G. Patrick Maxwell is a Nashville, Tennessee based plastic surgeon, and an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University ^*.

Maxwell is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School, and subsequently trained in General and then Plastic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. He also completed a fellowship in microsurgery and in hand surgery.

Maxwell was the surgeon and co-author of the first successful microsurgical transfer of a latissimus muscle flap 358230, at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1970's. In the early 1980s, he founded the Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute and established a fellowship program in breast and cosmetic surgery.

Maxwell collaborated with the McGhan Corp. (now Allerghan-Inamed Corp.) on a design of textured tissue expanders used for breast reconstruction PMID 1615095 (to decrease capsular contracture) and helped introduce prostheses to more closely resemble the shape and feel of the natural breast.

He has also contributed to refinements to the transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) 8187418 and latissimus flap procedures PMID 7273637 , and is an authority on silicone breast implants and ultrasonic liposuction technologies. PMID 9427937.

Maxwell was one of the released parties in a proposed settlement in the Federal implant litigation related to silicone gel implant products because he held a patent on a pear shaped tissue expander manufactured at the time. Federal Breast Implant Litigation (Retrieved June 2006)Federal Breast Implant Litigation- Court notice (Retrieved June 2006)

In late 1997, Maxwell was sued and accused of implanting a patient with silicone breast implants without her consent when she had requested saline implants be used. The case was initially dismissed by the trial court on the grounds that that the Statute of limitations had run out. However the appellate court reversed the trial court’s ruling stating that a jury could infer fraudulent concealment. Court of Appeals Nashville filing (Retrieved June 2006) There were no subsequent published decisions in the case.

Professional recognition

• Three time recipient of the Walter Scott Brown Award for best education videotape/film from the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation.Walter Scott Brown Award (Retrieved June 2006)
• 1997 In Chul Song Award winner for a plastic surgeon whose philanthropic plastic surgery efforts to citizens in less fortunate countries best exemplifies humanitarian serviceIn Chul Song Award (Retrieved June 2006)
• 1993 Dr. Maxwell served as the featured visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation
• 1980 James Barret Brown Award for the best plastic surgery related paper published during the previous calendar year James Barret Brown Award recipients(Retrieved June 2006)

Selected publications

• McGhan BioDimensional Augmentation System Video: Raising the Standard of Care. Video by G. Patrick Maxwell, M.D. (70 min). M273-5/1991
• Gorney M, Maxwell PG, Spear SL "Augmentation Mastopexy". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. May, 2005, vol 25, no 3, p 275-284
• Maxwell GP. Review of "Immediate Breast Reconstruction Using Biodimensional Anatomical Permanent Expander Implants: A Prospective Analysis of Outcome and Patient Satisfaction". Gerald P. H. Gui, M.S., F.R.C.S., Su-Ming Tan, F.R.C.S.(Ed.), Eleni C. Faliakou, M.D., Christina Choy, F.R.A.C.S., Roger A'Hern, M.Sc., and Ann Ward, S.R.N., M.A. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 111(1):139-140, January 2003
• Hester TR Jr, Tebbetts JB, Maxwell GP. "The polyurethane-covered mammary prosthesis: facts and fiction (II): a look back and a 'peek' ahead." Clin Plast Surg. 2001 Jul;28(3):579-86. PMID 11471963
• Maxwell GP, Clugston PA "Management of Complications Following Augmentation Mammaplasty". Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Reconstructive Surgery (3rd Edition). Georgeiade GS (editor). Williams & Wilkins. 2001
• Handel N, Hayden BB, Jervis WH, Maxwell PG "Revisions in breast augmentation". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. March, 2000, vol 20, no 2, p 141-148
• Maxwell G P "Breast asymmetry". Aesthetic Surgery Journal. November, 2001, vol 21, no 6, p 552-562
• Clugston PA, Gingrass MK, Azurin D, Fisher J, Maxwell GP. "Ipsilateral pedicled TRAM flaps: the safer alternative?" Plast Reconstr Surg. 2000 Jan;105(1):77-82. PMID 10626973
• Maxwell GP. "Use of hollow cannula technology in ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty." Clin Plast Surg. 1999 Apr;26(2):255-60; viii. Review. PMID 10327265
• Maxwell GP. "Short Scar Periareolar Inferior Pedicle Reduction (SPAIR) Mammaplasty." Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 103(3):902, March, 1999.
• Calobrace MB and Maxwell, GP. "Large Volume Ultrasound Assisted Lipoplasty." Rohrich R, Kenkle J, and Beran S, eds. Ultrasound-Assisted Liposuction. St. Louis, Missouri, Quality Medical Publishing, l998.
• Ablaza VJ, Gingrass MK, Perry LC, Fisher J, Maxwell GP. "Tissue temperatures during ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty." Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998 Aug;102(2):534-42. PMID 9703095

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