Michele Blecher

Michele Blecher is a nurse practitioner at The Roxbury Institute's Los Angeles location, where she focuses on lipedema diagnosis, conservative lipedema treatment plans, and pre- and post-surgical care. She has worked in plastic surgery and surgical dermatology at the Institute since 2021. Her clinical experience spans more than two decades across several specialties. She began at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1994 as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurse and later worked there as a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Neurology until 2013. She then served as Nurse Practitioner Coordinator for a Cedars-Sinai-affiliated nonprofit that provides surgical care for pediatric patients from underserved international communities. Her scope includes physical examinations, new patient diagnostic consultations and outpatient follow-up, pharmaceutical prescribing, laboratory interpretation and pre-operative medical clearance, procedural help with suture and staple removal and drain care, patient education and clinical research participation. She earned a BSN from the University of Southern California and an MSN with a specialization in Pediatric Critical Care from the University of Pennsylvania. Her listed credentials are MSN and NP-C.