PLASTIC SURGERY CHIEF APPOINTED

Westchester Medical Center, the flagship hospital in the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) in Valhalla recently appointed Edmond Ritter, M.D., as chief of reconstructive and plastic surgery for the network as well as its Maria Fareri Children”™s Hospital, where he is working in collaboration with specialists in pediatric reconstructive and plastic surgery.

He possesses extensive expertise in reconstructive and cosmetic surgical procedures, including microsurgery for breast reconstruction and is skilled in nerve and muscle transfers to combat facial paralysis, head and neck cancer reconstruction, primary and secondary rhinoplasty and cosmetic facial procedures. A recipient of a Congressional Award for his contributions to the field of plastic surgery, Ritter earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and received general surgery residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now the Rutgers School of Biomedical Health and Sciences) and plastic surgery fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco.  

Before joining Westchester Medical Center, Ritter was chief of plastic surgery at the Medical College of Georgia; an attending surgeon in the Mount Sinai Health System; and medical director of the plastic surgery unit of Duke University Hospital.