Michele Blecher, NP

Michele Blecher, NP is a Nurse Practitioner at The Roxbury Institute in Los Angeles, where she has worked in plastic surgery and surgical dermatology since 2021. She brings more than two decades of clinical experience across multiple specialties. Her career began in 1994 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she worked until 2013, first as a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurse and then as a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Neurology. She also served as Nurse Practitioner Coordinator for a nonprofit charity affiliated with Cedars-Sinai that provided surgical care to children from underserved international communities. Her focus is lipedema diagnosis and conservative treatment plans, along with pre- and post-surgical care. Her work also covers advanced diagnostics and fat disorders. Her scope of practice includes physical exams, new patient diagnostic consultations, follow-up care, prescribing, and laboratory interpretation. She handles pre-operative medical clearance, procedural help with suture and staple removal and drain care, and patient education, and she takes part in clinical research.