David C. Fogarty to Receive 2025 Noordhoff Award
David C. Fogarty, DDS, MD, will receive the 2025 Noordhoff Humanitarian Award during Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2025 in New Orleans. Dr. Fogarty’s lecture, Caring For Your Fellow Man Utilizing Your Professional Gifts will focus on illustrating how one can share their gifts with the less fortunate, utilizing life changing surgery, while still maintaining a viable plastic surgery practice.
Dr. Fogarty received his DDS and MD degrees from West Virginia University and studied at Stanford University for his general surgery and plastic surgery training. He subsequently completed a Kleinert Hand Fellowship and a Bakamjian Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Reconstruction Fellowship at Roswell Park.
Upon completing his formal training, he spent a year in Lesotho, Africa, as a volunteer surgeon, performing over 900 cases. Upon returning to West Virginia, Dr. Fogarty established his 35-year private practice, performing all aspects of reconstructive surgery. During this period, he held clinical professorships in oral-maxillofacial surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery at West Virginia University. He also received distinguished alumni awards from West Virginia University’s School of Dentistry and the School of Medicine.
The concept of sharing one’s gifts, as a volunteer surgeon, was cultivated during his time at Stanford University. Dr. Fogarty is the founder of Interplast West Virginia. During his private practice career, he participated in 118 international mission trips, working in more than ten countries.
Dr. Fogarty is earnestly passing the torch to the next generation of plastic surgeons who are stepping up to participate in future trips to Haiti as well as the Dominican Republic.
Dr. Fogarty will share his insights on how giving without expecting anything in return can lead to a path of happiness.
Noordhoff Legacy
The Noordhoff Humanitarian Award was established to honor the legacy of Dr. Samuel Noordhoff and has been funded by the Department of Plastic Surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
The endowment works to recognize plastic surgeons who lead a life dedicated to humanitarian outreach and use their skills to provide care for less fortunate patients. The endowment will fund an award that will be issued annually at Plastic Surgery The Meeting.
The remarkable story of Dr. Noordhoff's dedication to mission work and impact on Chang Gung Memorial Hospital can be read here.