David T. Morwood, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Chief of the Plastic Surgery Division of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

______Member of:

• American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
• American Society of Plastic Surgery
• California Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• American Association for Hand Surgery
• Medical Board of California Expert Examiner
• Breast Care Committee and Cancer Care Committee of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Dr. Morwood began his medical training at the prestigious Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and continued his training in London, Paris, and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He completed fellowships in aesthetic surgery, microsurgery, and hand surgery, developing expertise in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the breast, face, hand, and microsurgery. After completing his chief residency in plastic surgery at L.A. County General Hospital, Dr. Morwood moved to the Monterey Bay Area where he began his private practice.

Dr. Morwood resides in Carmel, California, and his office is in nearby Monterey where he began his practice in 1991. He is the current chief of the plastic surgery division at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and a member of the hospital's Cancer Care and Breast Care Committees.

Many of Dr. Morwood's surgical accomplishments have been featured in regional and national media. News stories have covered his modern breast reconstruction methods as well as reattaching a boy's completely severed hand. For over ten years Dr. Morwood has made humanitarian trips to developing countries such as Columbia, El Salvador, Argentina, Vietnam, and China to operate on children with cleft lips and palates. His trips with the Rotoplast team to Chili were the subject of a featured headline story on an ABC’s 20/20 national broadcast. 

An accomplished musician, Dr. Morwood grew up in a musical family of eight children and began studying the violin at age four and started drumming in the first grade. He is a veteran of concert bands, symphonies, theater, and show ensembles, and has performed at the White House and on a nationally broadcast Monday night football program. Dr. Morwood has also performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Vermont Discover Jazz Festival, and in the Caribbean as a guest of the Arts and Cultural Council of Grenada. He is currently the house drummer and jazz director at the Monterey Hyatt Regency.