H. Peter Lorenz, MD
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Member, Bio-X
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Clinical Offices
Pediatric Surgical Specialties Clinic 730 Welch Rd 1st Floor Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 497-8794 Fax (650) 497-8874Stanford Plastic Surgery Clinic 1000 Welch Road MC 5348 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 723-7001 Fax (650) 725-5223Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
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Alternate Contact Liz Munoz Administrative Associate Tel Work 650-723-5824Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Plastic Surgery, Pediatric
- Plastic Surgery
- Cleft lip and palate surgery
- Facial surgery
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- facial fracture 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
| Board Certification: | Plastic Surgery, American Board of Plastic Surgery (2000) |
| Fellowship: | Stanford University Medical Center CA (1998) |
| Residency: | UCLA Medical Center CA (1997) |
| Internship: | UCSF Medical Center, CA USA (1988) |
| Medical Education: | University of Michigan School of Medicine MI (1987) |
| -: | Stanford University, Craniofacial Surgery (1998) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Industry Relationships
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Scientific Focus
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 Childrens 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 in the Hagey Laboratory for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine. His group is studying mechanisms underlying scarless skin healing, including the interactions of fetal and adult keratinocytes and fibroblasts in the TGF-ß system. His group is also investigating the function of progenitor cells during repair, and the translational use of fat-derived stem cells in chronic wound therapy and tissue engineering.
Publications
- Fetal mouse skin heals scarlessly in a chick chorioallantoic membrane model system. Ann Plast Surg. 2012; (1): 85-90
- Outcomes of complex abdominal herniorrhaphy: experience with 106 cases. Ann Plast Surg. 2012; (4): 382-8
- Calcium-based nanoparticles accelerate skin wound healing. PLoS One. 2011; (11): e27106
- Scarless fetal wound healing: a basic science review. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2010; (4): 1172-80
- Airway analysis: with bilateral distraction of the infant mandible. J Craniofac Surg. 2009; (5): 1341-6
- Current applications and safety of autologous fat grafts: a report of the ASPS fat graft task force. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009; (1): 272-80
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