Dr. Sarmela Sunder

Dr. Sarmela Sunder founded Sunder Plastic Surgery and leads it as medical director. She is a board-certified facial plastic surgeon, and the site's press pieces describe her as double board-certified. She has practiced for a long time, with the site citing more than 15 years focused on the face and neck, and began clinical work in 2004 in otolaryngology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.

Her training began at Johns Hopkins, where she earned bachelor's degrees in anthropology and public health in 2000. She then earned an M.D. from Cornell University Weill Medical College in 2004, completed a general surgery internship at Stanford University Medical Center in 2004-2005, and trained in otolaryngology there from 2005 to 2009, serving as chief resident. She completed a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship with Vito Quatela, MD, at the University of Rochester in 2009-2010. During residency she trained under Dr. Richard Goode, a rhinoplasty pioneer.

Before founding the practice, the site lists her roles at Persky Sunder Plastic Surgery and Sarmela Sunder MD in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2018, and at Cassileth Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills since 2018. Her specialties include mid-face lifts, facelifts, neck lifts, eyelid lifts, rhinoplasty and revision surgery. The site says she performs the endoscopic mid-facelift and that the Butterfly Lift is her signature technique for the midface. She focuses on facial balancing, is a master injector with Allergan, and provides each neuromodulator offered at the practice.

She is Vice President of the California Society of Facial Plastic Surgery and is affiliated with Physicians Formula's Physician Coalition advisory board. She trains fellow doctors and nurses on injection techniques and speaks at conferences. Her published work includes journal articles and book chapters, among them a guide for surgeons preparing for facial plastic surgery board certification. She has performed cleft lip and cleft palate repairs and ear reconstructions for microtia in India, Ecuador and the Philippines. The site lists her as a Top Doctor, Rising Star by Los Angeles Magazine each year from 2016 to 2023, and says The Hollywood Reporter named her to its top cosmetic doctors lists in L.A. and N.Y.C. She is conversational in Spanish and Tamil.