A Houston plastic surgeon is facing four malpractice lawsuits filed within the past year, after two of his patients died and a third suffered a brain injury from lack of oxygen during procedures at his Montrose-neighborhood clinic. Dr. Dare Ajibade, who runs DVA Plastic Surgery, currently holds active medical licenses in seven states and has been licensed in nine states total to practice medicine, even as the lawsuits pile up across Texas and Virginia.
The most severe allegations involve two women who died in the days following procedures performed by Ajibade. According to a lawsuit filed by attorney Peter Anderson on behalf of Susan Easley’s family, as detailed by KTRK-TV Houston, Easley’s May 2024 surgery lasted from 8:30 a.m. until 3:04 p.m., and she was allegedly given lidocaine exceeding safe dosing parameters before being prematurely discharged while complaining of nausea and vomiting. The Washington, D.C. medical examiner ruled that Easley suffered sudden cardiac death in the setting of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease following laser-assisted liposuction with autologous fat transfer, dying on May 13, 2024.
A Career Veteran’s Final Days
Easley, 59, was a veteran U.S. Agency for International Development executive who had managed African AIDS programs during her career, according to KFF Health News. Her procedure took place not in Houston but at an Elite Body Sculpture clinic in Vienna, Virginia — one of several corporate cosmetic-surgery chains where Ajibade has worked in addition to his private Houston practice, per KFF Health News and Sono Bello. She died just four days later, her body discovered in a Washington, D.C. rental unit. Virginia law required the family’s legal team to obtain a signed expert opinion certifying a standard-of-care deviation before the lawsuit could even be served, a mandatory step under Virginia Code § 8.01-20.1 designed to screen out unsupported medical claims, as outlined by Virginia Law.
A second death occurred closer to home. Adebola Britt suffered cardiac arrest in the recovery room after liposuction, according to the family’s attorney, Donna Aversano, whom the family retained after Britt died five days after her procedure on November 12, 2025. The Harris County Medical Examiner ruled her cause of death was sudden death following surgical abdominoplasty and liposuction procedures. Britt’s family has not filed a civil lawsuit, though the case adds to the pattern of severe outcomes tied to Ajibade’s practice.
Survivors Describe Lasting Injuries
Not every patient died, but some were left with permanent damage. Junis Maldonado, 27, suffered a brain injury from lack of oxygen after experiencing multiple seizures and cardiopulmonary arrest during a liposuction procedure in May, according to her lawsuit. She now relies on a tracheostomy and feeding tube. That case followed a 911 call on November 7, 2025, that reported a patient was not breathing at DVA Plastic Surgery in Houston…