Dr. Mark W. Clemens is a tenured Professor of Plastic Surgery and Associate Vice President of Perioperative Services at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He completed plastic surgery training at Georgetown University, research fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Children’s Hospital, a microsurgery fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
An internationally recognized expert in breast implant safety, BIA-ALCL, and advanced breast reconstruction, Dr. Clemens has lectured in more than 30 countries and authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and 50 book chapters. He serves as Breast Section Editor for Aesthetic Surgery Journal and has served as an invited breast implant safety expert for the U.S. FDA and the European Commission.
He was part of the surgical team that performed the world’s first skull and scalp transplant and co-founded the World Consensus Conference on BIA-ALCL, held along with the International Breast Surgery Workshop, now in its 12th year, with more than 20,000 attendees worldwide to date. His books include Complications in Reconstructive Surgery from Springer Publishing and Phoenix Rising: Empower and Transform Through Breast Reconstruction, an Amazon chart-topping breast cancer release.
