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Oscar M. Ramirez, MD (Born September, 1949) - Originally from Peru, South America. He is a board certified plastic & reconstructive surgeon by The American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is considered the  “Pioneer” of Endoscopic Plastic Surgery, and creator of the Mandibular Matrix Facial Implant System. He currently practices in the State of Florida, USA.

History
Oscar M. Ramirez graduated from medical school with honors in the year 1976 from The Major National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland, USA, for his general surgery internship and residency. For his plastic and reconstructive surgery residency, he attended University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1984 he did a craniofacial surgery fellowship in Mexico, D.F., under Doctor Fernando Ortiz Monasterio[ii]. In 1985 he moved back to Baltimore, Maryland to work with a private practice plastic surgery group and joined the teaching staff of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine[iii] and University of Maryland, School of Medicine[iv], as a Clinical Assistant Professor. In the year 1999 he opened Esthetique Internationale Plastic Surgery Center, in Baltimore, Maryland, an International endoscopic plastic surgery teaching center. Plastic surgeons from the United States and from around the world visited and attended Doctor Ramirez numerous International Endoscopic Surgery Symposiums and Workshops. In 2009, he relocated his private practice to South Florida. He is currently adjunct faculty for the Cleveland Clinic, Florida. He continues to teach around the world giving live surgery demonstrations of his advanced techniques in plastic and aesthetic surgery.

[i] Universidad de San Marcos

[ii]  Dr. Fernando Ortiz Monasterio

[iii]  The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

[iv]  University of Maryland School of Medicine

Society Fellowships and Memberships (former and/or current)
John Staige Davis Society, in Baltimore Maryland; Baltimore County Medical Society, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of State of Maryland, The Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association*, The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons*, The American Association for Hand Surgery, AAAAPSF, AMA, The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery*, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery*, Rhinoplasty Society, Founding Member*, Peruvian Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (Honorary Member)*, the Colombian Society of Plastic Surgeons (Corresponding Member)*, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, COAPT Systems, Inc. Medical Advisory Board, The American Association of Plastic Surgeons*, the Peruvian Academy of Surgery (Honorary Member)* and The International Association of Health Care Professionals*

*  Active

Plastic Surgery Career
Doctor Oscar Ramirez is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He was a Fulbright high school scholar in Lima Peru. He graduated as a Physician and Surgeon from “The Major National University of San Marcos” in Lima-Peru, officially considered the oldest University in the Americas. He trained in General Surgery at Franklin Square Hospital; an affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, then completed his Plastic Surgery Residency at the University of Pittsburgh. He did additional fellowship training in Craniofacial Surgery with world-renown Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio in Mexico City. He held academic appointments as a Clinical Instructor in Anatomy at the University of San Marcos, as a Clinical Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University (for 25 years) and The University of Maryland (25 years) and is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Cleveland Clinic, Florida. He is currently a Traveling Professor of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Doctor Ramirez is an internationally acclaimed Plastic Surgeon known for his landmark publications in reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. He is the inventor of the “Components Separation Technique” that has become the standard for abdominal wall reconstruction. He is also considered “the pioneer” in Facial Endoscopic Surgery and has advanced the art and science of aesthetic surgery in Body Contouring, Breast Reduction, Facial Implant Surgery and Rejuvenation. He has designed many surgical instruments for Plastic Surgery (Snowden Pencer, Inc. Black & Black, Synthes, Tulip Biomedical, Marina Medical etc.), and several facial implants (Porex Inc.). He holds trademarks and provisional patents for some of them. He has been featured in many important newspapers and magazines such as Allure, Prevention, U.S. News, The Baltimore Sun, Warfield Business Record, Towson Times, Votre Beaute (France), Der Spiegel, (Germany) and recently in Elle Magazine in Russia, Greece and Turkey. He has been recently featured in the “Passage” magazine in Azerbaijan (printed in Russian). TV stations and Newspapers in Australia, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Russia and The United States have interviewed him.

Doctor Ramirez devotes significant part of his professional time teaching other Plastic Surgeons. He has traveled five continents and more than 50 countries as an invited lecturer, visiting professor or to do live surgery demonstrations of his unique Plastic Surgery techniques. He has given over 1000 lectures-conferences all over the world. He is actively involved in research and teaching in Florida and in Lima, Peru. He was the featured speaker at the “Ramirez Advanced Facial Anatomy Workshops” held at the “Miami Anatomical Research Center” in Miami, Florida. Dr. Ramirez has written over 150 scientific articles for peer review journals, book chapters and others. He also has written several textbooks. He is guest reviewer for several Scientific Journals. He has been selected among the “2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century by Melrose Press Limited, Cambridge, England (the only Plastic Surgeon in that exclusive list). He also has been nominated many times (lately fifteen years in a row) as one the “America’s Top Doctors and Hospitals” (A Castle Connolly Guide), “America’s Top Plastic Surgeons”, a unique honor difficult to achieve.

He is a founding member of the Rhinoplasty Society and active member of many societies where he is frequently engaged in teaching. He has received the Gold Medal Award for his contributions in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction at the Inaugural Congress of the SOHAH (Hispano-American Society of Hernia) in Santiago, Chile October, 2014. He was named one of the “Leading Physicians of the World” in 2014. He is currently a traveling professor of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

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Research Interest

 * Instruments design
 * Facial implants design
 * Facial Implant Biomaterials
 * Stem Cell treatments
 * Laser liposuction and stem cell procurements
 * Anatomical Research
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Expertise
Today, Doctor Oscar Ramirez is world renowned for his skills and his advances in endoscopic facial rejuvenation techniques, the Mandibular Matrix Facial Implant System, Rhinoplasty, and the Component Separation for Abdominal Wall Weakness technique.

Textbooks and Book Chapters

 * 1) Ramirez, O.M.:  Manual of Anatomy for Pre University Students.  Lima, Peru, 1975.
 * 2) Ramirez, O.M., Daniel, R.K.:  Endoscopic Aesthetic Surgery (video manual).  Springer Verlag New York, 1995.
 * 3) Ramirez, O.M., Daniel R.K.:  Endoscopic Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery Textbook. Editor, Ramirez, O.M., Daniel, R.K. Springer Verlag New York, 1996.
 * 4) Ramirez, O.M.:  Subperiosteal Face-Lift.  Editor Ramirez, O.M.  Ready for Printing

Special Achievements

 * 1) First International Workshop on Facial Rejuvenation:  The Subperiosteal and Other Deep Plane Techniques, Baltimore, Maryland, April 1992. Organizer and Director.
 * 2) Second International Workshop on Aesthetic Surgery of the Face. The Subperiosteal Facelift, Ancillary and Alternative Techniques, Baltimore, Maryland April 1993.  Organizer and Director.
 * 3) Third International Workshop on Aesthetic Surgery of the Face:  The Subperiosteal Brow/Face Lift, Open and Endoscopic Approaches. Baltimore, Maryland, May 1994. Organizer and Director.
 * 4) Endoscopic Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Seminars Co-Chaired with Rollin K. Daniel, M.D. (several seminars a year)
 * 5) First Advanced Workshop on Endoscopic Plastic Surgery.  Baltimore, Maryland, December 1-4, 1994.
 * 6) Fourth Annual International Workshop on Aesthetic Surgery of the Face: Endoscopic and Open Techniques.  Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-7, 1995.
 * 7) ISAPS Postgraduate Course.  "New Frontiers in Aesthetic Surgery".  Baltimore, Maryland,   May 7-10, 1995.  Local Host
 * 8) PSEF/ASAPS International Symposium on Endoscopic Plastic Surgery:  The Next Step.  Newport Beach, California, July 20-23, 1995.  Co-Chairman
 * 9) PDEF/ASAPS New Horizons in Aesthetic Surgery:  Advanced Clinical Concepts and Applications.  Monterrey, California, February 1-3, 1996.  Co-Chairman.
 * 10) Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Teleplast appearance.   San Diego, CA, December 9, 1995.
 * 11) Fifth Annual International Workshop on Aesthetic Surgery, Rejuvenation of the Central Oval of the Face, Perioral and Lip Area:  Cutting Edge Techniques.  Baltimore, Maryland, April 10-    13, 1996.
 * 12) PSEF/ASAPS Endoscopic Surgery Symposium.  Dallas, Texas, July 25-18, 1996.  Co-Chairman.
 * 13) Endoscopic Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Seminar.  Baltimore, Maryland December 5-8, 1997.  Hands-on workshop.
 * 14) High-Tech Facial Rejuvenation Workshop.  Baltimore, Maryland, August 27-29, 1999.
 * 15) 3-D Facial Rejuvenation Symposium.  Baltimore, Maryland January 15-17, 2000.  Live Surgery Demonstration.
 * 16) 3-D Facial Rejuvenation Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland April 15-17, 2000.  Live Surgery Demonstration.
 * 17) 3-D Facial Rejuvenation & Anatomical “Hands-On” Workshop and Anti-Aging Medicine Symposium, Baltimore March 29 to  April 1st, 2001.  Live Surgery Demonstration.
 * 18) 3-D Facial Rejuvenation & Anatomical “Hands-On” Workshop and Anti-Aging Medicine Symposium, Baltimore March 29 to  April 1st, 2001.  Anti-Aging Medicine.
 * 19) 7th International Baltimore Workshop – 3-D Facial Rejuvenation:  Live Surgery and Hands-on Anatomy.  Live Surgery Demonstration.  March 29-30, 2003.
 * 20) 8th International Baltimore Workshop, 3-D Facial Rejuvenation:  Live Surgery and Hands-on Anatomy.  May 20-22, 2004.
 * 21) 9th Annual Baltimore Workshop:  Advances in Brow, Periorbita & Midface Rejuvenation and Rhinoplasty.  Live Surgery and Hands-on Anatomy.  June 8-12, 2005.

Design of Instruments, Devices and Implants

 * Endoscopic Plastic Surgery Elevators and Dissectors (Snowden Pencer, Inc.)
 * Endoscopic Plastic Surgery Manipulators and Scissors (Snowden Pencer, Inc.
 * Facial Implants (Porex Surgical): Upper orbital, Glabella, Lower Orbital, RZ cheek Implants, RZ Gonial Angle Implants, RZ Square and Round Geniomandibular Chin Implants, Mento-pogonial (Button) chin implants, Pre-jowl Implants.
 * Titanium Brow Lift Screws (Synthes Maxillofacial)
 * Super-Luer Lock Fat Grafting canulas and Ramirez Infiltrators (Tulip Biomedical)
 * Temporalis Soft Implants

Instructional Videos / Movies

 * 1) Ramirez, O.M., Heckler, F.:  The Sliding Gluteus Maximus Myocutaneous Flap in Ambulatory Patients.
 * 2) Ramirez, O.M.,:  The Extended Subperiosteal Facelift.
 * 3) Ramirez, O.M.:  The Rectus Sharing Technique for Repair of Abdominal Wall Following Rectus Abdominis Breast Reconstruction.
 * 4) Ramirez, O.M.:  Vertical Face-Lift:  The Subperiosteal Approach.
 * 5) Ramirez, O.M.:  Multidirectional, Multi layer Rhytidectomy.
 * 6) Ramirez, O.M.:  Anatomical Dissections.  Second International Workshop on Aesthetic Surgery of the Face:  The Subperiosteal Facelift, Ancillary and Alternative Techniques.
 * 7) Ramirez, O.M.:  3rd Annual International Workshop on Facial Rejuvenation: The Subperiosteal Forehead/Face Lift, Open and Endoscopic Approaches.
 * 8) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endoscopic Total Face Lifting.
 * 9) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endoscopic Forehead and Face-Lift:  A Cadaver Demonstration.
 * 10) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endofacelift. Springer Verlag New York.
 * 11) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endoscopic Breast Augmentation.  Springer Verlag New York, 1995
 * 12) Ramirez, O.M.:  Advanced Facial Anatomy. 3 volumes.
 * 13) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endoscopic Extended Forehead Lift and Upper Face Rejuvenation.
 * 14) Ramirez, O.M.:  Endoscopic Midfacelift and Neck.  Teleplast.
 * 15) Ramirez, O.M., Pozner, J.N.:  SMILE Rhytidectomy.
 * 16) Ramirez, O.M., Eshbaugh, W.:  The BEAM Facelift.
 * 17) Ramirez, O.M.:  3-D “Scarless” Facial Beautification.
 * 18) 3-D Facial Rejuvenation & Remodeling.
 * 19) Ramirez, O.M.:  Facial Rejuvenation Series:  20 Years of Research and Experience Summarized in a 3 DVD Series.
 * 20) Ramirez, O.N.: Deep Cervicoplasty