Dr. Haideh Hirmand is a noted New York City-based plastic surgeon, beauty expert, and thought leader in the field of aesthetic plastic surgery. Dr. Hirmand has been in private practice since 1999 and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill-Cornell Medical College. She is a member of the attending staff at The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat and Lenox Hill Hospitals.

Dr. Hirmand specializes in eyelid and facial rejuvenation. She has pioneered safe injection techniques for around the eyes and is recognized for her shape-preserving blepharoplasty approach. She also has a special interest in secondary breast surgery and body contouring. Dr. Hirmand continues to conduct clinical research and has published and presented numerous scientific articles in addition to lecturing and teaching surgical and injection techniques nationally and internationally.

Dr. Hirmand is known in her field for her novel perspective on beauty and aesthetic rejuvenation. With expertise in combining cutting edge surgical and non-surgical technologies, Dr. Hirmand tailors every treatment to the individual needs and goals of her patients. Her objective is to achieve age-appropriate and person-appropriate results that are at once invisible and timeless.

EDUCATON & TRAINING

Dr. Hirmand graduated valedictorian with a B.S. in molecular biology at the University of California, Davis in 1984 and went into medicine after a year of continued cancer research. She completed her Doctorate in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1990. She combined her medical studies with a master’s in public administration, focusing on international health development, at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She came to New York in 1990 where she trained at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in surgery from 1990 to 1995.

As part of her training, Dr. Hirmand was a surgical research fellow at Cornell Medical College and Rockefeller University and completed her research project as a visiting scholar at Oxford University. She resumed her plastic surgery training at The New York Hospital in 1995. After finishing the specialty training, she pursued sub-specialty fellowship in eyelid and aesthetic surgery in Atlanta at Paces Plastic Surgery/Emory University. She then completed a second craniofacial and aesthetic fellowship at Paris’ Necker Children’s Hospital.

CERTIFICATIONS AND COMMITTEES

Dr. Hirmand is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), where she is a member of the New Technologies Task Force and the Teaching Courses Committee. She chaired the Women’s Aesthetic Surgeon’s Committee of ASAPS for three years and is currently the Chairperson of The Leadership Development Committee of ASAPS. She is also a member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS).

She was awarded The Certificate of Achievement in Aesthetic Surgery by The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery for her clinical research. Dr. Hirmand is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.