Dr. George Bitar

Dr. George Bitar is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He founded Bitar Cosmetic Surgery Institute in Fairfax, Virginia, in 2002 and serves as its Founder and Medical Director, setting the clinical direction. His training includes a medical degree from George Washington University, general surgery at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and a plastic surgery residency at the University of Virginia. He operates on the face, nose, breast and body, and is especially known for scarless transaxillary breast augmentation and rhinoplasty, including ethnic rhinoplasty. He has presented on deep plane facelift, transaxillary breast augmentation, ethnic rhinoplasty and suture-suspension neck lift at international cosmetic surgery meetings, and has co-written book chapters on botulinum toxin for facial rejuvenation and on the suture-suspension neck lift. He sees women and men in the Washington DC area, where he has practiced for more than 20 years. The site reports more than 30,000 cosmetic procedures overall, and separately more than 20,000 facial and body cosmetic procedures. Within the institute he was Fellowship Program Director for its ASAPS-endorsed aesthetic fellowship from 2019 to 2024, and has directed its summer internship for medical students since 2007. He has been a Clinical Assistant Professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2011. His hospital privileges include INOVA Fairfax Hospital since January 2002, and INOVA Mount Vernon and INOVA Alexandria since March 2025. He belongs to the ASPS, the American College of Surgeons and the Aesthetic Society, and has been a member of the Society of ASAPS-Endorsed Fellowship Directors since 2022. According to the site, he is world-renowned, award-winning and internationally trained, has operated on all six continents, and was voted one of the top plastic surgeons in the Washington Metropolitan Area.