Jon Ver Halen

Address:

Dept of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Baptist Cancer Center,
3268 Duke Circle,
Germantown, TN 38139, USA.

Research Interests:

• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery;
• Microsurgery;
• Head and neck surgery;
• Skull based surgery;
• Breast surgery; Sarcoma;
• Extremity reconstruction;
• Facial reanimation;
• Peripheral nerve surgery

Biography:

• Dr. Jon Ver Halen, MD, FACS is currently the Chief of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery and Baptist Memorial Hospital, and the Baptist Cancer Center, in Memphis, Tennessee. 
• He is the Plastic Surgery Fellowship Director for the Baptist Cancer Center. 
• He also holds appointments as a Research Member of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and is an Adjunct Clinical Faculty at St. Jude Childrens’ Research Hospital. 
• His clinical expertise is in oncologic reconstruction, and microsurgery. 
• He is originally from southern California, where he attended the University of California at Los Angeles for his undergraduate career. 
• He attended the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology program in Health Science and Technology for his medical degree; the University of Washington in Seattle for his plastic surgery training; and the MD Anderson Cancer Center for specialization in microvascular surgery. 
• He was also a tenured Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Tennessee, before assuming his current role.