Birthplace: Kingsport, Tennessee

Family: Married with 2 children

Undergraduate Education:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1980-1984
B. A. Chemistry, Highest Honors, 1984
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1984

Honors:
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Eta Sigma
Air Force ROTC Pre-Health Profession Scholarship
American Legion Award for Excellence

Activities:
Campus Crusade for Christ
Nurse Technician – Indian Path Hospital, Kingsport, TN
Foreign Missions – Kenya, 1983 with Campus Crusade
For Christ
Intramural Football, Basketball and Volleyball

Medical Education:
University of Tennessee, Memphis, 1984-1988
Doctor of Medicine, 1988
Honors: Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Medical Student Award for Surgery
Air Force Health Profession Scholarship

Post Graduate Training:
University of Tennessee, Memphis, 1988 – 1993
General Surgery Residency
Chief, General Surgery Resident, 1992 – 1993
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas,
1993 – 1996 - Plastic Surgery Residency
Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery, Louisville, Kentucky
1995 , Hand Fellow

State License:
Tennessee, 1990 – current and unrestricted

Board Certification:
National Board of Medical Examiners – 1989
American Board of Surgery – 1994
American Board of Plastic Surgery – 1999

Professional Memberships:
Diplomat of American Society of Plastic Surgeons
1999 – Present
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
2002 – Present
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
1988 – Present
Air Force Society of Clinical Surgeons
1994 – Present
Christian Medical and Dental Society
1999 – Present

Military Assignments:
Assistant Chief, Plastic Surgery Division
Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington
1996-1998
Army Commendation Medal, 1997
Associate Program Director Plastic Surgery Residency UTHSC
San Antonio, TX
Vice Chairman of Plastic Surgery Flight, Wilford Hall
Medical Center, Lackland, AFB, Texas, 1998-2002
Plastic Surgery Flight Commander
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland, AFB, Texas
2002 – Present

Presentations:
American Trauma Society, Tennessee Chapter, Blunt Small Bowel
Injuries, 1990, Nashville

Southeastern Surgical, Diagnosis of Blunt Small Bowel Injuries,
1993, Tarpon Springs, Florida

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, Effect of Human Amniotic
Fluid on Proliferation of Adult and Neonatal Fibroblasts, 1995,
Dayton, Ohio, received Surgeon General’s Award

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, Effect of Human Amniotic
Fluid on Hyaluronic Acid Production in Adult and Neonatal Fibroblasts,
1996, San Antonio, Texas

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, Free Tissue Transfer in a
Scleroderma Patient, 1998, San Antonio, Texas

Presentation to UTHSCSA Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds,
Embryology of the Hand, 1999

Presentation to UTHSCSA Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds,
Acute Care of Facial Burns, 2000

Presentation to UTHSCSA Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds,
Cleft Lip Treatment, 2001

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, A Thirteen Year History of
Military Plastic Surgery Humanitarian Missions to Honduras,
2001, San Antonio, Texas

Other Activities:
Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor:
Instructed at Ft. Sam Houston, 1999, 2000 and 2002
Instructed at Wilford Hall Medical Center, 2001

Director and instructor of Microsurgical Skills Lab for plastic surgery
residents, Lackland AFN, TX 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002

Completed United States Air Force Field Grade Officer Course – Air
Command and Staff College by correspondence through Maxwell AFB,
AL 1998

Completed Combat Casualty Care Course including Advanced Trauma
Life Support, Camp Bullis, TX 1998

Performed six missions to Bassett Community Army Hospital, Fairbanks,
Alaska -1997 – 1998 performing reconstructive plastic surgery with over 35 cases – primarily reduction mammoplasty procedures

Participated in Honduran Civil Assistance Mission for plastic surgery at
Soto Cano Airbase, Honduras -1996. Performed 40 procedures
including burn and congenital reconstructions at Santa Teresa Hospital,
Comayagua, Honduras

Led Honduran Civil Assistance Mission for plastic surgery at Soto Cano
Airbase, Honduras -1999. Performed 39 procedures including
burn and congenital reconstructions at Santa Teresa Hospital,
Comayagua, Honduras

Participated in Peruvian Civil Assistance Mission for plastic surgery in
Lima, Peru - 2000. Performed 52 procedures including burn and
congenital reconstruction with the Ministry of Health and Defense at
National Hospital Hipolito Enamue

Led Honduran Civil Assistance Mission for plastic surgery at Soto Cano
Airbase, Honduras - 2002. Performed 85 procedures including burn
and congenital reconstruction at Santa Teresa Hospital, Comayagua,
Honduras

Performed manning assistance to Yokota Air Base, Japan - 2001.
Performed 12 procedures and gave CME lectures on facial lacerations
and wound care.

Performed manning assistance to RAF Lakenheath, England - 2001 and 2002. Performed over 30 procedures with general surgeons.

Air Force Plastic Surgery representative to Military Graduate Medical
Education Selection Board – 1999, 2000 and 2001-
Washington, D.C.

Developed and directed plastic surgery resident readings at UTHSC
San Antonio, 1999-2000/2000-2001/2001-2002

Continuing Medical Education:

Tumor Board – Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
1996 – 1998

Plastic Surgery In-service examination – 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001
Consistently scored above the 90th percentile nation-wide

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, San Antonio, Texas – 1998,
1999, and 2001

American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Meeting,
Dallas, TX, 1996

Techniques in chronic wound care, Madigan Army Medical Center,
Tacoma, WA – 1997

Advanced Cardiac Life Support provider course – 1997,
Updated 2000

Laser Certification Course, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
1998

Pediatric Endoscopy Course – Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma,
WA – 1998

Health Care Management Program – Surgeon General of U.S. Army,
Tacoma, WA – 1998

AIDS/HIV Update – Alliance Health System – 1998

Advanced Trauma Life Support – Defense Medical Readiness,
Ft. Sam Houston, TX 1998

Medical Management of Biologic Casualties – Dept. of Defense,
WHMC, Lackland, AFB, Texas – 1999

Advance Trauma Life Support Instructor Course – Defense Medical
Readiness, Ft. Sam Houston, TX 1999

Grand Rounds – UTHSC San Antonio, TX – 1998 – present

About Face – Advance Interactive Symposium in Cosmetic Surgery
Aspen, Colorado –2000

Perspectives and Advances in Plastic Surgery Vail, Colorado –2001

Bioterrorism Symposium, Wilford Hall Medical Center –2001

Dallas Rhinoplasty Course, Dallas, TX 2002

Air Force Clinical Surgeons Meeting, Las Vegas, NV 2002

Surgical Board Written Exam Review
Southgate Tower Hotel, New York City - 2002

19th Annual Breast Surgery Symposium – Atlanta, GA -2003
Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Smallpox Vaccination Reactions Training CDC on-line - 2003

Society of Air Force Clinical Surgeons -San Antonio, TX 2003

ROBERT G. CHANDLER, LTC
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
OCTOBER 1998 – MAY 2003

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