General Practitioners

• Emergency Care
  In an emergency dial 911. Saint Joseph Hospital Emergency Room can also provide assistance. Dr. Teplica can be reached on his cell phone at 773 294-7115.

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  Fine art Photography and Plastic Surgery may seem like very different careers, but for at least one individual, they are inextricably bound. David Teplica, MD, MFA received the Trustee's Scholarship to complete the Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During the same two year time period between General Surgery and Plastic Surgery training at the University of Chicago, Teplica received a Surgical Scientist Training Grant from the NIH and worked in the laboratory at night doing anatomic research.
• Reconstructive Surgery
  Dr. Teplica continues his creative/scientific efforts while serving on the Clinical Faculty in the Section of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Chicago. He is also working to define the anatomy of gender as Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute. With the help of colleagues, he recently created The 803 Foundation to further investigations of the interface between Art and Science.

Plastic Surgeons

• Liposuction
  Using a full body approach and tiny cannulas to remove fat during anatomically-based liposuction and by strategically adding volume back into selected areas of the body using fat grafting techniques, Dr. Teplica personalizes each procedure to a patient's needs.
• Plastic Surgery
  "My dual obsessions are both about perception of the body. In photography --in two dimensions-- I'm concerned about how light plays off of body surfaces and changes the way a person or situation is perceived. Form, symmetry, and composition can all be used to evoke specific emotional or psychological responses from the viewer. In the three-dimensional field of Plastic Surgery, form is altered so that a patient sees himself differently. Interestingly, society may or may not see the changes, but often reacts more favorably to a post-surgical patient who carries himself more confidently through life's daily routine."
• Body Contouring