Dr. Villar is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with extensive training and a proven track record of safety and quality care.
- Eight years of surgical residency training rather than the usual five to seven.
- Thirty years in private or academic practice without a malpractice suit.
- No deaths or life threatening complications.
- Dedication to safety by not performing elective procedures lasting over four hours.
- Dedication to quality by personally performing all surgery and follow-up care except in academic teaching situations.

7/82 – Present | Private Practice | River One Plastic Surgery Center |
7/81-7/82 | Nassau County Medical Center | Chief Resident Plastic Surgery |
7/80-6/81 | Nassau County Medical Center | Resident Plastic Surgery |
7/79-6/80 | Circumnavigation Caribbean | Captain 39 ft Ketch Triad |
7/78-6/79 | Nassau County Medical Center | Administrative Chief Resident in General Surgery |
7/77-6/78 | Nassau County Medical Center | Senior Surgical Resident |
7/76-6/77 | Boston City Hospital | Clinical Fellow in Shock and Trauma |
7/75-6/76 | Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Surgical Service | Surgical Assisting Resident |
7/74- 6/75 | Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Surgical Service | Surgical Junior Assisting Resident |
7/73-6/74 | University of Maryland Hospital & Shock Trauma Unit | Straight Surgical Internship |
7/69-6/73 | University Puerto Rico School of Medicine | M.D. with Senior Surgical Externship at Massachusetts General Hospital |
8/65-6/69 | Fairleigh Dickinson University | B. S. Graduated 3.5 years Pre-Med, Lacrosse Scholarship |

Acute and Reconstructive Burn Care,
Massachusetts General Hospital Burn Unit
Shriners Burn Institute, Boston – Nassau County Medical Center Burn Unit
Multiorgan Failure – Shock, Trauma, Sepsis
Boston University Hospital: Clinical Fellow
Procedures of the Face and Breast including evaluation and corrective procedures for referrals of unsatisfactory results and complications
Patient Advocate
Advocate for access to quality care in a hostile managed care environment
Medical Licensure – Florida #ME0039125 1981
Board Certification – American Board of Plastic Surgery 1984
Medical Societies
Fellow American College of Surgeons
Member American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
Florida Medical Society