Susan E. Downey, MD
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Doctor Phone: 310-315-0222 |
About the Doctor
Dr. Susan Downey has been in practice in the Los Angeles area for over 20 years. Dr. Downey's practice covers the full range of plastic surgery from cosmetic surgery such as facelifts, breast augmentations, and abdominoplasties, and other body contouring procedures to reconstructive procedures such as breast reconstruction after cancer treatments and breast reductions. She has a particular interest in post massive weight loss patients especially after bariatric procedures and has over nineteen years experience in the field. She has been asked to teach at many national plastic surgery meetings on the care and treatment of patients after weight loss and has published her experiences. She contributed a chapter on the treatment of the abdomen in the massive weight loss patient to a new text on the subject edited by Drs. Rubin and Matarrasso which was published in 2006.
Dr. Downey is board- certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is an active member of numerous professional societies including the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). She served as co-chair of the Bariatric Surgery Task Force (ASPS) and is co-chairman of the ASAPS Women's Health Committee. Dr. Downey is a Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. Dr Downey also served as Co-Chief Editor of E-medicine Plastic Surgery online textbook.
Dr. Downey received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in Northampton, MA and earned her medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY. She completed her residency in General Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and a residency in Plastic Surgery at the Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Continuing her education, Dr. Downey completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Plastic Surgery at the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, CA.
For over 20 years Dr. Downey has traveled with Operation Smile and Interplast to over 13 different countries to help the children born with facial defects such as cleft lip. In addition to many national and international lectures and numerous publications in medical journals, Dr. Downey is credited with films for The Learning Channel, Lifetime, The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. Dr. Downey has received many awards, including being listed in "The Best Doctors in America" for a number of years.