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Dr. Mark A. Mandel ...

Biography:

Dr. Mark Mandel was born on May 12, 1939 in New York, NY. His father, Charles Mandel, M.D., was a family practitioner and World War I Veteran, who taught him to treat others with respect. “I remember the many patients that my father took care of with no remuneration. He was the physician for the Veterans of Foreign Wars and took care of those American heroes with great kindness.” His mother, Sarah Mandel, was one of the first female elementary school principals in New York City. It is from both parents that he developed a love of learning, but from his mother the ability to write clearly so others, especially patients, can read his handwriting.

Growing up in the Bronx, Dr. Mandel thought everyone travelled 10 miles by subway to go to High School. He participated in many sports including baseball, stickball and “off-the-point” (NYC Special Sports), basketball and others. He attended what we now call a Magnet School, the Bronx High School of Science, and was accepted at many colleges. He and his father, a University of Nebraska graduate, loved Colgate University so he decided to attend.

At Colgate University, he participated in many activities, academic and athletic, and was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in his Junior Year and graduated Magna Cum Laude a year later. Off to medical school in New York City, he interspersed research stents at Harvard and at The Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute before graduating from New York University Medical School in 1964.

After medical school, he moved to Cleveland for six years of surgery training at Case Western Reserve Medical School and University Hospitals. Then two years of research in cancer immunology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. After that he had fellowships at the University of Miami in Cosmetic Surgery and cleft lip repair and in Phoenix in complex hand reconstruction cases. Dr. Mandel eventually became the Chief of Plastic Surgery in Cleveland, as well as an Associate Professor in Medicine and Dermatology.

Dr. Mandel is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery and he is a member of numerous plastic surgical and academic societies and a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. He has performed 18,000 surgical procedures and knows about the physiology and care of skin and hair.

He has authored over 70 scientific papers, was the guest editor of a text on skin cancer for the Clinics in Plastic Surgery, and wrote one of the first books on plastic surgery for men entitled: Sculpture.

Dr. Mandel has been very fortunate in life and wants to give back to the community by creating a foundation to help worthwhile college students in need of financial aid. He has created a new line of hair products and men products and a significant portion of the profits will be donated to schools for academic scholarships. A Federally approved foundation entitled “The Foundation for the Advancement of College Education” (FACE) has been established to support this endeavor.

Dr. Mandel still acts as a neutral court appointed expert to determine what need be done for seriously injured workers. Patients are referred to him from all over the country and evaluated in his office in Beverly Hills, CA. for an honest and accurate assessment of complex injury problems.

Dr. Mandel lives happily in Beverly Hills, CA with his charming and intelligent wife, Emilia Pirro-Mandel, an outstanding Mediterranean style cook. They enjoy a healthy life style with many trips each week to Equinox, the local Sports Club, as well as many hikes in the wonderful greater Los Angeles Parks.

Education:

Summer, 1973  Maytag-Mahill Fellow in Plastic Surgery (Dr. D. Ralph Millard, Jr.), University of Miami Medical School, Miami, Florida

Fall, 1972    Fellow in Hand Reconstruction (Dr. John Ricker), Phoenix, Arizona

April, 1969   Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Immunology (Dr. Lloyd Old, Chief), Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York & 1970

1968-1972     Resident in General and Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio

1968-1972     Crile, Bunts, Lower Research Fellow in Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

1966-1968     Research Associate, Laboratory of Germ-free Animal Research NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

1964-1966     Junior Surgery Assistant, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio

June, 1964    M.D., New York University, New York, New York

Summer, 1961  Biochemistry Research Assistant, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, (Dr. Paul Doty, Supv.)

June, 1960    A.B., Colgate University, Hamilton, New York