Dr David M Yates DMD, MD, FACS

07/15/2025

Love these kids!

07/11/2025

SUPER EXCITED to share our teams recent publication in the Journal of Neurosurgery - Pediatrics!!!! The largest paper ever published using the endoscopic minimally invasive approach for Lambdoid craniosynostosis!!!!!! Thankful for my mentor & partner for many years Dr David Jimenez and my current Dr Ziyad Makoshi and our incredible team at El Paso Children’s Hospital!!!!

07/04/2025

Thankful to have the opportunity to be amongst friends in Scotland and England who have embraced Endoscopic Craniosynostosis Surgery!!! And to have the opportunity to present on global surgery and craniosynostosis! Thank you Drs Jaime Grant, Martin Evans, Kathy Fan, Halsnad Moorthy, Raju Sangra, Ahad Shafi, Mel Dixon!!!

07/04/2025

Very thankful to have the opportunity to speak on global surgery (FEMAP our cleft/cranio mission in Juarez) and endoscopic craniosynostosis surgery at the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons!!! It was held in Guild Hall, London - one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been!!! And with parts of it dating back to the 1200s !!! Thankful for the opportunity!!! Very thankful to my English and Scottish Craniofacial friends m, Drs Jaime Grant, Martin Evans, BAOMS President Kathy Fan, Halsnad Moorthy, Ahad Shafi, Raju Sangra, Mel Dixon

06/10/2025

So thankful for FEMAP in Juarez and our Cleft/Craniofacial team as well as El Paso Children’s Hospital!!! Thrilled to be able to be a part of Gael’s care!!!

05/25/2025

It was this day 2 years ago that my good friend and mentor Dr David F. Jimenez MD, FACS unexpectedly passed. As time goes by I’m so thankful and cognizant of the efforts he put into me during our years together to be able to continue GREAT work that he was convinced that God had put him in this earth to do. I think of the many babies he helped throughout his life, and that we were able to help together. But also his selfless sharing of his techniques that has lead to a worldwide shift in how this surgery is fundamentally viewed. He really did change the world and now through his team that he built here we continue to change and improve it - sharing what we know and encouraging others to do the same! I miss you David!

05/17/2025

Very thankful for everyone on our cleft and craniofacial teams, my incredibly supporting partners, El Paso Children’s Hospital, my supportive family, and especially my wife! Humbled everyday by the trust our patients families put in us to take care of their kids!!! Thankful to God for these opportunities and the privilege to work with kids from all over !!!

04/21/2025

Happy Birthday Ezekiel!!!! I always love seeing our kids grow up and thrive!!!!

Ezekiel turned 3! He’s a bright, chatty, friendly young man 🥰
Everything since his endoscopic surgery when he was 5 months old is looking great. No concerns to worry about 🙏
His left eyeball, the side his suture was fused would wander off to the side when he looked long distance. This has slowly improved over time and it only happens a little bit now and then. He went for his eye checkup recently and the Dr said “he actually has better eyesight than average”. 🥳 We were stocked to get that extra bonus news!

I couldn’t imagine having to face eye surgery which is mostly inevitable if they have the big invasive CVR surgery here in New Zealand. So getting to skip that is another reason to be thankful we were able to access endoscopic surgery in Texas to avoid that and let his eye come in line naturally with David F. Jimenez MD, FACS team Dr David M Yates 🙏
Every birthday is a celebration of gratefulness 🥳🥰

Unfortunately endoscopic surgery to relieve babies of the pressure from craniostynosis early is still not available in New Zealand 😔 but we will keep sharing, asking and hoping!

04/10/2025

An EXCITING Day!!!! Our Paper on Increased Intracranial Pressure in Infants with Craniosynostosis just got published in the most impactful Neurosurgery Journal on the planet!!! And was selected as the EDITORS CHOICE! So Thankful to my Peds Neurosurgery Partner and good friend Ziyad Makoshi, my former fellows Drs Aquino and Hayek, our Peds Ophthalmologist Violeta Radenovich, medical student Julia Guido, our Research Coordinator Alondra Arias --- and My Mentor and Good Friend David Jimenez!!!!! What an exciting day and FINALLY we are able to definitively demonstrate that in these kids EARLY surgery relieves BUILDING PRESSURE!!!!!!

02/09/2025

Featured in the Alumni Spotlight this week for my residency program :) what great times and incredible attendings I had the privilege of training under! Also my co-residents and the hospital staff - so many people who helped me along the way and who have become life-long friends :) !

10/20/2024

10/18/2024