Dr. Schendel graduated from the University of Minnesota Dental School and the University of Hawaii Medical School. He is boarded in both Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery. From 1979 to 1980 he served as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Nantes in France. The emphasis of this study was cleft lip and palate surgery and dentofacial orthopedics, both under the tutelage of Dr. Jean Delaire. He was also an assistant to Dr. Paul Tessier in Paris, France, where he was recipient of a Chateaubriand French Research Fellowship. He was a full-time member of the faculty of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University Medical School from 1989 to 2008 and is now Professor Emeritus of Surgery. He is the former Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center and Surgeon in Chief of The Packard Children’s Hospital where he was Director of Craniofacial Surgery. He is past president of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and is now in private practice and Director of the California Institute of Craniofacial Surgery in Palo Alto and Face Center Los Angeles.

He has published over 110 articles and 20 chapters and four texts. His research interests are computer simulation and regenerative medicine.

Dr. Schendel’s main surgical interests are craniofacial and maxillofacial surgery, including facial cosmetic, orthognathic and sleep surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics.