Dr. Patrick Byrne | Source | Facial Plastic Surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic, President at AAFPRS

Dr. Patrick Byrne is internationally recognized as a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, with focuses on microsurgical facial reconstruction, skin cancer management, and facial aesthetic surgery. He is the current President of The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), the world's largest specialty association for facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Byrne is the Enterprise Chief of the Cleveland Clinic Integrated Surgical Institute and Chair of the Head and Neck Surgery Department at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. In this role, Dr. Byrne leads Cleveland Clinic’s surgical specialty departments efforts to be the world leader in patient care, outcomes, education, safety, innovation and research. He is also a Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine as well as at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.

Previously, Dr. Byrne served as the Director of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. While there, he directed the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship program and co-directed the Johns Hopkins Face Transplant Program. Dr. Byrne continues to serve as the co-Director of the Randolph B. Capone Cleft and Palate Program at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
He graduated from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine. He completed a surgical internship at the University of California-San Francisco and an otolaryngology/head and neck surgery residency at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Byrne completed a fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School /Children's Minnesota and a fellowship in Health Care Management at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. He earned his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Byrne has founded several successful healthcare focused start up companies, and has devoted his free time to pro bono international volunteer surgery for his entire career.