Dr. Hoang developed her passion for Plastic Surgery when she was ten after seeing Operation Smile Documentary. She emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen to study and to pursue her dream. She has lived in many parts of the country but fell in love with Southern California during her Plastic Surgery training at UCLA and now calls Orange County her home. She is passionate, compassionate, and focused to provide her patients with the most beautiful and natural results that fit their active and healthy lifestyles.
Dr. Hoang developed her passion for Plastic Surgery when she was ten after seeing Operation Smile Documentary. She emigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen to study and to pursue her dream. She has lived in many parts of the country but fell in love with Southern California during her Plastic Surgery training at UCLA and now calls Orange County her home. She is passionate, compassionate, and focused to provide her patients with the most beautiful and natural results that fit their active and healthy lifestyles.
Dr. Hoang’s expertise includes cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery with special focus on rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty, facial feminization surgeries, facial trauma, breast reconstruction, and general plastic surgery. She has also written and illustrated a number of scientific papers and book chapters on surgical technique and employing virtual surgical planning to optimize results.
Education
Dr. Hoang graduated magna cum laude from Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry and Masters Degree in Chemistry at age 21. She then attended Georgetown University School of Medicine, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in the country. She went onto UCSF Medical Center for her surgical internship, followed by general surgery residency at NYU Medical Center in New York. She was heavily recruited to UCLA for her Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency followed by Craniofacial Fellowship. During the intense years of training, Dr. Hoang worked under the world’s leading experts in complex reconstructive surgery, including the most advanced techniques in facial feminization surgeries and breast reconstruction. She also had the opportunity to learn state of the art aesthetic surgery from some of the best Beverly Hills’ surgeons. After her training at the world renown UCLA medical centers, she received a full scholarship from the Korean College of Cosmetic Surgery for further training in Asian Aesthetic Surgery and is currently an active fellow of the college. Dr. Hoang has published multiple peer - reviewed articles and book chapters and has presented her work at regional, national, and international meetings.
Education and Training
2000-2004 Bachelor and Master of Science in Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2004-2008 Doctor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
2008-2009 General Surgery Internship, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2009-2014 General Surgery Residency, New York University, New York, NY
2014-2017 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017-2018 Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship, Korean College of Cosmetic Surgery, Seoul, Korea
2018-2019 Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Passion for health and beauty
As an avid swimmer, who competed in and won multiple competitions during her youth, Dr. Hoang appreciates the importance of having an active lifestyle for one’s confidence, beauty, and overall well - being. She strives to strike a perfect balance between form and function in her work, to shorten her patients’ downtime while maximizing their outcomes. It is always her priority to offer the newest and most advanced surgical and non - surgical treatments for her patients to be at their best to “carpe diem”
