Sean Younai, MD

Sean Younai, MD, practices as a plastic surgeon at the Encino and Bakersfield locations. He received a medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1989, after a bachelor's in biochemistry from UCLA in 1985. He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His listed credentials are MD, FACS and QME, and he holds hospital staff privileges at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center and Encino Hospital. Training was spread across several institutions: a general surgery residency at UC San Francisco, East Bay, in 1993; a plastic surgery research fellowship at the University of Southern California in 1994; and a microsurgery and hand surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. His last stage was a plastic, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the Lahey-Hitchcock Clinic, affiliated with the Harvard Plastic Surgery Program, completed in 1997. Before that he worked in medical research from 1982 to 1997, including wound healing and skin tightening with a CO2 laser. His published papers cover wound healing, scar contraction and keloids. Research has been funded by grants from the Mercy Hospital Foundation, the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. He also received a 1997 American Society of Aesthetic Surgery presentation award and a 1995 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation scholarship essay award. His work centers on body contouring, tummy tucks and liposuction; the site describes him as a specialist in large volume liposuction and as skilled at removing fat from the thighs, buttocks and chest. He also performs breast augmentation, eyelid surgery and facelifts, and offers dermal fillers such as Botox and Restylane. Consultations are personalized and unhurried, and he walks patients through changes in detail. He says he especially wants to hear from patients struggling with excess weight. Consultations are conducted by him or his aesthetic nurse, and injections are performed by a physician. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, the Wound Healing Society and the American Medical Association.