Richard Harris DuBou, M.D., is a board-certified plastic surgeon dedicated to providing his patients with high quality, personal care. Dedicated as well to public and student education, Dr. DuBou has written several papers and given presentations on the subject of plastic and reconstructive surgery, maintains a position on the active teaching staff at the University of Louisville, and served as Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Public Health Service at the Marine Hospital Department of Surgery in Galveston, Texas from 1971 to 1973.

After graduating cum laude from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology, Dr. DuBou obtained his medical degree from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. While in school, he pursued studies in neurology at the Mayo Clinic, child psychology at the Hamstead Clinic in London, the Yale University of Medicine, and neurosurgery at Cornell University.

Over the next ten years Dr. DuBou completed extensive post-graduate training across the country, beginning with an internship at Presbyterian Hospital - Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He completed residencies in general surgery at Tufts University - New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco, and in plastic surgery at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco and at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. He also held a fellowship in hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery under Dr. Harold E. Kleinert in Louisville.

Dr. DuBou's professional memberships and affiliations include:

• Kentucky Medical Association

• Jefferson County Medical Association

• American Medical Society

• Kentucky Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

• Louisville Society of Physicians and Reconstructive Surgeons

• American Board of Independent Medical Examiners

• American College of Emergency Room Physicians

Dr. DuBou's has written and/or presented the following:

• DuBou. "Medical Aspects of Cumulative Trauma Disorders." University of Kentucky Law School workers compensation review course, 2002.
• DuBou, Dramov. "Aseptic Meningitis Following Intra-thecal Injection of RISA." Northern CA Neurology Association, 1970.
• DuBou, Ousterhout. "Placement of Umbilicus in Abdominoplasty." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 61: 1978.
• Gant, DuBou. "Associated Soft Tissue Injury Following Low Velocity Gun Shot Wounds to the Maxillo-Facial Complex." American Association for Surgery of Trauma, September 1978.
• Caposse, DuBou. "Distant Migration of Silicone Gel from a Ruptured Breast Implant." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 62: August 1978.
• Tobin, DuBou. "Clinical Experience Using the Split Latissimus Dorsi Myocutaneous Flap." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1980.
• Tobin, DuBou. "Primary Microsurgical Repair of Ring Avulsions and Amputation Injuries." Journal of Hand Surgery 1984.