After having completed Harvard Medical School, selected for the honors of the Harvard-M.I.T. Program in Health, Science, and Technology (Neural Science Concentration and Soma Weiss Award), I returned to Stanford University Medical Center to complete General Surgery Internship and Residency, followed by the Plastic Surgery Residency. I have also completed two fellowships, one in Pediatric/Craniofacial and Aesthetic Surgery and one in Hand and Microsurgery. I have also devoted continued years of research in nerves and taught anatomy. These added studies matter to the practice of all plastic surgery since I try to give the patients less pain and tissue trauma by attention to the neuroanatomy of the individual patients. This is helpful in aesthetic surgery as well as reconstructive surgery: the nervous system provides not only sensation but also motor function. I have always been interested in anatomy from a youth of art and music. The interests have merged to an understanding of how to provide the patients improved appearance either sculpting with surgery or with the use of implants or fillers to give a natural beauty for the individual.