Samir Mardini, M.D.

Dr. Mardini is a plastic surgeon and global leader in the field of craniofacial surgery and facial paralysis and reanimation surgery in children and adults. Dr. Mardini was a major contributor to forming Mayo Clinic's groundbreaking face transplant program, and he led his team to perform Mayo Clinic's first-ever face transplant successfully. This groundbreaking procedure gave a new life to a patient whose facial disfigurement destroyed his face and his life. As the Chair of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Mardini tirelessly works to support and lead his team of fourteen plastic surgeons and hundreds of providers and Allied Health staff to exceptionally care for patients, innovate, and educate. He spent years traveling around the world, developing his knowledge, skills, and expertise to help people of all ages regain confidence and improved function after suffering from facial paralysis, disfigurement, or deformities. His practice focuses on the whole person, and he regularly collaborates with physicians across specialties to provide holistic, respectful, and attentive care to their individual health needs and aesthetic preferences.

The Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer Program at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota, offers hope through our expert teams of specialized doctors who provide accurate diagnoses and offer the latest treatment options for esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, anal cancer and gastrointestinal cancers that have metastasized. You will have access to the full range of cancer treatments, including minimally invasive surgeries, robotic and laparoscopic, endoscopic mucosal resection, esophagectomy, complex esophageal reconstruction, gastrectomy, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), targeted radiation treatments such as proton beam therapy, immunotherapies and cutting-edge clinical trials. Mayo Clinic’s Gastrointestinal Neoplasia Clinic specializes in the prevention, early detection, diagnostic evaluation and integrated management of luminal gastrointestinal pre-cancers and cancers for people at higher-than-average risk of stomach and colorectal cancer based on family history, personal history or having other gastrointestinal diseases like Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis. Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report, and the Cancer Center continually ranks among the top hospitals in the U.S. for cancer. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center.

Fredric B. Meyer, M.D., is a neurosurgeon at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester, Minnesota campus. He is enterprise chair of the Department of Neurologic Surgery at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Meyer specializes in the treatment of complex brain tumors of all types, including glioma, pituitary, third ventricular and skull base tumors. He is also recognized as an expert in the treatment of cerebrovascular disease, including moyamoya disease, cavernomas and aneurysms. He treats a large number of epilepsy patients in collaboration with his neurology colleagues. He is currently the Juanita Kious Waugh Executive Dean for Education of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and dean of the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, ranks among the Best Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” rankings.