Jesse C. Selber, MD, MPH, FACS

I want to thank Jesse Selber for serving as guest editor for this issue of Seminars in Plastic Surgery on “Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.” We also appreciate the efforts made by each outstanding author for contributing to this issue.

Jesse Selber is the director of clinical research and an associate professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Selber trained in surgery and plastic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and completed a clinical fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Dr. Selber's clinical practice consists of breast, head and neck, trunk, and extremity reconstruction. He has developed the world's first robotic plastic surgery program and has led ground-breaking transplants. He continues to pioneer and innovate in multiple areas of reconstruction. Dr. Selber has had over 100 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and serves as a reviewer or editor for multiple journals, and leads the research effort for the Department of Plastic Surgery at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He holds offices in several national plastic surgery societies including the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and is an executive board and founding member of the Robotic Assisted Microvascular and Endoscopic Surgery society (RAMSES).