HAROLD D. CLAVIN, M.D. - BACKGROUND AND HISTORY

A Los Angeles native, Harold D. Clavin, MD, F.A.C.S., attended Fairfax High School, received his undergraduate degree from UCLA, and his doctorate from University of Southern California. Both his internship and residency in head and neck surgery were at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, followed by two years in the Navy, where he served as Chief Medical Officer on the USS Piedmont and as a surgeon at the Long Beach Naval Hospital. Afer two years of surgical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he was offered the rare opportunity to train in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. In the ensuing years, Dr. Clavin was honored as a Diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Aethetic Plastic Surgeons, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons, where he served as president. He is perhaps best known for his extensive experience with primary and revisional rhioplasties (cosmetic nose surgery). Dr. Clavin is known as a teacher, writer and lecturer, and has been a guest on more than three-dozen television shows, including "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "Good Morning America". Though much of his practice is devoted to cosmetic surgery, he has done considerable work with burns, trauma and congenital defects.