Mary H. McGrath, professor of surgery in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California at San Francisco, received the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Surgeons. She was honored for her “outstanding clinical and academic contributions to the field of plastic surgery especially in the areas of breast, hand, wound healing, new technologies and workforce issues.”
A graduate of the College of New Rochelle in New York, Dr. McGrath completed her medical degree at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. After completing her residency in general surgery at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, she trained as a plastic surgeon at Yale Medical School.
In 1978 she was named an assistant professor of surgery at Yale. Before coming to the University of California at San Francisco in 2003, she taught at the medical schools of Columbia University and George Washington University.