Rick Redett III, MD

• Physician-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Vice Dean, Clinical Affairs
• President, the Faculty Practice
• Director, Cleft Lip and Palate Center
• Director, Genitourinary Transplant Program

Dr. Rick Redett is the physician-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine, vice dean for clinical affairs, and president of the Faculty Practice. As a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, his areas of clinical expertise include pediatric plastic surgery, cleft lip and palate surgery, obstetric brachial plexus palsy reconstruction, facial paralysis, pediatric burn surgery and reconstruction and genital reconstruction.

Dr. Redett serves as the director of the Cleft and Craniofacial Center, and the director of the Facial Paralysis and Pain Center at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Redett directs the genital transplant program at Johns Hopkins.  

He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School after earning his undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology at Emory University. He did his general surgery and plastic surgery training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. After completing a one-year pediatric plastic surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, Dr. Redett joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.

Dr. Redett lectures nationally on facial paralysis, genital reconstruction and many other pediatric plastic surgery topics. He is a member of many professional organizations including the American Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Association, American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Redett has a strong commitment to international health and has done many teaching medical missions to Central and South America and Africa. Dr. Redett serves on the Board of ReSurge International, a 501(c)(3) not-for profit organization which provides reconstructive surgical care for poor children and adults who lack access and builds surgical capacity in developing countries.  He and his wife Becky are the proud parents of three wonderful children.

• Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Cleft and Craniofacial Center
• Cleft Lip and Palate Center
• Facial Paralysis and Pain Treatment Center
• Global Health, Center for
• Johns Hopkins Children's Center
• Peripheral Nerve Surgery Center
• Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, Center for

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  A New Center for Children with Complex Cranial Conditions

  ‘Whole Again’: A Vet Maimed by an I.E.D. Receives a Transplanted Penis 

  Exploring the Vanguard of Transplantation: Hand, Face and Urogenital

  Facial Trauma, Johns Hopkins Medicine

• Baltimore Magazine, Best Doctor, Plastic Surgery 
• Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland, Teacher of the Year, 1/1/12
• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society, 1/1/12
• Health Care Hero Ward, The Daily Record, 1/1/11
• Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland, Teacher of the Year, 1/1/09
• One of five Best Microsurgery Cases of the Year, American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgeons, 1/1/08
• EKO Club International, Mark of Excellence Award, Lagos, Nigeria, 1/1/07
• Resident Research Award, Basic Science (Effects of Deferoxamine on Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Chronic Nerve Compression: A Biochemical and Morphologic Analysis), Baltimore Academy of Surgery, 1/1/98
• 1998 Resident Research Award (Improved Axonal Regeneration Using Deferoxamine in Chronic Nerve Compression), The John Staige Davis, Maryland Plastic Surgery Society and The National Capital, Washington D.C. Plastic Surgery Society, 1/1/98
• CERT Research Scholarship, 1/1/91

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
• American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Research and Education Committee - 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Program committee - 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Ethics Committee - 2013
• American Burn Association, Ethics Committee - 2006-2008
• American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgeons
• AO Craniomaxillofacial, Faculty
• Association of Academic Chairs in Plastic Surgery
• Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association
• Plastic Surgery Research Council
• Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence
• American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Ethics Committee - 2014-present
• American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgeons
• American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons, New curriculum Committee - 2013, Education Committee - 2011