Dr. Svehlak's Education
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CURRENT BOARD CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE
Board Certified in Plastic Surgery by the American
Board of Plastic Surgery (website)
Board Certified in General Surgery by the American
Board of Surgery (website)
Licensed by the California Board of Medicine (website)
Licensed by the District of Columbia Board of Medicine (website)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Plastic Surgeons (website)
American Medical Association (website)
California Medical Association (website)
California Society of Plastic Surgeons (website)
Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons (website)
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (website)

"F.A.C.S." stands for Fellow, American College of Surgeons. It means that Dr. Svehlak's education and training, professional qualifications, surgical competence, and ethical conduct have passed a rigorous evaluation, and have been found to be consistent with the high standards established and demanded by the American College of Surgeons.

ADVANCED COSMETIC SURGERY TRAINING
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, Beverly Hills, CA
Advanced Cosmetic Surgery Training Fellowship

FELLOWSHIP PLASTIC SURGERY
Plastic Surgery at George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
Childrens National Medical Center, Washington, D.C


RESIDENCY
General Surgery Residency, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center/Program in Surgery, Stamford, CT

SURGICAL INTERNSHIP
The Stamford Hospital, Stamford CT, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, intership in general surgery


MEDICAL SCHOOL
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
Degree: Medicine


COLLEGE
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
B.S., Biology, Chemistry Minor


LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

"Gummy Smile" lecture at "The Perioral Plastic Surgery Syposium" October 24, 2003

Drs. Ellenbogen, Svehlak and Yamini taught courses at the annual American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery meeting (May 2003, April 2004), including presentations on breast augmentation, liposuction, facelift and rhinoplasty minimally-invasive techniques

Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons
"Leukotriene Blockers: Improving Capsular Contractures"

The Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, All Surgeons' Day, "Striking and Spectacular Case Presentation Trauma"

Connecticut Society of the American College of Surgeons, "Management of Blunt Splenic Trauma in Patients > 55 Years of Age"

Connecticut Society of the American College of Surgeons "Preoperative Bowel Preps in Elective Colorectal Surgery"


PUBLICATIONS

"Zafirlukast (Accolate): A New Treatment for Capsular Contracture"
Co-Authored with S. Larry Schlesinger, MD, Richard Ellenbogen, MD, Michael N. Desvigue, MD and Robert Heck, MD in the
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, July/August 2002

"Management of Blunt Splenic Trauma in Patients > 55 Years of Age," Journal of Trauma, January 1999