Anand Raj Kumar, MD FACS FAAP

Dr. Anand Kumar is a pediatric plastic surgeon and professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Mercer University School of Medicine. His clinical practice focuses on craniofacial surgery including craniosynostosis (Apert/Crouzon Syndrome), correction of hypertelorism (wide eyes), pediatric and adolescent facial skeletal deformities (Pierre Robin Sequence) with airway obstruction using traditional orthognathic (jaw) surgery and distraction osteogenesis. As an honor student in the biological sciences at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Kumar received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic Rochester and later completed a second residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He subsequently completed a pediatric plastic/craniofacial surgery fellowship after his residency at UCLA.

Head and Neck Disorders / Procedures

Head Face & Jaw Reconstruction

• craniofacial and craniomaxillofacial surgery
• facial deformities
• facial fractures and trauma
• full mouth reconstruction
• jaw reconstruction

Pediatric Plastic

• cleft lip and palate
• congenital anomalies
• congenital nevi
• craniosynostosis
• ear surgery
• hemangiomas
• mole removal
• pediatric facial surgery
• vascular malformations

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Bethesda, MD

Attending

07/2004—07/2010

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Pittsburgh, PA

Attending

08/2010—10/2013

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, MD,

Attending

11/2013—Present

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor

10/2004—08/2010

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, PA

Assistant Professor

08/2010—10/2013

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Associate Professor

11/2013—01/2017

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

Professor

01/2017—01/2021