Training and board certification
Source for the table: source
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| College | The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; BS, Biology, 1983 |
| Medical school | University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA; MD, 1987 |
| Residency | General Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, 1993 |
| Residency | Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD, 1995 |
- Board certification as printed: "Board-Certified in Plastic Surgery."
- Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the John Staige Davis Plastic Surgery Society and the Maryland Plastic Surgery Society.
- Developed and is Medical Director of the Cumberland Cleft Clinic, with the Crippled Children's League, for children with cleft lip and palate.
- Served 18 years in the Army Reserves Medical Corps, including active duty during the Iraq War in 2003; retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2006.
- Takes part in annual cleft lip and palate missions to the Philippines.
Eyelid surgery work
- Blepharoplasty. The eyelid page treats hooded and wrinkled eyelids, under-eye bulges and dark circles. The page states the upper lid's appearance depends on brow position. Treatments named are brow elevation, structural fat grafting into thinning eyelids, Botox, and removal of bulging fat pads and drooping skin (source).
- Functional eyelid surgery. The page covers visual field obstruction from excess skin or a weak lid-lifting muscle, ectropion (lower lid hanging away from the eye) and entropion (lid rolling inward).
- Brow lift. An endoscopic brow lift through several small incisions behind the hairline, with fixation devices that dissolve in four to six months (source).
Gallery: 30 brow lift and eyelid surgery patients. Case labels include upper and lower blepharoplasty, functional upper blepharoplasty, and coronal, temporal, lateral, endoscopic and direct brow lifts (source).
The site has no page for ptosis repair, double eyelid surgery, canthoplasty or revision eyelid surgery.
Other procedures
The site lists facelift, SAFE Lift, neck lift, rhinoplasty, cheek and chin augmentation, facial fat grafting, chemical peel and cleft lip and palate repair, plus breast, body, hand and vein treatments.
Insurance and cost
- "Many insurance plans cover surgical repair of the eyelids that impair the field of vision" (source).
- The pricing page lists upper blepharoplasty at $2,350.00 and lower blepharoplasty at $3,092.50. Listed prices include office visits, surgeon's fee, operating room costs, anesthesia and post-operative garments; prescriptions and lab work are extra (source).
- Financing through CareCredit.
Recovery
- Brow lift: initial wound healing takes 5 to 10 days, when sutures or clips are removed and patients can return to work.
- A thin drain tube may be placed; the forehead may be taped and the head loosely wrapped.
- Swelling fades over several weeks; complete recovery may take several months.