Jeffrey Janis is full-time faculty as a Professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He is also Chief of Plastic Surgery at University Hospital, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Co-Director of the Center for Abdominal Core Health, and holds adjunct appointments as a Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Surgery. 

He received his business degree from Washington University Olin School of Business, medical degree from Case Western Reserve, and did his plastic surgery training in Dallas at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he also served as the residency program director and Chief of Plastic Surgery at Parkland Memorial Hospital. 

He is a Past President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (youngest in the history of the Society), the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (youngest in the history of the Society), the American Hernia Society (first plastic surgeon), the Columbus Medical Association, and the Migraine Surgery Society (founding President).  He is the Past Chair of the Board of Trustees for ASPS.

Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open, serves as a Governor on the Board of Governors for the American College of Surgeons, is a member of the ACGME’s Plastic Surgery Residency Review Committee, serves on the Executive Committee for the Surgical Pain Congress (SPC) as well as the Executive Committee for the Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, and serves on the Advisory Council for Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery for the ACS.

To date, he has served as a Visiting Professor at 63 major national and international institutions, serves as a peer reviewer for 76 scientific journals, published 288 peer-reviewed articles, 114 book chapters, and 8 books, with 2 more books and an app pending publication, and has delivered over 1,100 lectures.  His publications have been cited over 16,000 times, with an h-index of 59 and i10-index of 188.