Plastic / Cosmetic / Reconstructive Surgery Consultants: 4

Steven Burres has over 30 years of experience in the practice of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Burres provides all aspects of care including surgery, evaluation, treatment, and complications. He specializes in:

• Ear, Nose, and Throat
• Facial Plastic Surgery
• Liposuction
• Allergy

Dr. Burres has in-depth expertise in procedures such as cosmetic plastic surgery including hair, forehead, eyelids, nose, lip, facelift, neck lift, ear pinning and reshaping, cheek and chin implants, fillers, Botox, lasers, skin, scars, liposuction, and others except for breast implants and tummy tuck.

Dr. Burres' ear nose and throat experience includes broken noses and other facial fractures, hearing loss, vertigo, dizziness, smell, taste, nasal obstruction, sinusitis, tinnitus, hoarseness, GERD, sleep apnea, cancer, headaches, TMJ, skin disorders, facial nerve, and allergy.

Dr. Burres also has expertise in medical manufacturing having creative from concept-to-sales two medical businesses, one an injectable filler and the second a set of ear cleaning tools sold at major retailers.

Litigation Support - Dr. Burres has 20 years of experience serving as an expert witness and evaluator. He is a licensed QME/IME in California. His services are available to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant for any medical legal matter including personal injury, workman's compensation, QME, IME, medical malpractice, or other medical manufacturing issues.

Education / Training:

• BA - University of Chicago, 1975
• MD -University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine, 1979
• Residency Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery, 1983
• Fellowship Facial Plastic surgery - Stanford University, 1985

  
  

Dr. John M. Shamoun is the only Plastic Surgeon in the United States who is Quadruple Board Certified by the:

American Board of Surgery

American Board of Plastic Surgery

American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

American Board of Forensic Medicine

Having completed nine formal years of training beyond medical school, Dr. Shamoun is among the most highly educated Plastic Surgeons you will find in the United States today. He is dedicated to achieving extraordinary and unmatched outcomes in all cosmetic plastic surgical procedures.

Dr. Shamoun has earned the reputation of being a surgeon's surgeon, specializing in correcting unfavorable results operated upon elsewhere. He has extensive experience in all aspects of Cosmetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Breast, Nose, Face, Eyes and Body. He also has extensive experience in Medical Malpractice case review, consultation, written evaluation and testimony (in depositions and trial), for plaintiff and defense.

Dr. Shamoun is an articulate subspecialty consultant with up to date knowledge and expertise of Plastic Surgery literature and standards of care. His opinions are supported by extensive subspeciality education, training, and experience.

Areas of Expertise:

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

Breast Implant / Augmentation Surgery

Breast Surgery

Liposuction / Body Contouring Surgery

Nasal Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery of the Eyes, Face, Nose, Breast, Body

Facelift Surgery

Trauma Surgery

General Surgery

Moelleken Plastic Surgery offers Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to clients in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara. Procedures are available for the body, breast, and face, and include signature and non-invasive treatments.

Principal, Brent Moelleken, MD, FACS is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon practicing in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara. Double board certified, he received his training at Harvard University, Yale University, UCSF, and UCLA.

Dr. Moelleken is one of three specialty-trained surgeons in the world to complete the year-long Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship at UCLA. He is an Attending Surgeon and Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA, where he often performs surgeries and teaches residents. Here, he specializes in patients diagnosed with skin cancers in the facial area who require complex, artful reconstructions.

Dr. Moelleken has innovated various procedures including LiveFill®, autologous fat-fascial grafts; the USIC® & LUSIC® cheeklifts, short incision cheeklifts; the 360 Facelift®, a comprehensive natural appearing facelift procedure; and the Hybrid Tummy Tuck®, a short incision tummy tuck for fit moms.

For his expertise, Dr. Moelleken has been selected by Marquis’ Who’s Who in America’s Top Plastic Surgeons in Los Angeles, LA Magazine’s “Top Doctors in Los Angeles”, and is on numerous Top Doctors Lists including Vogue Magazine’s “Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in America”. He has appeared on numerous local and national television segments including Extreme Makeover, as a featured member of the “Extreme Team”; CNN, Extra, BBC, Oprah, E! Entertainment, Discovery Health Channel, MTV, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and numerous local television programs and many print venues including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine (2 cover stories), and numerous national and international print stories. He is frequently featured in European and Asian television segments including programs in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and numerous Spanish speaking channels in South and Central America.

View Dr. Moelleken's Expert Witness Profile.

Eugene Strasser, MD, JD , FACS, ACLM, principal at CosmePlast, is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with expertise in restoring form, function & aesthetics to the face & body . He offers 35+ year of Cosmetic & Reconstructive Plastic Surgery expertise and serves as Chief of Staff at The Outpatient Surgery Center in Coral Springs, Florida.

Procedures Include

• Face-Facelift (Rhytidectomy, Eyelid (Blepharoplasty, Chemical Peel, Dermabrasion, Browlift, Nose (Rhinoplasty, Chin Implant (Augentation Mentoplasty)
• Breast- Enlargement (Augentation Mammoplasty), Reduction, Lift (Mastopexy)
• Body- Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty), Arm Lift (brachioplasty), Liposuction (Suction Lipectomy), Ear (Otoplasy), Labial Reduction/Augmentation

Dr. Strasser received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1972.

Following his general surgery residency, he went on to complete his Plastic Surgery residency at Albany Medical Center in New York. He obtained his board certification in general surgery in 1979 and obtained his board certification in Plastic Surgery in 1981.

In 1998, Dr. Strasser went on to complete his postgraduate education in Wound Management & Hyperbaric Medicine.

In 2001, he received a law degree from Sheppard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University.

Memberships and Affiliations:

• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc.
• American College of Surgeons
• American Medical Association
• Florida Medical Association
• Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons
• American College of Legal Medicine