Surgery of the breast, c1998: CIP t.p. (Scott L. Spear, M.D.; dir. and prof. of plastic surg., Georgetown Univ. Sch. of Med., Washington, D.C.)

Washington post WWW site, viewed May 1, 2017 (Scott Spear, 68, a plastic surgeon, founding chairman of Georgetown University Hospital's plastic surgery department and the author of a textbook on breast surgery, died March 16 [2017] at his home in Bethesda, Md.; Dr. Spear was a Chicago native; joined the Georgetown faculty in 1981; retired earlier this year and continued to run a private plastic surgical practice in Chevy Chase, Md.; he was a past president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and, according to his family, at the forefront of nipple sparing mastectomies, a breast surgery technique that leaves the nipple intact and has become a worldwide standard of care)