G. Patrick Maxwell is a plastic surgeon and an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Maxwell is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University Medical School, and trained in general and then plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Maxwell was the surgeon and co-author of the first successful report of microsurgical transfer of the latissimus muscle flap,[1] at Johns Hopkins University in the late 1970s.
[8] In 2003, Maxwell helped found the Inamed Academy, a series of international educational symposia focusing on breast surgery.
On April 17, 2007, Maxwell was recognized for his contributions to medicine by Representative Marsha Blackburn (Republican-Tennessee) through a resolution written into the US Congressional Record.