While differing considerably in what they do, plastic surgery and art have much in common in certain areas. Art is an art and a craft, plastic surgery a craft and an art.

Linton Whitaker, M.D., is Professor of Plastic Surgery Emeritus and Chief of Plastic Surgery Emeritus at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the founder and director of the Edwing & Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearances at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.