Isaac Leake Wornom, III, M.D. – CV

Academic Appointments/Significant Work Experience (1989–1996)

• Assistant Professor of Surgery
• Division of Plastic Surgery
• Medical College of Virginia
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery in July 1996
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa
• Member, Omicron Delta Kappa
• Member, Alpha Omega Alpha
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Active Member, American Association of Plastic Surgery

Membership – Scientific / Honorary / Professional

• Life Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
• Life Member, American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery
• Life Member and Past President, American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association
• Active Member, Past President, Virginia Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Active Member and Past President, Richmond Academy of Medicine
• Active Member, The Jurkiewicz Society

Invited Seminars

• The American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons Research Award in 1991. The early effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on onlay bone grafts.
• Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine Small Grant Award in 1992. An exploration of laparoscopic omental harvest in pigs.
• Invited Faculty Member, Norfolk Flap Dissection Workshop, 1994 and 1995.
• John McCraw, M.D. and P.G. Arnold, M.D, Chairpersons.
• General Surgery Grand Rounds Reconstruction of the Face, East Tennessee School of Medicine October 1999
• Grand Rounds Virginia Heart Institute Surgical Dermatology November 1999
• Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery of the Face October 2002
• Richmond Dental Club Reconstruction of the Face September 2000
• Program Chairman of the 2003 Pre-conference symposium of the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association in Asheville, NC on “The Burden of Care”
• Invited speaker to the 2007 meeting of the Medical Alumni Society of the University of Virginia at the Homestead on “Lobbying the General Assembly”
• Program Chairman of the 2008 meeting of the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association meeting in Philadelphia, Pa
• Invited lecturer to the North Carolina Society of Plastic Surgery, October 2010, in Kiawah Island, SC on “Breast Reconstruction: Old Techniques, New Ideas” and “Abdominoplasty After Massive Weight Loss”
• Invited lecturer on “Cleft Care in the Developing World” for the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery, Miami, Florida, 2011
• Invited lecturer for “A Women’s Quest” seminar on women’s health, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2013
• Invited lecturer for plastic surgery after weight loss to Bariatric Support Group at St. Marys Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

Major Committees

10.1 University

• Active Member, Executive Committee for Admissions, 1992-2001, MCV, James Messner, M.D., and Walter Lawrence, M.D., Michelle Whitehurst-Cook, M.D., Chairpersons
• Cynthia Helberg, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Admissions

10.2 Professional

• Active Member, IV Year Advisory Committee, MCV School of Medicine
• Member of the 1996, 1997 and 1998 Soft Tissue Subcommittee and Member of the 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 Breast and Aesthetic Subcommittee of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Inservice Examination
• Member of the Education Committee of the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association 1994 – 2008. Chair of the Committee, 2000 – 2007.
• Delegate to the 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002,2011 Meeting of the Medical Society of Virginia for the Richmond Academy of Medicine
• Member of the Public Relations Committee of the Richmond Academy of Medicine 1994 to 1996.
• Member of the 1994 Special Advisory Committee of the Legislative Committee of the Medical Society of Virginia
• Member of the Governing Council of the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association 2004-2011.
• Member and chairperson of the 2008 Program Committee of the annual meeting of the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association in Philadelphia, PA
• Editor or Ramifications, Quarterly newsletter of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, 2013 to present.

Other Significant Scholarly, Research or Administrative Experience

11.1 Major Teaching Assignments

• Taught postgraduate course at the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association of Cleft & Craniofacial Surgery for the Non-Surgeon, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
• Coordinator of the M-III Suture course given to all third-year medical students to introduce them to wound care and wound closure with suture techniques, 1992 –2003
• Lecturer to the third-year medical students on their surgical clerkship on The Management of Facial Trauma, 1989 – 1993
• Lecturer to the first-year medical students at the end of their head and neck anatomy course in The Use of Anatomy in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1994 – present, Hugo Seibel, Ph.D. and Richard Krieg, Ph.D., Course Directors
• Lecturer to the first-year medical students on the Embryology of the Face, 1997, Hugo Seibel, Ph.D., Course Director
• Regular Lecturer to the Plastic Surgery residents and faculty on Craniofacial Surgery, Sternal Wound Infection and Facial Fractures, 1989 – 2003
• Coordinator of the Theogaraj Visiting Plastic Surgery Professorship in the Division of Plastic Surgery at MCV, 1993 – 1999.
• Lecturer in General Surgery Grand Rounds at MCV
  • 1990 Facial Fractures
  • 1991 Management of the Infected Sternal Wound
  • 1992 Craniofacial Surgery
  • 1993 Head and Neck Reconstruction
  • 1994 Evaluation and Management of Common Skin Lesions
  • 1997 Craniofacial Surgery
  • 1999 Surgery Dermatology
• Mentor of the MCV Governor’s School for gifted high school students. 1991 – 2000
• Lecturer at the following CME programs sponsored by MCV/VCU, 1989 – present
  • October 1996 – The Team Approach to Cleft & Craniofacial Anomalies: Recommended Parameters of Care, Taught Workshop on Cleft and Craniofacial Surgery for the Non-Surgeon
  • September 1995 – MCV Wound Care Symposium, The Management of the Irradiated Wound
  • October 1994 – AO/ASIF Maxillofacial Workshop at MCV (1) Orbital, Zygomatic and LeFort Fractures, (2) Rigid Fixation in Craniofacial Surgery
  • April 1993 – 13th Annual MCV Ophthalmology Conference – Oculoplastic Surgery and Pediatric Ophthalmology. Evaluation and Management of Common Orbital Problems: A Plastic Surgeon’s Point of View
  • May 1993 – 3rd Annual Cleft Lip and Palate Symposium – Management Issues: Preschool through Elementary School – Craniofacial Surgery
  • April 1992 – Emergency Medicine for the Primary Care Physician. Taught workshop in Suture Technique and Wound Care to attendees
  • April 1992 – 1st MCV Wound Care Symposium – Surgical Management of Chronic Wounds
  • March 1992 – 2nd Annual Cleft Lip and Palate Symposium – Issues and Controversies of Early Management. Speech and Surgery: The Controversies
  • February 1991 – 1st Annual Cleft Lip and Palate Symposium. Special Considerations in the Treatment of the Craniofacial Patient
  • April 1990 – Emergency Medicine for the Primary Care Physician. Taught workshop in suture techniques and wound care to attendees
• Editor of Ramifications. Quarterly Newsletter of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. 2015 until present.