Talented Doctor Pioneering New Outpatient Surgery for Pain Relief for Neuropathy Pain, Groin Pain, Joint Pain and Foot Drop

A. Lee Dellon, M. D. graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1970. He then completed eight years of additional training, including two years of research at the National Cancer Institute, Surgery Branch, of the National Institutes of Health. He completed a Plastic Surgery Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Hand Surgery Fellowship at the Raymond M. Curtis Hand Center . Dr. Dellon has received the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Hand Surgery and is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery. He is currently a Professor of Plastic Surgery and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Maryland and Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery and Anatomy at the University of Arizona. Doctor Dellon’s research interests center on neural regeneration. In the basic research laboratory, his work included models for peripheral nerve compression, neuroma treatment, neural regeneration through absorbable conduits, and diabetic neuropathy. Dr. Dellon’s clinical work is focused on computer-linked devices to quantitate sensibility, treatment strategies for pain due to nerve injury, use of bioabsorbable tubes as a substitute for autogenous nerve grafts, facial pain, and treatment of the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Doctor Dellon has won fifteen national research awards, including the Radium Society Award in 1974, the Cleft Palate Award in 1977, and the Emanuel Kaplan Hand Surgery Award in 1985. Educational Foundation Awards from the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery include those for the immunobiology of skin cancer, prediction of recurrence in non-melanoma skin cancer, partial-thickness skin excision for the treatment of benign dyskeratosis, the surgical treatment of the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy, and neurosensory testing, leprosy, and partial joint denervation. Doctor Dellon is the author of four books, 72 book chapters, and more than 375 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery and The Journal of Hand Surgery. He has previously served on the Editorial Boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annals of Plastic Surgery, Microsurgery, Peripheral Nerve Regeneration and Repair, Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, Journal of Hand Therapy, Journal of Experimental and Clinical Plastic Surgery (Italian Journal of Plastic Surgery) and Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Doctor Dellon is a founding member and past president of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve. He has served as Secretary and Vice-President of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is the Director of the Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery , with Institutes in around the globe.