Sam P. Most, MD, MBA, FACS
Course Director, Stanford Preservation and Structural Rhinoplasty Course. Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Biography
Dr. Sam Most is a facial plastic surgeon whose clinical practice, research, and teaching center on rhinoplasty. He practices in Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been on the Stanford faculty since 2006, where he is Chief of the Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery, by courtesy). He directs Stanford's AAFPRS-accredited fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, a position he has held since 2008.
He is a past President of The Rhinoplasty Society (2022–2023), an Associate Editor of Facial Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine, the journal of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr. Most is the author of the textbook Comprehensive Rhinoplasty (QMP, 2023) and co-author, with Ashkan Ghavami and Nazim Cerkes, of Global Rhinoplasty (Thieme, 2023). He edited the Preservation Rhinoplasty issues of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, and has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and more than 20 book chapters. His research program includes rhinoplasty outcomes measurement (the SCHNOS instrument and its minimal clinically important difference), dorsal preservation rhinoplasty, nasal airway surgery, facial aging, and surgical education.
He has delivered the Jack P. Gunter Distinguished Lecture at the Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting and the Carol and John S. Odess Endowed Lectureship at Vanderbilt, and has been recognized with the Mark Rafaty Memorial Award (2014 and 2024), the Samuel Stal Memorial Award, the Ben Shuster Memorial Award, and Stanford Otolaryngology's Clinician-Teacher Award. He has chaired and lectured at rhinoplasty and facial plastic surgery meetings throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Dr. Most earned his BS at the University of Michigan, his MD with honors at Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Washington, where he served on the faculty as Division Chief before returning to Stanford. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business (2025). He is also Medical Director of an annual pro bono surgical mission to Cambodia.
SPSRC
As Course Director, Dr. Most designs the Stanford Preservation and Structural Rhinoplasty Course around a single question: how do experienced surgeons decide between, and combine, preservation and structural approaches for each patient? The course pairs an international faculty with a limited number of participants, uses narrated surgical video in place of live surgery so that every decision can be examined, and ends in the dissection laboratory. The previous edition, SPSRC 2025, was held at Stanford on November 13–15, 2025; SPSRC 2027 takes place July 22–24, 2027.
Profiles and links
- Stanford University faculty profile
- Stanford Medicine clinical practice
- ORCID 0000-0002-7385-3149
- Google Scholar
- comprehensiverhinoplasty.com — companion site to the textbook
- Instagram @smostmd · @spsrc2027 · X @smostmd