About Daniel S. Diaco, MD
After graduating valedictorian and Rotary Student of the year of Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Daniel Diaco chose Duke University to prepare himself for a medical career and graduated, Cum Laude. He selected the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, for his medical education. Following his medical training at UF, Dr. Daniel Diaco completed his residency at Louisiana State University’s College of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. He continued to excel in medicine, being named the 1993 Intern of the Year at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. It was during his training at LSU that Dr. Daniel Diaco chose plastic and reconstructive surgery as his area of expertise. Upon selecting his speciality, Dr. Daniel Diaco was pleased to learn that his final training would return him to the Tampa Bay area where he grew up. He returned to Tampa in 1995 and began sub-specialized training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine. Dr. Diaco had served as Chief of Plastic Surgeons at St. Joseph’s Hospital for four years and was also a team physician for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2002-2009.
