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Overview &
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While at the University of Florida,
Richard Ellenbogen excelled in both art
and pre-med courses. He went on to graduate
from the University of Miami Medical School
in 1968. He then completed general surgery
training in New York City. To satisfy
an interest in plastic surgical correction
of birth defects, Dr. Ellenbogen traveled
to The Hague, Netherlands, where he served
a fellowship at the Red Cross Hospital.
When he returned to the United States,
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. Dr. Ellenbogen competed 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 the top revision rhinoplasthy specialists
in the country.
Dr. Ellenbogen moved to Los Angeles in
1975, and in 1978 he became board certified
in Plastic Surgery. 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.
One of the most published and innovative
plastic surgeons, Dr. Ellenbogen has written
textbooks and scientific journal articles
on nostril and tip revisions as well as
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.
A two time recipient of 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.
In giving plastic surgery its proper prospective,
he sometimes views his specialty as a
way to "jumpstart people" who
would benefit by having their self-image
enhanced. Dr. Ellenbogen offers his patients
a good heart, a sense of humor, and an
artist's eye. |
