Dayton Children’s lands top plastic surgery medical director

Dayton Children’s Hospital has named Dr. Christopher Gordon medical director for its plastic surgery department.

Gordon specializes in complex jaw surgeries, in which the bone is stretched to allow a child to breathe, see and hear better, according to a news release.

“It is so gratifying to make a child born with a facial difference whole again,” Gordan said. “It’s all I have ever wanted to do.”

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He most recently was the attending craniofacial surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Shriner’s Hospital for Children, as well as a professor of surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Gordon has also worked throughout Latin America, and is a veteran of more than 70 international mission trips.

“Dr. Gordon heightens the already stellar care that children and their families find here at Dayton Children’s,” said Dr. Adam Mezoff, Dayton Children’s chief medical officer. “His skill, training and dedication to giving children a better quality of life is unparalleled – and our kids deserve nothing less.”

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