David Teplica, MD, MFA - Surgical Philosophy

Medical Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

1977-1981

Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, with High Distinction

Pennsylvania State University;

University Park, PA

1981 -1985 Degree of Medical Doctor

Dartmouth Medical School;

Hanover, NH

1985-1988 Residency in General Surgery

University of Chicago Hospitals;

Chicago, IL

1988-1990 Research Fellow, Section of Plastic Surgery

National Institutes of Health Surgical Scientist Training Grant

University of Chicago Hospitals;

Chicago, IL

1988-1990

Degree of Master of Fine Arts

School of the Art Institute of Chicago;

Chicago, IL

1990-1992

Residency in Plastic Surgery

niversity of Chicago Hospitals;

Chicago, IL

7/92-12/92

Post-graduate Fellowship, Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Face

Under the direction of Gary C. Burget, MD

Sain

t Joseph Hospital;

Chicago, IL

APPOINTMENTS

       Clinical Associate, University of Chicago, Section of Plastic Surgery, 2007 - present.

       Attending Surgeon, Section of Plastic Surgery, Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1993 - present.

LICENSURE

       Illinois: Physician and Surgeon, expiration 31 July 2011

SOCIETIES

      American Society of Plastic Surgeons
      Phemister Surgical Society, University of Chicago


CERTIFICATION

       American Board of Plastic Surgery, Certificate # 5312
       Maintenance of Certification in Progress.

HONORS

UNDERGRADUATE

Acceptance into the Bachelor of Philosophy Degree Program, with a course of study exploring the human body

from

both scientific and artistic points of view. This individualized curriculum under the direction of the Vice-

President for

Academic Affairs at Penn State graduated an average of five students a year.

The Garner Rothrock Memorial Scholarship; The Beta Theta Pi Alumni Association Scholarship for Academic

Excellence; and the Charlotte E. Ray Memorial Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Leadership

and Service

Penn State.

Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honorary, Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society (Vice- President), Phi Lambda Upsilon

Chemistry Honorary, Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi, Mortar Board (Secretary).

MEDICAL SCHOOL

Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship for achievement in arts and letters outside of the medical arena; for

three

consecutive years, 1982-84.

Appointment to the Dartmouth Medical School Admissions Committee, 1982-83.

POST-DOCTORAL

Receipt of the Trustee's Scholarship for the full course of study toward the Master of Fine Arts Degree at the

School

of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988-1990.

Research Fellow for the Center for Study of Multiple Birth, Chicago, IL, 1989-1992.

Receipt of the American Medical Association / Burroughs Wellcome Company Leadership Award for Resident

Physicians, April 1992.

Desmond A. Kernahan Prize for the best paper in Pediatric Plastic Surgery, at the Senior Resident's

Conference,

American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Montreal, Quebec, May 1992.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, presented by Governor Brereton Jones for coordinating
children's burn prevention for Kentucky, 1994.

H. Lou Gibson Award, from the Biological Photographic Association for

two

publication

in the Journal of

Biological

Photography

, 1996.

O. E. Peterson Endowment Humanitarian Award from Kiwanis International, June 1996.

Annual Humanitarian Award, Children’s Burn Awareness Program, 1998.

ACTIVE RESEARCH PROTOCOLS

Anatomic Concordance

Facial Anatomy

Monozygotic Twin Pairs

The Mirror Symmetry Phenomenon in Monozygotic Twins

Reconstruction of HIV-Related Lipodystrophy

High-Definition

Circumferential Lip

ectomy

Men

PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS

“The Art of Biological Photography,” at BIOCOMMUNICATION: Chicago Forum '89,

The University of Illinois at Chicago, 21 October 1989.

“Case Report: Soft Tissue Midline Cleft of the Upper Lip” with Parsons, R., The Chicago Society of Plastic

Surgery, 24

January 1991.

“FACE: The Facts and Photographic Follies.” 61st Annual Meeting of the Biological Photographic Association,

Tampa,

FL, 1 August 1991.

“Following the Lead of Lewis Hine for Disease Prevention,” Imaging the Body: Art and Science in Modern

Culture, an

international multi-disciplinary symposium, The University of Chicago, 3 April 1992.

“A High-Profile Visual Program to Boost National and International Awareness of Childhood Burn Injury,” Senior

Resident's Conference, Montreal, Quebec, 26 May 1992.

“A High-Profile Visual Program to Boost National and International Awareness of Childhood Burn Injury,”

featured

lecture, BIOCOMM '92, the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Biological Photographic Association, Portland,

OR, 2 August

1992.

“Ethics and Manipulated Pictures,” panel presentation and discussion, 25th Anniversary Symposium on

Biomedical

Photographic Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 16 October 1993.

“Medical Images for Public Health Reform,” 1994 World Congress on Biomedical Communications, Orlando, FL,

June

1994.

“The New Scarlet Letter: HIV-Related Lipodystrophy (a ten-year review with reconstructive insights),” annual

meeting,

Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons, 29 April 2003.

“The Subunit Approach for Circumferential, High-Definition Suction Lipectomy of the Male Torso,” annual

meeting,

Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons, 29 April 2003.

“Morselized Omental Transfer for Severe Facial Wasting,” with Podbielski, F., Annual Meeting, Midwestern

Association

of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago, IL, 1 May 2004.

“Of Moles, Mirrors, and Membranes: An Analysis of Human Anatomy in 100 Sets of Identical Twins,” The Fifth

Annual

DMS Reunion CME Symposium, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, 23 September 2005.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

“Photographing the Human Face,” Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical

Photographic

Communications, 7 April 1992.

“Disease Prevention and the Biomedical Image,” guest lecturer and critic, Rochester Institute of Technology,

School of

Photographic Arts and Sciences, 18 December 1992.

“The Prevention of Burn Injuries in Children,” At the symposium "Plastic Surgical Updates 1993," Ago General

Hospital

and Bicol Christian College of Medicine, Legazpi City, Philippines, 19 January 1993.

“Standardization and Analysis of Plastic Surgical Patient Imaging,” University of Rochester, Division of Plastic

Surgery,

Rochester, NY, 16 October 1993.

“Where Medicine and Art Collide,” visiting lecturer, Graduate Art History Seminar, Professor Barbara Stafford,

the

University of Chicago, 1996.

“The Interface between Art and Medicine,” Undergraduate Photography Seminar, Professor Alan Cohen, School

of the

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 13 May 2004.

“Surgical Manipulation and Genetic Pleasures,” Visiting Lecture for the Art in Medicine series, Dartmouth

Medical

School, Hanover, NH, 23 September 2005.

“Surgical Manipulation and Genetic Pleasures,” Biomedical Photography Visiting Professor and Lectureship,

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 13 April 2006.

“Genetic Inheritance and Aesthetic Management,” Grand Rounds, Section of Plastic Surgery, University of

Chicago

Hospitals, Chicago, IL, 21 February 2007.

“Fat Transplantation in the Face of HIV,” Grand Rounds, Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Chicago

Hospitals,

Chicago, IL, 18 April 2007.

   “Twin Lectures: Genetic Inheritance and the Reconfiguration of Body Form”, with a live demonstration of
   surgical marking technique for high-definition circumferential lipectomy, Penn State University, Hershey Medical
   Center, Hershey, PA, 26 July 2007

INVITED LECTURES

“The Evolution of Medical Imagery: From the 2-Dimensional to the 3-Dimensional and Beyond,” Teplica, D. and

Stafford, B., Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar Series, University of Chicago, 16 January 1989.

“ABOUT FACES: a Look at Form, Symmetry and Proportion using a Variety of Imaging Modalities,” guest

lecture,

Annual Convention of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Nurses, San

Francisco, 31 October

1989.

“ABOUT FACES: An Eclectic Tour of Nature's Masterpieces:”

Guest Lecture, The Center for the Study of Multiple Birth, Northwestern University Medical School,

Chicago

IL, 1

May

1990.

Annual Biological Sciences Spring Lecture, University of Chicago, 4 May 1990.

Annual Banquet Lecture, 30th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons,

9 June 1990.

“The Photographic Scalpel: Lewis Hine's Images and the Prevention of Disease,” The Annual History of

Medicine and

Surgery Lecture Series, the University of Chicago Hospitals, 2 January 1990.

“Photographing the Human Face,” guest lecture at the community-based symposium "FOCUS on the Arts,"

Highland

Park, IL, 1 May 1991.

“The Importance of Failure (and Some Comments about Unsafe Sex),” commencement address, Bellefonte High

School, Bellefonte, PA, 8 June 1991.

“What Makes a Face?” University of Chicago Women's Board, 3 December 1991.

“Film for the Clinical Photographer and Office Photography.” Faculty lecture at the Plastic Surgery Education

Foundation Symposium 'Clinical Photography,' Chicago, 10 December 1991.

“REALITY and Manipulated Truths,” 5th annual Kodak Lecture in Biomedical/Scientific Photography, Rochester

Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 7 April 1992.

“Standardization in Plastic Surgical Photography,” faculty lecture at the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation

Symposium 'Clinical Photography,' Los Angeles, CA, May 1992.

“An Image Based Program to Prevent Burn Injuries,” faculty presentation at the second international symposium

"Electrical Injury: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Therapy, Prevention, and Rehabilitation," Chicago, IL, 11-12

June

1993.

“Rapture: At the Interface between Love and Disease,” Campbell Hall, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

VA,

27 September 1995.

“Rapture: At the Interface between Love and Disease,” Palmer Museum, the Pennsylvania State University,

University

Park, PA, November 1996.

“Love and Disease,” The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,

November,

1998.

“The Photographic Scalpel,” guest lecture in conjunction with the group exhibition eMotion Pictures,

Pennsylvania

State University, University Park, PA, 23 January 2003.

“The Twinsburg Archive: Toward a Detailed Phenotypic Analysis of Monozygotic Twins…OR… Of Moles,

Mirrors, and

Membranes,” Presidential Address, The 11th International Congress on Twin Studies, International

Society for Twin

Studies, Odense, Denmark, 4 July 2004.

“An Anatomical and Aesthetic Exploration of Identical Twins and the Mirror Phenomenon,” lecture in conjunction

with

the exhibition “Twins” by Mary Ellen Mark, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Chicago, IL,

August 2004.

“Surgical Manipulation and Genetic Pleasures,” Artist’s talk, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute

Chicago, 24 February 2005.

   “The Multi-disciplinary Investigation of the Mirror Phenomenon in Monozygotic Twins” Department of Genetics,
   the University of Leuven, Belgium, 12 June 2007

   “Genetic Inheritance and the Perception of Body Form” Director’s Lab Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, 14
   August 2007.

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