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 Dr. Leslie Howard Stevens, MD, FACS
Leslie Howard Stevens, MD FACS is a renown aesthetic plastic surgeon that is well respected by his surgical peers. Dr Stevens has been practicing in the Beverly Hills area since 1988. He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has been a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons since 1989. He is also a member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr.Stevens has limited his practice to aesthetic surgery only. He specializes in facial rejuvenation surgery, breast surgery and body contouring. He believes that by focusing on just a few cosmetic procedures, he can best deliver the optimum results to his patients on a consistent basis.
Over the course of his practice he has been sought out by the media as an expert in his field. He has been seen on NBC and CBS local news, Access Hollywood, and E Entertainment Channel. He has been featured on The Sharon Osbourne Show, The Life of Luxury on ABC and the Lisa Gibbons Show. Dr Stevens has also been quoted in many periodicals including , Los Angeles Magazine, Shape, People, Jane, W, Elle, Bazaar, and Parade to name a few and has been featured in Cosmopolitan and The Wall Street Journal.
Dr Stevens is a native of Los Angeles. He is married with one child. He is active in many charitable organizations. He has operated in South America with Interplast and is on the board of Los Angeles ORT. Dr Stevens is also an accomplished athlete. He cycles at a competitive level and is an avid skier.
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 Dr. Andrew Frankel, MD, FACS
Dr. Andrew Frankel has been practicing at the Lasky Clinic since 1994. Originally from Highland Park, Illinois, Dr. Frankel completed medical school and a five year residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in order to complete an additional year of specialty training in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery with Dr. Frank Kamer. Dr. Frankel is board certified in both Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well as Otolaryngology (ENT) and exclusively performs surgery in the face, head and neck regions. Two years experience with Dr. Kamer gave Dr. Frankel an early expertise at performing deep plane face lifts. The great majority of Dr. Frankel’s practice involves facial rejuvenation (such as facelifts, brow lifts and eyelid surgery) and rhinoplasty. However, Dr. Frankel also performs reconstructive facial surgery such as for skin cancer or trauma and a great deal of revision nasal surgery to help improve breathing as well as to restore form. Dr. Frankel is a member of the National Domestic Violence Project, where he performs pro bono surgery on victims of domestic abuse.
Dr. Frankel serves as an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the division of Head and Neck Surgery at University of California, Los Angeles, where he was awarded the “Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award” in 1996. In 2007 Dr. Frankel was granted the distinction of becoming one of only 36 Fellowship Directors under the auspices of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Frankel has remained actively involved in clinical research and has served as a consultant to several medical corporations in this regard. As an adjunct to his work as a surgeon, Dr. Frankel also serves as a consultant for a Hollywood special effects company. Dr. Frankel interacts directly with the special effects team and provides them an authentic, scientific perspective based on his expertise on facial aging and anatomy in order to make actors look younger, older or better in a realistic fashion. Dr. Frankel's work includes some of the amazing effects seen on such aclaimed films as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Departed", "Babel", "X-Men III", and the upcoming "Jack and Jill" as well as various television commericals. Dr. Frankel's work was recently featured on a television series on the Science Channel called "Science of the Movies".
Dr. Frankel is a recognized authority in his field. He has served as an editor for an entire monograph on midface lifting and has contributed published papers regarding many topics within the field of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Frankel has lectured at national and international meetings regarding facelifts, eyelid surgery, and midface lifts and has been an instructor as well as a lecturer regarding injectable filler agents. He published the first-ever scientific paper (“Chemical Brow Lift”) describing the use of Botox to change brow position and has continued to contribute chapters and papers regarding this topic. Dr. Frankel was one of only two doctors to be involved with the clinical research trials for both Restylane and Juvederm which led to their approval by the Food and Drug Administration as dermal fillers. As an adjunct to his participation in those studies, Dr. Frankel also co-authored the first published paper regarding the treatment of undesirable consequences from injections with Restylane.
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Dr. Andrew T. Cohen, MD, FACS
Dr. Andrew T. Cohen, a native of Southern California, practices at the Lasky Clinic which has maintained its prestigious reputation both within the city of Beverly Hills and the world over. Dr. Cohen is Board Certified by the American Society of Plastic Surgery. He completed both his general surgery training and plastic surgery fellowship at Loma Linda University.
Dr. Cohen comes from a long line of family surgeons. His father, a prominent general surgeon in Huntington Beach, California, instilled a strong work ethic and love of surgery to all four of the Cohen sons. The oldest, Dr. Mitchell Cohen, M.D. is an orthopedic spine surgeon in Newport Beach, California. Dr. Stephen Cohen and Dr. Jeffrey Cohen are colorectal surgeons in practice together in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Cohen has specialized fellowship training in aesthetic and oculoplastic surgery with Drs. Rod Hester, Mark Codner, Foad Nahai and Clinton McCord in Atlanta, Georgia. This additional training makes Dr. Cohen a highly specialized plastic surgeon of the face and eyelids. In addition, body contouring, liposuction, breast augmentation and abdominal contouring are some of the few cosmetic procedures that are Dr. Cohen's specialty. Dr. Cohen is active in the academic aspects of plastic surgery in the form of invited lectures and publications. He has participated in missionary work in Argentina, operating on children with cleft lip and palate defects.
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 Dr. Gary Tearston, MD, FACS
Dr. Gary Tearston has been a leading plastic surgeon in the Beverly Hills area for over thirty years. After graduating from Stanford University "With Great Distinction" (Suma Cum Laude), and graduating medical school with honors from University of Pennsylvania, he performed his internship and full general surgery residency at USC-County General Medical Center, and then completed a Plastic Surgery Residency at University of Illinois Chicago, where he accumulated broad experience and training in facial reconstructive surgery through the renown Craniolfacial Center at University of Illinois Medical Center. The exposure to complicated facial reconstructive surgery has been an asset throughout his practice in solving many thousands of structural facial cosmetic and reconstructive surgical problems. He also has had an especially extensive experience in correction of facial aging including thousands of facelift procedures, accompanied by eyelid, eyebrow, and forehead, and nasal procedures, and use of other modalities such as fillers, fat grafting, and resurfacing with laser, dermabrasion, and peeling.
His practice has included extensive experience in body contouring procedures such as breast augmentation and reduction and uplifts, abdominoplasties, thigh and buttock and arm lifts. He has had an early and continuous experience in lipo-sculpture to correct contour deformities including difficult areas such as the knees, calves. and lower legs.
Dr. Tearston has been active as an attending staff member at Cedar Sinai Medical Center, where he has been past Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery. Early in his practice and continuing on through today he has had a special interest and emphasis in breast cancer reconstruction. He is an active participant at Cedar Sinai Breast Center.
He is board certified in both general and plastic surgery, although his practice has been focused on plastic surgery. He has been a continuous member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, as well as the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a current Officer of the Los Angeles Plastic Surgery Society. He is also a member of the Society of Graduate Surgeons of the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California, Fellow American College of Surgeons, and the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honors societies.
Dr. Tearston believes in focusing on the art and craft of Plastic Surgery. He believes that successful plastic surgery depends equally upon the aesthetic artistic vision in order to know the desired end result, and the experience and execution of craft in order to arrive there. His hobbies since an early age have been in crafts and art. He has continued crafts in woodwork and metalwork. Over the years he has personally made several of the operating instruments that he uses in surgery. This enduring commitment to arts and crafts has allowed him to approach patients problems with an open mind and the ability, when necessary, to "think out-of-the-box" in solving these problems.
He is absolutely committed to the field of medicine with a responsible, privileged dedication to the welfare of his patients. At his graduation from University of Pennsylvania Medical School he received the Morris Ginsburg prize, which is a prize presented from the faculty to that graduating student "who best demonstrates the dedication and other qualities of the ideal physician".
The fact that plastic surgery has a more direct appeal to the psyche and emotional fragility of patients sometimes causes patients to act impulsively. Patients are bombarded with commercial information, much of it being irresponsible and self-serving. Dr. Tearston is dedicated to the principle that a plastic surgeon is first and foremost a physician, and that, as a physician, his role is to not take advantage of impulsive or misguided patient desires, but to guide the patient, if technically possible and appropriate, in achieving their desired goals.
His patient clientele has been local, national, and international. He has operated on many celebrities over the years; however, all his patients are celebrities to him and all are treated with the same concern for their welfare and respect for privacy.
 Dr. Carlos Ayala, MD, FACS
Carlos Ayala M.D. FACS, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. Previous Chief, Facial Plastic Surgery, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. Current Facial Plastic Surgery Fellow, Lasky Clinic Beverly Hills, CA.
Dr. Ayala is currently on active duty in the United States Air Force Medical Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel. He received his BS in Nursing in 1991 from Binghamton University with Highest Honors (GPA 3.98). He then attended medical school at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he received numerous academic honors, including induction into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), selected as an Academic Medicine Fellow by the National Medical Fellowships Program, and a Letter of Distinction in Pharmacology from Louis J. Ignarro recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Dr. Ayala then served as a Clinical Fellow in Surgery, Harvard Medical School during his General Surgery Internship at the Beth Israel Deaconess, and Clinical Fellow in Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, during his residency in the Harvard Otolaryngology Residency Program.
Dr Ayala is Board Certified in Otolaryngology, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgerons. Dr Ayala is also an Air Force Flight Surgeon who has worked with NASA in support of various Space Shuttle Missions. Dr Ayala’s dedication to the community have led him to participate in various medical missions to Cuba, Ecuador, Russia, and Guatemala. Dr Ayala has also recently been selected to train in a competitive and prestigious Facial Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills, California.
Dr. Ayala’s ongoing dedication to medicine and surgery have earned him the US Air Force, Air Mobility Command, “Surgeon of the Year” 2006 award, and his selection as one of “America’s Top Physicians” by Consumer Research Council of America, 2008.
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