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Dr Chatham is
the President of the AAFPRS 2008-2009, an 2600 surgeon member
educational organization with its office in Alexandria, VA.
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Dr. Chatham's article in the Aesthetic Trends &
Technologies magazine: "The Moderate
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Dr Donn R. Chatham is the medical
directory of Chatham Facial Plastic Surgery and has offices in
Kentucky and Indiana, just minutes away over the Ohio River. A
native of Kentucky, Dr. Chatham received his undergraduate
education from Georgetown College, graduating cum laude in 1971
with a major in psychology and minors in art and biology.
His initial medical training was at the University of Louisville
School of Medicine graduating in 1978. After and internship and
year of general surgery at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis,
TN, he entered into a residency in otolaryngology-head & neck
surgery at the University of Tennessee, completing this in 1983.
He began a fellowship in
facial plastic surgery with Dr Gaylon McCollough, and through
the American Academy of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,
completing this in 1985.
Dr Chatham then returned to his home in Kentucky in 1985,
beginning private practice with offices in Louisville and southern
Indiana.
Dr Chatham has always had an interest in art and the fine visual
arts, beginning with an art minor in college. He continues to take
painting, drawing, and sculpting courses and enjoys creating art
as a hobby, as well as studying fine art at museums and galleries.
The practice of facial plastic surgery is a combination of art,
sculpture, beauty and science as well as psychology. Cosmetic and
reconstructive surgery is a natural application of these interests
and talents
Dr Donn Chatham participates in the volunteer organization
"Face-to-Face" sponsored by the American Academy of Facial Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery. He and other surgeons provide pro bono
medical and surgical services to patients from the United States
as a part of the "Domestic Violence" program and to patients in
foreign countries as part of the "International" program.
In 1996 and 1998, Dr Chatham traveled with four other facial
surgeons from around the country to Croatia as the Face-to-Face
team. Both children with facial deformities and young men wounded
as soldiers in the Balkan War were operated on. Dr Chatham also
has provided volunteer medical services to St Vincent's Island in
1984 and Guatemala in 1968.
Dr Chatham values continuing medical education, and attends 4-5
educational meetings each year, and often speaks at these
meetings. He has been active in leadership roles with the American
Academy of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, with
headquarters in Alexandria, VA. Having served on the board of
directors for two different terms, he is president elect of the
Academy and will be president from September 2008 to the following
year 2009. The AAFPRS with 2500 surgeon members, is the world’s
largest specialty organization of facial plastic surgeons.. Dr
Chatham is also board certified by two boards: (1) the American
Board of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and (2) the
American Board of Otolaryngolgy. He recently sat for and passed a
voluntary exam in Washington, D.C. which provided maintenance of
certification in facial plastic surgery,
With an interest in teaching, Dr Chatham is clinical instructor
with the University of Louisville Dept of Otolaryngology in
Louisville, KY and has contributed chapters in facial plastic
surgery textbooks. These include articles on ethics in facial
plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery in the male patient, evaluation
of preoperative patients, and recently (May 2008) edited a
textbook on “the difficult patient”.
Dr Chatham attributes his interest in medicine to his father, who
was a family physician and his interest in fine arts to his
mother, an accomplished concert pianist and composer. He has been
married for 28 years to his wife Janet, a pharmacist, and they
have 2 children, Andrew and E.B. His wife home-schools their
children and they reside in southern Indiana.
- Private Practice in Facial Plastic
Surgery since 1985 in Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana
- Fellowship with E. Gaylon McCollough, MD with the
American
Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Birmingham, Alabama 1984-1985
- Residency in Otolaryngology-Head
& Neck Surgery, University of Tennessee, graduated 1983
- Surgical Internship Baptist Hospital,
Memphis 1978-1980
- University of Louisville School of
Medicine 1978
- Graduate of Georgetown College, cum
laude, 1971 major: psychology, minors: art, biology
- Born in Louisville, Kentucky
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- Dr Chatham has
surgical privileges in ten area hospitals and several surgery centers.
- He is a fellow of the
American
Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
based in Washington, DC, and served on its Board of Directors from
1994-1997.
- He is a diplomat of the
American
Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
and served on its Board of Directors from 1992-1998.
- He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. and a member of the
Kentucky Medical Association, Indiana Medical Association, Jefferson
County (Kentucky) Medical Society, American Medical Association, and served
as president of the Floyd County (Indiana) Medical Society. He also serves as
president of The Physicians of Southern Indiana, Inc., a 65-member
physician organization. Dr Chatham has served as a clinical professor
in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the
University of Louisville.
- Dr Chatham attends
four to six
professional seminars on latest techniques in facial plastic,
reconstructive and cosmetic surgery each year, and usually presents a
lecture at two of those meetings.
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- Dr Chatham participates in the
volunteer organization "Face-to-Face" sponsored by the
American
Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
He and other surgeons provide pro bono medical and surgical services
to patients from the United States as a part of the "Domestic
Violence" program and to patients in foreign countries as part of
the "International" program. In 1996 Dr Chatham traveled
with four other facial surgeons from around the country to Croatia as the
Face-to-Face team. Both children with facial deformities and young men
wounded as soldiers in the Balkan War were operated on. Dr Chatham
also has provided volunteer medical services to St Vincent's Island in
1984 and Guatemala in 1968.
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- Dr Chatham has always had an interest
in art and the fine visual arts, beginning with an art minor in
college. He continues to take painting, drawing, and sculpting courses
and enjoys creating art as a hobby, as well as studying fine art at
museums and galleries. The practice of
facial plastic surgery is an
combination of art, sculpture, beauty and science as well as
psychology.
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery is a natural
application of these interests and talents.
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- Dr Chatham practices in Kentucky and
Indiana by maintaining
an office in Louisville, Kentucky and one in New
Albany, Indiana just minutes away over the Ohio River. Consultations are
scheduled privately with each patient and usually last about one hour.
The needs of each patient are evaluated and a facial analysis is
presented to each patient, which includes a skin analysis. Sometimes a
computer video imager is used to demonstrate possible surgical changes
when Dr Chatham believes this will be helpful. Photographs are taken
of each patient's face and recommendations are made to each patient
regarding possible surgical options, and a discussion of the
procedures, limitations, alternatives and risks are discussed in
detail. Not every patient is a good candidate for
facial surgery,
and sometimes the recommendation is not to proceed with surgery. Some
patients also benefit from beginning an ongoing skin maintenance
program, much of which is performed at home. For surgical patients,
financial quotes are given. Once surgery is scheduled, a decision will
be made as to the optimal site for that patient in view of the type of
surgery planned. Sometimes surgery is performed in the in-office
surgical suite. Sometimes an outpatient surgery facility is selected.
Sometimes an outpatient-based hospital is selected. Sometimes patients
return home following surgery, some stay at a nearby hotel overnight,
and others may stay overnight in a private room in the hospital. For
privacy and a variety of good reasons, many patients elect to have
their more involved surgery at Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany,
Indiana.
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