Richard H. Lee

Richard H. Lee is a board-certified plastic surgeon in Newport Beach, California. He is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has over 15 years in cosmetic surgery, body contouring and plastic surgery. He treats patients from Newport Beach, Irvine, Santa Ana, Orange County and the Greater Los Angeles area. He received a B.A. with highest honors in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley in 1992, followed by an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1996, finishing in the top quarter of his class. His Johns Hopkins Hospital training comprised a seven-year plastic surgery residency, a plastic surgery fellowship, a research fellowship and a stint as chief resident in general surgery. He won first prize in a resident article contest for research on blunt traumatic craniofacial injuries, the Ortho-McNeil Young Investigator Award for wound healing research, and the Henry Strong Dennison Research Award from Johns Hopkins. He has hospital privileges at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Irvine Regional Hospital and Medical Center, and Huntington Beach Hospital, and operating privileges at Newport Beach Surgery Center. His practice covers facial cosmetic surgery, including facelifts and brow lifts, along with breast and body contouring. Breast procedures include augmentation, lift, reduction, reconstruction, male breast reduction, and implant exchange and removal. Body procedures include tummy tuck, liposuction, post-bariatric surgery, buttock lift, body lift, thigh lift and labiaplasty. Breast augmentation, breast lift, facelift, tummy tuck and liposuction are procedures he is known for, and he also offers skincare and injectables.