Principal Investigator
Luke J. Curtsinger III, MD is a highly-experienced surgeon and has performed more than 20,000 operations on children and adults. Board certified in Plastic Surgery, Dr. Curtsinger graduated magna cum laude from Murray State University in Murray, KY with a Bachelor of Art degree and the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, KY with a Doctor of Medicine degree. He completed a general surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX where he received the J.B. Aust Surgical Society Research Award for three years (1988, 1990, 1991). Dr. Curtsinger then completed a wound healing fellowship at the University of Louisville and a plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. He served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC and as the Chief of Plastic Surgery and Director of Plastic Surgery Education at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, GA. Dr. Curtsinger also co-founded the University Hospital Skin Bank in Louisville, KY is President-Elect of the Georgia Medical Society, and an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.