Training and board certification
Source for all rows: source
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| College | Franklin and Marshall College, Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude |
| Medical school | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Residency | Combined general and plastic surgery residency, The Johns Hopkins Hospital (the site states she was the first to finish it) |
| Further training | Aesthetic, breast and body contouring surgery in Nashville with Dr. G. Patrick Maxwell and Dr. Jack Fisher |
- Board certification: "Board Certified in Plastic Surgery"; the page names the American Board of Plastic Surgery. She sits on its Board of Directors and examines candidates for certification.
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (as printed).
- Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, part-time faculty.
- 22 years at Johns Hopkins, including chief of plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, before moving to private practice in Lutherville.
- Visiting professor for the Plastic Surgery Foundation in 2017 and 2018; former editor-in-chief of Plastic Surgery News.
- Author of a surgical atlas on breast and body contouring surgery (McGraw Hill, 2010).
Eyelid surgery work
- Upper blepharoplasty. An incision in the upper eyelid crease removes excess skin and fat. It can often be done in-office under local anesthesia with oral sedation, or under general anesthesia, and typically takes under an hour.
- Lower blepharoplasty. An incision below the lash line removes excess fat and tightens skin, under sedation or general anesthesia. She typically encourages fat transfer to the upper cheek to support the lower lid.
- The male blepharoplasty page also names transconjunctival blepharoplasty, an incision inside the lower lid, for fat removal or redistribution (male blepharoplasty).
- The page states she has performed "many hundreds of blepharoplasty surgeries."
- Repeat surgery is offered after assessment; lower lid secondary surgery often treats residual fat pockets.
- Brow lift. Most patients have the endoscopic approach through small incisions in the hair. Other options are an upper eyelid incision combined with upper lid surgery and a temple-hairline incision for hooding at the side of the eye (brow lift).
Galleries:
- Blepharoplasty: 34 patient cases. They include upper lid surgery under local anesthesia, lower lid surgery, combined lids with endoscopic brow lift and cheek fat transfer, and one revision of upper eyelid surgery done elsewhere (source).
- Brow lift: 10 patient cases (source).
Other procedures
The site lists facelift, deep plane facelift, neck lift, rhinoplasty, facial fat transfer, buccal fat removal, lip lift, otoplasty and Mohs reconstruction. It also offers breast and body surgery, male procedures, injectables and skin treatments (drshermak.com).
Insurance and cost
- Insurance covers upper lid surgery when lowered upper lids block the visual field, with visual field testing as documentation. Lower lid surgery is not covered (blepharoplasty).
- Published prices (source):
- Upper or lower eyelid surgery: $5,050 to $5,550.
- Upper and lower lid surgery together: starting at $6,250.
- Mini temple brow lift under local: starting at $3,000.
- Financing: Advance Care, CareCredit, Alphaeon Credit and Prosper Healthcare Lending.
Recovery
- Bruising and swelling: expected for the first week; swelling may take up to a month or two to resolve.
- Back to work: after one week in the recovery section; the at-a-glance box says about two weeks.
- Stitches out: about 1 week.
- Contact lenses and heavy lifting: avoided for at least 10-14 days; makeup after about 10-14 days.
- Final result: 1-3 months. Upper lid results last 5-10 years or longer.