William Jervis, M.D.

Recognition and Affiliations

Diplomate of National Board of Medical Examiners 1961
California Physician's and Surgeon's License #G8005 1961
Member, Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Society, California Medical Association and American Medical Association, 1966-1971
Diplomate of American Board of Plastic Surgery 1975
Member, California Society of Plastic Surgeons 1976
Fellow, American College of Surgeons 1977
Clinical Instructor of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 1979-1992
Member, Icarus Society of Plastic Surgeons 1979
Fellow, International College of Surgeons 1980
Chairman, Section of Plastic Surgery, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CA 1982 - 1985 and 1998 ' 2000
Member, Lipoplasty Society 1983
Member, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 1984
Visiting scholar, Department of Plastic Surgery, Stanford University November 1991
Chairman, Membership Committee, California Society of Plastic Surgeons 1990 ' 1994
Fellow, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery 1996
Member, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2001

Hospital Medical Staff Memberships

Plastic Surgery: University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus; Mt. Diablo Surgery Center

Education

Plastic Surgery: University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas 1974
General Surgery: Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California and Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland, California 1971
Internship: Los Angeles County General Hospital 1962
Medical School: McGill University, Montreal 1961
Military Service: Flight Surgeon, USAF 1963 ' 1965
Volunteer Reconstructive Surgery 1983 ' 1990, 1993, 1998
La Familia Foundation, Nuevo Progresso, Guatemala; Operation Philplast, 1986, mostly cleft lip and palate repair

Papers Presented

1. 'Experience with over 1500 Saline Inflatable Breast Implants', Annual Meeting of American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 1992
2. 'Current Status of Mammary Implants', December 17, 1991, John Muir Medical Center Staff Meeting
3. 'Update on 119 Patients with Polyurethane Covered Mammary Implants', September 1986, Advanced Symposium on Plastic Surgery of the Breast, Santa Fe, New Mexico
4. 'Experience with 232 Polyurethane Covered Mammary Prostheses Over a Two Year Period', American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, April 18, 1985. Re-presented at joint meeting of Philippine Society of Plastic Surgeons, January 18, 1986, Manila, Philippines
5. 'Closure of Meningomyelocele Defects', 30th Annual Meeting of California Society of Plastic Surgeons, March 21, 1980, San Diego, CA
6. 'Theory and Use of Limberg and Dufourmentel Flaps', William H. Jervis, M.D., Kenneth E. Salyer, M.D., M. Vargas Busquets, M.D., and Ronald Atkins, M.D. Presented at the Sixth International Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, August, 1975, Paris, France
7. 'Further Experience with Limberg and Dufourmentel Flaps', William H. Jervis, M.D., Kenneth E. Salyer, M.D., presented at meeting of American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, October 23, 1974, Hollywood, Florida
8. 'Our Experience with Limberg and Dufourmentel Flaps', William H. Jervis, M.D., Kenneth E.Salyer, M.D., presented at meeting of Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, May 4, 1973, Dallas, Texas
9. 'Air Evacuation of Maxillo-Facial Injuries', International Committee of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, November 1964, Algiers
10. 'Technic Reversals in Selected Cases: Suction Lipectomy and lower lid
Blepharoplasty', Department of Plastic Surgery, Stanford University, August 22, 2001.

Publications

1. 'Further Applications of the Limberg and Dufourmentel Flaps', William H.Jervis, M.D., Kenneth E. Salyer, M.D., Miguel A. Vargas Busquets, M.D. and Ronald W. Atkins, M.D.; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1974, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Vol. 54, No.3
2. 'Theory and Use of Limberg and Dufourmentel Flaps', William H. Jervis, M.D.; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Transactions of the Sixth International Congress, 1975, Masson, Inc. 1976
3. 'Revisions in Breast Augmentation', Neal Handel, M.D., Barbara B. Hayden, M.D., William H. Jervis, M.D. and Patrick G. Maxwell, M.D., Aesthetic Surgery Journal, March/April 2000, Vol. 20, No. 2

Media Events

Dr. Jervis has been featured on The Learning Channel in 2 different segments, 'A Personal Story' on liposuction and 'Bigger in Berkeley' on breast augmentation. He has also been featured on The Discovery Health Channel segment 'Plastic Surgery Before and After' for facial rejuvenation. Interviews with him can be seen on 'Heartbeat of America, Keeping America Strong' television magazine series and 'The Wellness Hour,' featuring his views on Vaser' *assisted liposelection. These can be viewed in our office.

Hospital de la Familia

Since 1983, Dr. William Jervis has done voluntary and Reconstructive Surgery in numerous trips to Guatemala, and the Philippines.

He is organizing, as team leader, this tenth trip to Guatemala to do reconstructive surgery, primarily for cleft lip and palate, and burn reconstruction, at Hospital de la Familia in the Guatemalan highland, in November 1998. This team will consist of approximately 30 persons, including plastic surgeons, opthalmologists, pediatricians, general surgeons, gynecologists, anesthesiologists , nurses and technicians.

He also serves on the Board of the foundation that built and maintains the hospital.

* Dr Jervis wrote the following article for the Hospital de la Familia Foundation

"During my first visit to Hospital de la Famila at Nuevo Progreso, 20-year-old- Carmelino Gonzales arrived wearing a bandana over his face. I suspect that was to keep flies away from his mouth rather than cover the complete cleft of his lip and palate."

"Guatemalans accept these deformities as a way of life and they commonly are uncorrected, particularly in rural areas. But, of course, those bearing these unfortunate disfiguring burdens carry their stigma wherever they go.
Carmelino, a farm worker, had his severely cleft lip and palate repaired by us in a three and a half hour procedure. He woke up not only with at new face, but with a palate that should enable him to develop at least intelligible speech."

"Although we couldn't get Carmelino to speak much, when he looked in the mirror he smiled with obvious pride at his transformed image. He was ready to face the world with his new face, no longer hidden behind a bandana."

" One of our visiting medical teams recently repaired a man's grievous head would. A machete had cut through his nose like a sliced cantaloupe, so he was a truly frightening sight. The team studied this and set about restoring his nose with a strip of skin from his forehead. They molded this to form his nostrils and stitched it in place."

"He left the hospital grinning from ear-to-ear. Except for stitches his face was back to normal and you knew he felt handsome again."

"In the past 20 years our visiting teams have performed more than 2,100 reconstructive surgeries that our grateful Guatemalan patients, their families and friends consider miraculous."