Plastic Surgeon San Antonio - Dr. Virgina Pittman-Waller
Dr. Virginia Pittman–Waller
San Antonio Plastic Surgeon
Virginia Alicia Pittman–Waller, MD, MPH is trained in both general surgery and plastic surgery. She also holds a master's degree in public health.
Dr. Pittman-Waller grew up in a medical family in Houston, where she attended the Kinkaid School, graduating cum laude. During high school, she was the youngest recipient ever, at age 16, of a First-Class Broadcasting License, with Radar Endorsement.
Her grandfather, Dr. James E. Pittman, was a prominent surgeon in Houston and a member of the team that performed the first successful lung cancer operation in 1933. Dr. Pittman–Waller decided at a very young age that she wanted to follow in his footsteps when he sewed up her knee on the front porch steps. Her great-aunt, Helen Pittman, was director of the nursing school at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston and her other great-aunt, Dr. Margaret Pittman, was a leading researcher in the development of the whooping cough vaccine now given to most children in the US.
Dr. Pittman–Waller attended Vassar College, where she became a licensed emergency medical technician and volunteered for emergency duty in her free time. After graduating from Vassar, she received a master's degree in public health, with distinction, from Yale University Medical School.
Following her graduation from Yale, she worked for five years at CBS News New York headquarters, producing health news broadcasts and working with Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, and Connie Chung.
Dr. Pittman–Waller earned her MD degree at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. At her graduation ceremony, her grandfather gave her his black surgeon's bag which he had carried during his 50 years of medical practice in recognition that she was carrying on the family tradition in medicine.
Dr. Pittman–Waller did her internship and began her residency in general surgery at University Hospital in San Antonio. She finished residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital in the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey residency program. She completed her plastic surgery residency at The Methodist Hospital/Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, during which she also did rotations at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and at UT Medical School at Houston's Hermann Hospital where her grandfather had been Chief of Staff.
Dr. Pittman–Waller is a plastic surgeon in San Antonio in a private practice. She enjoys creative writing, dancing, hiking, singing, weekends at her family's ranch in Utopia, traveling, and taking long walks with her dog, an abandoned Irish terrier mix that she rescued. She is inspired by her mother, Mary Virginia, an international wildlife photojournalist dedicated to conservation of the earth and its inhabitants, and her sister, Victoria, a lawyer in Austin.
The doctor listens very closely to her patients...as only another woman can. She believes successful plastic surgery is a partnership between the doctor and the patient to achieve the results the patient desires. Communication is very important.
Dr. Pittman–Waller has been trained as both a plastic surgeon and a general surgeon, so she brings a broad range of surgical skills to the practice of her craft. She is a highly trained plastic surgeon in San Antonio. She is a careful, meticulous plastic surgeon who pays very close attention to detail and spends time with each patient. Every patient has the right to expect the doctor to perform at her best and she does
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