UAB Department of Surgery professor Timothy King, M.D., Ph.D., co-edited a new pediatric plastic surgery publication, Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for Primary Care. King also serves as the division’s director of research, associate program director of the Plastic Surgery Residency program and chief of plastic surgery at the Birmingham VA Medical Cente

King is listed as one of two editors of the publication, alongside Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Professor Peter Taub, M.D. With contributions from the leading experts, Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for Primary Care provides primary care pediatricians and other childcare professionals essential support on caring for children who face plastic and reconstructive surgery-related issues.

The publication boasts sixteen chapters of content with hundreds of images and illustrations to provide authoritative guidance on when to treat and when to wait, on the timing of corrective surgeries in pediatric patients, and surgical strategies and complications.

Nonsurgical management and brief descriptions of how corrective procedures are performed are discussed, which is helpful to pediatricians in counseling patients and conducting long-term patient follow-up.

The book can be purchased on Amazon as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics online store.