Antonio Rampazzo, MD, PhD

Antonio Rampazzo, MD PhD, joined Cleveland Clinic's Plastic Surgery Department in 2014 after completing a craniofacial surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan and is co-director of the Cleft Lip-Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies Program.

Dr. Antonio Rampazzo received his medical degree from the University of Padova, Italy. He completed his residency in plastic surgery at the University of Padova, Italy in 2006.  He further trained for 2 years in London, United Kingdom (Queen Victoria Hospital, St Andrew’s Center for Plastic Surgery and Royal London Hospital) specializing in hand, breast, head and neck reconstruction and general plastic surgery. He then completed a 1-year reconstructive microsurgery fellowship at E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In 2010, he joined the Plastic Surgery Department at Cleveland Clinic, as a research fellow and worked with Dr Maria Siemionow on vascularized composite allotransplantation until July 2011. Then, he completed a two years hand surgery fellowship at Christine Marie Kleinert Institute, Louisville, Kentucky (2011-2013).

His specialty interests are pediatric and adult craniomaxillofacial surgery (orthognathic surgery, pediatric cleft lip and palate surgery, velopharyngeal insufficiency, Crouzon syndrome, Apert Syndrome, Hemifacial microsomia, Treacher Collins syndrome, Romberg syndrome, Muenke Syndrome,  craniosynostosis, facial paralysis, microtia and ear reconstruction, post-traumatic reconstruction), hand  and wrist surgery, microsurgical reconstructions, and face and hand transplantation.

His aesthetic surgery interests include facial surgery (including cosmetic eyelid surgery, brow surgery, face/Neck lift,cosmetic nose surgery, ear protrusion correction, cosmetic chin surgery,cosmetic jaw contouring, cosmetic Botox® injections, filler injections), cosmetic surgery of the breast and body (breast augmentation,breast lift, breast reduction, arm lift, tummy tuck, thigh lift, and liposuction).

Dr Rampazzo is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include vascularized composite allotransplantation, face, hand and abdominal wall transplantation, new techniques in craniomaxillofacial surgery and microsurgery.  He has written multiple book chapters and has over sixty peer-reviewed papers. He is a member of the editorial board of Microsurgery and Annals of Plastic Surgery.