David A. Hidalgo

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David A. Hidalgo
Born	David Arthur Hidalgo (1952-07-30) July 30, 1952 (age 69) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Georgetown University, B.S., M.D.
Occupation	Plastic surgeon
Known for	Fibula free flap jaw reconstruction, aesthetic plastic surgery
Spouse(s)	Mary Ann Tighe (m. 1979)
Children	Aaron M. Tighe (b. 1971)

David A. Hidalgo is an American reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgeon, author, and visual artist. He holds the academic title of Clinical Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College (New York-Presbyterian) in New York, N.Y.  

During his tenure as the former Chief of the Plastic and Reconstructive Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Hidalgo performed the first fibula free flap for mandible (jaw) reconstruction. This procedure, performed in cancer patients, utilized microsurgical techniques to preserve viability of the bone transplant. Additional development of the technique, sequentially published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, delineated its unique advantages.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Biography[]

Early life and education[]

Hidalgo was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of three boys of first-generation immigrant parents. His father, Enrique Hidalgo, an orphan from Guayaquil, Ecuador, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an aerospace engineer during the Cold War. He married Liselotte Schlumberger, from Heidelberg Germany, after World War II.^{[citation needed]}

Hidalgo attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he completed a bachelor of science degree, magna cum laude, in fine arts and biology in 1974. He subsequently earned a medical degree at Georgetown and then completed residencies in general surgery, plastic surgery, and a fellowship in microsurgery, all at New York University Medical Center (now NYU Langone Health) in 1985.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Hidalgo was certified by the American Board of Surgery (1985), and American Board of Plastic Surgery (1987).

His initial experience with the fibula free flap for mandible reconstruction was documented in the publication Fibula Free Flap: A New Method of Mandible Reconstruction. This article was ranked sixth of the 25 most cited articles on plastic surgery for the last 50 years.^[1] Hidalgo established a fellowship training program in microsurgery during his tenure at Memorial.

Hidalgo has authored over 100 scientific papers on microsurgical techniques for reconstructive surgery, facial aesthetic surgery, and body contouring surgery. These articles have appeared in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and the Annals of Plastic Surgery.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} His microsurgery textbook, Microsurgery in Trauma (Futura Publishing Co., 1987), was written with the late microsurgeon William Shaw.

Hidalgo was the recipient of the James Barrett Brown Award in 1992 for his work on mandible reconstruction. He was the national visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation in 2002, and was the Cosmetic Section editor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, from 2012 to 2020. .^[9][10]

Personal life[]

Hidalgo is married to Mary Ann Tighe, a commercial real estate broker .^[11]  

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