About
Dr. Desai has always been dedicated to academic research in Plastic Surgery. He has authored 7 textbook chapters and has 14 peer-reviewed papers published under his name in journals including The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (JPRAS), The Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. He has presented the culmination of his research at numerous national and international conferences and meetings.
Dr. Desai has always been dedicated to international service and serving the under-privileged. As a high school student, he helped build a school-house in rural Ecuador. After college, he travelled to India to volunteer at a leprosy camp for Mother Teresa’s Missionary in Calcutta. While in medical school, he traveled to rural south-west China on a cleft-lip and cleft-palate reconstruction project treating children who were born with congenital malformations, as this was his inspiration to transition into the field of Plastic Surgery. After medical school, he volunteered after the 2005 tsunami disaster on the island of Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. More recently, Dr. Desai traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the devastating earthquake that shocked that nation on three separate occasions to perform pediatric cleft-lip and palate reconstruction as well as burn reconstruction in children. He has served as a lecturer for the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery Course: Challenges Delivering Cleft Surgery in the Underdeveloped World.
Dr. Desai has always been a scholar-athlete. He played Varsity Lacrosse and was a varsity rower (crew) in high school, was an NCAA collegiate rower in college, and has run the Boston Marathon and the New York Marathon.
Dr. Desai currently holds an academic attending staff position at Mt. Sinai and the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mt. Sinai in Manhattan.
