Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Dr. Wong is Professor and Vice-Chairman of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine with his lab at the Beckman Laser Institute in Irvine. Dr. Wong received his degrees from the University of Southern California (BSBME), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Amsterdam (PhD), along with an additional year at Oxford University (Wolfson College) as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. His residency and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship were completed at UC Irvine, where he has remained on faculty. He has published over 80 peer reviewed publications, is on the editorial board of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and Lasers in Medical Science, and performs editorial review for ten other journals. He is also a Springer editor with his book, Biomedical Optics in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery: Principles and Practices scheduled to publish in 2015. Additionally, Dr. Wong is the Director for the facial plastic surgery fellowship program. His clinical expertise is on rhinoplasty, vascular malformations, and trauma reconstruction. His clinical research is on facial beauty, ethnic rhinoplasty, and revision rhinoplasty. He is a team doctor for the UC Irvine athletic teams handling maxillo-facial trauma and serves in a similar capacity for Concordia University and other local schools. He currently supervises four post-doctoral fellows, a research specialist, and numerous graduate students, residents, medical students, and undergrads in his labs.