Jay W. Granzow, MD, MPH, FACS
Breast Reconstruction Specialist - California
Dr. Granzow is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon serving the Los Angeles area. Dr Granzow is Board Certified both by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. He has additional specialized fellowship training in both aesthetic surgery and microvascular surgery, and specializes in aesthetic/cosmetic surgery of the breast, body and face, rhinoplasty, breast reconstruction and microsurgery. He performs all of the latest aesthetic surgery procedures including breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, facelift, tummy tuck and liposuction.
Born in Santa Monica and raised in a medical family, Dr. Granzow is native to the Los Angeles area, and graduated from the well known Harvard-Westlake High School.
Dr. Granzow attended college at Princeton, where he majored in chemical engineering and graduated with honors and a certificate in engineering biology. During that time, he also completed independent work in the Programs in Robotics and Intelligent Systems and independent work in vaccine production at Merck Pharmaceuticals.
After college, Dr. Granzow attended Tulane Medical School and soon developed an interest both in surgery and microsurgery. These interests continued throughout both of his residencies; first in Head and Neck Surgery at USC in Los Angeles followed by Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami in Florida. He graduated medical school in 1997 in the top 10% of his class and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Dr. Granzow also holds a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree with a focus in Health Systems Management. He completed this during his time in medical school at Tulane.
Breast Reconstruction Surgeon California
After finishing his formal training in Plastic Surgery in 2004, Dr. Granzow traveled extensively throughout the United States and internationally, spending significant amounts of time working closely with many of the world’s top surgeons in advanced microsurgery and aesthetic surgery. This included fellowships both in microsurgery and perforator flap breast reconstruction with Dr. Robert Allen in New Orleans, Louisiana and in advanced aesthetic surgery with Dr. Bryan Mendelson in Melbourne, Australia. Among the other physicians with whom he worked were Dr. Fu-Chan Wei in Taiwan, Dr. Isao Koshima in Japan, and Dr. Philip Blondeel in Belgium.
Dr. Granzow has presented on various plastic surgery topics, including perforator flap breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery, at leading scientific and health meetings and has authored numerous articles in recent and upcoming issues of the major, peer reviewed, plastic surgery journals. He has also helped to perform a perforator flap breast reconstruction as part of a live surgical demonstration at the international meeting on perforator flaps last held in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Granzow is Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a member of the full time faculty in Plastic Surgery. He is the Assistant Chief of Plastic Surgery at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.
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Board Certification
- American Board of Plastic Surgery
- American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Education
- B.S.E. Princeton – with honors in chemical engineering
- M.D., Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA - graduated in top 10% of class with AOA Honors
- M.P.H., Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
- General Surgery Internship, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Head and Neck Surgery Residency, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Plastic Surgery Residency, University of Miami - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
- Microvascular Surgery Fellowship, LSU Center for Health Sciences, New Orleans, LA
- Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship, Toorak Cosmetic Surgery Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- Visiting Fellow, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Visiting Fellow, Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
- Visiting Fellow, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
 
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