Training and board certification
- Medical degree, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1978.
- Plastic Surgery Residency, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1990.
- Board certified: American Board of Plastic Surgery (1993) and American Board of Family Practice (1981); Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand (1995).
- Active in the University of Minnesota Plastic Surgery Residency Program; Chair, Department of Plastic & Hand Surgery, Regions Hospital.
- Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, since 2006 (Instructor 1991, Assistant Professor 1993, Associate Professor 1999).
- Staff physician at most hospitals in the East Metro area.
- Voted a "Top Doctor" by Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine.
Source for all rows: source.
Eyelid surgery work
HealthPartners Plastic Surgery is a six-surgeon group (Heinrich, Nguyen, Hillard, Mahajan, Loewenstein, Schubert); the eyelid surgery and brow lift pages are shared practice pages, not attributed to a specific surgeon.
- Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty). Removes fat and excess skin and muscle from the upper and lower eyelids; incisions follow the natural eyelid lines, in the upper-lid crease and just below the lower lashes. The page states blepharoplasty will not remove crow's feet, dark circles, or lift sagging eyebrows, and can be combined with a facelift or brow lift (blepharoplasty).
- Brow lift. Elevates sagging eyebrows and reduces forehead creases by repositioning forehead muscle; usually performed endoscopically through three to four small hairline incisions, or through temple/scalp incisions for a low or sagging brow, sometimes combined with upper eyelid surgery (source).
Other procedures
The practice also offers cheek implants, chin surgery/genioplasty, cleft-lip and palate repair, ear pinning (otoplasty), facelift, lip augmentation, nose surgery, scar revision, breast procedures (augmentation, lift, reduction, reconstruction, male breast reduction, transfeminine/transmasculine top surgery), body contouring, hand and reconstructive surgery, and non-surgical skin rejuvenation, none attributed to a specific surgeon on the general procedure pages.
Insurance and cost
The eyelid surgery page states patients are "responsible for any health insurance co-pay or deductibles" for non-cosmetic procedures, and a linked blog teaser notes that severe upper-eyelid sagging reducing vision "may be covered by the person's insurance" (blepharoplasty). Neither the eyelid nor brow lift page publishes a price; both state cost depends on exam fees, surgeon's fees, hospital charges, anesthesia and technique.
Recovery statement (eyelid surgery page): "Occasionally patients will have double or blurred vision for a few days after surgery. There may also be temporary swelling or a slight asymmetry in healing or scarring." No day-by-day recovery schedule is published for eyelid surgery or brow lift.