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THE Aesthetic Show
april 12 - 15 2012

Scientific Advisory Board

 

Mark Berman, M.D., F.A.C.S
Dr. Berman practices cosmetic surgery in the West Los Angeles area and is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Although he graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he is currently a clinical instructor in facial plastic surgery at the University of Southern California. Dr. Berman is well known for his work with fat grafting, particularly to restore the three-dimensional volume of the aging face. He is also the first surgeon to use Gore-Tex materials in cosmetic surgery, not only pioneering their use in facial surgery, but he also holds a patent on an e-PTFE breast implant device – the Pocket Protector® – used to repair or prevent capsule contracture in breast augmentation. Dr. Berman has authored a novel titled Substance of Abuse which is a controversial sexy thriller that suggests a solution to the war on drugs.
 
Angelo Cuzalina, M.D., D.D.S.
Dr. Cuzalina was elected as the president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery for 2011. He began his post-graduate education at Oklahoma State University (Stilwater, Okla.), graduating with a degree in physiology and went on to obtain a medical degree from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and a dental degree from Baylor University (Waco, Texas). Dr. Cuzalina completed an oral and maxillofacial surgery residency followed by a full body cosmetic surgery fellowship where his mentors were former presidents of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, and he is board certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery as well as the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has been in private practice, exclusive to cosmetic surgery, in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 1998 where he runs an AAAHC accredited surgery center with full time anesthesia and nursing staff along with overnight courtesy guest suites. Dr. Cuzalina hosts and is program chairman for several AACS and ACCME accredited live cosmetic surgery workshops every year and is the chairman and program director for an AACS Accredited Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship Program in full body and facial cosmetic surgery. As an author, Dr. Cuzalina has written key articles and book chapters in major medical publications on a variety of cosmetic surgery topics to include facial, breast and body procedures. He is routinely asked to lecture across the United States and internationally and has given well over 100 lectures across the globe relating to cosmetic surgery topics.
 
Michael H. Gold, M.D.
Dr. Gold is the founder of Gold Skin Care Center, Advanced Aesthetics Medical Spa, The Laser and Rejuvenation Center and Tennessee Clinical Research Center located in Nashville, Tenn. He is clinical assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and School of Nursing (Nashville, Tenn.), visiting professor of dermatology for Huashan Hospital, Fudan University (Shanghai, China 11/2006) and visiting professor of dermatology at No. One Hospital of China Medical University (Shenyang, China 11/2008). Dr. Gold is a board certified dermatologist / dermasurgeon who oversees the various facets of the Center’s operations, a combination of medical and surgical dermatology, cosmetic dermatology, aesthetic services and research endeavors. He is a member of various editorial boards, works as an associate editor with the majority of dermatology journals and is the author of over 300 published scientific articles, fifteen textbook chapters and editor of two textbooks on Photodynamic Therapy and Global PDT. Dr. Gold is an active member of many of the leading dermatology and laser specialty societies and is the president of the Tennessee Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery and treasurer of the American Society of Photodynamic Therapy.
 
Miles Graivier, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Graivier of North Atlanta Plastic Surgery (Roswell, Ga.) is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Graivier has authored numerous scientific papers on dermal fillers as well as other subjects. He also pioneered the use of wire subcision as a tool to correct lines, folds and scars. Dr. Graivier has been interviewed numerous times by CNN, FOX and ABC News, as well as magazines including: Allure, Vogue, Italian Vogue, More and New Beauty.
 
Warren Tracy Hankins, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Hankins has been practicing in Las Vegas, Nev. since 2004, and is chief of plastic surgery at Sunrise Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Hankins completed his medical training at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.) and his undergraduate training at Davidson College (Davidson, N.C.). He received broad training at the Grand Rapids program, where he worked closely with a premier breast surgeon. Dr. Hankins is also well-versed in cutting-edge cosmetic surgery techniques and is a frequent guest on television shows and networks.
 
J. David Holcomb, M.D.
Dr. Holcomb is a double board certified facial plastic surgeon, past president of the Florida Society of Facial Plastic Surgeons and current president of the Sarasota County Medical Society. He completed his residency training at the University of Iowa's Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (Iowa City, Iowa), which is consistently rated among the best in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Holcomb subsequently completed a fellowship in advanced cosmetic facial plastic surgery through the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Alexandria, Va.).
 
Linda Li, M.D.
Dr. Linda Li, one of the world’s most recognized female plastic surgeons, starred in five seasons of Dr. 90210. Viewers connected with on her a real and basic level for she is truly one of them – a working mother who is trying to balance her professional and personal life. After completing undergraduate and medical school in six years at Boston University, she continued her general surgery training at LA County. Her plastic surgery at New York City’s elite New York Presbyterian Hospital was a drastic change from LA County, but the satisfaction of restoring the lives of cancer victims and congenitally deformed individuals was equally rewarding. Now in her eleventh year of private practice in Beverly Hills, Calif., Dr. Li has reached the pinnacle of her professional medical career. Recognized as a leader in plastic surgery, this caring and grounded physician possesses unsurpassed decision making and technical skills. She lends her face and reputation to national charity events and can be seen attending Hollywood’s elite functions.
 
Joseph Niamtu, III, D.M.D.
Dr. Niamtu is well known in international cosmetic facial surgery circles as a surgeon, teacher and author and is regarded as a key opinion leader by academics and clinicians worldwide. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, is board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and his practice is limited to cosmetic facial surgery. Dr. Niamtu lectures internationally on cosmetic facial surgery and has taught on six continents around the world. He has written four textbooks, 22 chapters in other textbooks, hundreds of publications on various cosmetic facial topics and a cosmetic facial surgery DVD series. Dr. Niamtu has served on the board of directors of the Cosmetic Surgery Foundation and chaired numerous committees with the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, where he currently sits as Chair of the Communications Committee. He appears regularly in newspaper articles, television broadcasts and popular magazines, was voted "Best Plastic Surgeon to Take You Back 20 Years" by Richmond Magazine in 2010 and has received numerous "Best Speaker" awards at numerous multispecialty meetings.
 
Andrew P. Ordon, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Ordon is a host of the Emmy award-winning talk show THE Doctors. Dr. Ordon is an acclaimed aesthetic plastic and reconstructive surgeon with private practices in New York City, N.Y., Beverly Hills and Rancho Mirage, Calif. Dr. Ordon is currently an assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at Dartmouth Medical College and the UCLA School of Medicine. He is a Diplomate with the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the American Board of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Ordon has been featured on many television shows including 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, NBC News and ABC News among others. Dr. Ordon is the author of Revealing the New You, A Guide to Plastic Surgery and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Plastic Surgery. He also contributed to the textbook: Facial Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Ordon is a founding member of the Surgical Friends Foundation, a group of physicians offering complimentary reconstructive surgery to those who otherwise could not afford it. Many of these patients have suffered from birth defects, physical abuse and burns among other adverse conditions.
 
Jorge A. Perez, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Perez is a diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgeons. He has served as chief of plastic surgery at North Ridge Medical Center (Oakland Park, Fla.) and Imperial Point Medical Center (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.). Dr. Perez graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York, N.Y.) and completed residency training in general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery at The Montefiore Hospital. He was invited to stay as a member of the faculty and was privileged to assist in the training of other plastic surgeons and medical students. Dr. Perez has been selected repeatedly among Castle Connolly/U.S. News and World Report's listing of America's Top Doctors. He has been featured as an expert in plastic surgery on ABC, NBC, CBS, Univision and Telemundo.
 
Alexander Z. Rivkin, M.D.
Dr. Rivkin is a Yale (New Haven, Conn.) trained facial cosmetic surgeon and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), faculty member who focuses exclusively on non-invasive cosmetic procedures. He was the first physician in the country to offer the Non-Surgical Nose Job, his signature method for non-invasive correction of cosmetic nasal irregularities. Dr. Rivkin has become an international authority on non-surgical cosmetic treatments and has been featured throughout the national media on shows like The Today Show, The Doctors and EXTRA. He currently divides his time between patient care, clinical research, educating other physicians, media appearances and lecturing at scientific conferences throughout the world.
 
Deborah S. Sarnoff, M.D., F.A.A.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Sarnoff, a board certified dermatologist, is a premier specialist in cosmetic dermatology, laser surgery and Mohs surgery for the treatment of skin cancer. A clinical professor of dermatology at NYU Medical Center, Dr. Sarnoff is senior vice president of The Skin Cancer Foundation and director of dermatologic surgery at Cosmetique Dermatology, Laser & Plastic Surgery, LLP. Dr. Sarnoff lectures, teaches and publishes extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has been interviewed on The Today Show, 20/20, Good Morning America, Dateline, Nightline, The View, CBS News, NBC News and The Doctors . She also co-authored the books Beauty and the Beam: Your Complete Guide to Cosmetic Laser Surgery and Instant Beauty: Getting Gorgeous on Your Lunch Break. Dr. Sarnoff has been named one of the Best Doctors in New York by New York Magazine, one of New York's Super Doctors by The New York Times, and one of the Top Doctors in America and the N.Y. metro area by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. She also serves as a principal investigator for clinical studies that lead to groundbreaking treatments and new technologies in the field of dermatology.
 
E. Victor Ross, M.D.
Dr. Ross is the director of the Laser and Cosmetic Dermatology Center at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, Calif. He serves as associate editor of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and as a board member of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Dr. Ross attended Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Miss.) where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physics. He obtained his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine (New Orleans, La.) where he was a junior year inductee into Alpha Omega Alpha. In 1992 he completed a three-year dermatology residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. In 1994 he was the first Navy-sponsored fellow in Photomedicine and Lasers at Massachusetts General Hospital. His special interests are laser skin resurfacing, fractional laser applications, photodynamic therapy, non-ablative skin remodeling, laser treatment of leg veins, laser treatment of acne and laser hair reduction in darker skin types. He is the author of over 75 articles and seven book chapters.
 
William Philip Werschler, M.D., F.A.A.D., F.A.A.C.S.
Dr. Werschler is an assistant clinical professor of medicine/ dermatology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Wash., a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Dr. Werschler is an internationally recognized expert in BOTOX® and dermal filler injection techniques and has a private practice in medical, surgical and aesthetic dermatology.
 
Woffles Wu, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., F.A.M.S.
Dr. Wu is a consultant aesthetic and plastic surgeon, and medical director of Woffles Wu Aesthetic Surgery and Laser Centre in Singapore. Dr. Wu graduated from the National University of Singapore (Singapore) in 1984 and qualified as a surgeon with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, U.K., in 1989. From 1992-1993 he broadened his training as a plastic and craniofacial fellow at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In 1994 he became board certified by the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Dr. Wu sits on numerous committees of several international professional societies and has published many clinical papers and book chapters, and is on the editorial board of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Wu has shared his experience in over 100 international conferences and symposia where he has been an invited keynote speaker, panelist or moderator. Dr. Wu's outstanding career in cosmetic surgery has been featured on television, as well as in over 250 books, newspapers and magazine articles. He was featured as one of the 20 most famous plastic surgeons in the world in the book Aesthetic Surgery published in 2006.