Dr. Fred Duffy
Dr. Duffy is a board-certified plastic surgeon who has been in private practice in Dallas, TX for over 25 years. His practice focus is breast reconstruction following mastectomy, particularly microsurgical breast reconstruction. Dr. Duffy was the first surgeon to perform the DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforator) flap in North Texas. He particularly enjoys helping women who have had a failed breast reconstruction or have come to him for help after experiencing a poor outcome in the past.
Dr. Duffy also does a great deal of primary breast reconstruction immediately following mastectomy. He practices with his partner Dr. McKane in North Dallas. They perform all of their complicated microsurgical cases together which shortens operative time and provides superior patient outcomes. His reconstructive practice also includes complex reconstruction around the body and across the full age spectrum. He developed and has published on a novel way to close myelomenigocele defects (spina bifida) in newborns.
In addition to his reconstructive practice, Dr. Duffy also has an elective cosmetic practice with an emphasis on breast and body contouring. Many of his reconstructive patients choose to have cosmetic procedures after they have had reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Duffy received his undergraduate degree at Boston College and went to medical school in his home state of New Jersey at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. After completing general surgery training at Deaconess-Harvard Surgical Service in Boston, he took two years off from clinical training to work in plastic surgery research at Boston Children’s Hospital. He worked on flap physiology and tendon healing. He then completed a plastic surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital which was followed by a microsurgical fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The focus of the fellowship was on complex microsurgical reconstruction of the breast, lower extremity, and body.
Perforator flap surgery was a new concept at the time he finished his training so after starting his private practice he continued training in this new sub-specialty with leaders in the field and at early perforator courses in New Orleans, Belgium, Munich, Glasgow, Barcelona, and Turkey. Much of his practice is based around perforator flap surgery which leads to better outcomes with less problems for patients.
Dr. Duffy loves caring for patients and improving their lives. His empathy and caring in part are a result of his own health care issues and surgeries earlier in life related to being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis as a teenager. He is a board certified plastic surgeon and member of many local and national medical societies, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
