Rayaad Hosein, MD

Rayaad Hosein, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. He is the leader of the breast cancer reconstruction program at the Mays Cancer Center, home to the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. In addition, Dr. Hosein is the associate program director for the plastic surgery residency at UT Health San Antonio. He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

He specializes in the multidisciplinary treatment of cancer, primarily of the breast but also in various other locations in the body. He emphasizes the use of complex free flap reconstruction in cancer care, which requires microsurgery and newer perforator flap techniques, such as the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap (DIEP), resulting in better outcomes and a faster recovery after surgery. He also specializes in aesthetic breast and body surgery.

In addition, he is part of the lymphatic surgical team for the South Texas region, providing microsurgical care to prevent lymphedema in patients with cancer. He also provides reconstructive care in collaboration with other specialists for patients with traumatic, neurosurgical, colorectal, urological and extremity diseases.

He is an avid researcher in his field of plastic surgery with an interest in microsurgical outcomes and surgery for cancer. During his research fellowship, he was in charge of several projects examining surgical outcomes in breast cancer care, for which he was also the principal investigator. 

He completed his first residency training in general surgery at UT Health San Antonio and a second residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Utah Health Sciences in Salt Lake City. He was the administrative chief resident in his final year of plastic surgery residency. In addition, he received advanced training in complex microsurgery, breast reconstruction and extremity reconstruction during his fellowship at the University of Utah Health.

Specialties:

• Breast cancer surgery
• Breast cancer reconstruction
• Cosmetic breast surgery
• General breast surgery
• Microsurgery
• Flap surgery
• Lymphedema surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Trunk and extremity reconstruction
• Head and neck reconstruction
• Plastic surgery, hand, upper extremity and microvascular surgery
• Pediatric plastic surgery
• Plastic surgery, peripheral nerve surgery
• Wound healing