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Dr.
Medalie is a board-certified
plastic and reconstructive surgeon
who originally hails from the east coast, having grown up in Washington
D.C. and lived in both Boston and New York City. He graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard University and then studied art in New York City at
Parsons School of design and the Art Student’s League prior to
entering Cornell University Medical College. After his third year of
medical school, he spent a year in Paris conducting endocrinology
research, returning to Cornell for his fourth year to receive his
Doctorate of Medicine with early membership in the honor society, Alpha
Omega Alpha. He then received the honor of being the first physician
ever accepted into the new and highly regarded University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center integrated plastic surgery training program. This
comprehensive program combined six years of general and plastic surgery
with two additional years of intensive research. He decided to spend
those two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burns
Institute as a surgical research fellow studying gene therapy and skin
tissue engineering.
Upon
completion of his training he was appointed assistant professor of
plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Kentucky Medical
Center in Lexington, Kentucky. He remained there as an attending surgeon
and director of the burn/wound clinic for three years prior to moving to
Cleveland to be closer to family. For the next 4 years he served as an assistant
professor at MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland and Chief of plastic surgery at the Cleveland Medical Center. He is now pleased to announce his new full time affiliation with Metrohealth Medical Center in Cleveland and his continued affiliation with Case Western Reserve Medical School.
He
maintains clinical interests in the broad field of plastic surgery
including:
-aesthetic
and reconstructive breast and body contouring
-cosmetic and reconstructive facial surgery
-post bariatric surgery
-pediatric, hand and microvascular
reconstruction
-He also specializes in all aspects of transgender surgery.
His
research interests include the general area of wound healing with
specific interests in tissue engineering, skin substitutes and cutaneous
gene therapy.
To
visit Dr. Medalie's American Society of Plastic Surgery
web site, please click
here.
To
visit Dr. Medalie's Breast
surgery web
site, please click
here.
To
visit Dr. Medalie's Body
surgery web
site, please click
here.
Dr.
Medalie's Curriculum Vitae
Metro Plastic Surgery is a three man partnership of academic plastic surgeons
comprising the
Division of Plastic Surgery at MetroHealth Medical Center of Cleveland. This
is the personal web site of Dr. Medalie.
”It
is difficult to encapsulate years of training and experience in a few
words. What I most prefer to emphasize in my practice is honesty. I will
not promise impossible results nor will I discount the risks of any
procedure no matter how small. That being said I will strive to achieve
the best results humanly possible . “
“My
goal is to answer the needs of any surgical candidate with patience,
skill and artistry and perform to the utmost of my capabilities.”
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