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

Dr. Clavin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944. He went to Fairfax High School, did his undergraduate training at UCLA, and his medical school training at University of Southern California. He received his M.D. in 1968. From 1968 to 1970, he did his internship followed by a residency in head and neck surgery at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center. In 1970, he entered the Navy for two years, serving one year as Chief Medical Officer of the USS Piedmont (a destroyer tender) and one year in the general surgical department of Long Beach Naval Hospital.

After the Navy, Dr. Clavin continued on to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for two more years of intensive general surgical training before beginning his plastic surgical residency. Dr. Clavin is very proud of the fact that out of 40 highly qualified applicants, he was one of two physicians picked to begin the very prestigious plastic surgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco.

Finally, in the summer of 1976, at the ripe age of 32, Dr. Clavin finished all of his official training in plastic and reconstructive surgery. During the following year he became a "Diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery." One year later, in 1978, he was again honored by being accepted as a "Fellow of the American College of Surgeons." Dr. Clavin has been fortunate to become accepted to many honorary and medical societies; a few of these include: American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons, for which he is President. He is the president and founder of Clavin Laboratories, a company which manufactures his non-surgical eye lift, a device which has received two United States patents and is sold worldwide. Dr. Clavin continues to teach, write, and lecture on a regular basis, and in addition has been invited to appear on over 35 local and national television shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Sally Jessey Raphael Show, and Good Morning America. His present surgical interest is in cosmetic surgery for which he devotes 95% of his practice. He also has extensive training and experience in all aspects of reconstructive surgery, including burns, trauma, and correction of a wide variety of congenital defects. Dr. Clavin resides in Brentwood, California, where he lives with his lovely wife and three children.