Dr. Pamela Gallagher

Dr. Pamela Gallagher is a board-certified plastic surgeon, FACS, practicing at Island Plastic Surgery in Mineola, NY, with more than 35 years of experience in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Her specialty is cleft lip and cleft palate surgery. She serves as Medical Director of the Hagedorn Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center at North Shore University Hospital at Manhasset, after earlier working as Associate Director at the St. Charles Cleft Palate Clinic. She also served as a Clinical Instructor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Cornell University Medical College at North Shore University Hospital.

She consults at Cohen's Children's, Winthrop, Southside, and Good Samaritan hospitals, seeing children with cleft deformities and adults who need revisions to earlier cleft surgery. The site describes her as a recognized leader in the field who has lectured widely and written numerous articles for professional and consumer media. She performs rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty, and the site describes her as having extensive experience in rhinoplasty. In that work she makes incisions inside the nostrils or across the columella and reshapes bone and cartilage.

Her other surgical work includes breast augmentation, implant replacement, fat grafting to the breasts, and nipple reduction, as well as liposuction, including jawline liposuction and Lunchtime Lipo. She recommends Lunchtime Lipo for active, healthy people looking to refine areas such as the thighs, hips, buttocks, abdomen, arms, back, or chest. Client reviews on the site describe her as compassionate and professional.