Volunteer and Community Activities

I think it is important to more about your doctor than just what is on the surface. I feel after all my training and skills that it is important to “give back”. I do this in many spontaneous ways but here are a few that are programmed in:

The San Francisco Free Clinic. This is a clinic set up a number of years ago servicing only patients that have no insurance and cannot pay. I am the only plastic surgeon to volunteer here. I see patients on a regular basis one Friday per month. It is my pleasure and privilege to provide this service to so grateful a staff and grateful patients.

Here I am doing a procedure at the San Francisco Free Clinic.

Here I am with the staff of the San Francisco Free Clinic

Medical Missions to Underserved Countries. I volunteer as part of the plastic surgery team to go on medical missions to underserved and really poor areas of certain countries like Guatemala. I take two weeks away from my practice yearly for this purpose.

Here I am in surgery performing a cleft palate repair in Guatemala.

Here I am in the clinic in Guatemala with Maria my scrub technician and a little boy who needs cleft palate surgery and his mother.