G. Patrick Maxwell

G. Patrick Maxwell is a Nashville, Tennessee based plastic surgeon, and an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University [1].

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Maxwell is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Medical School, and subsequently trained in General and then Plastic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. He also completed a fellowship in microsurgery at the University of California, San Francisco with microsurgical pioneer, Harry J. Buncke, and in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

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,TN and founded the Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute and established a fellowship training program in breast and cosmetic surgery.

Maxwell is credited with a significant advance in the design of tissue expanders used for breast reconstruction, 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 in medicine by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) with a resolution read into in the US Congressional record. [3]

Professional recognition

• 2007 US Congress resolution recipient honoring his contributions in medicine^[13]
• 2005 Presidential Award from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Three time recipient of the Walter Scott Brown Award for best education videotape/film from the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation.^[14]
• 1997 In Chul Song Award winner for a plastic surgeon whose philanthropic plastic surgery efforts to citizens in less fortunate countries best exemplifies humanitarian service^[15]
• 1993 Dr. Maxwell served as the featured visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation
• Included in The Best Doctors in America^[16] list annually since 1991
• 1980 James Barret Brown Award for the best plastic surgery related paper published during the previous calendar year^[17]
• Robert H. Ivy Society Award
• No offence to Patrick Maxwell of Wamberal, NSW, Australia.

Selected publications

• McGhan BioDimensional Augmentation System Video: Raising the Standard of Care. Video by G. Patrick Maxwell, M.D. (70 min). M273-5/1991
• Gorney M, Maxwell PG, Spear SL "Augmentation Mastopexy". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. May, 2005, vol 25, no 3, p 275-284
• Maxwell GP. Review of "Immediate Breast Reconstruction Using Biodimensional Anatomical Permanent Expander Implants: A Prospective Analysis of Outcome and Patient Satisfaction". Gerald P. H. Gui, M.S., F.R.C.S., Su-Ming Tan, F.R.C.S.(Ed.), Eleni C. Faliakou, M.D., Christina Choy, F.R.A.C.S., Roger A'Hern, M.Sc., and Ann Ward, S.R.N., M.A. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 111(1):139-140, January 2003
• Hester TR Jr, Tebbetts JB, Maxwell GP. "The polyurethane-covered mammary prosthesis: facts and fiction (II): a look back and a 'peek' ahead." Clin Plast Surg. 2001 Jul;28(3):579-86. PMID 11471963
• Maxwell GP, Clugston PA "Management of Complications Following Augmentation Mammaplasty". Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Reconstructive Surgery (3rd Edition). Georgeiade GS (editor). Williams & Wilkins. 2001
• Handel N, Hayden BB, Jervis WH, Maxwell PG "Revisions in breast augmentation". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. March, 2000, vol 20, no 2, p 141-148
• Maxwell G P "Breast asymmetry". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. November, 2001, vol 21, no 6, p 552-562
• Clugston PA, Gingrass MK, Azurin D, Fisher J, Maxwell GP. "Ipsilateral pedicled TRAM flaps: the safer alternative?" Plast Reconstr Surg. 2000 Jan;105(1):77-82. PMID 10626973
• Maxwell GP. "Use of hollow cannula technology in ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty." Clin Plast Surg. 1999 Apr;26(2):255-60; viii. Review. PMID 10327265
• Maxwell GP. "Short Scar Periareolar Inferior Pedicle Reduction (SPAIR) Mammaplasty." Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 103(3):902, March, 1999.
• Calobrace MB and Maxwell, GP. "Large Volume Ultrasound Assisted Lipoplasty." Rohrich R, Kenkle J, and Beran S, eds. Ultrasound-Assisted Liposuction. St. Louis, Missouri, Quality Medical Publishing, l998.
• Ablaza VJ, Gingrass MK, Perry LC, Fisher J, Maxwell GP. "Tissue temperatures during ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty." Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998 Aug;102(2):534-42. PMID 9703095

References

1. ^ Maxwell GP (Sep 1978). "A free latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap: case report." (3). PMID 358230.
2. ^ US patent # 5,092,348 source:US Patent Office http://patft.uspto.gov/
3. ^ (Jul 1992) "The biomechanical and histopathologic effects of surface texturing with silicone and polyurethane in tissue implantation and expansion." (1). PMID 1615095.
4. ^ Maxwell GP, Falcone PA (Jun 1992). "Eighty-four consecutive breast reconstructions using a textured silicone tissue expander." (6). 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 (Aug 1993). "Morphologic analysis of tissue-expander shape using a biomechanical model." (2). 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. ^ (Apr 1994) "Secondary shaping of the TRAM flap." (2). PMID 8187418.
11. ^ (Apr 1981) "Latissimus dorsi breast reconstruction: an aesthetic assessment." (2). PMID 7273637.
12. ^ (Jan 1998) "Ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty: a clinical study of 250 consecutive patients." (1). PMID 9427937.
13. ^ http://www.louisdb.org/cr/view.php?documentURL=cr/2007/ap/17/cr17ap07-46.html?v=l
14. ^ Walter Scott Brown Award (Retrieved June 2006)
15. ^ In Chul Song Award (Retrieved June 2006)
16. ^ Bestdoctors.com
17. ^ James Barret Brown Award recipients(Retrieved June 2006)