H. Peter Lorenz, MD

Clinical Focus

• Plastic Surgery, Pediatric
• Plastic Surgery
• Cleft lip and palate surgery
• Facial surgery
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Administrative Appointments

• Service Chief, Plastic Surgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2006 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Leslie Hovey Teaching Award, Stanford Plastic Surgery (2005)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Jason Hall

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Surgery

Industry Relationships

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Current Research Interests

Dr. Lorenz graduated from the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He then completed the General Surgery Residency Program at UCSF. This program included five clinical years in surgery and three years in a research fellowship in the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center with Drs. Michael Harrison and N. Scott Adzick. The research fellowship emphasized both development of novel fetal surgical techniques and understanding the biology of scarless fetal wound healing. Next, he completed the residency program in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UCLA, with an emphasis on reconstructive, cosmetic, and microsurgery. Lastly, he completed the Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University Hospital.
Dr. Lorenz then joined the full-time academic faculty at UCLA as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He initiated and developed a research program that investigated the molecular regulation of scarless skin wound healing. His research also focused on the biology of fat-derived stem cells and their use for tissue engineering. He was the first UCLA Plastic Surgery faculty member to be awarded a research grant from the NIH, which he received in the field of scarless wound healing. He was Director of the Gonda Wound Treatment Center, which treated patients with refractory wounds. He was promoted to Associate Professor shortly before leaving UCLA in 2001.
Dr. Lorenz is a Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. His clinical interests are in craniofacial surgery, pediatric plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, and cosmetic surgery. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the Plastic Surgery Research Council.
Dr. Lorenz directs the Scarless Skin Repair Laboratory...

Publications

• Identification of differentially regulated genes in fetal wounds during regenerative repair. Colwell AS, Longaker MT, Peter Lorenz H. Wound Repair Regen. 2008 May-Jun; 16 (3): 450-9
• Adult and fetal wound healing. Hantash BM, Zhao L, Knowles JA, Lorenz HP. Front Biosci. 2008: 13 51-61
• Blood-derived small Dot cells reduce scar in wound healing. Kong W, Li S, Longaker MT, Lorenz HP. Exp Cell Res. 2008; 314 (7): 1529-39
• Current treatment of craniosynostosis and future therapeutic directions. Wan DC, Kwan MD, Lorenz HP, Longaker MT. Front Oral Biol. 2008: 12 209-30
• Re: differential effects of FGFR2 mutation in ophthalmologic findings in Apert syndrome. Kwan MD, Wan DC, Lorenz HP, Longaker MT. J Craniofac Surg. 2007; 18 (2): 459-60