In Memoriam

Gary Burget 

Gary Burget, M.D. passed away in Chicago, IL on May 31, 2017. 

After completing medical school in 1967 at Yale University Medical School, Dr. Burget was a plastic surgery resident at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL.  He was a fellow in pediatric plastic surgery at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL. 

 In 1994 Dr. Burget co-authored Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Nose, which is considered to have defined modern techniques for the subspecialty. 

 In 2012 he published Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Child’s Nose, which is noted as the first book to feature a large consecutive series of children as case examples. 

A private practitioner, Dr. Burget was also a clinical associate professor of surgery at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and an attending surgeon at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. 

 In 2006 Dr. Burget was named by the American Association of Plastic Surgeons as its Clinician of the Year, and he was named in 1990 and 2008 as winner of the James Barret Brown Award for the best plastic surgery paper published during the preceding calendar year. 

After practicing in Chicago for more than 30 years, he retired from practice in October 2016.

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