Meegan Gruber

Meegan Gruber is a board-certified plastic surgeon practicing at Gruber Plastic Surgery in Tampa, Florida, where she holds MD and PhD degrees. Her training started at the University of California at Berkeley, continued through the University of Illinois Medical Scholars Program, and included a combined general and plastic surgery residency at Washington University. After residency she returned to Florida to set up a practice in the Tampa Bay Area. The site dates her plastic surgery career to 2005. She has held board certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery since 2006, renewed in 2016, and belongs to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Her practice centers on awake plastic surgery under local anesthesia, with traditional surgery under general anesthesia also offered. According to the site, most of her procedures use the awake technique, which the site says allows recovery within a few days. Awake procedures include liposuction, lipedema surgery, tummy tucks and lifts, and breast augmentation, lift and reduction. She developed the Gruber Booty buttock enhancement procedure. Her listed experience covers body contouring, nonsurgical procedures, tumescent liposuction, breast revision, implant removal and breast reconstruction. She has 20 years of experience in lipedema surgery. The site also says she has performed thousands of cosmetic arm surgeries. Her 2024 talk to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons focused on lipedema surgery.

Patients travel to her practice from across the country and abroad. The site describes her technique as meticulous and her results as natural-looking, and uses the labels Queen of Awake Surgery and leading authority on awake plastic surgery; those are the site's own descriptions. According to the site, her work has been published in PRS, the journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and mentioned in Sports Illustrated and Newsweek. She also hosts the TLC television series Awake Surgery.