David A.
Dr. David A. Branch
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon
- Member American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Member of Migraine Surgery Society
- Board-Certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery
- Migraine Surgery Society board and executive committee member
- Co-founder of The Pink Runway Project nonprofit supporting breast cancer care and awareness
Biography
Dr. David Branch is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon that specializes in reconstruction for breast and skin cancers, breast surgery body contouring, facial cosmetic surgery. He has had additional training in hand surgery and replantation microsurgery. Dr. Branch has been a pioneer in the field of migraine surgery field, having helped train 100s of surgeons from all over the world, and having himself treated patients from 28 states and from as far away as Dubai and London. Dr Branch has been an executive committee and board member of The Migraine Surgery Society since it's foundation.
In 2014 Dr Branch helped form The Pink Runway Project, a primarily educational nonprofit, who's purpose has been to inform breast cancer patients that they have a voice and a choice in the care for their breast cancers. It now endeavors to help establish a certified breast cancer center north of Lewiston where it is sorely needed
Background and Training: Dr. Branch was raised in the South as part of a large family. After deciding against the field of Architecture, he attended the University of Alabama School of Medicine, where he met his wife. Much to his surprise, he found that plastic surgery uniquely satisfied his need for creative thinking as the most diverse field, spanning all age groups and covering the entire body.
After medical school, Dr. Branch trained for five years in General Surgery at the University of Virginia and Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. He then spent two years training in plastic surgery under many wonderful and gifted surgeons at Case Western in Cleveland, Ohio where the field of migraine surgery was first being discovered. Before finally settling in Bangor with his wife and three small children, Dr. Branch's last stop was San Francisco, where he trained at the Buncke Clinic in Hand and Micro and replantation surgery.
Dr. Branch started his own cosmetic and reconstructive surgery practice, Bangor Plastic and Hand Surgery, in 2000. He has expanded his Migraine and cosmetic surgery practice onto Congress Street in Portland where he is delighted to share space with Dr Therese White, also a well-regarded experienced and compassionate plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been setting the standard for breast reconstruction in Southern Maine for the past 30 years.
