Background & Specialties

Board Certification

National Board of Medical Examiners: 1983
American Board of Plastic Surgeons: 1990
American College of Surgeons: 1993

Professional Background

PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Private Practice in South Orange County since 1988
Chief of Plastic Surgery, South Coast Medical Center, Laguna Beach, CA since 1990
Chief of Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital at Mission, Mission Viejo, CA since 1997
Medical Director, Oceanview Ambulatory Surgery Center, Laguna Beach, CA since 1994

EDUCATION Undergraduate Degree, Walla Walla College, College Place, WA, - B.A. in Chemistry, 1974-1978
Medical School, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA - M.D. Degree, 1978 -1982
Internship in General Surgery, Wright State University, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH 1982 -1983
Residency in General Surgery, Wright State University, Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, OH 1983 -1985
Fellowship in Plastic Surgery, Phoenix Plastic Surgery Residency, Rex Peterson, M.D., Director, Phoenix, AZ 1985 -1986
Residency in Plastic Surgery, Medical College of Ohio, George Baibak, M.D., Director, NW Ohio Plastic Surgeons, Toledo, OH 1986 -1988

Teaching Appointments

Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Loma Linda University since 1992

Publications and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

"RHYTIDECTOMY," Plastic Surgery Secrets, Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Medical Publishers, Philadelphia, PA, Rexford A. Peterson, M.D., F.A.C.S., and Daniel C. Mills, II M.D., F.A.C.S., 1999, 55:291-302
"ANCILLARY PROCEDURES FOR FACIAL REJUVENATION," Masters of Surgery, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, Jack Friedland, M.D., F.A.C.S. and Daniel C. Mills, II, M.D., F.A.C.S., 1994, 3:1979 -1989
"FINDER SUTURES," Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1989, 83:392
"SUPPURATIVE CHONDRITIS: ITS INCIDENCE, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION IN BURN PATIENTS," Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1988, 82:267
PRESENTATIONS

SAFETY OF CONTINUOUS INFUSION OF LOCAL ANESTHETIC VIA ELASTOMERIC BOLUS PUMP FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING ABDOMINOPLASTY Presented at the Aesthetic Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, April 17, 2004
SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY IN THE AUGMENTED BREAST: THE ROLE OF THE TRANSAXILLARY SUBPECTORAL APPROACH Presented at the Aesthetic Society Meeting, Boston, MA, May 20, 2003
STRIAE DISTENSAE: COMPLICATING AUGMENTATION MAMMAPLASTY Presented at the California Plastic Surgery Society, Sacramento, CA, April 4, 2003
IS THE TRANSAXILLARY AUGMENTATION A CONTRAINDICATION FOR THE SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY? Presented at the 17th Annual Workshop in Plastic Surgery, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 28, 2003
IS THE TRANSAXILLARY AUGMENTATION A CONTRAINDICATION FOR THE SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY? Presented at the California Plastic Surgery Society, Rancho Mirage, CA May 25, 2002
TISSUE REARRANGEMENT MASTOPEXY INFERIOR PEDICLE TECHNIQUE Presented at the 16th Annual Workshop in Plastic Surgery, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 30, 2002
STRETCH MARKS IN BREAST AUGMENTATION PATIENTS Presented at the 16th Annual Workshop in Plastic Surgery, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 30, 2002
CONTROVERSIES OF BREAST AUGMENTATION Panel Member at the 69th Annual Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University, Coleman Pavilion, Loma Linda, CA, February 25, 2001
ENDOSCOPIC MID-FACE SUSPENSION, HOW LONG DOES IT LAST? Presented at the 15th Annual Workshop in Plastic Surgery, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 22, 1996
FACELIFT MID-FACE SUSPENSION Presented at the French Aesthetic Society Annual Meeting, Avignon, France, September 20, 1997
ENDOSCOPIC MID-FACE SUSPENSION WITH EMPHASIS ON NASOLABIAL IMPROVEMENT Presented at the 10th Annual Workshop in Plastic Surgery, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, January 22, 1996
WOUND HEALING CAPABILITIES OF CULTURED ALLOGRAFT: USE WITH CHRONIC SKIN ULCERS AND WOUNDS Presented at the California Plastic Surgery Society, Coronado, CA, February 28, 1994
TRANSAXILLARY SUBPECTORAL AUGMENTATION MAMMOPLASTY: A 5-YEAR EXPERIENCE
Presented at the American College of Surgeons, Newport Beach, January 23,1994.
RIGID FIXATION OF THE CRANIOFACIAL SKELETON Presented at Loma Linda University, The School of Dentistry, Loma Linda, CA, March 28, 1993
LONG TERM RESULTS OF CHONDRITIS PATIENTS TREATED WITH IONTOPHORESIS Presented at the Northwest Ohio Plastic Surgery Symposium and Review Course, Toledo, OH, December 12, 1987
TWENTY YEAR TRENDS IN TREATMENT OF OTOCHONDRITIS Presented at the Northwest Ohio Plastic Surgery Symposium and Review Course,Toledo, OH, December 12, 1987
SUPPURATIVE CHONDRITIS: ITS INCIDENCE, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION IN BURN PATIENTS Presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA, October 1986
Chairman of Scientific Session, Northwest Ohio Plastic Surgery Symposium and Review Course, December 11-13, 1987