Affiliations & Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, 1984 - present
Children’s Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, California, 1984 - present

Society Memberships

American Association of Plastic Surgeons, 1992
American Cleft Palate Association, 1988
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 1998
American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, 1986
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 1985
California Society of Plastic Surgeons, 1987
Corresponding Member, Societa Italiana di Chirugia Plastica, Reconstructiva ed Estetica, 1999
European Association of Plastic Surgeons, 1995
Fellow American College of Surgeons, 1987
Founding Member, American Craniofacial Society, 1992
Founding Member, International Society for Simulation Surgery, 1992
French Society of Plastic Surgeons - Paris, France, 1985
Honorary Member, Bohemoslovakian Society of Surgery – Czechoslovakia, 1992
Honorary Member, Hungarian Society of Plastic Surgery, 2002
Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, 2006
Honorary member, Societatis Chicurgia Plastic Reconstructive et Aesthetica Hungariae, 2002
Honorary Member, Vietnamese Society of Plastic Surgery, 1993
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2002
International Society of Computer Aided Surgery, 1994
International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, 1986
San Francisco Surgical Society, 1990

Offices Held

Medical Advisory Board, Apsara Medical Inc., 2006-present
Editorial Board, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2001-2003
Domestic Clinical Symposia Committee, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 1998-1999
Scientific Program Chairman, Annual Meeting, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, 1991, 1993, 1995-1998
Chief, Division of Plastic Surgery, Children’s Hospital Research Center, Oakland, CA, 1991-2000
Chairman, International Symposium Committee, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, 1991-1993
Clinical Fellow in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1978-1984

Honors and Awards

John Hope Award – Brown University, 1998
For extraordinary commitment to volunteer public service
Merck Award – Brown University, 1976