I am a board certified General Surgeon with trauma specialization. This means that I have experience operating on the neck with a working knowledge of anatomy. I treat all my procedures as surgeries. This means that I precisely plan and execute these procedures as if it needed to be the world’s best surgery and one’s life depended on it.
I went to a pretty good school for college and medical school training. I was in that special Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University. In fact, I had the difficult task of turning down generous offers from Harvard and Stanford to enroll at this program at Brown University.
I have taught other physicians, surgeons and nurses about cosmetic medicine and injections. I was a lecturer for Allergan in the past. Allergan is the maker of Botox, Juvederm, Latisse, and Kybella.
Allergan somehow thinks I’m important. In September 2016 at The Plastic Surgery Meeting in Los Angeles (it’s actually called Plastic Surgery The Meeting), I was invited to a dinner reception with Allergan big wigs: Brent Saunders (CEO), Gavin Corcoran (CMO), Stephanie Brown (Global Head-Aesthetics), Antony Fulford-Smith (VP-Medical Affairs), and Diana Romero PhD (Director of Facial Asthetics). Not many surgeons got this honor – I think there was five of us – wow, thank you very much for the honor.
I got an award in 2016 from Allergan for being a “Diamond Level” injector which means that I’m part of the top 4% of their accounts. In 2016, I injected 66,597 Botox Units, 897 syringes of filler, and had numerous acupuncture patients.
I have a great deal of experience with needles since I am also an acupuncturist (and a Botox injector and a Surgeon). Getting injections for Kybella requires a few needle pokes. I’ll try to be gentle too!
Having happy patients is my priority. Hopefully I still have some good Yelp reviews to show this.
Dr. Wu and Dr. Lee on the cover in 2016
I have valuable plastic surgical backup from my wife, Dr. Tammy Wu, board certified plastic surgeon. It’s good to bounce ideas and have another surgeon take care of our patients.
And if it’s worth any consideration, we believe that I made the world’s first plastic surgery webpage. I think that this is an advantage because I continue to make webpages and my patients have more direct contact with me through my webpages – although they tend to be long and boring. Well, I stored what I think was the world’s first plastic surgery webpage which I made in 1996 for Brown University: World’s first plastic surgery webpage designed by me.
I was the first surgeon in Central Valley California to have access to Kybella. It was in mid 2015 when I was fortunate to be selected to use Kybella.
