Background & Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Professional Background

MEDICAL SCHOOL

During his first year of medical school at the University of Texas, Dr. Coleman began interviewing adolescents with severe facial burns. During these interviews, he realized that these children's scarred faces interfered with their ability to communicate emotions and thoughts to the world around them. He began “scrubbing in” on cases of severe birth defects as well as the burned children he had come to know. Dr. Coleman's early experiences in medicine convinced him of the importance of the face in relating emotions and the conditions of a person's inner self to the outside world. The fascination of making souls visible to the outside world by altering facial structures eventually became the focus of Dr. Coleman's career.

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING

After Dr. Coleman received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Texas, he performed his internship and general surgery residency at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. He went on to complete a three-year plastic surgery residency at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. During this time, he studied Aesthetic and Craniofacial Surgery with Fernando Ortiz-Monastario in Mexico City and completed a fellowship in Microsurgery at the R.K. Davies Hospital in San Francisco.

Dr. Coleman studied during a revolutionary period in plastic surgery and medicine. The first year of his plastic surgery residency, liposuction and collagen were introduced to the United States. During his residency, a multitude of new reconstructive plastic surgery procedures were invented by his mentors before his very eyes at the R.K. Davies Hospital, UC San Francisco, Stanford and in Mexico. Just prior to opening his New York City practice in 1985, Dr. Coleman spent six months completing a fellowship in aesthetic surgery at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of the New York University Medical Center.

Teaching Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Plastic Surgery University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Plastic Surgery New York University Langone Medical Center

Publications and Presentations

Gutowski KA, Baker SB, Coleman SR, Khoobehi K, Lorenz HP, Massey MF, Pusic A, Rubin JP; the ASPS Fat Graft Task Force.
Current Applications and Safety of Autologous Fat Grafts: A Report of the ASPS Fat Graft Task Force.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal
March 2009 electronically published

Coleman, S. R., Sachdeva, K., Egbert, B. M., et al.
Clinical Efficacy of Noninvasive Cryolipolysis and Its Effects on Peripheral Nerves.
Aesthetic Plast Surg, 2009.

Sydney R. Coleman, Alesia Saboeiro
Structural Fat Augmentation of the Face and hands.
Book Chapter in S. Aston (Ed.), Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Edinburgh, UK: Elsevier, 2009.

Sydney R. Coleman, Alesia Saboeiro
Facial Rejuvenation with Structural Fat Grafting.
Techniques of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Series, Vol. 1. Edinburgh, UK: Elsevier, 2009.

Sydney R. Coleman, Alesia Saboeiro
Augmentation of Facial Structures with Autologous Fat.
In B. Guyuron (Ed.), Plastic Surgery Indications and Practice, Vol. 2. Oxford, UK
Saunders/Elsevier, 2009. Pp. 1555-1560.

Sydney R. Coleman, Riccardo Mazzola co-editors of book
Fat injection : from filling to regeneration.
St. Louis: Quality Medical Pub, 2009.

Coleman, S., Saboeiro, A., Sengelmann, R.
A comparison of lipoatrophy and aging: volume deficits in the face.
Aesthetic Plast Surg 33: 14-21, 2009.

Lee Pu, MD; Sydney R. Coleman, MD; Xiangdong Cui, MD, Robert Ferguson, MD and Henry C. Vasconez, MD
“Autologous Fat Grafts Harvested and Refined by the Coleman Technique: A Comparative Study”  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal
September 2008

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Lower lid deformity secondary to autogenous fat transfer: a cautionary tale”
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Vol.32 May 2008

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Fat Grafting to the Breast Revisited: Safety and Efficacy”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal
March 2007

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Facial Augmentation with Structural Fat Grafting”
Clinics in Plastic Surgery
October 2006

Pu, Lee L.Q. MD, PhD; Coleman, Sydney R. MD; Ferguson, Robert Edward H. Jr MD; Cui, Xiangdong MD; Vasconez, Henry C. MD
“Viability of Autologous Fat Grafts Harvested with the Coleman Technique and LipiVage System: A Controlled Study”
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Journal. Abstract Supplement. 118(4) Supplement:177,
September 2006.

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Structural Fat Grafting: more than a permanent filler”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
September 2006

Ascher, B; Coleman, S; Alster, T; Bauer, U; Burgess, C; Butterwick, K; Donofrio,
L; Engelhard, P; Goldman, MP; Katz, P; Vleggaar, D
“Full scope of effects of facial lipoatrphy: a framework of disease
understanding”
Dermatologic Surgery
August 2006

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Cross-linked Hyaluronic Acid Filllers”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
February 2006

Sydney R. Coleman, MD; Grover R, MD
“The anatomy of the aging face: Volume loss and changes in 3-
dimensional topography” Aesthetic Surgery Journal
January 2006

Terzis JK, MD; Rose EH , MD; Coleman SR, MD; Walton RL, MD
“Aesthetic considerations following facial reanimation procedures”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
January 2006

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
Structural Fat Grafting, by Sydney R. Coleman, MD
St. Louis, Quality Medical Publishing, 2004.

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
Roundtable in Plastic Surgery: Tissue Fillers in Plastic Surgery, edited by
Foad Nahai, MD
St. Louis, Quality Medical Publishing, 2004, p. 17-71.

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Structural Lipoaugmentation”
Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer, edited by Rhoda Narins, MD
New York, Marcel Dekker, February 2003, 409-423.

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Discussion: Treatment of Facial fat Atrophy Related to Treatment with
Protease Inhibitors by Autologour Fat Injection in Patients with Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Infection”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
August 2004

Sydney R. Coleman, MD; Jose Guerrerosantos, MD; P. Craig Hobar, MD; and
Edward Terino, MD
“Volumetric Considerations in Facial Augmentation”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
January/February 2003

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Hand Rejuvenation with Structural Fat Grafting”
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
December 2002

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
“Avoidance of arterial occlusion from injection of soft tissue fillers”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
November/December 2002

Sydney R. Coleman, MD
Discussion: “Lip Augmentation with Superficial Musculoaponeurotic System
Grafts: Report of 103 Cases”
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
January 2002

James H. Carraway, MD, Sydney R. Coleman, MD, Michael A. C. Kane, MD,
Michael Patipa, MD
“Periorbital rejuvenation”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
July/August 2001

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Structural Fat Grafts: the Ideal Filler”
Clinics in Plastic Surgery
Volume 28, No 1, January 2001

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Injectable Silicone Returns to the United States”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
November/December 2001

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Discussion: Free Fat Transplantation for Facial Tissue Augmentation”
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Vol. 58, No 2, February 2000

Hurwitz, Dennis, Sydney R. Coleman, M.D., Katz, Adam
“Structural Fat Grafting of the Face: Lessons from a Teacher and His Student”
Key Issues in Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery
Vol. 17, 2001

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“My View: Structural Fat Grafting”
Aesthetic Surgery Journal
September/October 1998

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Facial Recontouring With Lipostructure®”
Clinics in Plastic Surgery
Vol. 24, No 2, April 1997

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Long-Term Survival of Fat Transplants: Controlled Demonstrations”
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Vol. 19, 1995

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“Lipoinfiltration of the Upper Lip White Roll ”
Aesthetic Surgery
Vol 14, No 4, Winter 1994

Sydney R. Coleman, M.D.
“The Technique of Periorbital Lipoinfiltration ”
Operative Techniques in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Vol 1, No 3, November 1994

Sydney R. Coleman, MD; Harry Buncke, MD
“Reconstruction of the Mandible with Vascularized Cranial Bone Grafts”
Plastic Surgery Senior Resident’s Conference, 1985
American College of Surgeons, 1985
Published in Surgical Forum of the ACS, 1985

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