Roberto Flores

Roberto L. Flores, MD, is the Endowed Joseph G. McCarthy Associate Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Director of Cleft Lip and Palate and the Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship Director in the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Flores, a member of Smile Train’s Global Medical Advisory Board, and Associate Editor of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal, is an internationally recognized leader in cleft lip and palate, Pierre Robin sequence, surgical simulation and bone tissue engineering.  He has earned over one million dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to investigate 3D printed ceramics as a bone tissue engineering solution in the growing craniofacial skeleton. Through strategic partnerships between philanthropy, industry and medicine, he has created three, freely available, web-based multimedia plastic surgery simulators, including the Smile Train Virtual Surgery Simulator, the most widely utilized surgical simulator for cleft lip and palate reconstruction with over 5000 users.