Dr. Salibian is a board-certified Plastic Surgeon in private practice at the Sunset Medical Tower located on Sunset Boulevard at the cusp of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. Dr. Salibian specializes in aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery of the face, breast and body for women and men. He is certified both by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Salibian attended Boston University School of Medicine and completed his formative residency training in general surgery and plastic surgery in New York. He then furthered his education and technical skills in microsurgery as a Fellow in Oncologic Reconstructive Microsurgery at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. In the reconstructive arena of plastic surgery, Dr. Salibian has established a niche in reconstructive breast surgery for recovering breast cancer patients and those who require surgical revisions due to previously unsatisfactory cosmetic and/or reconstructive results. Dr. Salibian is an attending Plastic Surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is an active member of the multidisciplinary breast expert team at the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center there. Dr. Salibian also has active privileges at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Century City Doctor’s Hospital in Century City and at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

Dr. Salibian enjoys teaching residents in surgery and plastic surgery. As Chief resident in surgery he was awarded the Golden Apple Award for surgical teaching. Dr. Salibian has authored and co-authored numerous articles in such peer-reviewed publications as Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, and Cellular Immunology. He has given talks and presentations at local and national scientific meetings and at grand rounds at various hospitals. Dr. Salibian has also volunteered his expertise to the less fortunate and performed reconstructive plastic surgery for children with congenital facial defects and burn contractures in Guatemala.

With an all-encompassing quality of care as a cornerstone of his practice philosophy, Dr. Salibian addresses the whole patient not just body parts. He capitalizes on the individual characteristics of his patients and designs each of his procedures to best fit their specific needs and enhance each person’s singular beauty and charm. He possesses a highly cultivating eye in aesthetics paralleled with a pair of skillful hands brings about dramatic changes in his patients. He has a deep respect for the creative and daring minds of the great forefathers in plastic and reconstructive surgery, an intense gratitude to all of his teachers throughout the years who have taught and mentored him, and a genuine appreciation to all his patients who have helped him become the physician and surgeon that he is today, who have entrusted him with their most personal and sensitive aspects of their lives and continue to remain his strongest and most loyal advocates.

PROFESSION
Plastic Surgeon
HOSPITAL
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica, CA
MEDICAL LICENSURE
California medical license #: A79293
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery
Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery
EDUCATION
Medical School:
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
Doctorate in Medicine, May 1994
CLINICAL TRAINING
Fellowship in Oncologic Microvascular Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
July 2001 - June 2002
The University of Texas
M D Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas

Residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
July 1999 - June 2001
Nassau University Medical Center / Long Island Plastic Surgical Group (LIPSG)
Garden City, New York

Residency in General Surgery
July 1994 - June 1999
State University of New York Health Science
Center at Brooklyn and Affiliated Hospitals
(Downstate Medical Center), Brooklyn, New York

HONORS AND AWARDS
Surgical Chief Resident Teacher of the Year - Golden Apple Award, SUNY-HSC at Brooklyn, 1999
PRESENTATIONS
Burn Care in the Emergency Department - September 2003 - Kaiser Bellflower Medical Center

Plastic Surgery Senior Residents Conference - 2001
Primary and Secondary Palatoplasty - A Six Year Review of Perioperative Airway Complications.
Salibian MS and Gallagher PM. Brown University, Providence, RI.

The Nassau Surgical Society Inc., 36th Annual Clinical Day - Resident Case Presentation:
A Simple Technique to Correct Bottoming-out of the Breast after Augmentation Mammaplasty.
Salibian MS and DiGregorio VR. December 8, 1999

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Medical Association
Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons

Languages: English - Spanish

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