Jay Agarwal, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator.

His clinical interests include aesthetic plastic surgery, hand surgery, and reconstructive microsurgery with a focus on reconstruction of traumatic injuries and defects caused by cancer. He emphasizes using perforator flaps, a cutting-edge technique that uses the patient's own tissues to reconstruct the breast, head and neck, and extremities.

Agarwal graduated from medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and completed residency training in both general surgery and plastic surgery at the University of Chicago. After six years in Chicago, he went on to specialize in hand surgery and microvascular surgery at the Buncke Clinic in San Francisco.