The visionary founder of the Hadlock Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, Dr. Tessa Hadlock, is an internationally renowned, distinguished clinician-scientist with vital contributions to otolaryngology and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. With nearly three decades of experience, Dr. Hadlock is a facial nerve specialist in Boston and a Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School. She served for twenty years as the Director of the Facial Nerve Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, before creating the Hadlock Center to more comprehensively address the special needs of her patients.Dr. Hadlock is a facial paralysis expert in Boston and is deeply committed to enhancing the lives of patients with facial paralysis. She is a pioneer in the field, having introduced and popularized innovative surgical, medical, and physical therapy techniques now embraced by her peers worldwide. She restores smiling to people who lost that ability or were born without it. She helps to restore blinking and other facial movements and has performed close to miraculous improvements for patients who suffer from these conditions. Dr. Hadlock’s groundbreaking research has advanced methods for regenerating facial nerve function, and she stands as one of the few facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons with National Institutes of Health funding. Dr. Hadlock’s extensive body of work includes numerous clinical outcomes studies and the development of influential tools to gauge the effectiveness of reanimation procedures frequently referenced in international literature.