Recommending Physicians: A Collaborative Effort

Physician Selection is Critical

The most important decision a patient will make is their choice of physician. The skill, talent, and experience of hair transplant physicians and their staff varies widely, as do the life long results.

It’s critical that patients choose a physician who has a proven track record of providing truly state of the art results.

This Community is Run by and for Patients

This online community was created by and for hair transplant patients. For the publisher’s hair restoration story, click here. For the associate publisher’s patient weblog, click here.

All the physicians who are recommended on the Hair Transplant Network have been carefully screened by patients and must meet our community’s high standards. To view all the physicians who are recommended on this community, click here.

Our Collective Wisdom Determines the Recommendations

This recommendation process is collaborative and involves input from the thousands of patients who have visited our community over the past ten years. Their actual experiences have helped determine which physicians are recommended or not.

In addition to patient input, the publisher of this community, Patrick Hennessey, regularly visits leading clinics around the world to observe their surgeries, meet with their patients and evaluate the physician, staff and clinic. To view highlights from some of his clinic visits, view " Visits to Leading Hair Transplant Clinics".

Prior to any physician being recommended information about the physician, including multiple examples of their surgical process and patient results, are presented on this forum community. Forum members and leading hair restoration physicians are invited to post their comments and critiques.

Our goal is to enlist as much input as possible from multiple patients before making a determination about a physician. We strive to make this evaluation process as democratic and transparent as possible. We hope that you become an active member of this community and contribute your input to this collective process.

To view an example of this review process on our forum click here.

Those physicians who are chosen for recommendation based on their merits contribute a monthly sponsorship fee to pay for the cost of running this community.

Meeting an Ultra High Standard – the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians

Those physicians whose clinics have developed the capacity to provide large sessions exceeding 2,500 follicular unit grafts and the skill to perform ultra refined high density sessions are eligible for membership in the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians . To read about the ultra high standards for membership, click here.

All Recommended Physicians Must Meet Our Standards Continually

All recommended physicians are expected to continually meet our high standards on an ongoing basis. Patients are encouraged to share their experiences both good and bad. Those physicians who fail to provide consistent high quality results will have their recommendations discontinued.

We hope that you benefit from the collective wisdom of this patient based community and contribute to it.

I think it is great that there is a forum like this that helps people make the right decisions in choices for a HRT doctor. It is such an important decision to find the right doctor and something like this really helps many people who may not know make the right decision for themselves. Bravo.

Thats great step & no doubt gives right direction & confidence to patient.

One thing I am missing in recommndation is minimum year of experience in performing restoration surgery & their medical qualification.

I feel these two are also can be an important criteria which can help us in choosing the surgeon.