The Healing Mission of Plastic Surgery: One Surgeon's Story

• -Beware of the lack of regulation of surgical specialists and public misperceptions regarding plastic surgery.
• -Get expert perspective on plastic innovations, such as microsurgery, myo-cutaneous flaps, liposuction, endoscopic surgery, and lasers.
• -Learn the story of the development of the modern breast implant by Dr. Thomas Cronin (Dr. Earnest Cronin's uncle and Dr. Frank Gerow.
• -Witness thirty years of Operation San Jose, a humanitarian surgical mission project to Latin America.

About the Author
Cronin M. D., Ernest D.: - Dr. Earnest D. Cronin practiced plastic surgery for 38 years in Houston, Texas, helping to educate more than two hundred plastic surgery residents. He authored numerous plastic surgery articles and is a past President of the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons. He received a Jefferson Award for Public Service award in Washington, D.C. 1998, presented by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. He received the first Distinguished Surgeon Award of the Association of Operating Room Nurses of Greater Houston in 1998 at a dinner celebration with President George W, Bush.