Emmanuel De La Cruz

Emmanuel De La Cruz is a plastic surgeon at De La Cruz Plastic Surgery in Houston, Texas, holding certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. His listed specialties include high-definition liposuction, high-definition abdominoplasty, deep plane facelift surgery, revision liposuction, large-volume body contouring, and body contouring after weight loss. He also treats lipedema and paradoxical adipose hyperplasia (PAH), performs ponytail facelifts and Brazilian butt lifts, and works with Renuvion/J-Plasma and BodyTite. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology summa cum laude from Texas Tech University. He received his medical doctorate at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, where he was awarded the Frank Webber Prize in medical research. He then completed general surgery training at Loma Linda University in California, a plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia (now Georgia Health Sciences University), where he served as chief resident, and a hand and microsurgery fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University, where he performed more than 900 procedures. Further training includes high-definition liposuction with Dr. Alfredo Hoyos, deep plane facelift mentorship with Giovanni Botti, ponytail facelift training with Dr. Chia Chi Kao, and sculpture training with Philippe Faraut. He holds Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support certifications and lists licenses in Georgia, Texas and California. His publications include Lipoplasty in the Overweight Patient in Clinics in Plastic Surgery (2024), a 2024 co-authored paper on oral anticoagulants and large-volume liposuction, and a chapter on the Celtic Cross technique for immediate umbilical reconstruction, a method he developed during his third year as a surgical resident. He has been invited to speak at meetings including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, AestheticStanbul and the TD ABS meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. His honors include the Grand Master Total Definer award for best high-definition liposuction results in 2019, a Congressional Recognition, the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Helping Hands Award and the We Are One Humanitarian Award. He has taken part in surgical mission trips to the Philippines treating cleft lip and palate and craniofacial conditions. He has privileges at Cypress Surgicare of Texas, St. Luke's Hospital and Memorial Hermann, and patients travel to him from across the United States and abroad.