Dr. Alfonso Barrera, MD, FACS

Dr. Alfonso Barrera is a plastic surgeon who has been in private practice in Houston since 1985. His work covers aesthetic surgery of the face, breast and body and hair transplantation, including facelift surgery, and he is certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

He earned his medical degree in Monterrey, Mexico, then completed a general surgery residency at Methodist Hospital of Dallas, an otolaryngology–head and neck surgery residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School, and a plastic surgery residency at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, finishing in 1985. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

He performs most of his surgeries in the practice’s own accredited surgical facility, under IV sedation and local anesthesia or total intravenous anesthesia. He chaired the plastic surgery section at Memorial Hospital Memorial City from 2004 to 2008 and served as president of the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons in 2016–2017.

He has written in plastic surgery journals, contributed chapters to plastic surgery textbooks and authored a textbook on hair transplantation. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.