Physician Profile

Lisa Vecchione, DMD, MDS, is director of orthodontic services at Children's Cleft-Craniofacial Center. She has appointments as assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and assistant professor in the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics in Pitt's School of Dental Medicine. She came to Children's in 2004 after a fellowship in cleft-craniofacial orthodontics at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University. She received a master of dental science degree in 2003 from the Pitt School of Dental Medicine's Department of Orthodontics. She graduated summa cum laude with a doctor of medical dentistry degree from Pitt's School of Dental Medicine in 2000.

Dr. Vecchione graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in 1993 with a bachelor's in chemistry after earning a bachelor's in medical illustration in 1989 at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She maintains a freelance career as a medical illustrator, creating computer graphics and illustrations of surgical procedures. Dr. Vecchione is principal or co-principal investigator in several research studies, including studies into the roles of the muscle fiber characteristics in facial morphology.