Derek Pfaff, a Michigan resident and suicide survivor, has undergone a groundbreaking facial reconstruction surgery after a ...

Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school during spring ...

A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff’s life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

Two weeks after his surgery when Derek got out of ICU, Lisa took him in his wheelchair to St. Mary’s Catholic Chapel on the ...

Former football star Derek Pfaff undergoes a successful face transplant, gaining a new lease on life after a decade of ...

It is as if Derek Pfaff’s life is a cautionary tale written in three chapters. In the beginning, Derek was a charismatic ...

thanks to world-class healthcare providers at Rochester's Mayo Clinic. Derek Pfaff, a Michigan man whose face was severely ...

After 58 surgeries and a face transplant, Derek Pfaff, a 30-year-old from Michigan, can finally smile, breathe, and express ...

March 5 had been a day of dread for the Pfaff family since 2014, when Lisa and Jerry found their 19-year-old son, Derek, ...

ROCHESTER — After receiving a face transplant at Mayo Clinic earlier this year, a Michigan man can now smile and breathe ...

A life-changing face transplant has given Derek Pfaff the ability to smile, ten years after he attempted to kill himself.

Pfaff's transplant included reconstructing part of his forehead, nose, cheekbones, upper and lower jaws with teeth, upper and ...