Richard L. Agag, MD

Richard L. Agag, MD is chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2010, Dr. Agag was named the Jerome P. Webster Fellow by the non-profit organization ReSurge International (formerly Interplast). Granted to one newly trained plastic surgeon annually, the fellowship gave him the opportunity to spend a year providing reconstructive surgeries to children in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. Due to his extensive training and experience, he performs a wide variety of reconstructive plastic surgery procedures ranging from breast reconstruction after mastectomy and gender affirmation surgery to pediatric plastic surgery including cleft lip and palate repair. He also performs a multitude of cosmetic procedures for the breast, body and face. Fellowship-trained in microsurgery, he offers all current options in breast reconstruction to his patients, including DIEP (deep inferior epigastric artery perforator), PAP (profunda artery perforator), stacked DIEP/PAP, TUG (transverse upper gracilis) and IGAP (inferior gluteal artery perforator) flaps. He also offers both two-stage pre-pectoral tissue expander/implant and one-stage direct-to-implant reconstruction. Dr. Agag works together closely with the breast surgeons at the Rutgers Cancer Institute and his patients to determine what is the best reconstruction for each patient’s specific situation.

Clinical Interests: Breast Reconstruction, Gender Affirmation Surgery, Complex Reconstruction, Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Facial Paralysis and Aesthetic Surgery of the Body