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Matthew R. Greives, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric plastic surgeon. His clinical interests include cleft lip and palate care and surgery, craniosynostosis, orthognathic surgery, neonatal airway surgery, vascular anomalies, pediatric burn reconstruction, craniofacial distraction, and ear reconstruction.
He’s also an associate professor and the Thomas D. Cronin Chair in Plastic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. He is director of the Texas Cleft-Craniofacial Team, one of the largest and longest-running cleft teams in Texas, and director of the Vascular Anomalies Program at UTHealth Houston, a program he helped found in 2014.
Additionally, Greives serves as the chief of plastic surgery for Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
Greives completed his undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in biochemistry. As an undergraduate, he competed on the varsity swimming team, earning All-American status in 2001. He then attended NYU School of Medicine, working four years in the Laboratory for Microvascular Research and Tissue Engineering before graduating with honors in 2007.
After graduation, he joined the integrated plastic surgery residency at the University of Chicago. During his chief year, he completed a clinical elective in ear reconstruction with Dr. Francoise Firmin in Paris. His craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery fellowship was completed at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He then completed his Master of Science in clinical research at McGovern Medical School in 2019.
Greives is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was named a Houston Business Journal “40 under 40” honoree in 2018 and a “Health Care Hero Rising Star” that same year. Houstonia Magazine and Texas Monthly Magazine have consistently recognized him as a “Top Doc” for the past few years. He was recently listed as a 2021 Top Doctor by Houstonia Magazine for plastic and reconstructive surgery. At UTHealth Houston, he has been awarded the Dean’s Teaching Award every year he has been in practice.
Outside of work, Greives remains active and enjoys swimming and biking around the city. He’s always ready to try out new recipes or, even better, the many restaurants Houston offers.
All patient experience ratings and comments are submitted by actual patients and are received and validated by a leading independent survey company, NRC Health.
We loved Dr Grieves, he was patient and personable with me and my daughter. He took time to explain procedure, understood why our dermatologist wanted it him to remove the halo Nevis and was overall amazing. There was also a fellow attending working with him who came in to see my daughter first, when he asked about her halo Nevis and why we were there and we explained, and then explained how it has changed and our dermatologist wanted it off ASAP, he was dismissive stating it was no big deal and it was only her body regecting it. I stated that's exactly why he wants it off as I'm a melanoma patient and he is more aggressive with his treatment with her, he still spoke to us almost as if we shouldn't be there. When he walked out of the room my 13 year old daughter looked at me and said, "wow, he tried to make us feel stupid for wanting to take this off, does he realize another doctor wants it off?" For her to recognize it as well, says something. I don't usually write reviews, but I feel like this needs to be addressed. Again, once Dr Grieves came in, all was well, and he was amazing-just like our dermatologist Dr Downing said he would be, which he would have taken it off in office but because of the location, he wanted "the best of the best" to remove it to reduce the chance of scaring, hence why we drove and hour to see Dr Grieves.
Hey, Dr. Matt's team has done a fantastic job, communicated effectively and clearly. Let us know the positives and negatives. Let us know what the expectations were. And everyone treated our family with the utmost respect and made the experience very positive. Thank you so much.
I'm sure this office sees a lot more serious conditions than ours. We felt by the end of the visit that our concerns were not worthy of attention there, so we went elsewhere. From check in to the visit everyone was professional.
We love Dr Greives!
My comment is about the assistant who is with the lady Sandra behind the doctor. She is a person who really gets bothered by everything the patients do, even the smallest noise a patient makes in the room. She doesn't act professionally because she's in a clinic.
I like that the doctors were very, they cared about my daughter's feelings. They understood, you know, her reasons for it. The doctors seemed very helpful, very understanding. They both were very good at explaining things and making sure that my daughter was comfortable and just the way that things were going to go if the insurance approved the surgery. Overall, I had a great experience and so did my daughter.
I appreciated that I did not have to wait a long time to be seen and did not have to wait long to see the doctor. We were in and out and I loved that.
I felt like the doctor was questioning why we were even being seen and annoyed we were wasting his time. He spent less than 2 minutes in the room after we spent an hour waiting to be seen. The PA was very friendly, the doctor seemed he is a great doctor outside of the rushed demeanor. I think our case was not worth his time.
My family was in and out of the office quick. I will say I really like the sign they have up in the waiting room which was " if you have not been called within 45 minutes please notify the staff "... personally I never seen that in a office waiting room I thought that was very thoughtful of them to have a sign stating that in there office!!!
Everything was very good, thank you for your attention, very good service.
Dr. Greives is amazing. He is so caring and really evaluated my son. He made conversation and built a relationship with him.