Best Beverly Hills CA Plastic Surgeons List

Grant Stevens, MD    Marina Plastic Surgery Associates
Dr. Grant Stevens is a board-certified Los Angeles plastic surgeon and the Medical Director of Marina Plastic Surgery Associates, serving the needs of Long Beach, Pasadena, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles plastic surgery patients. He specializes in cosmetic plastic surgery and has been named one of America's Best Physicians in "The Guide to Top Doctors." Dr. Stevens was nominated by his colleagues which makes this recognition especially prestigious and rewarding. He is an active member at Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital where he is the past Chairman of The Department of Surgery, the past Chairman of the Liposuction Committee, and the past co-director of The Breast Center. He is also on staff at St. John's Medical Center and The Marina Outpatient Surgery Center. Dr. Stevens was recently inducted into the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, an organization that aims to teach standards of care, to help refine plastic surgery techniques and to evaluate and promote emerging trends and technologies.

Dr. Stevens graduated with honors from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis where he was awarded the Senior Prize in Surgery. He completed his general surgery training at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, then returned to Washington University-Barnes Hospital where he completed a Fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is a Board Certified Diplomate of The American Board of Plastic Surgery and a Fellow of The American College of Surgeons and The International College of Surgeons. He was appointed by the governor to The Medical Board of California Medical Quality Review Board, and is on the Plastic Surgery Faculty at UCLA as well as USC. Dr. Stevens has been an invited visiting professor at Loma Linda University, The University of Switzerland, The University of Denmark, and The University of Southern California.

He has been interviewed for articles that have appeared in USA Today, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Beauty, Forbes, Glamour, Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Times, Business Week, Men's Fitness, LA Times Magazine, Longevity, Cooking Light, Discovery and numerous newspapers. His television appearances have included CNN, Discovery, MSNBC, The Learning Channel, Sonia Live, Leeza, CBS News, 24 Hours, Extra, Hard Copy, American Journal, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Lifetime - New Attitudes, PBS Nightly Business Report and many other TV and radio interviews.

Brian Cox, MD

Dr. Brian Cox is a board certified plastic surgeon specializing in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. With offices in Beverly Hills and Pasadena, CA, Dr. Cox centers his practice around a philosophy of offering world-class, safe, comfortable care that is considered the gold standard for plastic surgery. Dr. Cox is a trusted source for a wide range of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery procedures such as: breast augmentation, breast reduction and breast reconstruction; tummy tuck and body contouring; facelift; nose and eyelid surgery; laser resurfacing; hair replacement; scar revision; lip enhancement; and Collagen and Botox injections.

Originally from Kansas, Dr. Cox combines the best of Midwest ethics and values with the highest quality surgical care.

He devotes special attention to educating people on all of their cosmetic options, including surgical and non-surgical techniques, so they are knowledgeable, informed and educated, and can make the best decisions about their care. Certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Cox operates comfortably on all parts of the body. He is qualified in the most advanced cosmetic and reconstructive surgery techniques, and is regularly called upon by his peers for his highly specialized skill and expertise.

Steven Svehlak, MD, FACS
Sunset Cosmetic Surgery

Dr. Steven Svehlak is a Los Angeles plastic surgeon specializing in cosmetic enhancements of the face and body.  He is a co-founder of Sunset Cosmetic Surgery, and is double board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery.  Dr. Svehlak has been named one of America's Top Surgeons by the Consumers’ Research Council of America, is a member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American Society of Plastic Surgeons as well as.a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Svehlak (affectionately known as “Dr. Steve” by his loyal patient following) attributes his continued success to his practice’s focus on patient safety, comfort and satisfaction. He has become widely known for his breast and body work – particularly his Mommy Makeovers – which involve custom combinations of breast and a body procedures to restore women’s figures after pregnancy.  Procedure combinations for Mommy Makeovers usually involve a breast augmentation, breast lift, or breast reduction, as well as a tummy tuck and/or liposculpting to re-define the waistline, hips and thighs.  Patients travel from all over the world for his liposculpting and reparative breast and body work.  Dr. Svehlak also offers expert facial rejuvenation, fat grafting, brow lifts, facelifts, chin implants, nose work, eyelid surgery, ear enhancement (adults and children), Botox and a variety of injectable facial fillers.

Daniel Yamini, MD, FACS
Sunset Cosmetic Surgery

Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Daniel Yamini specializes in natural-looking cosmetic enhancements of the face, breasts and body.  A co-founder of Sunset Cosmetic Surgery, Dr. Yamini is double board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Yamini has been named one of America's Top Surgeons by the Consumers’ Research Council of America and is a member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons.  He is also a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.

Dr. Yamini maintains that the key to his success has been his practice’s focus on patient safety, comfort and satisfaction. He has become well known for his breast work and transformational Mommy Makeovers, which entail custom combinations of breast and a body procedures to restore women’s figures after pregnancy.  Procedure combinations for Mommy Makeovers usually involve a breast augmentation, breast lift, or breast reduction, as well as a tummy tuck and/or liposculpting to re-define the waistline, hips and thighs. Dr. Yamini is also able to achieve incredibly natural-looking rhinoplasties (restraint is the trick, he says), as well as expert facial rejuvenation, fat grafting, brow lifts, facelifts, chin implants, eyelid surgery, Botox and a variety of injectable facial fillers.

Jeffrey D. Hoefflin, M.D., FACS


Dr. Hoefflin is a fully trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon, having completed both a general surgery and plastic surgery residency. Having trained at some of our nation's most prestigious hospitals, including UCLA, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cornell and Columbia-Presbyterian Hospitals in New York City, Dr. Hoefflin has garnered a reputation for his surgical excellence and expertise in plastic surgery. He is often sought out for the newest and safest surgical techniques in facial, breast, and body rejuvenation. His highly visible patients have recently appeared in such magazines and television shows as Playboy, GQ, People, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, the WB's 'The Surreal life,' and MTV's 'Rock the Cradle.' In August 2008, he served as the plastic surgeon of choice, and performed surgical procedures for the A&E television network.

Dr. Hoefflin is a member of numerous professional societies and has lectured both nationally and internationally at highly respected society meetings, including the American College of Surgeons, and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. His recent lectures and publications include such topics as the importance of safety in outpatient surgery, facial nerve anatomy, the avoidance of nerve injury in facelifts, minimally invasive brachioplasty, revisional breast augmentation, and lip rejuvenation.

Geoffrey R. Keyes, MD, FACS

Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon, Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Dr. Keyes is President of the California and Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons, he has been featured on Dateline, Good Morning America, FoxNews, UPN LA and Montel Williams discussing cosmetic surgery.

Dr. Keyes has the distinction of being double board certified meaning he is certified by both The American Board of Plastic Surgery and The American Board of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery. Both these surgical specialties substantiate training for cosmetic surgical procedures. As a leading Los Angeles plastic surgeon he has published and lectured internationally on the latest plastic surgery techniques.

Dr. Geoffrey Keyes holds the following positions:
President - California Society of Plastic Surgeons President - Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons President - Aesthetic Society Education and Research Foundation Board of Directors - American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilitie

JON W. GAFFNEY M.D., F.A.C.S

Dr. Jon Gaffney possesses over 25 years of experience as a board-certified plastic surgeon and hair restoration specialist, having performed more than 14,000 hair transplant procedures during his distinguished career. With a background in plastic surgery, coupled with an innate sense of aesthetics and focus on individualized care, Dr. Gaffney is internationally-recognized by patients and doctors alike.

Dr. Gaffney’s passion for his practice stems from his own personal experience with hair loss. Undergoing a transplant himself at a young age to deal with his feelings of frustration and loss of control over his appearance, Dr. Gaffney views his work today as an opportunity to give patients back the sense of themselves that is often lost along with their hair.

Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Gaffney is a graduate of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed his residencies in general surgery at the University of Illinois, Chicago and St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, as a well as a residency in plastic surgery through the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Dr. Gaffney is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Gaffney is also a retired U.S. Navy Captain and decorated veteran of Operation Desert Storm.

Perry Liu, MD
Dr. Liu embodies the convergence of art and medicine that is the essence of aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. His advanced surgical skills not only reflect his background as an artist, but also integrate the artistry of aesthetic surgery, the fundamental surgical principles of reconstructive surgery, and the delicate and precise nature of microsurgery. Dr. Liu’s skills incorporate multiple disciplines and integrate them into his patients’ journeys of transformation and rejuvenation. With a special interest in Chinese painting, where balance and harmony stages all the elements of a painting, Dr. Liu understands this philosophy and utilizes it to produce more natural results.

During his 10 years of advanced training to become a cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon, he has trained with world-renowned surgeons in multiple disciplines across the United States and in Asia.  These include, but are not limited to, advanced microsurgery, head and neck reconstruction, and breast rejuvenation/cosmetic revisions/cancer reconstruction from Dr. Fu-Chan Wei in Taiwan and Dr. Robert Allen in New Orleans. He also trained under Dr. Gustavo Colon, a preeminent aesthetic surgeon and former president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in New Orleans. Currently, Dr. Liu is in private practice in Los Angeles, CA.

A graduate of Duke University, where he received multiple honors, Dr. Liu continued on to medical school at Emory University in Atlanta, General Surgery Residency at New York Medical College in New York City, a Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, a Microsurgical Fellowship at Chang-gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, and a Plastic Surgery Fellowship at Tulane University in New Orleans. During the course of his training, he has received multiple awards and honors for his research into advanced wound healing and cancer reconstruction.

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Gingrich Beverly Hills Stake

Newt Gingrich’s campaign begins anew—in, of all places, Beverly Hills.

The suddenly listing GOP presidential candidate, reeling from the mass defections of his senior campaign staff, will try to right his ship Sunday evening in Los Angeles, an unlikely springboard for a social conservative banking on winning the Iowa caucuses.

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Luxury Linens House Frette Opens New Beverly Hills Store

Beverly Hills, Calif. - Luxury linens house Frette has opened a 1,300-square-foot boutique here at 445 Rodeo Drive.

"Our Beverly Hills flagship boutique represents a significant strategic step toward the enhanced positioning of the brand. While maintaining our ‘bed-centric' origins, we are aggressively evolving into a more complete experience, offering many more products to address our customers' living occasions," the company said in a statement.

The entry to the store features Frette couture, including luxury jacquard bed sets, furs and cashmere, decorative pillows and a gift collection consisting of artisan home and travel accessories.

Frette shows a more streamlined sensibility the bath area featuring a more modern, graphic design. The store also houses Frette to Wear lingerie and sleep accessories as well as Frette's array of bedding (sheets, duvets, shams); bath towels, spa accessories; linens for the dining room (napkins, runners, tablecloths); and home accessories that range from candles to cashmere throws.

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How Fred Hayman Made Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills Top Luxury

He's been called the godfather of Rodeo Drive. And it's not all hyperbole. Before Beverly Hills was the land of designer logos, before it was teeming with tourists and rolling with Rolls-Royces, the city was home to Fred Hayman, the proprietor of the Giorgio Beverly Hills boutique. Hayman was an architect of luxury in Los Angeles, bringing high fashion, a social shopping atmosphere and white glove service to what was still a sleepy main street when he went into retail in 1967 at the age of 38.¶During the 31 years he ruled the retail roost from his perch under Giorgio's signature yellow and gold awnings, he cultured relationships with designers and celebrities and set a new standard for fashion parties, helping to promote Los Angeles as an international style center. Among his most noteworthy creations was the Giorgio Beverly Hills perfume, a bottling of "Dynasty" and "Scruples"-era excess and one of the most successful fragrances in history, with more than $100 million in sales in its first four years.

And now, at age 86, he is getting his due, as the 15th recipient of the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award (an award he created), and the subject of the new book "Fred Hayman The Extraordinary Difference: The Story of Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Glamour and the Showman Who Sold It All" by fashion journalist Rose Apodaca, former Women's Wear Daily West Coast bureau chief.

The lavish coffee table book chronicles Hayman's life, including his childhood in Zurich and Paris, and his early career in the hospitality industry. He rose through the ranks at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, "a boot camp of a genteel kind," Apodaca writes, and eventually moved west to become director of banquets at the Beverly Hilton, where he would help make a home for the Golden Globe Awards.

With hundreds of historical photos and dozens of interviews, Apodaca takes readers from the 1960s, when the fashion retail scene on Rodeo Drive was just beginning to take shape, through the boutique boom of the 1970s and '80s, and into the 1990s, when Hayman was on the cutting edge in a different way, selling a line of branded fashion and accessories on what would become the Home Shopping Network.

Throughout, Apodaca puts Hayman in the context of L.A.'s movers and shakers, including shop owners Jerry Magnin, Jack Hansen, Charles Gallay and Herb Fink, hair cutters Gene Shacove and Vidal Sassoon, model Peggy Moffitt, and writers Caroline Graham and Judith Krantz.

"Rodeo Drive would just be another district if not for Fred's marketing vision," Beverly Hills Mayor Barry Brucker said last month, during the Walk of Style Award ceremony, referring to Hayman's creation of the Rodeo Drive Committee in 1977 that helped beautify the street and elevate its retail tenants.

Apodaca, who now, with her husband, runs her own store — A & R on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice — has been working on the book off and on for the last six years, meeting with Hayman at "his canteen" — Spago — or at his Malibu beach house, where he has a memorabilia room stuffed with Giorgio Beverly Hills logo wear, including sweatshirts, scarves, teddy bears and sunglasses. She also accompanied him to the opera, where she met his friends, including such old school Los Angeles personalities as Esther Williams and the late Mr. Blackwell.

When Hayman arrived in the early 1950s, Southern California was still the wild frontier in terms of society, Apodaca says. "There was a new moneyed class learning how to entertain, how to dress and how to live. And that allowed for individuals with a sense of European flair, like Fred Hayman, [restaurateur] Michael Romanoff and [designer] Don Loper, to reinvent themselves here and teach the new society."

But it was not all smooth sailing for Hayman. In a matter of years, he was fired from the Beverly Hilton, left his job as general manager of the Ambassador Hotel, and oversaw three failed restaurants. By 1967, all Hayman had left was Giorgio, an existing store at Rodeo Drive and Dayton Way, an investment he had taken over from two other partners in 1962. "He didn't invent Giorgio — or the perfume, that credit goes to his third wife, Gale," Apodaca says. "Fred's strength has always been in recognizing an opportunity."

After leaving the restaurant business, he turned his attention to retail. Neither Fred nor Gale Hayman knew much about selling clothes, but they learned fast; and Fred used his background in the hospitality industry to woo the chic set, sending personal notes to potential customers, and entertaining them when they came in.

Indeed, Giorgio became a hangout, with a mahogany bar, cocktails served in crystal goblets, a newspaper rack, pool table and personal valet to deliver customer purchases by Rolls-Royce. Richard Pryor, Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Robert Evans and Ali MacGraw became Giorgio regulars in the 1970s. Lucille Ball would bring her pet chimpanzee Candy in to visit.

But people also came to shop, thanks to Gale's eye for fashion. She brought Halston's flowing chiffon gowns to the West Coast for the first time, along with pieces by Chloe, Stephen Burrows, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, Thea Porter, Zandra Rhodes, Diane von Furstenberg, Kenneth Jay Lane and Brioni.

Hayman produced and sold his own branded merchandise in Giorgio yellow, with the Giorgio crest, so customers who couldn't afford a $5,000 dress could buy something. "Even though some of the items are kind of tacky, the funny thing is now, luxury brands do their own versions of them," Apodaca says, referring to entry level logo products from brands such as Gucci and Chanel.

The Haymans' legacy was in creating "retail-tainment," she says. "The idea of

creating an environment that's about more than shopping."

Hayman also played an important role in forging a relationship between fashion and Hollywood. You could even say he was the original celebrity stylist. In 1989, he was named the first fashion coordinator for the Academy Awards, a position he held for a decade. He hosted annual pre-Oscars fashion shows for the media and persuaded skeptical designers to participate. And he was always on call to help dress nominees. His efforts helped make celebrity dressing an industry of its own.

In addition, he revolutionized the beauty industry with the 1981 launch of the Giorgio Beverly Hills fragrance. "We forget now because everyone and their dog has a perfume," Apodaca says. "But in the not too distant past, Paris and New York ruled the industry. It was radical that they thought they could come out with a perfume."

The launch party was one of Rodeo Drive's most over-the-top events, held under a yellow-and-white-striped tent in the parking lot that was where Via Rodeo is today. More than 70 pounds of caviar were served, and the trunk of a Rolls-Royce was filled with bottles of perfume given to departing guests.

Hayman made millions with the fragrance, which he sold to Avon in 1987 for $165 million, and the continued success of Giorgio and other independently owned fashion boutiques through the 1980s and early 1990s made Rodeo Drive an enticing destination for designer nameplate-driven brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Prada.

As more designer retail palaces opened, Rodeo Drive began to lose some of its local charm — and rents started climbing. Family-owned businesses moved out. "The designer names became more important than the store names," says Jerry Magnin, who owned the Jerry Magnin store and the franchise for the Ralph Lauren store on Rodeo Drive in the 1970s and '80s.

In 1997, Hayman received an offer he couldn't refuse from Louis Vuitton to lease the 10,000-square-foot landmark. Giorgio closed its doors the next year.

In the book, Hayman says he would have stayed on longer if the offer had not come along, but Apodaca isn't so sure. "When he was in business, there was no paparazzi. And having a back door for celebrities to come in like they do today, he shudders at that idea," she says. "Times were changing in terms of service, and independent boutiques were suffering, and not just on Rodeo Drive. Retail is a fast-moving game."

Hayman divorced in 1983, and was married for the fourth time in 1995, to Betty Endo, a former celebrity assistant. Since his retirement, he still visits his office on Canon Drive a few times a week, and holds court during lunchtime at Spago — like a godfather should.

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