Location(s)
Burn and Plastic Surgery Clinics at Harborview
Main Hospital, East Clinic, 325 9th Ave., Seattle, WA 98104
*Due to the high volume of incoming surgical referrals and increasing wait times, all surgical request for those under 25 years of age should be referred to Dr. Ettinger’s clinic at Seattle Children’s Gender Affirming Surgical Program
Languages
Gender Affirming Care
- All forms of gender affirming facial surgery:
- Hairline advancement
- Browlift
- Frontal sinus contouring and setback
- Forehead and brow reshaping (Orbital bone contouring)
- Rhinoplasty
- Lower jaw reshaping (Mandibular contouring and genioplasty)
- Facial fat grafting
- Tracheal Shave (Chondrolaryngoplasty)
- Botox injection to jawline
- Double incision (Simple mastectomy)
- Non-binary chest shaping
Medical Specialties
- Craniofacial plastic surgery
- Gender affirming surgery
- Cleft lip and palate plastic surgery
- Trauma reconstruction
- Secondary facial burn reconstruction
Bio
Russell E. Ettinger, MD, is the service chief of Craniofacial Surgery at Harborview Medical Center and the Medical Director of the Burn & Plastic Surgery Clinic. He is also an Assistant Professor of Surgery within the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital and the developer of the adolescent and adult Plastic Surgery Gender Program.
Dr. Ettinger considers himself extremely fortunate to be involved in the care of his pedantic, adolescent, and adult patients. He strives every day to provide individualized and compassionate care to his patients and considers them extensions of his own family. He firmly believes in the charge of surgeons to always be in service to their patients and works to ensure that each of his patients always receive the highest level of care possible.
Dr. Ettinger’s clinical interests include treatment of congenital, traumatic, and secondary craniomaxillofacial deformities in children, adolescent, and adult patients. His practice encompasses the care of patients with cleft lip and palate, dentofacial discrepancies (jaw surgery), acute facial trauma, complex facial burns, and gender dysphoria through gender affirming surgical care for the face (facial feminization surgery, FFS) and body (chest surgery, top surgery).
His research interests have focused on translational approaches to the pharmacologic augmentation of bone graft healing as well as clinical outcomes research in cleft and craniofacial surgery. He also maintains a strong interest in medical student and surgical resident education.
