Meet Dr. Janis

Dr. Janis grew up in Columbus, Ohio and completed his undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated magna cum laude from the Olin School of Business with Honors in Management and Marketing. He was also awarded membership into Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. He was also the recipient of the William D. Holden Award in Surgery, given to the most outstanding student going into a surgical career. He completed his integrated plastic surgery residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas where he was twice awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Accomplishment in Surgical Education, the Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as Best Research Paper at the 2003 National Senior Resident’s Conference.

After his residency training, Dr. Janis was invited to join the faculty in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he remained for 9 years from 2003-2013. While in Dallas, he was appointed to the level of Associate Professor and Program Director for the largest plastic surgery residency training program in the country, and also served as Chief of Plastic Surgery for Parkland Hospital as well as Co-Director of the Wound Healing Fellowship. In 2013, he was recruited to join the Ohio State University Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as a Professor and Executive Vice Chairman.

Dr. Janis is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) since 2004 (recertified in 2013) and an active member multiple organizations, including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery/The Aesthetic Society (ASAPS), American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS), American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

He has served on hundreds of committees, both as a member and Chair, including chairing the ASPS Annual Scientific meeting for several years and was the co-architect of the national Resident Education Curriculum Committee for ASPS and ACAPS. He served for 3 years as the Board Vice President of Education for ASPS, overseeing all education for the largest plastic surgery organization in the world.

He is a Past President of ASPS (youngest in the history of the Society), Past President of ACAPS (youngest in the history of the Society), Past President of the Columbus Medical Association (CMA), Past President of the Migraine Surgery Society (Inaugural Founding President), and Past President of the American Hernia Society (AHS) (first plastic surgeon).

He currently serves as a Governor on the Board of Governors for the American College of Surgeons (ACS), sits on the Plastic Surgery Residency Review Committee (RRC) for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for ASPS, is on the Executive Committee for the Surgical Pain Congress (SPC), is on the Executive Committee for the Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, and serves on the Advisory Council for Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery for the ACS.

Upon being recruited to Ohio State, he recently relinquished his roles as President-Elect of the Dallas County Medical Society, the 2nd largest medical society in the country with 7,500 members, President-Elect of the Medical Staff/Medical Executive Committee at Parkland Health and Hospital System, with 1,400 physicians, Chairman of the OR Committee, and Secretary/Treasurer of the Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Janis was named “Clinician of the Year” in 2004 from the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern, “Teacher of the Year” in 2008 and 2013, and received Special Achievement Awards in 2007 and 2013 for “Outstanding Contributions and Dedication to Advances in Plastic Surgery Resident Education”. He was also recognized with the “Distinguished Physician of the Year Award” by Parkland Health and Hospital System in 2009, where he was Chief of Plastic Surgery and Chief of Wound Care since 2006, as well as received an Excellence Award from Parkland in 2011 and an Outstanding Leadership Award in 2013. He was named as a “Distinguished Teaching Professor” by the University of Texas Academy of Health Sciences Education in 2012, and was inducted into the prestigious Southwest Academy of Teachers the same year.

While at the Ohio State University Medical Center, he has been awarded “Teacher of the Year’ by the Ohio State University Department of Plastic Surgery in 2017, and has been named to the “Dean’s List” in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

In 2017, he was awarded the “Distinguished Alumni Award” by the Bexley High School Alumni Association, awarded for outstanding accomplishments and meritorious work in their chosen fields of endeavor or on behalf of their communities.

In 2018, he was awarded the “Young at Heart” Award by the Young Plastic Surgeons section of ASPS (awarded to one person per year) for his role in mentorship. The same year, he received the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Distinguished Alumni Award, presented in recognition of an outstanding alumnus whose work has made a significant mark in the field of medicine and whose efforts have brought about distinction for the CWRU School of Medicine.

In 2021, he was awarded the “Outstanding Faculty Teacher of the Year” by the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS), which is given annually to one individual who is actively involved in surgical education and who is considered by his/her chair, peers, residents, and/or students to be an outstanding teacher.

Also in 2021, he was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open, the largest plastic surgery open access journal in the world. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is on the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports (a Springer Nature journal).

In 2022, he won two awards from Doximity – “Most Cited 2022”, awarded to Top 10% Most Cited Clinician on Doximity, as well as “Most Published 2022”, awarded to Top 10% Most Published Clinician on Doximity.

In 2023, he was inducted into the Frank McDowell Fellowship for his service as a peer reviewer to the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, with nearly 1000 reviews for that journal alone. He also serves as a peer reviewer for 68 other scientific journals, as well. He has been awarded “Top 1% Peer Review Award” by Publons.

Also in 2023, he was awarded the “Level 5 Leader Award” by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons/The Plastic Surgery Foundation, which is awarded in recognition of contributions to the professional and leadership development of ASPS/PSF members, with unwavering resolve towards the enduring excellence of the organization.

He has been repeatedly named to the U.S. News and World Report “Top Doctors”, and also has received similar recognition by Best Doctors in America, America’s Top Plastic Surgeons, Best Doctors in Dallas, Best Doctors in Columbus, and Who’s Who in America and the World. He received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who.

He was also part of the team that performed the first full U.S. face transplant at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

To date, he has served as a Visiting Professor at 58 major national and international institutions, serves as a peer reviewer for 68 scientific journals, published 262 peer-reviewed articles, 111 book chapters, and 8 books, with 2 more books and an app pending publication, and has delivered over 1,080 lectures. His publications have been cited nearly 14,000 times, with an h-index of 55 and i10-index of 166.

Dr. Janis is the Editor of “Essentials of Plastic Surgery” – a worldwide, internationally renowned best-selling handbook of plastic surgery used by countless students, residents, fellows, and surgeons. The original edition came out in 2006 with a second edition released in 2014, and the 3rd released in October 2022, already selling thousands of copies across the world.

Dr. Janis is currently an active member of:

– American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS)

– American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)

– American College of Surgeons (ACS)

– American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS)

– American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery/The Aesthetic Society (ASAPS)

– Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons (OVSPS)

– Columbus Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS)

– Columbus Medical Association (CMA)

– American Hernia Society (AHS)

– Surgical Pain Consortium (SPC)

– Migraine Surgery Society (MSS)



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Dr. Janis is the Editor of “Essentials of Plastic Surgery” series – a worldwide, internationally renowned series of best-selling handbooks of plastic surgery used by countless students, residents, fellows, and surgeons. The original edition of Essentials of Plastic Surgery came out in 2006 with a second edition released in 2014, selling thousands of copies across the world. A Question and Answer companion handbook was released in early 2015. This was followed by the release of “Essentials of Aesthetic Surgery” in 2018. The 3rd edition of Essentials of Plastic Surgery was released in 2022, together with the 2nd edition of the Q&A Companion.

Dr. Janis has also co-edited two other books, “Abdominal Wall Reconstruction”, published in 2012, and “Surgical Treatment of Chronic Headaches and Migraines” in 2020.

Dr. Janis also has been co-editor of six Supplements to the prestigious Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The first Supplement on Current Concepts in Wound Healing was released in 2006, with updates in 2011 and most recently in 2016. All three Supplements packed over 300 pages of information, and were co-edited with Dr. Christopher Attinger from Georgetown University. A Supplement on The Use of Acellular Dermal Matrices in Surgery was released in 2012, co-edited with Dr. Maurice Nahabedian, also from Georgetown University, which addressed scientific evidence around the use of biologic materials in surgery. A Supplement on Current Concepts in Pain Management in Plastic Surgery, co-edited with Dr. Girish Joshi from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, was released in 2014 addressing this critical topic that spans multiple disciplines. A Supplement on Current Concepts in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, which presents the state-of-the-art techniques for hernia repair, was released in 2018. All Supplements have been designed to address common topics in a multidisciplinary fashion, with experts from around the world writing peer-reviewed scientific articles to provide an up-to-date deep dive into specific topics.

Dr. Janis’ current research interests in plastic surgery are predominantly around complex abdominal wall reconstruction (hernia), the treatment of migraine headaches (Botox® and surgical), pain management and resident education, although he has published on numerous other topics, as well. 

Dr. Janis lives in Columbus, and is married with two sons and a daughter