San Antonio Plastic Surgeon—Dr. Virginia Pittman–Waller
Dr. Virginia Pittman–Waller
San Antonio Plastic Surgeon
Virginia Alicia Pittman–Waller, MD, MPH is both a general surgeon and a plastic surgeon. She also holds a master's degree in public health.
She grew up in a medical family in Houston, where she attended the Kinkaid School, graduating cum laude. During high school, she was the youngest recipient ever, at age 16, of a First-Class Broadcasting License, with Radar Endorsement.
Her grandfather, Dr. James E. Pittman, was a prominent surgeon in Houston and a member of the team that performed the first successful lung cancer operation in 1933. Dr. Pittman–Waller decided at a very young age that she wanted to follow in his footsteps when he sewed up her knee on the front porch steps. Her great-aunt, Helen Pittman, was director of the nursing school at Sacred Heart Dominican College in Houston and her other great-aunt, Dr. Margaret Pittman, was a leading researcher in the development of the whooping cough vaccine now given to most children in the US.
Dr. Pittman–Waller attended Vassar College, where she became a licensed emergency medical technician and volunteered for emergency duty in her free time. After graduating from Vassar, she received a master's degree in public health, with distinction, from Yale University Medical School.
Following her graduation from Yale, she worked for five years at CBS News New York headquarters, producing health news broadcasts and working with Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, and Connie Chung.
Dr. Pittman–Waller earned her MD degree at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. At her graduation ceremony, her grandfather gave her his black surgeon's bag which he had carried during his 50 years of medical practice in recognition that she was carrying on the family tradition in medicine.
Dr. Pittman–Waller did her internship and began her residency in general surgery at University Hospital in San Antonio. She finished residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital in the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey residency program. She completed her plastic surgery residency at The Methodist Hospital/Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, during which she also did rotations at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and at UT Medical School at Houston's Hermann Hospital where her grandfather had been chief of staff.
Dr. Pittman–Waller is in private practice in San Antonio. She enjoys creative writing, dancing, hiking, singing, weekends at her family's ranch in Utopia, traveling, and taking long walks with her dog, an abandoned Irish terrier mix that she rescued. She is inspired by her mother, Mary Virginia, an international wildlife photojournalist dedicated to conservation of the earth and its inhabitants, and her sister, Victoria, a lawyer in Austin.
- Read San Antonio Plastic Surgery Patient Testimonials from Dr. Virginia Pittman–Waller's patients
- Read Dr. Pittman–Waller's San Antonio Medicine article on Post–Bariatric Surgery
- Read an excerpt from Dr. Pittman–Waller's book The New Breast Book: New Breasts for a New Look and a New Outlook