Dr. Seager has passed away but his legacy remains.

[Pat - Community Publisher]

This past weekend Dr. David Seager passed away after fighting to survive cancer. Although I did not know him well personally, his reputation as a truly innovative hair transplant pioneer is well known within the hair restoration world.

 

Those of us today who benefit from large dense packed sessions owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Seager for his ground breaking "one pass" surgical technique.

 

Dr. Seager shared his innovations and techniques at conferences worldwide and in numerous publications. He also opened his clinic doors to many hair transplant surgeons who traveled from around the world to visit his clinic and observe his cutting edge "one pass" procedure.

 

Today dozens of hair restoration physicians worldwide refer to their visit to Dr. Seager's clinic in their professional profiles like an honor and a credential. Those patients who go to these physicians benefit from the training that Dr. Seager openly and widely shared with these physicians.

 

Dr. Seager and his staff were performing high density "one pass" sessions, many in excess of 3,000 grafts, by the mid to late 1990's. Thus they were truly ahead of their time in pioneering what would become known within this community as "Ultra Refined Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation".

 

In October of 2001, Dr. Seager was honored with the Golden Follicle Award by the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in recognition for his many clinical contributions to the field of hair transplantation.

 

Dr. Seager's "Signature" 3000 graft densely packed "One area - One session" all Follicular Unit Micrograft Hair Transplant procedure was a team effort in which the grafts were immediately placed into the incision after the tiny needle incision was made. This technique is referred to as "stick and place". This technique enabled the staff to use smaller and less invasive needles for the incisions since it was easier to place a small graft into a small incision if it was fresh.

 

Given that Dr. Seager's staff is trained to create the incisions and place the grafts without Dr. Seager's direct supervision, they continue to do so but now under the direction of Dr. Mark McKenzie.

 

According to Dr. McKenzie's profile "In 1994 he joined an experienced hair transplant surgeon and spent 2 years training and performing surgery on his own patients. During that time, he underwent hair transplantation for his own baldness. He has been in independent hair transplant practice since 1996 with offices in Toronto and London, Ontario & St. John's, Newfoundland."

 

Perhaps in time Dr. McKenzie and the Seager Hair Transplant Centre will again be recommended on this community once it is clear that the clinic under its new owner, Dr. McKenzie, will continue to live up to its cutting edge reputation.

 

But for now Dr. Seager's recommendation, shown below, will be retired like the numbered jersey of an all star player. We appreciate his long standing participation and support of this community as a recommended sponsor.

 

Dr. Seager is no longer with us. But his legacy will live on in clinics worldwide and I hope and expect at his clinic in Toronto, Canada.

 

Dr. Seager's Profile and Recommendation on our community:

 

Dr. Seager is one of the foremost specialists in the field of hair restoration surgery and is internationally renowned for his "one pass" densely packed Ultra Refined Follicular Unit Hair Transplant procedures that often exceed 3,000 grafts in one session. One such session produces a sufficient density and natural looking result that few patients request further grafts to increase density in the same area.

 

Dr Seager and his staff are dedicated exclusively to hair replacement surgery. His extensive training, passion for perfection and renowned aesthetic skills, combined with the most advanced surgical techniques, enable him to consistently provide his patients with outstanding results.

 

At the 9th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), Dr. David Seager was awarded the 2001 Golden Follicle Award (for his " ... outstanding and significant clinical contributions related to hair restoration surgery ... "; especially mentioned was his "Signature 3000-graft all follicular unit micrograft megasessions" and his "One Pass Technique").

 

Since 1996, Dr. Seager and his staff have routinely performed megasessions of 3,000 to 3,500 follicular unit micrografts (i.e. up to estimated 6,900 and 8,050 hairs) transplanted in one session.

 

Dr. Seager's staff uses Binocular Stereoscopic Dissecting Microscopes to dissect all donor hair into follicular unit micrografts, enabling them to harvest up to 25% more hair from the same sized donor area(than would be possible without the microscope).

 

Established hair transplant surgeons from around the world (e.g. from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, USA, Peru and Mexico), have chosen to travel to Toronto to have Dr. Seager perform their own personal hair transplant procedures.

 

In a published, nationally syndicated U.S. newspaper article, Dr. David Seager was quoted as being on of only four physicians in North America recognized as "micro transplantation surgeons recommended by their peers".

 

Dr. David Seager is a Diplomate of, and Board Examiner for The American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery. He is also Chairman of the ABHRS' Annual Review Course. He has been a regular faculty speaker of both the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery and the European Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. For over a decade, Dr. Seager has been a well-known and much sought after international lecturer to other doctors in Hair Restoration Surgery.

[nobuzz4me]

Pat, great write up on the great Doctor. One can only imagine how many lives he touched with his work on patients and training of his apprentices.

[bayscholar]

The HT community will miss Dr.Seager. Advanced HT today are a credit to him and his pioneering.

[Guest Cousin_It]

I am very sorry to hear this as I am sure all members on the forum are. I was not very familiar with Dr. Seager's work, but it seems he was a pioneer in hair transplantation and someone whom all of us owe a debt of gratitude. He will surely be missed but not forgotten.

[Bill - Seemiller]

I too am sorry to hear of his passing. I also was not too familiar with his work, but it seems he's played quite a part in developing URFUT to what it is today. Hopefully his clinic will live up to his "legacy" and will be able to become recommended on this forum and a coalition member if his results meet the requirements. Thanks for the great writeup Pat.

 

Bill

[Bushy]

How tragic. Pat, how old was Dr. Seager? May he rest in peace.

[Dr. Alan Feller]

Dr Seager was not only my HT doctor, but a mentor to me as well.

 

He encouraged me to start offering dense pack procedures and to expand my staff in terms of both numbers and training to meet the demands of this new type of surgery. I modeled my practice after his and used his results as a benchmark for many years.

 

My first encounter with Dr. Seager was in the 1990s in an indirect way through his patients who would visit me in the U.S. for second surgeries. I always marvelled at how consistenly good his work was and how it exceeded just about everybody elses results at the time in terms of density and natural appearance. This is why I chose him to do my surgery back in 2001.

Dr Seager was a true academic and perfectionist. His contribution to the HT world cannot be overstated.

 

His loss touches me deeply.

 

He will be remembered and he will be missed.

 

Dr. Feller

[the B spot]

The Hair Restoration Community has lost a TRUE pioneer.

 

I know that many Dr.'s, including Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Feller speak glowingly about the work Dr. Seager accomplished daily.

 

I never got the chance to meet or speak with Dr. Seager, but in piecing information together from the online community, I get the sense that a true genius operated behind the scenes, with little fanfare from the online community.

 

I can only hope that Dr. McKenzie has incorporated Dr. Seager's methods and is able to equal the work of his mentor, as surpassing Dr. Seager's work will be impossible.

 

I want to offer an apology for not fully supporting Dr. Seager in a post a few months ago when I did not fully understand his methods.

I have since learned the error of my ways.

 

Anyway, I hope that we can all take a moment and understand the frailty of life and put our obsession with hairloss in perspective.

 

Thanks Again Dr. Seager, you will be missed.

[Guest Paul M Straub MD FACS]

A great man and a great teacher has passed on.

Dr. Straub

[to_dude]

I had the privildge of being a client of Dr. Seager in 1999 and had a 3,000 graft session. I owe a lot to him for amazing work.

 

Its sad to hear about his passing away.

 

May his soul rest in his peace..

[FacelessMan]

I have not had the pleasure of knowing, or having direct experience with, Dr. Seager, but perhaps I can say that his gifts and teaching have nonetheless affected me, through the hands and mind of one of his "students"...for which I am indeed grateful.

 

Dr. Feller, you do your mentor proud.

[baldcasanova]

Hair Transplant doctors are held in a special place in many patients hearts as they help bring back a lot of confidence and self respect. Lets face it, to us on this board, baldness is a serious issue that truly affects us, so placing our trust and respect into a physician to restore our vitality and perform a pretty significant surgery is a lot. This doctor seems to have been a very ethical, caring doctor who prided himself in delivering top notch results, that in turn most likely kept him very busy, and always on the top of many christmas card lists.

 

Its sad to hear that he died from cancer, because treatment for cancer i hear is really really tough. I hope his suffering was limited and Im sure he is now in a better place.

Rest well, doc.

[spoon]

I did have the privilege of knowing Dr. Seager and I will always be grateful to him and his wonderful staff for my excellent results from his clinic.

 

He was truly among the greatest of the greatest and I'm very, very sad that he has passed away. I just saw him fairly recently and he seemed in great health and great sprits and this news is stunning. I am glad, however, that I had the chance to thank him in person and tell him what a difference he made in my life. I'll always remember his genuine empathy and compassion and how humble he was in accepting praise.

 

I am sure that he picked Dr. McKenzie for good reason and I hope that he will lead the team as Dr. Seager did so they can continue to do what they do best.

[tumbleweed]

I had the fortunate opportunity to know Dr. Seager. He truly is a legend in the industry and his work speaks for itself.

He was a very passionate man who had a heart of gold.

My prayers go out to his family and friends.

[DrBauman]

I had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Seager personally, as well as through his regular lectures and presentations at the ISHRS conferences, since 1999. I also had the unique opportunity to see his procedure and staff "up-close and in-action" at one of Dr. Dow Stough's workshops in Hot Springs Arkansas in January of 2003. His work, using microscopically-dissected follicular-unit grafts, dating back to the 1990's, contributed greatly to the standards of naturalness and density we routinely see today. The things I remember most vividly about his presentations were the video images of the microscopic dissection of the grafts and his great passion for lecturing about (and, in earlier years, defending) his philosophy and approach to the art of hair transplantation. He was a scholar and a gentleman, and will be certainly be missed.

Please pass along our sincerest condolences,

 

Dr. Bauman & Staff

Bauman Medical Group

Boca Raton, FL