Plastic Surgery Expert Witness | Facial & Burns

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Dr. Scott J. Farber is a board-certified, actively practicing plastic and reconstructive surgeon who provides expert analysis and testimony in personal-injury and medical-malpractice cases involving facial injuries, burns, lacerations and scarring, disfigurement, and the standard of care in plastic, cosmetic, and reconstructive surgery. Because he treats these injuries every week — repairing facial fractures, reconstructing burns, and revising scars and lacerations — he gives attorneys a current, operating-room perspective on what reconstruction requires and on the honest limits of what surgery can restore. He opines on both liability and damages, including the staging, lifetime cost, and permanency of future reconstructive care, and consults for plaintiff and defense alike. Dr. Farber's clinical focus is squarely in the injuries that drive these cases: facial trauma and facial fracture management, burn and scar reconstruction, complex laceration and soft-tissue repair, hand and peripheral-nerve injury, and craniofacial and cleft reconstruction. He can quantify for a jury exactly what a disfiguring facial scar, burn, or laceration will demand over a lifetime — the number and staging of future procedures, realistic cost ranges, and the permanent functional and aesthetic limits of even excellent surgery. His credentials are built to withstand scrutiny. He earned his medical degree at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, completed general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, and finished an advanced craniofacial surgery fellowship at NYU's Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and Managing Partner of Hill Country Plastic Surgery in San Antonio. As a former Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, Dr. Farber led Grand Rounds and trained residents and medical students — experience that translates directly to making complex surgical concepts clear and credible to a lay jury. He has authored an extensive body of peer-reviewed research in leading journals including Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, Military Medicine, Experimental Neurology, and Anesthesia & Analgesia, addressing facial trauma, craniofacial outcomes, and nerve regeneration and repair. His work has earned competitive national grants from the Plastic Surgery Foundation and the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand, along with multiple awards for research and presentation merit. Dr. Farber served a decade in the United States Navy Reserve Medical Corps as a Commander, with assignments including Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, grounding his authority on severe and combat-related facial trauma and reconstruction of devastating wounds. His commitment to trauma care began earlier still, as an EMT and firefighter in New York — giving him a first-responder's grasp of the injury timeline from the scene through definitive facial and burn reconstruction. A member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Dr. Farber is available nationally for case review, expert reports, deposition, and trial testimony involving facial injuries, burns, lacerations, and plastic surgery.