Vivian Ting

Vivian Ting is a board-certified plastic surgeon at Veritas Plastic Surgery in Walnut Creek, California, and has been in private practice since 2003. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCSF Medical Center and a member of the John Muir Breast Tumor Board panel. Her focus includes aesthetic surgery of the face and body, reconstructive breast surgery, and reconstruction after skin cancer. Her listed procedures are breast augmentation, tummy tuck, facelift, body lift and mommy makeover. She operates at John Muir Medical Center and Aspen Surgery Center, holds full privileges at John Muir and St. Francis Memorial Hospital, and has courtesy privileges at UCSF Medical Center. Her education started with a biology degree from Harvard University, which she completed magna cum laude in 1988. She earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and finished a general surgery residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2000. She then spent a year on a microsurgery and tissue engineering research fellowship at NYU, where she developed a technique for engineering ear- and nose-shaped cartilage. In 2003 she completed the Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery Residency Program, serving as Chief Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Afterward she took a traveling fellowship at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan and a visiting cosmetic surgery fellowship at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Institute. Early in her career she performed the first microsurgical anterolateral thigh flap at UCSF and the first deep inferior epigastric free flap at San Francisco General Hospital. She has often spoken to local audiences about breast reconstruction. She belongs to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. For brow lifts, she starts with a one-on-one consultation that reviews medical history and includes a physical evaluation, and she may recommend eyelid lift surgery when the eyelid is the underlying concern. She has been named a Talk of the Town for excellent patient review ratings and is listed among America's Top Plastic Surgeons. She is recognized by colleagues and patients as a leader in her field. Patient reviews of her work appear on Google, Yelp, RealSelf and Healthgrades.