Professor and Chief of Plastic Surgery
Loyola Univeristy Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, IL
Dr. Timothy W. King is a Professor with Tenure and the Stuteville Division Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and the Loyola University Medical Center. He also serves as the director of plastic surgery research and the site director of plastic surgery at the Hines VA. He received a BS & MS in Bioengineering from Texas A&M University and an MD/PhD from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His PhD research focused on the development of biodegradable microspheres for use in tissue engineering and resulted in two US patents. He completed his plastic surgery training at the Institute of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the New York University Medical Center followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Plastic Surgery at the Northwestern University Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Following residency and fellowship, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he established an NIH-funded laboratory focused on developing regenerative therapies for cutaneous wounds. He is one of a handful of plastic surgeons that have been funded by the NIH, the NSF, and the DoD. In 2016, he was recruited to the University of Alabama at Birmingham where, in addition to continuing his research program, he was the creator and program director of their integrated plastic surgery program.
His clinical practice concentrates on cosmetic and reconstructive surgery in infants, children, and adults. His areas of clinical focus include facial trauma, lower extremity trauma, hand trauma, cancer reconstruction, cleft lip and palate, melanocytic nevi, and other congenital anomalies.
He is a past recipient of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons Academic Scholar Award and the American College of Surgeons Louis C. Argenta Faculty Research Fellowship, two prestigious foundation career development awards available to surgeons. He is the past Chair of the Plastic Surgery Research Council (PSRC), past President of the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgeons, past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Plastic Surgery, and past Vice-President of the International Society for Pediatric Wound Care. He is on the Board of Directors for the Wound Healing Society and the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS). He is the past Associate Editor of plastic surgery and wound healing for the Journal of Surgical Research, the current Section Editor of basic science for the journal FACE and on the editorial board for Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction. He has also been selected for membership into Alpha Omega Alpha, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, & the Surgical Biology Club II.
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Thursday, April 27, 2023
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Friday, April 28, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM