Physician-In-Chief, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Vice Dean, Clinical Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
President, Clinical Practice Association

Rick Redett III, M.D., professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, is physician-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) and vice dean for clinical affairs for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also president of the Clinical Practice Association.

Dr. Redett, who joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2003, leads strategy development and alignment for the clinical practice of employed faculty. He coordinates with Johns Hopkins Health System-employed physician leadership across JHM, working in close collaboration with hospital and department leadership and the senior vice president of the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians.

Under Dr. Redett’s leadership as director of plastic and reconstructive surgery, the department expanded its research portfolio, strengthened multidisciplinary clinical programs, enhanced its residency and fellowship programs, and further developed clinical and research collaborations with other JHM departments.

An internationally recognized pediatric plastic surgeon, Dr. Redett and his team are known for their innovative surgical procedures — including hand, upper extremity and genital transplantations. In 2018, Dr. Redett led a multidisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins that performed the most extensive urogenital and abdominal wall transplant in the United States, helping a U.S. military veteran injured in Afghanistan. The operation was considered a landmark in the field of reconstructive transplantation.

In addition, among his leadership roles, Dr. Redett directs the Johns Hopkins Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic, a multispecialty center that cares for 650 children each year. He is chairman of the board of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Alliance and co-chair of the Perioperative Playbook Committee. He was the director of pediatric plastic surgery and of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Center, and is also a past residency program director for the Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland integrated plastic surgery residency program.

Dr. Redett earned his undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology from Emory University. From 1987 to 1991, he served as a Peace Corps fisheries volunteer in the Central African Republic, working on sustainable aquaculture and community development. He received his medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (then Dartmouth Medical School) in 1995.

He completed his residency training in a combined general surgery and plastic surgery program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Maryland Medical Center and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He later completed a fellowship in pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.