American Board of Plastic Surgeons – Board Certified since 1986
American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
American Medical Association
Yale Surgical Society
New Haven County Medical Society
Connecticut (1980 – Present)
New York (2000 – Present)
Florida (2014 – Present)
Arizona (2019 – Present)
Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT (1980 – Present)
Temple Surgical Center, New Haven, CT (1980 – Present)
Surgery Center of Fairfield County, Trumbull, CT (2001 – Present)
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL (2023 – Present)
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Science – 1971
Medical Doctorate – 1976
Surgical Residency in Pathology – 1977–1978
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – 1980–1982
Yale University Hospital Saint Raphael, New Haven, CT
Surgical Internship – 1976–1977
General Surgery Residency – 1978–1980
The Ed Sullivan Show – 1966 Harvest Moon Ball Dance Champion
CBS: The Doctors – “Why Brown Fat is Healthy” (2009)
Fox 5 San Diego – The Brown Fat Revolution (2010)
WINH – “Contour Thread Facelift” (2005)
News 12 Connecticut – “Treating Skin with Diet” (2003)
Martha Stewart Sirius Radio (2013)
Mary Jones Show – Regular contributor (2012–2013)
WOR Health Talk with Dr. Ronald Hoffman (2009)
The Fitness Buff Show with Pete Williams (2009)
Body-Talk Radio, KTIP (2009)
Yale University Plastic Surgery Residents Award – Award for Teaching Excellence (1997)
Palomar Medical Technologies
Host and instructor for doctors domestically and internationally in Slim-Lipo and liposuction transfer procedures
Webinar lecturer: Large Volume Lipo Transfer: Meeting the Demand
Pallette Company, New York, NY
Teacher of didactic seminars and facial injectable training courses at Mount Sinai Hospital
The Brown Fat Revolution – St. Martin’s Press, 2009 (named one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Diet Books)
Lose the Fat, Lose the Years – St. Martin’s Press, 2011
Interviewed for U.S. News & World Report, “Obesity Rates May Be Leveling Off But How to Shed ‘That Fat?” (2010)
Interviewed by Terry Troy for Cosmetic Surgery Times, “Beauty Begins from Within for Veteran Plastic Surgeon” (2003)
Interviewed for “The Plastic Bubble,” The Hartford Advocate (2008)
Interviewed for “Breast Reconstruction of Cancer Patients,” New Haven Register (1983)
Contributor to the Time-Life series on Breast Diseases (1995)
Author of “A Focus on Faces” series in Westport Minuteman, Darien News Review, and Greenwich Times
Author of “Five Traits of Female Attractiveness” in Washington Informer and Rockfield Review (2009)
Interviewed for “A Vision of Beauty,” The Fairfield County Times (2006)
Interviewed for “Living Well: Good Health and Radiant Beauty,” Weston Magazine (2006)
Interviewed for “Cutting Edge: Corporate Execs Choose Plastic Surgery,” Fairfield County Business Journal (1999)
Interviewed for “At Face Value,” The Advocate & Greenwich Times (2006)
Featured in “The New of Plastic Surgery,” Westport News (2005)
Medical TFL Flap – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, July 1982
Co-author of “The Lateral Pectoral Composite Flap in One-Stage Reconstruction of the Irradiated Mandible” – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, March 1983
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