Dr. T. Gerald O'Daniel, MD

Training and board certification

Education and training (CV, rev. 7/5/2026; repeated on drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/curriculum-vitae/):

Board certification:

• The about page names all three boards (drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/).
• Licenses: Kentucky #24070 (1990-present), Indiana #01042228 (1990-present), Texas (2024-present); Missouri #MDR9N53 (1990-1994) (CV).
• Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, 1994-present (CV; BAAPS 2023 programme bio).
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons (1994); member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (1994), The Aesthetic Society (1999), ISAPS (2013) (CV).
• The Aesthetic Society profile shows "26 Years of Membership" (theaestheticsociety.org).

Facelift and neck lift work

Deep plane facelift

• ISAPS video library, published 2019-04-30: live facelift with "Extended Deep Plane Approach, Microfat Grafting, Buccal Fat Pad Transposition, Complete Platysma Myotomy with Progressive Cervical Barbed Suture Sculpting" (ISAPS).
• ISAPS World Congress Cartagena, 2024-06-11: listed as a live-surgery surgeon under FACE (ISAPS); CV entry: live surgery, deep plane face and neck lift.
• ISAPS Symposium El Paso Live Surgery Course, 2024-04-04 to 04-06: surgeries performed by Ozan Sozer and Jerry O'Daniel (ISAPS).
• BAAPS 2023, London: lecture "Customising sub-SMAS techniques for preservation facelifting" (programme PDF).
• Facelift after dermal fillers and energy-based device treatments, ISAPS Patient Safety Advisory Focus Group, Face and Neck, 2026 (PMID 42321446).
• Case volume: "over 150 facelifts/necklifts per year" (BAAPS 2023 programme bio).

Deep neck surgery

• Surgical anatomy of the deep central neck, sole author, 2018 (PMID 30268237).
• 152 deep cervicoplasties, specimens measured by volume displacement: mean 22.3 cm3 removed, 73% subplatysmal; submandibular gland reduced in 76% of patients (PMID 33543747).
• Deep neck lifting: management of deep fat, perihyoid fascia, digastric muscles and submandibular glands, Advances in Cosmetic Surgery 2020 (DOI 10.1016/j.yacs.2020.01.010).
• Neck deformities review, last author, 2019 (PMID 31587772).
• ISAPS World Congress Vienna 2021: lecture "Why Management of the Subplatysmal Structures is Often Necessary to Optimize Necklift Outcomes" and expert panel (ISAPS).
• Full Face Global 2026, São Paulo: speaker listing "Deep Neck, Gerald O'Daniel" (fullfaceglobal.com.br).

Submandibular gland reduction: the Carina technique

• Seven-step algorithm from "over 24 years of single-surgeon experience": incision placement, wide platysmal elevation, visual axis optimization, optical cavity creation, gland mobilization, controlled reduction (Carina technique), capsular reconstruction (PMID 42759497).
• Records 2018-2022: 1,100 deep cervicoplasties, 922 with gland reduction (1,844 glands) (PMID 42759497).
• No sialocele, no uncontrolled intraoperative hemorrhage, no postoperative hematoma; transient xerostomia 2 patients; recurrent sialadenitis 1 (PMID 42759497).
• Temporary bilateral lower lip dysfunction in all anterior neck lift patients; asymmetric recovery 7.1% (PMID 42759497).
• Published Aesthetic Surgery Journal, online 2026-09-18, with Maxwell B. Duff (PMID 42759497).
• Strategies for submandibular gland management in rhytidectomy, Clinics in Surgery 2017, open access (PDF).
• Invited discussion of LigaSure-assisted gland excision in deep-plane neck lift, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2025 (PMID 39700243).
• ISAPS Olympiad Athens 2023, Face oral communications, gold: "Demystifying Defining Safe Steps for Submandibular Gland Reduction" (ISAPS).
• His site: "Dr. O'Daniel began reducing submandibular glands during deep neck lifts nearly 25 years ago" (drodaniel.com).

Platysma segmental innervation

• 55 cadaver heads: the facial platysma is innervated by the marginal mandibular branch; the submandibular platysma by "first" cervical branches that end at the mandibular origin of the depressor labii inferioris; co-author, 5 of 7 (PMID 37186556, PMC10702465).
• Lecture "Platysma Management with Complete Myofasciotomy and Progressive Tension Suture Suspension", SESPRS/ISAPS symposium, Atlanta, 2022-01-27 (program PDF).

Surgical net (hemostatic net)

• Hemostatic net in facelift surgery, Der MKG-Chirurg 2019, first author with Andre and Luiz Auersvald (DOI 10.1007/s12285-019-0195-4).
• Laser-assisted fluorescence angiography (SPY-Q), 8 patients: no significant decrease in flap perfusion after net application; senior author (PMID 36636947); reply letter (PMID 36996438).
• Evolution of the Surgical Net, review, first author, Facial Plastic Surgery 2025 (PMID 38806160).
• Gliding brow lift with temporary hemostatic net fixation, 124 patients, last author (PMID 31511923).
• Expert video roundtable on the hemostatic net, 2026 (PMID 42529737).
• Moderator, "How the Hemostatic Net Revolutionizes Face-Lift Surgery", ISAPS World Congress Vienna 2021 (ISAPS).

Total intravenous anesthesia with dexmedetomidine

• 2006: 50 nonintubated extended SMAS facelift patients with dexmedetomidine as primary sedative; no antiemetics required; one hematoma at 72 hours; first author (PMID 19338881).
• 2022: 791 rhytidectomy patients under total intravenous anesthesia with dexmedetomidine as propofol adjunct; nausea or vomiting 0.8%; conversion to general endotracheal anesthesia 5.3%; no postoperative admissions; senior author (PMID 35512645).

Poly-L-lactic acid after facelift with fat grafting

• 241 facelift and fat grafting patients with PLLA injections, 2010-2018; 190 treated after surgery; no nodules, papules or granulomas reported; first author (PMID 35662905, PMC9153375).
• APEX Award, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2023 (drodaniel.com honors); the CV ties the award to this paper.
• Co-author, PLLA consensus recommendations, 2014 (PMID 24719078).
• Disclosure (CV): Galderma Sculptra advisory board (2013-2015 in one CV section, 2013-2020 in another); Galderma injection trainer, 2012-present.

Neck lift after nonsurgical treatments

• 180 neck lifts in 2023, single surgeon: 123 (68%) had prior neck treatment; deep cervicoplasty with subplatysmal management required in 94%; operative time increased in all cases; first author (PMID 40712094, PMC13098153).
• Lecture "Complicated Neck Lift After Non-Surgical Treatments", ISAPS Olympiad Singapore 2025, Residents' Symposium (ISAPS).

Research

PubMed records verified to him (author search O'Daniel TG[au], O'Daniel G[au] and Gerald O'Daniel[au], 2026-09-25): 31. Face and neck papers: 30 (26 in PubMed, 4 with a DOI or open-access PDF only). Position: first, sole or last flagged; middle shown as n of N.

• Position counts, 30 face and neck papers: first 7, sole 8, last 10, middle 5.
• Open-access full text: PMC3236289, PMC9153375, PMC10702465, PMC13098153, PMC13418183, PMC10603590, Clinics in Surgery PDF.
• Other PubMed records, outside face and neck: tranexamic acid video roundtable 2025 (PMID 40988660); otolaryngology and head and neck oncology papers 1990-1997 (PMIDs 2294837, 2121058, 9105355, 9416416).
• PMID 42699554 (Cureus 2026) is a different author, Timothy O'Daniel, Mayo Clinic; excluded.
• facelift.studio corpus (data/journal.json): 16 of the 30. Author key odaniel t in data/_raw/pubmed-authors.json holds 15; PMID 42321446 sits under the name form "O'Daniel G".
• CV items with no electronic record: "Introduction of the Auersvald Hemostatic Net in Facelift Surgery", ISAPS Plasticos India, January 2019; "Question of Adequate Ligament Release in Deep Plane Facelift", ISAPS News, Oct-Dec 2023; QMP video book "Artistry Beyond Deep Plane Facelift"; book chapters in press 2024-2027.

Teaching and lectures

Source for every row: CV sections 04 and 05 (rev. 7/5/2026). A program URL appears only where the page names him; checked 2026-09-25.

• Scheduled 2027 (SLU page): ISAPS Face Masters, Mar 5-7, organizing committee; Full Face and Neck Surgical Anatomy USA, May 21-23, course director; Advanced Techniques in Facial Rejuvenation, Oct 23-25, course director (SLU).
• His site: "invited to over 90 national and international meetings to lecture, perform live surgeries and cadaver demonstrations" (drodaniel.com).

Roles

Videos

• Channel: youtube.com/@odanielstudios (channel ID UCvWEQmSbgrVSbMsxCygr9lw). YouTube titles checked by oEmbed, 2026-09-25.

Practice

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Sources

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• https://drodaniel.com/
• https://drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/
• https://drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/curriculum-vitae/
• https://drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/honors-awards-and-current-research/
• https://drodaniel.com/about-dr-odaniel/invited-lectures/
• https://drodaniel.com/contact-us/
• https://drodaniel.com/face/facelift/
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• https://drodaniel.com/face/necklift/submandibular-gland-reduction/
• https://drodaniel.com/casestudies/
• https://drodaniel.com/eurasian-international-aesthetic-plastic-surgery-course/
• https://www.theaestheticsociety.org/select-surgeon/t-gerald-odaniel-md
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• https://www.isaps.org/articles/videos/isaps-2019/live-surgeries/isaps-live-surgery-face-lift-surgery-with-dr-jerry-o-daniel/
• https://www.isaps.org/articles/isaps-blog/2023/isaps-olympiad-athens-2023-award-winners/
• https://www.isaps.org/education/events/olympiad-singapore-2025/scientific-program/residents-symposium/
• https://www.isaps.org/education/events/olympiad-singapore-2025/scientific-program/aesthetic-insights-lunch-with-an-expert/
• https://www.isaps.org/education/events/olympiad-singapore-2025/scientific-program/intraop-with-the-masters-a-journey-from-cadaver-anatomy-to-surgery/
• https://www.isaps.org/education/events/our-congresses/world-congress-2024-cartagena/scientific-program/live-surgeries/
• https://www.isaps.org/articles/videos/isaps-2021/world-congress-vienna-2021/face/isaps-world-congress-vienna-2021-face-mastering-the-neck-lifts-how-to-achieve-unbelievable-results/
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• http://web.archive.org/web/20250216110641/https://www.isapsistanbul2022.com/congress/live-surgeries-sculpture-course/
• https://www.isaps.org/education/events/isaps-face-masters/faculty/
• https://www.isaps.org/events/isaps-symposium/isaps-symposium-el-paso-live-surgery-course/
• https://www.isaps.org/discover/about-isaps/who-we-are/committees/journal-club/
• https://www.isaps.org/discover/about-isaps/who-we-are/committees/residents-education-e-learning-committee/
• https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.sesprs.org/resource/resmgr/2022_bssperi/2022_sesprsisaps_perifacev6.pdf
• https://baaps.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/files/v7_19726baapsaic23programme210x297mmv7lr.pdf
• http://web.archive.org/web/20230530164026/https://www.aesurg.in/faculty-list
• https://villabellaeducation.it/index.php/bbf-2024-bottis-best-face-2/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20260418190205/https://plasticsurgeryworkshop.com/program-speakers/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20260420184237/https://www.theaestheticmeet.org/program/faculty/
• https://fullfaceglobal.com.br/en/
• https://www.slu.edu/medicine/medical-education/continuing-medical-education/pase/hands-on-cadaver-workshops.php
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• https://www.catherinemaley.com/podcast/getting-out-of-your-own-way-t-gerald-odaniel-md-ep-367/
• https://www.youtube.com/@odanielstudios
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• https://www.clinicsinsurgery.com/open-access/strategies-for-submandibular-gland-management-in-rhytidectomy-2886.pdf
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yacs.2020.01.010
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