About Our Team

University of Tennessee
Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery – Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital/ St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Graduated June 2020

University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Memphis, TN
Doctor of Medicine, May 2011

University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
B.A. in English Literature, Chemistry minor
University Chancellor’s Honor Program
Pre-Medical Program
Magna Cum Laude, May 2006

American Board of Plastic Surgery
December 2021 – present

Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners
2020 – present

American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Memphis Medical Society
Tennessee Medical Association
Harwell Wilson Surgical Society

High Point University
Physician Assistant Program
Clinical Preceptor
2025 – present

• Chief Administrative Resident, 2018-2019

• American Federation for Medical Research Regional Scholar, February 2009
• Centocor Rheumatology Scholar Award Winner, February 2009
• National Institutes of Health Medical Student Research Fellowship, Summer 2008

• University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Honors Program 2002-2006
• Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars 2002-2006
• Bicentennial, Valedictorian, and Russell E. Leed Scholarships
• Member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, UTK Beta Chapter 2004-2006

University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital

• Craniofacial Boot Camp, Coordinator, 2018-2019
• International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Resident Member, 2018-2019
• Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, San Borja, Lima, Peru, March 2017

Volunteered on a surgical mission trip performing cleft palate/lip repairs and genital free
flap reconstruction, as well as assisted in hospital relief efforts during national flooding

University of Tennessee Health Science Center 

• “Give TN Kids a Chance” CAMPAIGN, Regional Coordinator, 2009-2011Coordinated efforts by the UTCOM in collaboration with other state health professionalstudents to fight childhood obesity in TN
• American Medical Student Association, Member, 2009-2011
• Clinica Esperanza, Volunteer, 2007- 2011Evaluated patients and coordinated lab services at a weekly clinic for the uninsured
• American Federation for Medical Research, Member, 2009
• Student Surgical Society, Member, 2007-2009

University of Tennessee Knoxville

• University of Tennessee Medical Center, Phlebotomist, 2003-2007
• Food City Pharmacy, Pharmacy Technician, 2007
• University of Tennessee Chemistry Department, Organic Chemistry Division, Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. George Kabalka, Ph.D., 2004-2006
• Christian Volunteers, President, 2003-2006
• Baptist Collegiate Ministry Medical Mission Trip, Spring 2004

Volunteered at Samaritan Gardens Medical Clinic for the underprivileged in West Palm Beach; performed construction and service projects at local Haitian-American churches

• Hammond, SE, Salgado, CJ. (Pending publication) Pelvic and Genital Reconstruction. In Hanasono, Mardini, St-Cyr, and Moran, Eds., Reconstructive Surgery: A Problem-Based Approach.
• Hammond, SE, Stuzin, JM. (2021) Rhytidectomy. In Thaller and Panthaki Eds., Tips and Tricks in Plastic Surgery (1st ed. pp 111-122.) Springer Cham.
• SE Hammond, E Cohen, D Rosow. Feminization of transgender women with thyroid chondroplasty and laryngoplasty. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 30(5), July 2019. 1409-1413.
• SE Hammond, S Samuels, S Thaller. Filling in the details: a review of lipofilling of radiated tissue of the head and neck. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 30(3), May/June 2019. 667-671.
• SE Hammond, JA Jaller, N Joumblat, RS Kirsner, CJ Salgado. Response to comment on Mycobacterium chelonae infection of the buttocks secondary to lipofilling: a case report and review of the literature. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 42(2), April 2018. 611-612.
• SE Hammond, A Al-Bayati, N Joumblat, CJ Salgado. Mycobacterium chelonae infection of the buttocks secondary to lipofilling: a case report and review of the literature. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 41(5), October 2017. 1150-1154.
• M Bachier, SE Hammond, R Williams, T Jancelewicz, A Feliz. Pediatric scald burns: do cooking-related burns have a higher injury burden? Journal of Surgical Research. 199(1), November 2015.
• JP Ver Halen, MA Soto-Miranda, SE Hammond, P Konofaos, M Neel, B Rao. Lower extremity                 reconstruction after limb-sparing sarcoma resection of the proximal tibia in the pediatric
• population: case series, with algorithm. Journal of Plastic Surgery Hand Surgery. 48(4), August 2014.
• B Tang, S Kim, SE Hammond, DL Cullins, DD Brand, EF Rosloniec, JM Stuart, AF Postlethwaite, AH Kang, LK Myers. Characterization of T cell phenotype and function in a double transgenic
• (collagen-specific TCR/HLA-DR1) humanized model of arthritis.  Arthritis Research and   Therapy.16(1), January 2014.
• P Konofaos, SE Hammond, JP Ver Halen, S Samant. Reconstructive techniques in transoral robotic surgery for head and neck cancer: a North American survey. Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery.131(2), February 2013.
• JW Parks, SE Hammond, WA Walsh, RL Adams, RG Chandler, EA Luce. Human acellular dermis versus no acellular dermis in tissue expansion breast reconstruction. Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery,130(4), October 2012.
• S.E. Hammond, D.L. Cullins, A.H. Kang, A.E. Postlethwaite. Assessment of mechanisms by which APL-A12 suppresses arthritis when administered orally. Journal of Investigative Medicine, 57(1), January 2009.

• Sarah Hammond. Outside the box: transgender care in plastic surgery. UNITE University of Tennessee Health Science Center, March 2023 and November 2023. Oral Presentation.
• Sarah Hammond. Body contouring: improving quality of life after massive weight loss. Baptist Health Bariatric Support Group, September 2021. Oral Presentation.
• Sarah Hammond. Filling in the details: a review of fat grafting irradiated tissues of the head and neck. University of Miami Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds Conference, Miami, FL, May 2019. Oral Presentation.
• Sarah Hammond. Pediatric scald burns: do cooking-related burns have a higher injury burden? Harwell Wilson Surgical Society Scientific Session, Memphis, TN, June 2015. Oral Presentation.
• Sarah Hammond. Assessment of mechanisms by which A12 induces tolerance when administered orally.  American Federation for Medical Research Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 2009.  Oral Presentation.
• Sarah Hammond.  Assessment of mechanisms by which APL-A12 suppresses arthritis when administered orally. UTHSC AOA-St. Jude Research Lectureship and Student Research Presentation Day, November 2008. Poster Presentation.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

• Assessment of mechanisms by which A12 induces tolerance when administered orally.
• Preceptor: Dr. Linda Myers, Dept. of Rheumatology
• Summer 2008
• NIH Medical Student Research Fellowship
• Investigated the mechanism and extent to which an altered peptide of collagen type II suppresses the inflammatory process of rheumatoid arthritis in transgenic mice.

University of Tennessee Knoxville

• Synthesis of 3-(2-[123I]iodophenyl)4-(methanesulfonyl phenyl)-5H-furan-2-one.
• Preceptor: Dr. George Kabalka, Division of Organic Chemistry
• Fall 2004, May 2005-July 2006
• Performed organic and medicinal chemistry-related synthetic research through a series of reactions leading to a compound utilized in PET and SPECT.