Arnold Lee Dellon (born April 18, 1944) is an American
plastic surgeon known for pioneering and developing the modern field of
peripheral nerve injury
Nerve injury is an injury to nervous tissue. There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injuries. In 1941, Seddon introduced a classification of nerve injuries based on three main types of nerve f ...
. He is a Professor of
Plastic Surgery and
Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and the founder of Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery.
Early life and education
A. Lee Dellon was born in the
Bronx, New York, to Irene Jewel Dellon and Alfred Dellon. He grew up in
Saddle Brook, New Jersey and graduated from
Saddle Brook High School
Saddle Brook High School is a six-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grades from Saddle Brook, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary schoo ...
. He went on to study
pre-med at
Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore
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and graduated with a BA in 1966. He then proceeded to
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he earned his MD in 1970.
Lee then spent two years as a Clinical Associate and Lt. Commander in the
United States Public Health Service in the Surgery Branch of the
National Cancer Institute. He became the first Hand Surgery Fellow at the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore In 1977 and completed Plastic Surgery
Residency
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* Residency (medicine), a stage of postgrad ...
at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1978. He received a PhD from
Utrecht University in the
Netherlands in 2007 for his work relieving pain, preventing ulcers and amputations in diabetics with neuropathy and chronic nerve compression.
Career
A. Lee Dellon founded the Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery in 2000 and began the first Peripheral Nerve Fellowship training program in 2002. He serves as Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He remains the only person to be promoted at the Johns Hopkins University to Full Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery while in private practice.
Lee is the author of five books. Lee also wrote over 450 scientific papers. He held He held editorial positions for many years on various journals in the field of plastic surgery including ''Annals of Plastic Surgery'', ''Journal of Hand Therapy'', ''Journal of Hand Surgery'', (American Volume) and ''Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery''.
Lee is one of the founding members of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve (ASPN) in 1991. He is the 2nd President of the ASPN.
He is also the founding member of the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons in 2005, and received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Awards and recognition
* 1977 - Cleft Palate Associate Educational Award
* 1985 -
Robert H. Ivy
Robert H. Ivy (1881–1974) was an American oral and plastic surgeon who is known to develop the team approach or multidisciplinary treatment involving care of children with Cleft lip and cleft palate. He is one of the early pioneers in the special ...
Award of Pennsylvania Society of Plastic Surgeons
* 1985, 2012 - Emanuel Kaplan Award of the New York State Society for Surgery of the Hand
* 2005 - USA Plastic Surgeon of the Year
* 2013 - Lifetime Achievement Award by Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons
See also
*
Peripheral nerve injury
Nerve injury is an injury to nervous tissue. There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injuries. In 1941, Seddon introduced a classification of nerve injuries based on three main types of nerve f ...
*
Plastic surgery
*
Neurosurgery
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dellon, A. Lee
Living people
1944 births
American plastic surgeons
Johns Hopkins University faculty
People from the Bronx
People from Saddle Brook, New Jersey
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni
Saddle Brook High School alumni