Geoff Gurtner

Professor
Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA

Dr. Geoffrey C. Gurtner is a Professor of Surgery at Stanford within the division of Plastic Surgery. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and an AOA graduate of the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School program, a plastic surgery residency at the NYU School of Medicine and received advanced training in microsurgery at the University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor of the most widely read textbook in the field, Grabb & Smith’s Plastic Surgery. Dr. Gurtner’s NIH funded laboratory seeks to understand how organisms respond to injury and how to reactivate nascent pathways of tissue regeneration. Dr. Gurtner has an active role in medical technology development and has founded start-up companies in the aesthetic, wound healing and cardiovascular spaces.