Pamela Lipkin

Pamela Lipkin (born 1952[1]) is a New York City-based facial plastic surgeon, specializing in nose work.[2] She has appeared on Good Morning America and ABC News, among other media, weighing in on plastic surgery matters.[3] She is married to New York City mega-developer Bruce Ratner.

Background

She attended Cornell University[4] and graduated from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse in 1978 for her medical degree.[1]

She has one son from her first marriage[4] and gave $10,000 to Republican Jeanine Pirro's gubernatorial campaign.[5]

Career

She has been an advocate of Botox-use since the 1990s,[4] before its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in April 2002.[6] In 2003, she weighed in on Michael Jackson's nose job supporting the view that it was not as the star had described in the media, and that it was actually beyond repair.[2]

She has also been forthright about taking in patients in their 30s[7][8] although experts have opined such an age is too young for facial procedures due to the risk of scarring spreading.[9]

Her patients have included her sister-in-law, Fox News personality Ellen Ratner.[4] On HealthGrades, she rates 67 (out of 100) in patient satisfaction.[1]

Lawsuit

In 1999, a Manhattan jury awarded a 62-year-old patient of Lipkin's $600,000 for what they believed was an overzealous series of cosmetic procedures--face and brow lift operations, a nose job, and cheek implant corrections—on a woman who was already suffering from an addiction to plastic surgery.[10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Pamela R. Lipkin, MD". HealthGrades.
  2. 1 2 "Lipkin weighs in on Michael Jackson's nose". ABC News. March 2003.
  3. ↑ "Pamela Lipkin, MD".
  4. 1 2 3 4 Connor, Tracy (June 16, 2002). "A LITTLE WINE, CHEESE AND A SHOT IN THE HEAD: Botox, the Hot New Party Drug".
  5. ↑ Gray, Geoffrey (Sep 24, 2006). "Go-Go Pirro Gathers GOP Bucks".
  6. ↑ "Botulinum Toxin Type A Product Approval Information- Licensing Action 4/12/02". US Food and Drug Administration.
  7. ↑ Pozniak, Alexa (July 2). "Plastic Surgery Not for Everyone". Good Morning America. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ↑ "Pamela Lipkin, MD on Good Morning America". YouTube.
  9. ↑ Pozniak, Alexa (July 2). "Plastic Surgery Not for Everyone". Good Morning America. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ↑ "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Jury Awards $600,000 Over Cosmetic Surgery". April 25, 1999.
  11. ↑ Arena, Salvatore (April 24, 1999). "Woman Wins 600G from Face-Lift Doc". New York Daily News.

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