Mark W. Clemens, MD, is an associate professor of plastic surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas in Houston. He completed plastic surgical training at Georgetown University, research training programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Harvard Children’s Hospital, and received a microvascular reconstructive surgery fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Clemens has lectured in 24 countries and written more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and 40 book chapters.  He serves as the breast section editor and on the editorial board of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal.  He is an author for National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines.  He was a member of the surgical team that performed the world’s first skull and scalp transplantation. Dr. Clemens is the MD Anderson site principal investigator for the NIH R01-funded Mastectomy Reconstruction Outcomes Consortium (MROC) Study.  He leads a multidisciplinary research team and tissue repository focused on the study of breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).  Dr. Clemens serves as an American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) society liaison to the US Food and Drug Administration, and chairs a subcommittee for ASPS overseeing national research and education efforts for BIA-ALCL.

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