Raymond Harshbarger III, M.D., FACS

Raymond J. Harshbarger, M.D., FACS, FAAP, is the Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery Fellowship founder and former director for the ACGME-accredited Dell Children’s Medical Center program. He is also chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Ascension Seton Williamson Medical Center. He holds appointments at multiple hospitals affiliated with UT System. In addition to his faculty appointments at Dell Medical School, Harshbarger is an adjunct professor in UT’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.

After completing his Doctor of Medicine degree at University of Rochester, he trained in general/plastic surgery at Brown University and completed a craniofacial surgery and pediatric plastic surgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles/USC Keck School of Medicine and has completed additional training in TMJ surgery. Harshbarger served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and directed the craniofacial reconstruction program from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Harshbarger’s clinical interests span both adult and pediatric craniomaxillofacial conditions. He also manages facial trauma and complex craniofacial reconstruction to include microsurgery. Harshbarger also has an interest in international humanitarian surgical work. He has participated in many cleft and craniofacial surgery missions in developing nations, including Vietnam, Honduras, Paraguay and Peru. He has organized and led four missions to the Dominican Republic and over 20 missions to El Salvador, where he currently performs orthognathic surgery and assists local physicians in creating a viable craniofacial center there.

Harshbarger also maintains an interest in clinical and basic science research, conducting grant-funded research in the genetics of craniosynostosis. His work has been featured in numerous publications, and he has presented at several national and international conferences and invited lectureships. Harshbarger is a member of multiple societies, including the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. He currently serves on the board of directors for both the American Society of Craniofacial Surgery and the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons.