Hillsborough County, Cleft and Craniofacial Care

Learn more about our cleft and craniofacial program serving patients in Tampa and throughout the Tampa Bay area.

Your child can receive expert care for cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Outpatient Care Center in Tampa. Our program serves families throughout the Tampa Bay area and Hillsborough County including Tampa, Brandon, North Tampa and beyond.

We treat children of all ages and provide prenatal consultations for expectant mothers whose unborn baby has been diagnosed with cleft lip and/or cleft palate or other craniofacial anomalies during an ultrasound. Your child receives care from a multidisciplinary team led by our board-certified, fellowship-trained plastic surgeons. Our team has extensive experience caring for babies and children of all ages from diagnosis and initial treatment as well as follow-up care through young adulthood.

We offer these services at the Outpatient Care Center in Tampa as well as some of the hospital’s other locations so we’re able to see you in the location and timeframe that best meets your needs.

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, Tampa

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care
Tampa
12220 Bruce B Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612

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813-631-5000

Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, Tampa

Meet Our Plastic Surgeons

S. Alex Rottgers, MD

Plastic Surgery

Dr. Rottgers practices in the pediatric plastic and craniofacial surgery programs and is chief of the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. His areas of special interest are vascular anomalies and in the treatment of cleft and craniofacial conditions including cleft lip and palate, craniosynostosis, hemifacial microsomia, microtia, and other abnormalities of the face and jaw.

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Alex Rottgers, M.D. at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.

Jordan Halsey, MD

Plastic Surgery

Dr. Halsey is a pediatric plastic surgeon at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. She joined the hospital staff in 2021. Dr. Halsey earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee. She completed a residency in integrated plastic surgery from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey, where she was administrative chief resident. She then completed a fellowship in pediatric craniofacial surgery from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

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Jordan Halsey, M.D.

Ernesto Ruas, MD

Plastic Surgery

Dr. Ruas specializes in plastic surgery and cleft and craniofacial surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and is the director of plastic surgery resident education. He joined the hospital staff in 1990.

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Ernesto Ruas MD

The Cleft and Craniofacial Program at Johns Hopkins All Children's

The services we offer at Outpatient Care, Sarasota, are part of the Cleft and Craniofacial Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. The program is approved by the Commission of Approval of Teams as meeting the standards set by the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association and Cleft Palate Foundation. Learn more about the program and the conditions we treat.