Pamela Gallagher

Pamela Gallagher is a board-certified plastic surgeon at Island Plastic Surgery in Mineola, New York, and carries the FACS credential. She has more than 35 years of experience in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. She trained at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where she was elected to AOA, then completed general surgery and plastic surgery residencies at Cornell University Medical Center at New York Hospital in Manhattan.

A large part of her career has centered on children. She specializes in cleft lip and cleft palate surgery and serves as Medical Director of the Hagedorn Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center at North Shore University Hospital. She previously was Associate Director of the St. Charles Cleft Palate Clinic and has served as a Clinical Instructor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Cornell University Medical College at North Shore University Hospital. She consults at Cohen's Children's, Winthrop, Southside and Good Samaritan hospitals, seeing children with cleft deformities and adults who need revisions to earlier cleft surgery. She has also volunteered with Heal the Children.

She performs rhinoplasty, including revision cases where scar tissue remains from earlier nose surgery. For patients interested in Lunchtime Liposuction, she suggests it to people who are active and in good health and want to refine the thighs, hips, buttocks, abdomen, arms, back or chest. She has lectured widely on plastic surgery techniques and has written numerous articles for professional and consumer media. The practice presents her as a recognized field leader and one of the region's top surgical-technique doctors. Clients praise her compassion, professionalism and understanding, and one long-term patient of over 40 years ranks her as the top female plastic surgeon in New York.