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Richard Ellenbogen, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S.
Richard Ellenbogen, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S.
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen is a renowned Plastic Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgeon of the United States. He is also the Director of a prestigious postgraduate fellowship program in advanced aesthetic surgery. Plastic surgeons from all over the world come to be taught by him.
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen excelled in art and pre-med courses. He graduated from the University of Miami Medical School in 1968. He then completed general surgery training in New York City. Dr. Ellenbogen served a fellowship in hand surgery at the prestigious Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City. During his training in New York, he worked as an assistant police surgeon in the South Bronx. He completed his residency at the State University of New York in Plastic, Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgery. This portrait artist-turned surgeon found his medium and went on to become on of LA's top plastic surgeons.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1975 he 1978 he became board certified in Plastic Surgery in 1978. His personal medical suite was designed with state of the art outpatient operating rooms and museum quality antiques, which Dr. Ellenbogen refinished himself. Since 1980, his practice has been limited to cosmetic surgery, but Dr. Ellenbogen still performs reconstructive birth defects surgery and consults on cases involving complicated reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Ellenbogen is one of the most published and innovative plastic surgeons who has written textbooks and scientific journal articles on facelift, eyelid surgery, forehead lift, breathing and cosmetic nasal surgery, underarm breast enlargement, and liposuction techniques, as well as research on silicone. Many of the techniques he has helped create are used and referred to by plastic surgeons all over the world today.
He has twice been awarded the American Medical Association Physicians Recognition Award, Dr. Ellenbogen is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery, the American Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Society, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, and a clinical instructor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Southern California. Dr. Ellenbogen keeps current by attending and lecturing at international conferences at least once each year.
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