Professor Gregory Evans MD FACS
Dr. Gregory Evans is Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering and Chief of the Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Institute of the University of California at Irvine. He is a medical graduate of the University of Southern California and completed his plastic surgery residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and did a craniofacial / microsurgical fellowship at the University of Maryland.
Prior to coming to UCI, Dr. Evans spent seven years performing cancer
reconstruction procedures, including free tissue transfer for head, neck and
breast at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He has been
successively Assistant and Associate Professor in the Division of Plastic
Surgery, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Dr. Evans specializes in the full
spectrum of plastic surgery, with a focus on cosmetic surgery such as face,
eyes, abdomen, breasts and body contouring. He continues to provide state of
the art cancer reconstruction for breasts, head and neck, and extremities.
As a physician scientist, he is also a leading researcher in tissue
engineering. Research projects have included recreation of new tissue
equivalents for damaged nerves that will help restore function to cancer,
burn and trauma patients. He is a member in numerous professional societies
and associations including the American Head and Neck Society, the American
Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic
Surgeons and the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the
American College of Surgeons. He has published extensively with
more than 300 publications in national and international peer reviewed
journals and has given numerous lectures as an invited speaker and visiting
professor around the world.
Dr. Evans is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgeons and is
currently a director for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
