During the First World War, Dr. Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian used his skills as a prosthetic dentist to reconstruct the faces of thousands of sol¬diers disfigured during combat. He went on to transform the emerging field of plastic surgery into a highly respected surgical specialty. A graduate of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kazanjian became direc¬tor of the Plastic Surgery Clinic of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Subsequently he became Profes¬sor of Clinical Oral Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. In 1941, he be¬came the first Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kazanjian’s visionary treatments and surgical methods are expound¬ed in 150 medical articles. He is also the co-author, with John M. Converse, of the groundbreaking volume The Surgical Treatment of Facial Injuries (1949). Dr. Kazanjian served as president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery, and the New Eng¬land Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery