Importance Of Credentials

First and foremost, welcome to my website. I hope you will find it informative and useful in your decision-making process regarding your potential plastic surgery. As an initial step, I encourage you to read the section entitled “CHOSING A PLASTIC SURGEON”. Being a board certified plastic surgeon, I stress to all of my patients during their initial consultation the importance of choosing a board certified plastic surgeon. You only have one body, so make sure you do your homework before going under the knife. Ensure that whomever you chose is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). To chose otherwise may lead to disaster and potentially uncorrectable results. Don’t let flashy ads or rock-bottom prices sway your decision. As with anything in life, you get what you pay for, plastic surgery being no exception, particularly in this highly competitive world we live in today.

As for me, I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and continued there completing my medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School. I then completed a full 5 year residency in General Surgery at the University of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. This then led me to Portland, Oregon where I completed a fellowship in Plastic Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University. As a final stop, I went on to do an additional year of fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic in Hand Surgery. Currently, I am board certified in General Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery. It has been a long and grueling road amounting to 8 years of post-graduate school training so as you might expect I am proud of my educational background and am a strong advocate for patients to seek out appropriately trained surgeons.

Stay tuned for future Blogs where I will address not only pertinent questions about plastic surgery but also shed light on current hot topics. Feel free to email me questions you might have, and again thank you for visiting my website.