Primary Job Title Vice President Primary Organization RheoTek Medical
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
Scott Bartlett is a board certified Plastic Surgeon and has been practicing for over 25 years, specializing in reconstruction of the jaw, face, and ear. Dr. Bartlett treats patients with facial trauma, facial palsy, congenital abnormalities and defects of the head and face. In the area of cosmetic surgery, he has special interest in the face and
neck, concentrating on nasal, eyelid, facial regeneration and ear reconstruction procedures. In additional to surgical treatments, Dr. Bartlett uses injectables and fillers, laser resurfacing and stateof-the-art implant materials. By combining his expertise in infant and adult reconstruction with aesthetic procedures, he is able to marry form and function in restoration.
Dr. Bartlett is a member of the Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, a team of specialists dedicated to improving ways of treating appearance related problems. He is also the holder of the Peter Randall Endowed Chair in Pediatric Plastic Surgery and of the Friends of Brian Endowed Chair in Pediatric & Reconstructive Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His research is directed to learning the effects of aging on the structure of the face and refining methods of facial reconstruction. His other research interests include growth and development of the face and implant materials. He is widely published in specialty journals and textbooks.
Dr. Bartlett lectures worldwide and is a member of prestigious plastic surgery societies such as the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the International Society of Craniomaxillofacial Surgery, of which he is a former President. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is the Section Editor in Pediatric / Craniofacial for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the most widely read journal in the specialty. Each year he travels to Poland in a volunteer capacity where he performs surgery and trains Polish physicians in methods of facial reconstruction for children and adults.
He is currently the Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Director of the Craniofacial Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Scott received his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, completed his surgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bartlett has had a career long interest in ear reconstruction. For over 30 years he has been using autologous cartilage to fabricate new ears for children born with microtia or absence of the ear. He has recently adopted a new methodology pioneered by a colleague in California in which a flap of tissue from the undersurface of the scalp is draped over a porous polyethylene framework on which skin grafts are applied. This single stage procedure reduces donor site morbidity and enhances the surgical result. He is one of a few practitioners who are performing this type of reconstruction on the East coast. He has been aware of the possibility of early shaping of the deformed neonatal ear for years, and employed various methods, including another commercially available ear molding device. In recognizing the deficiencies each of these had, he developed the basic idea for InfantEar™, and was able to bring together his medical device colleagues and daughter to form this partnership, who collectively have expertise in all of the clinical and non-clinical aspects of developing and bringing to market a successful medical device.
