John Hilinski, MD

John Hilinski, MD, is a board-certified facial plastic surgeon at John Hilinski M.D. Plastic Surgery in Coronado, treating patients from Coronado and the wider San Diego area. He has more than 25 years of facial plastic surgery experience and holds dual board certification from the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. He oversees the practice's BOTOX treatments and has been the facial plastic surgeon for the San Diego Chargers NFL team.

His training includes a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, a general surgery internship at the University of California, San Diego, a five-year head and neck surgery residency at the same university, and a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship. He is a member of The Rhinoplasty Society. The website states that he has been recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, a distinction it says identifies fewer than 5% of physicians in the United States.

In 2010 he founded the Hilinski Foundation for Surgery, a nonprofit that provides free reconstructive surgical care to children and young patients.