Brent R DeGeorge, MD
Plastic Surgery
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Bio & Overview
Brent DeGeorge, MD, is an assistant professor of plastic surgery, associate program director for the hand surgery fellowship program, and director of wound care at UVA Transitional Care Hospital. His areas of expertise include brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery and hand, wrist and forearm reconstruction following trauma. He also specializes in microsurgery and arthroscopy of the upper extremity.
Dr. DeGeorge graduated summa cum laude from The College of William and Mary and attended Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University, where he completed his medical education and earned a PhD in molecular pharmacology and structural biology. He then completed his residency training in the Department of Plastic Surgery at UVA. Dr. DeGeorge went on to complete fellowship training in hand and microvascular surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He returned to UVA in 2017 to join the faculty at the UVA Hand Center.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. DeGeorge’s research interests include articular cartilage repair and regeneration techniques, patient-reported outcomes research, and allograft tendon, cartilage and dermis.
Academic Information
- Department
- Plastic Surgery
- Academic Role
- Assistant Professor
- Division
- Plastic Surgery
Conditions & Treatments
- Arthroscopy of wrist
- Avascular necrosis of the fingers
- Avascular necrosis of the hand
- Benign tumor of hand
- Benign tumor removal of the hand
- Burn scars
- Bursitis of the hand
- Bursitis of the wrist
- Carpal tunnel syndrome surgery
- Finger arthritis
- Finger deformity
- Finger fracture surgery
- Finger injury
- Finger tendon tear
- Gymnast wrist
- Hand arthritis
- Hand fracture
- Hand injury
- Hand surgery
- Nonunion fracture of the wrist
- Tendinitis of the hand
- Tenosynovitis of hand
- Thumb fracture
- Thumb surgery
- Trigger finger
- Trigger finger surgery
- Wrist fracture
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
- Residency
- University of Virginia Medical Center
- Fellowships
- Mayo Clinic
- Certification
- American Board of Plastic Surgery (Surgery of the Hand), American Board of Plastic Surgery (Plastic Surgery)
- Additional Specialties
- Hand and Wrist Orthopedic Surgery
Highlights
Meet Plastic Surgeon Brent DeGeorge, MD
I'm Brent DeGeorge. I'm a hand and upper extremity specialist at UVA Health. I see patients with complex hand, wrist, and peripheral nerve problems at the University of Virginia. My practice involves a great deal of care of amputees and patients with complex wrist problems. I often see people who are a second and third referral for really tricky things, and we want to get them back to work or back to sport faster. I developed an interest in medicine after my brother was involved in a really bad motorcycle accident when we were kids, and you know, my family and I credit the plastic surgeons with sort of saving his life and getting him back to where he needed to be, and that got me interested initially in the specialty, and then ultimately during residency I found hand and upper extremity surgery is something I really loved. I am passionate about pushing the bounds of hand and upper extremity surgery, so there's no problem that's too complex for us at UVA. We're constantly pushing the bounds of what's possible in terms of use of new implants, new technologies to solve old or unsolved problems in upper extremity surgery and get people back to work or sport or what they need or love to do faster.
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