Brian J.F. Wong is an Associate
Professor of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
at UC Irvine with his lab at the Beckman Laser Institute in Irvine. Dr. Wong
received his degrees from the University of Southern California (BSBME), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Amsterdam (PhD), along with an additional year at Oxford University (Wolfson College) as a Rotary Foundation Scholar. His residency and facial plastic and reconstructive
surgery fellowship were completed at UC Irvine, where he has remained on
faculty. He has published over 75 peer–reviewed publications, is on the
editorial board of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and Lasers in
Medical Science, and performs editorial review for ten other journals. He
is currently the principal investigator on three NIH grants, in addition to
substantial support from other extramural agencies including the Department of
Defense, State of California, and the Air Force. Dr. Wong’s basic research is
in thermoviscoelasticity and shape change in cartilage tissue, wound healing,
and applications of optical coherence tomography in surgery. Dr. Wong has
received a Mentored Clinical Scientist Award from NIH (1998), the Young Investigator
Award from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (2001), the Sir
Harold Delf Gillies Award from the American and Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1998), and the
Clinical Innovator Award from the Flight Attendant Medical Research
Institute (2003). He has served on numerous study sections for the National
Institutes of health. He is the former President of Sigma Xi at UC Irvine.
Dr. Wong is the Associate Director for the facial plastic surgery fellowship program. His clinical expertise is on rhinoplasty, vascular malformations, and trauma reconstruction. His clinical research is on facial beauty, ethnic rhinoplasty, and revision rhinoplasty. He is a team doctor for the UC Irvine athletic teams handling maxillo-facial trauma and serves in a similar capacity for Concordia University and other local schools. He currently supervises four post-doctoral fellows, a research specialist, and numerous graduate students, residents, medical students, and undergrads in his labs.
Please click here for Dr. Wong's facial plastics surgery website.