Caroline GlicksmanDr

Dr. Caroline Glicksman is a board-certified plastic surgeon in New Jersey, in private practice in Sea Girt since 1991. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, and in 1980 received a BS in microbiology and a BA in sociology. Dr. Glicksman went on to attend the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, receiving her MD in 1985. After completing her general surgery training at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, she completed her plastic surgery residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in 1991. She then went on to complete an additional fellowship in cosmetic surgery at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is currently a student at Seton Hall Law School expected to complete her Masters in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Law in 2020.

Dr. Glicksman also became engaged in the silicone breast implant controversy shortly after the FDA announced its moratorium on silicone gel breast implants in 1992. In 2003, 2005, and 2011, she testified before the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s Advisory Panel on Silicone Breast Implants. She is credited with bringing more patients to testify on behalf of silicone safety than any other physician in the country. In 2005, she represented both the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) at a Capitol Hill Briefing in Washington, DC, as a member of the National Breast Implant Task Force. Again in 2019 she provided testimony for the FDA Advisory Panel on Silicone Breast Implants.

Breast implant clinical trials have been a significant part of plastic surgeon Dr. Glicksman’s practice since 1995. She participated in some of the earliest clinical trials with saline implants in the late 1990s, as well as the round silicone gels prior to their FDA approval in 2006. In 2005, she was invited to travel to Sweden for extensive training in the use of shaped, highly cohesive gel breast implants, known as Gummy Bear” implants.