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DAVID L. RAYFIELD, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
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Dr. Rayfield began his surgical career in Dallas, Texas in 1973. While in college at University of California, San Diego, he was offered the opportunity to do research in burn injuries under the famous Dr. Charles Baxter, a president and founder of the American Burn Association at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
He finished his college career at Southern Methodist University while doing his burn research at Southwestern Medical School. He graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1979.
He completed a five year general surgery residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City, including major rotations at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital.
During this experience, he became fascinated with the art, challenge, and excitement of plastic and reconstructive surgery-every case was different, the patients were happy and grateful, there was great drama, one would never be bored!
After finishing General Surgery residency, there was a two year stint in the Navy as a general surgeon in Yokosuka, Japan with the seventh fleet. He traveled extensively and explored the medical care in Thailand, the Phillipines and Japan. He also completed Naval Aviation Physiology training and the Combat Casualty Care Course, as well as receiving the “expert” rating in marksmanship. In 1986, he began his plastic surgery fellowship at the prestigious University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, by most standards, the finest cosmetic plastic and reconstructive training program in the world.
After completion of his fellowship, he joined Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown , New York where he was an attending surgeon in plastic surgery, and was a member of the clinical faculty at Columbia University division of plastic surgery. While at Bassett Healthcare, he performed the first toe to thumb transfer and the first scalp reimplantation in the region. He also began developing the cosmetic and laser surgery program at Bassett.
In 1997, he moved to southern New Jersey where he joined Dr. Marc Feldman in private practice. He resides in Linwood New jersey with his wife of 25 years, Beverly, and two children, Ryan and Rachael. He stays active with golf, squash and tennis and loves faraway travel, fine food in great atmosphere. |
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Dr. David L. Rayfield, MD
CERTIFICATIONS:
- American Board of General Surgery
May, 1985
- General Surgery Recertification
October 1994
- American Board of Plastic Surgery
November, 1990
- American Board of Hand Surgery
August, 1992
POSITIONS HELD:
- Member, Institutional Review Board
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown
1989-1994
- Member, Integument Subcommittee
Plastic Surgery Inservice Examination
1989-1994
- President
Ostego County Medical Society
1993-1994
- Alternate Delegate to AMA
Young Physicians Section
1992
- Alternate Delegate to AMA from Medical Society of the State of New York
1994-1997
CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS:
- Attending Surgeon
Atlantic City Medical Center
June 1, 1997
- Attending Surgeon
Shore Memorial Hospital
June 1, 1997
SOCIETIES:
- American Medical Association
(Alternate Delegate from New York State to House of Delegates)
- American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery
- New Jersey Medical Society
PUBLICATIONS:
- Curreri PW, Rayfield DL, Vaught M, and Baxter C:
Extravascular Fibrinogen Degradation in Experimental Burn wounds.
Surgery 77:86-91, 1975
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
- “The Pull-Through Pharyngeal Flap”- Presented at Plastic Surgery Senior Residents Conference, April 1988, Memphis, Tennessee
- “Nerve Compression Syndromes in the Upper Extremity” –Hand Conference, U.T.H.S.C. at Dallas, June, 1988
- “Principles of Plastic Surgery” Subspecialty Conference, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, July, 1988
- “Principles of Flaps”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, September, 1988
- “Breast Reconstruction and Preventive Mastectomy”- Surgical Subspecialty Conference, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, November 1988
- “What's New in Plastic Surgery?”-Central New York Association of Medicine, January 19, 1989
- “Basal Cell, Squamous Cell Carcinoma”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, March 4, 1989
- “Hand Anatomy-Part 1: Surface Anatomy, Extrinsic Extensors, Intrinsic Muscles, Flexor Tendon”
- “Hand Anatomy-Part II: Nerve Anatomy, Anesthesia of the Upper Extremity, The Hand Examination”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, March 11&18, 1989
- “Thumb Reconstruction”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, May 13, 1989
- “Nursing Care of the Microvascular Surgery Patient-Toe to Thumb Transfer”-ICU Inservice Lecture, June15, 1989
- “Wound Healing-Control by Flaps and Grafts”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, July 15, 1989
- “At the Interface of Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery”-Grand Rounds, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, July 26, 1989
- “Plastic Surgery Problem Cases From Bassett Hospital, 1988-1989”-Seminar with Visiting Professor, Dr. Norman Hugo, August 5, 1989
- “Liposuction”-Surgical Clinic Nursing Inservice, September 13, 1989
- “Common Hand Problems”-Emergency Room Inservice Lecture, December 6, 1989
- “Burn Injury”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, January 13, 1990
- “Facial Fractures”-Surgical Grand Rounds, January 16, 1990, with Dr. Mark Potenza
- “Breast Reconstruction”-Surgical Grand Rounds, June 4, 1990
- “Pressure Sores, Prevention and Treatment”-Skin Care Committee Inservice
- “Principles of Partial Nasal Reconstruction”-Plastic Surgery Basic Science Lecture, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, May 30, 1990
- “Pitfalls in Plastic Surgery”-General Medical Conference for Clinicians, June 23, 1990
- “Forehead Reconstruction”-Columbia Presbyterian, Division of Plastic Surgery Teaching Conference, May 5, 1991
- “Wound Healing”-Surgical Grand Rounds, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, September 16, 1991
- “Principles of Plastic Surgery”-Surgical Subspecialty Conference, July 20, 1991
- “Ear Reconstruction”-Columbia Presbyterian, Division of Plastic Surgery Teaching Conference
- “Odd and Unusual Plastic Surgery Cases From Bassett Hospital”-Interdepartmental Grand Rounds, The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
- “Nasal Reconstruction”-Columbia Presbyterian, Division of Plastic Surgery Teaching Conference
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