Henry K. Kawamoto Jr MD, DDS, FACS

Dr. Henry Kawamoto Jr. is the director of craniofacial surgery for UCLA's Craniofacial Clinic and a UCLA clinical professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery. In the past 27 years, he has earned international respect from his peers - and deep gratitude from thousands of patients and their parents -- for his surgical skill in reconstructing children's faces after correcting disfiguring skull and facial defects caused by birth, disease, or trauma.

When Kawamoto joined UCLA's Craniofacial Clinic in 1975, he was the first Los Angeles plastic surgeon trained in the craniomaxillofacial (skull-jaw-face) specialty. Treating nearly 300 patients a year, UCLA's clinic is the biggest craniofacial surgical center in California and one of the largest in the United States.

Kawamoto specializes in clinical practice and research related to craniomaxillofacial surgery. He earned his dental and medical degrees from USC and conducted an internship at UCLA before serving a 15-month stint as captain of maxillofacial surgery for the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He pursued his general surgical residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and his plastic surgery residency at New York University's Institute of Reconstructive Surgery then completed a fellowship in craniofacial surgery under the famous Dr. Paul Tessier at the Hospital Foch and Clinique Belvedere in Paris, France.