Plastic Surgery Specialists

Anne Cramer, MD & John Searles, MD

"You will feel comfortable meeting and talking to Doctor Cramer and Doctor Searles about your plastic surgery goals."

Plastic Surgery in the Quad Cities, Illinois and Iowa

3385 Dexter Ct., Suite 100 | Davenport, IA 52807 | Phone: (877) 323.0026

Anne Randolph Cramer, M.D., F.A.C.S., Quad Cities area Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Anne Cramer has years of training and experience as a plastic surgeon, performing cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. She is board certified in plastic surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She has privileges to perform surgery at the following area hospitals: Genesis Medical Center, Trinity Regional Health System, Mississippi Valley Medical Center, Hammond Henry Hospital, and Midwest Medical Center.

She graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and served an internship and residency in general surgery at Emory University Affiliated Hospital. She completed her residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. Additional fellowship training in Reconstructive Breast Surgery and Writing Fellowship were also completed in Norfolk, Virginia.

Meet our Staff!

Dr. Cramer’s previous experience and appointments include:

  • Medical Director, Wound Care,Vencor Hospital South
  • Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery, Indiana University Medical Center
  • Affiliate Member, Cancer Center, Indiana University Medical Center
  • Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Acting Chief, Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Director of the Burnett Burn Center, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Instructor, Advanced Burn Life Support, American Burn Association
  • Staff, Hyperbaric Oxygen Unit, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Board of Directors, Breast Cancer Center, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Medical Director, EpiLaser, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Community Preceptor, School of Medicine, Medical Education Support Unit, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Speaker Cutera Laser, CA

Dr. Cramer has been a member of the following committees:

Surgical Audit Committee
Trinity Medical Center

Medical Director / Hospital Director Partnership
University of Kansas Medical Center

Trauma Committees
University of Kansas Medical Center

Committee of Organization and Delivery of Burn Care
American Burn Association

Chairman of the membership committee
Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons

Dr. Cramer is a member of the following Scientific Societies:

  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • Fellow, American College of Surgeons
  • Scott County Medical Society
  • The International Society of Cosmetic and Laser Surgeons
  • Iowa Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons

Research

Administrator: Clinical Trials of Epidermal Growth Factor
Emory University
Department of Plastic Surgery
1986 to 1988

Principal Investigator: Sensibility in the Reconstructed Breast
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Department of Plastic Surgery
Funded: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Society
1990 to 1992

Medical Director: the efficiency of clinically relevant treatments in dermal exposure to trifluoroacetic acid.
Bayer Company
Kansas City, MO

Co-Investigator: KGF-2 Venous Ulcer Trial
Indiana University Medical Center
Department of Plastic Surgery
2001

Publications

Book Chapters:

McCraw, J. B., Papp, C., Cramer, A.R., Haung, V., Bandek, A., and McMellin, A. Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy. In the Breast edited by Bland, K.I., and Coperland, E.M. W. B. Saunders, 1998

McCraw, J. B., Papp, C., Cramer, A.R., and McMellin, A. Breast Reconstruction Using the Autogenous Latissimus Dorsi Flap Method. In Reconstructive Plastic Surgery for Cancer by Kroll, S. Mosby, 1996

McCraw, J. B., Cramer, A. R., and Horton, C. Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy. In the Breast edited by Bland, K. I., and Copeland, E. M. W. B. Saunders, 1991

Journal Articles

Petrek, J. A., Glenn, P. D., and Cramer, A. R. Ulcerated Breast Cancer, Patients and Outcome. American Journal of Surgery 49:187, 1993

Millikan, W. J. Henderson, J. M., Sewell, C. W., Guyton, R. A., Potts, J. R., Cranford, C. A., Cramer, A. R., Galambos, J. T., and Warren, W. D. Approach to the Spectrum of Budd-Chiiari Syndrome: Which Patients Require Portal Decompression American Journal of Surgery 149:167, 1985

Brown, G. L., Nanney, L. B., Griffin, J., Cramer, A. R., Yancey, J. M., Curtsinger, L. J., Holtzin, L., Schulta, G. S., Jurkewicz, M. J., and Lynch, L. B. Enhancement of Wound Healing by Topical Treatment With Epidermal Growth Factor. New England Journal of Medicine 321:76, 1989

Cramer, A. R., Immediate and Delayed Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy. Monograph on Breast Cancer, Annual Report, University of Kansas Cancer Committee, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, October 1995

Bray, J., Cramer, A., Hassan, Z., Leong, K., Miller, S. Remifentanil Based PCA During Burn Wound Care Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, Submitted for publication.

Videotapes

Suturing Techniques for Physicians I with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen, and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press, 1990

Suturing Techniques for Physicians II with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen, and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press, 1990

Advanced Suturing Techniques for Physicians with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen, and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press, 1990

Suturing Techniques of Scalp, Forehead and Eyebrow with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press, 1990

Suturing Techniques of Eyelid, Nose, and Ear with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press 1990

Suturing Techniques of Chin, Cheek, Neck with A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen and J. B. McCraw. Hampton Press, 1990

Replacement of Partial Mastectomy with Autogenous Latissimus with J. B. McCraw, L. B. Colen, G. T. Jones and A. R. Cramer. Hampton Press, 1991

Horizontal Design of the Fleur-de-Lis Autogenous Latissimus with J. B. McCraw, L. B. Colen, G. T. Jones and A. R. Cramer. Hampton Press 1991

The Autogenous Latissimus for Breast Reconstruction with J. B. McCraw, L. B. Colen, and A. R. Cramer. Davis and Geck, presented ASPRS, 1991

Music Therapy in a Burn Center A. Cramer, American Burn Association Conference, Nashville, Tennessee March 1996

Formal Presentation

The Autogenous Latissimus for Breast Reconstruction G. T. Jones, C. E. Horton and J. B. McCraw. Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Kiwah Island, SC, 1990

Reconstruction of Poland’s Deformity of the Breast with Autogenous Tissue J. B. McCraw, C. Papp, G. T. Jones, and A. R. Cramer. The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Boston, MA 1990

Immediate Reconstruction of the Mastectomy Defect Using the Fleur-De-Lis Autogenous Latissimus Dorsi Flap J. B. McCraw, C. Papp, L. B. Colen and A.R. Cramer. American Association of Plastic Surgeons. San Antonio, TX, 1991

The Trefoil Gluteo-Thigh Myofasciocutaneous Flap for Breast Reconstruction A.R. Cramer, J. B. McCraw, L. B. Colen and G. T. Jones. Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, White Sulfur Spring, WV June 1991

Complications Following Distal Bypass and Free Tissue Transfer for Limb Salvage K. O’Loughlin, A. R. Cramer, and L. B. Colen. Current Concepts in Microsurgical Tissue Transfer. St. Louis, MO March 1992

Surgical Management of Meralgia Parenthetic A. R. Cramer, L. B. Colen, and I. Kaplan American Society for Peripheral Nerve. Toronto, Canada, April 1992

Inferior Gluteal Free Flap Breast Reconstruction Advances in Aesthetic & Reconstructive Breast Surgery L. Colen, A. R. Cramer, G. T. Jones and J. B. McCraw. Washington School of Medicine, June 1992

Reconstruction of the Nipple Using Fishtail Flaps J. B. McCraw, L. Colen, A. Edwards A.Cramer, and A. McMellin. Southeastern Society. Amelia Island, FL, June 1992

Bilateral Autogenous Breast Reconstruction in High Risk Breast Patients L. Colen, G. Jones, A. Cramer and J. McCraw. American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, September 1992

Hand Reconstruction with Facial Free Tissue Transfer A. R. Cramer, L. Colen and B. Reuss. American Association for Surgery of the Hand, Annual Meeting. Washington DC, September 1992

Lower Leg Adipofascial Flaps J. Miller, A. R. Cramer, Z Potparic, W. Cosenza and J. Carraway, Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Annual Meeting Amelia Island, FL, June 1993

Medical Lower Leg Vascular Perforators: A comparison of Cadaver Studies and Duplex Ultra Sonography J. Miller, A. Potparic, A. R. Cramer, L. Colen, G. Carwell and J. Carraway, American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA September 1993

Applications of the Trefoil Gluteal Thigh Flap in Reconstruction of the Breast L. Colen, J. McCraw, G. Tenove-Jones, A. R. Cramer. American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO, September 1993

Psychologic Aspects of Breast Reconstruction A. R. Cramer. American College Of Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO September 1994

Breast Reconstructive Surgery for Cancer Patients A. R. Cramer. Kansas City Gynecological Society. Kansas City, MO, January 1995

Acute Surgical/Medical Management of Burns and Surgical Management of Scar Tissue and Contractures A. Cramer. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine The University of Kansas Medical Center. Kansas City, KS, August 1997

Management of the Burn Patient A. Cramer. 28th Annual Postgraduate
Respiratory Care Symposium. Jack Reardon Convention Center. Kansas City, KS
August 1997

Infection in the Burn Patient A. Cramer, ABA Region VII Annual Meeting, Seventeenth Annual Comprehensive Care of the Burn Patient. Kansas City, MO December 1997

Direct Care Staff Responses to Patient – Centered Music Therapy Interventions on a Burn Unit A. Cramer. American Burn Association. Chicago, Illinois March 1997

HBO: Acute Burn Care A. Cramer. Nurse Anesthesia Outreach. The University of Kansas Medical Center. Kansas City, KS, January 1998

Critical Illness Neuropathy in Burn Patients A. Cramer and T. Jones. American Society for Peripheral Nerve. Vancouver, Canada, May 1998

Current Management in Critical Care of Burn Patients A. Cramer, Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society, Kansas City, MO, April 1998

Use of Remifentanyl for Pain Management in Burn Patients J. Bray and A. Cramer. Northwest Burn Association, Winston Salem, NC, December 1999

Burn Reconstruction A. Cramer, American Burn Association, Las Vegas, NV March 2000

Emotional, Physical and Sexual Responses in Women Who Undergo Prophylactic Mastectomy and Reconstruction for the Prevention of Breast Cancer. A. Cramer, J. Colman, and K. Welch. American Association of Plastic Surgeons, La Jolla, CA May 2000

Burns A. R. Cramer, Peds Trauma – 2000, Indianapolis, Indiana. September 2000

A Three Decade Analysis of Factors Affecting Burn Mortality in the Elderly G. Lionelli, E. Pickus, J. Bray, M. Mani, W. Reynolds, A. Cramer, R. DeCoursey, M. Mosier, R. Korentager, American Burn Association, Boston, MA April 2001

The Indications for the and Impact of Prophylactic Mastectomy of the Life of a Woman A. Cramer, American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, LA October 2001

Abstracts

Hill, A., Cramer, A. R., Searles, J., Hiebert, J., Malignant Hyperthermia in the Cleft Palate Patient: A Re-look at Risk Factors. Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons. March 1994

Searles, J., Cramer, A., Hiebert, J., Poole, D., Colen, L. Reconstruction of the Diabetic Plantar Ulcer. March 1994

Cramer, A. R., Searles, J., Hiebert, J., McCraw, J. Nipple Reconstruction with the “Fishtail Flap” Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons. Peoria, IL June 1994

Tobiasen, J. M., Cramer, A., Searles, J., Hiebert, J. The Use of the Personality Adjective Checklist to Predict Satisfaction with Breast Surgery. Peoria, IL June 1994

Tobiasen, J. M., Cramer, A., Searles, J., Hiebert, J. Preoperative Psychological Screening of Cosmetic Patients. Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons Iowa City, IA June 1995

Poster Presentation

Nipple Reconstruction with Fishtail Flaps. J. McCraw, L. Colen, G. Jones, A. Cramer, A. Edwards, A. McMellin American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Washington, DC, September 1992

Lower Leg Adipofacial Flaps. A. Cramer, Z. Potparic, W. Cosenza, J. Carraway. Eastern Virginia Medical Center Research Day. Norfolk, VA, June 1993

A Statewide Burn Center Education and Marketing Program A. Cramer, American Burn Association Conference. Chicago, IL March 1998

Meetings Conducted

First Annual Immediate and Early Breast Reconstruction Workshop. Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Norfolk, VA March 1990

Plastic Techniques in Suturing for Physicians. Norfolk, VA, June 1990