Simon Madorsky

Simon Madorsky, MD, leads the Skin Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery Center, known as SCARS Center, in Orange County, California, serving as its medical director and founder. He also serves as medical director of the practice's sister facility, the Appearance Center of Newport Beach. His work centers on skin cancer management and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, with more than 20 years in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery and over a decade focused on skin cancer. He offers both surgical and non-surgical treatment plans for skin cancer. According to the practice, he is exceptionally qualified to perform complex procedures.

He trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He then completed a general surgery internship and a head and neck surgery residency at the University of California Irvine, followed by a fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University. He is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Earlier hospital roles include chairing the Department of Otolaryngology at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, California, from 1999 to 2001, and sitting on the Physician Leadership Committee at St Joseph Hospital Affiliated Physicians IPA from 2003 to 2004. At St Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, he served as vice-chairman of the Department of EENT from 2005 to 2006 and as chairman from 2006 to 2007. In 2009 he sat on the governing board of Newport Plaza Surgery Center, and he founded the Orange County ENT Study Club.

He is CME chair of the SCARS Foundation, which supports skin cancer research and education for physicians and the community. The Skin Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery Foundation lists him as founder and CME chair since 2012. In 1993 he received a resident research award from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for work on nerve regeneration through collagen tubules. According to the practice, the Orange County Medical Association's Physician of Excellence award in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery went to him in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015. Since 2011 he has written more than one hundred posts on preventing, detecting and treating skin cancer for The Skin Cancer Connection at SCARSCenter.com. He was also invited to speak on lip reconstruction at an American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.