Dr. Ned Snyder IV, MD

Dr. Ned Snyder IV is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and the founder of Snyder Plastic Surgery in Austin. He is known for breast reconstruction with a patient’s own tissue and was one of the first plastic surgeons in the area to specialize in deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flaps and microsurgical breast reconstruction. He also performs cosmetic surgery of the breast, face and body, including facelifts, breast augmentation, tummy tuck and mommy makeovers, and revises earlier surgeries.

A Waco native, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the Plan II Honors program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2000, where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. He trained in plastic surgery at UTMB, finishing in 2005, then completed a fellowship in perforator flaps and DIEP flaps for breast reconstruction under Dr. Philip Blondeel at Ghent University in Belgium.

Dr. Snyder is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, and he is president of the Austin Society of Plastic Surgeons. He serves on the board of Austin Smiles and on the medical advisory board of the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Austin. He was the invited Blocker-Lewis lecturer at UTMB’s graduating residents ceremony in 2011 and received the First Humanitarian Award from St. David’s Medical Center in Austin in 2014.

He lives in Austin with his wife, dermatologist Dr. Renee Snyder, and their three children.