Sharon Giese

Sharon Giese is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who practices at Sharon Giese MD in New York City. She is the founder and medical director of Arete Medical Foundation, Inc., a clinical assistant professor at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn, and an inspector for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Her hospital affiliation is New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Her training includes study at Vassar College and Northwestern Medical School, surgical and plastic surgery training at Stanford University, and a fellowship in breast and cosmetic surgery at Georgetown University. She is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and holds medical licenses in New York, Florida and Ohio. Her research on large volume liposuction has received multiple grants and was carried out with the National Institutes of Health. She has also consulted for the FDA Device Squad on liposuction safety, and her research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and Allure.

She has worked as a body contouring specialist for more than 20 years, focusing on liposuction, non-invasive body contouring and body lift procedures. Her other specialties include breast procedures, dermal fillers and facial rejuvenation. For the face, she analyzes each patient's underlying bone structure, builds it up where needed, and then adds volume with fillers, and she also performs lower eyelid filling and neurotoxin injections to open the eyes. She sees female patients and has been featured on television, including CBS The Early Show, The Dr. Oz Show, FOX, ABC Good Morning America and NBC The Today Show. Patients have also appeared in a TLC special after a large volume liposuction procedure.