrass Memorial Award by the Plastic Surgery
Research Council in 1991 and in 1992 he was awarded Best
Research Paper in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery by the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery
and Synthes. Also in 1992 he was the recipient of the Robert
H. Ivy Memorial Award by the Pennsylvania Plastic Surgery
Society. In 1993, as Co-author, he was given the James
Barrett Brown Award by the American Association of Plastic
Surgeons for outstanding paper in the Journal of Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery. The American Cleft Palate/Craniofacial
Association awarded him the Best Research Paper in the
Junior Investigator Category in 1995. As Co-author, in
1995, he was again awarded the James Barrett Brown Award
by the American Association of Plastic Surgeons for Outstanding
Paper in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Also in 1996 he was awarded the Clifford C. Snyder Past
Chairman Award by the Plastic Surgery Research Council.
From 1997-1999 he was awarded the Academic Scholar Award
by the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and in
1999 he was awarded the Dr. Bernd Spiess Award by the American
Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons.
As one of the leading researchers in the
country, Dr. Longaker currently has over 541 published
research articles in a variety of journals such as: Journal
of Bone Mineral Research, American Journal of Physiology,
Endocrinology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and
the Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal.
