Dr. Robert Taylor Buchanan, MD

A plastic surgeon with 29 years of experience in private practice and extensive teaching experience at the University of Oklahoma Medical School, Dr. Buchanan specializes in cosmetic rejuvenation of the face and skin, as well as improvement of the breasts and body. He also offers reconstruction, hand surgery and care, and treatment of skin malignancies and other lesions. He uses the latest techniques, including laser therapy as well as new surgical advances involving smaller incisions.

He relocated his medical practice to Highlands from Oklahoma City in 1999. A native of Atlanta, Dr. Buchanan attended Emory University before going on to the Medical College of Georgia, where he earned his medical degree in 1969. He performed a surgical internships at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX, before serving two years as a physician in the US Navy. Part of that tour of duty was spent as a Field Surgical Officer attached to the US Marine Corps in Vietnam.

He completed his …residency in general surgery at the University of North Carolina and his residency in plastic surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.

While in Oklahoma, he was chief of plastic surgery at the US Veterans Administration Medical Center in Oklahoma City, and director of the Plastic Surgery Clinic at the Oklahoma Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Buchanan is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, where he was also a member of the Board of Governors. He a past president and current member of the American Association for Hand Surgery. He served on the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Board of Directors, and is an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.

He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery with an additional certification in Surgery of the Hand.