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- President - Steven Williams, M.D.
- President Elect - Karol A. Gutowski, M.D.
- Vice President - Benjamin Van Raalte M.D.
- Treasurer - Reuben Beuno, M.D.
- Secretary – Raphael C. Lee, M.D.
- Past-President - Rajendra R. Shah, M.D.
- Member-at-large - John Murray, M.D.
- Member-at-large - Robert Whitfield, M.D.
- Member-at-large - John Hijjawi, M.D.
Steven D. Williams, MD FACS
General Plastic Surgeon in Private Practice, Bourbonnais, Illinois
Areas of Special Interest:
- Cutaneous Malignancy
- Breast reconstruction
- Burn care and reconstruction
- Aesthetic surgery
Dr. Steven D. Williams received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, and Doctorate of Medicine at Loyola University of Chicago. He then performed a General Surgery Internship and Residency at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Cook County Hospital. He then spent one year as an Attending Physician & Surgeon & Fellow at the Cook County Hospital Sumner L. Koch Burn Unit. His Plastic Surgery Residency was performed at the Medical College of Ohio.
Dr. Williams achieved ABPS Board Certification and has recertified and participates in the Maintenance of Certification program.
Dr. Williams is President of the Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons, is on the Board of the Illinois Society of Plastic Surgeons, and is an Active Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the American Burn Association.
Dr. Williams is a past Chief of Surgery at Riverside Medical Center and Provena-St. Mary’s Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, a Past President of the Kankakee County Medical Society, and has been the Medical Director and Chairman of the Board of the Riverside Ambulatory Surgery Center since its inception in 2005.
Dr. Williams is happily married to Yvonne Christian-Williams, and they enjoy raising and training German Shepherds, photography, travel, fashion, and the outdoors.
Karol A. Gutowski, MD, FACS
Head, Division of Plastic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System,Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Karol Gutowski was granted a medical degree from Michigan State University after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. He then was a general surgery resident at the University of Minnesota where he also completed a surgical infectious disease fellowship. He received his plastic surgery training at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas followed by further fellowship training at the Institute for Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University.
Dr. Gutowski is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and is actively involved in educating other plastic surgeons and physicians in training. His work has been published in various medical journals and text book chapters.
To view a full CV of Dr. Gutowski, click here
Benjamin Van Raalte M.D., F.A.C.S.
Plastic Surgeon in Private Practice
Brief Biography
Dr. Van Raalte received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin. He had previously completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Dr. Van Raalte completed a general surgery residency at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and went on to complete his plastic surgery residency at Indiana University in Indianapolis.
Dr. Van Raalte is board certified in plastic surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthestic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Van Raalte is a past president of the Iowa Society of Plastic Surgeons. He has completed the Pathways to Leadership course offered by the ASPS and received certificate of recognition from ASAPS for volunteer service.
Dr. Van Raalte currently practices in Davenport, Iowa, part of the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River between Iowa and Illinois. He and his family reside in Bettendorf, Iowa. He is active as the Chairman of the Health and Safety Committee of the Iowa Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Reuben A. Bueno, Jr, MD, F.A.C.S.
Assistant Professor, Program Director, Division of Plastic Surgery
Institute For Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794-9653
Phone: 217-545-6314
E-mail: rbueno@siumed.edu
Brief Biography
Dr. Reuben A. Bueno, Jr. is an assistant professor and Residency Program Director in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He is fellowship trained in pediatric plastic surgery and hand and upper extremity surgery. His practice includes general plastic surgery with special interests in adult and pediatric hand surgery, congenital hand and facial anomalies, microsurgery, brachial plexus reconstruction, and facial reanimation surgery.
He completed fellowships in pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and hand and upper extremity surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He received his plastic surgery residency training at SIU School of Medicine. Prior to joining SIU, Dr. Bueno was at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Yale University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Dr. Bueno is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has obtained Specialty Certification in Surgery of the Hand.
Memberships in national organizations include: American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, American Association for Hand Surgery, Association of Academic Chairmen in Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Research Council, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, American Burn Association, Association for Surgical Education, and American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery.
Raphael C. Lee, MD, ScD, FACS
Paul and Ailene Russell Professor, the University of Chicago,
Brief Biography
Dr. Lee is a plastic surgeon and biomedical engineer. He holds appointments in Surgery (Plastic), Medicine (Dermatology), Molecular Medicine, and Organismal Biology & Anatomy (Biomechanics). He directs the Center for Molecular Regeneration.
His professional research interests have focused on the effects of physical forces on tissue injury and healing processes, pharmaceutical control of scar formation, and in reconstructive surgery. He is an alumnus of the University of Chicago’s general surgery residency. Plastic Surgery residency was completed at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University in 1983. He then assumed simultaneous tenure track faculty appointments at MIT and Harvard. Dr. Lee returned to the University of Chicago in 1990.
Named one of “America’s Top Surgeons” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America, and earlier one of “America’s brightest Scientists under the age of 40” by Science Digest, Dr. Lee has received more than 40 professional awards including being named a Schering Scholar (1978), MacArthur Prize Fellow (1981), a Searle Scholar (1985), American Association of Plastic Surgeons Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow and American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow . In 1981, he received the Coller Society Award for outstanding general surgery residents and in 1988, the James Barrett Brown Award from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons for "advancing knowledge in the field of Plastic Surgery"; In 1997 Dr. Lee was awarded the American Electrical Power Association Award for “Advancing Electrical Safety and Health". His laboratory has attracted more than $25 million in research grant support. He has authored and co-authored more than 190 publications, 4 books and 14 patents.
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