Dr. Michael Jazayeri, MD

Naturally, to be able to exercise the creativity that distinguishes one of the best plastic surgeons in Southern California, it’s first necessary to gain the massive amount of training and knowledge necessary to be an outstanding doctor…and it might require some travel. For young Michael A. Jazayeri, it t all began in Orange County. He started out strong in his academic life, graduating magna cum laude from the University of California, Irvine.

His studies then moved north of the Orange County line when he obtained his medical degree from the internationally renowned medical program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. When it was time to begin the all-important residency period, when newly minted MDs put everything they’ve learned into action, young Dr. Jazayeri left sunny Southern California for five wind-chilled years of surgical training at the University of Illinois-Chicago. That done, the young doctor returned to the West Coast, spending an additional year of training at Shriners Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

There, he managed challenging cosmetic and reconstructive deformities with severe chronic burns, gaining extensive experience in scar revision and tissue expansion while helping the youngest and most vulnerable patients. Starting at this point, Dr. Jazayeri was published four times between 1994 and 2000 in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official journal of the ASPS. Dr. Jazayeri’s next stop was in the Bay Area training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco.

That was followed by his return to the Midwest when he took on his final three-year residency in plastic surgery at the Medical College of Ohio. By June 1999, that work was completed; by July 1999 he had opened up his first Orange County office and began the practice that continues to this day.