Dr. John Pitman III offers all the skills of a top Beverly Hills plastic surgeon out of his surgical center in Williamsburg VA. Featured on MTV’s “I Want a Famous Face,” he trained at top-tiered US medical schools (University of Virginia, Northwestern University), under the mentorship of world-class famous plastic surgeons like Dr. Peter McKinney; and has performed thousands of successful surgeries over the past two decades.  He serves his country part time as a reservist 

member of the US Army medical corps, and has been highly decorated for his service.

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Dr. Pitman has served as an expert on several congressional panels, and has also served as a plastic surgeon to the US Senate. He has written several operating room safety standards for plastic surgery that have been adopted nationally. As a member of professional organizations such as ASPS, ASAPS, AAAASF, and ACS, Dr. Pitman has served on numerous prestigious committees that determine 

national direction for plastic surgery and given over thirty national scientific presentations. He has taught courses to other plastic surgeons on a national level, and has published significant anti-aging research in the Journal “Cell Biology.” He was awarded the Ben Eisman Award for Surgical Research and the Carl A. Moyer Award for best paper presented at the American Burn Association. During his 

burn fellowship he was awarded over $150,000 in research grants.

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Dr. Pitman opened his private practice in 1996 in Newport News/Williamsburg Virginia; and at the same time he began  performing cases and teaching medical students and surgery residents at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  He was elected to Consumer Research Council’s “Top Physician’s in America” “Top Surgeon’s in America” and “Top Plastic Surgeons in America,” as well as serving four voluntary active duty tours at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He took care of hundreds of our most severely wounded casualties from those conflicts and brought several state of the art techniques to military plastic surgery for chest and abdominal reconstruction.

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Dr. Pitman was a member of the first US Army mission to Haiti in 10 years to lend medical support prior to the earthquake; and was medical commander of the final earthquake relief mission to Haiti in 2011.  In 2015, he was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as a Special Operations asset in a Forward Surgical Unit, and was awarded a Purple Heart, Combat Action Badge, Army Commendation Medal (his fourth) and Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon. He has now returned to private practice where he will perform cosmetic and non-cosmetic 

procedures out of his freestanding center in Williamsburg near the William and Mary College, where he has an AAASF certified operating room.