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Top 500
#126
Score
34.3/100

Dr. Catherine Chang, MD, FACS

Catherine S. Chang, MD, FACS is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon with cranio-maxillofacial fellowship training at Privé Beverly Hills, 9300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Beverly Hills, California (about, contact). Her site describes deep plane and SMAS facelifts, neck lifts, revision facelifts and a mini lift she calls the Bijoux Lift (facelift).

Practice
9300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone
(323) 990-5330
Website
privebevhills.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
Teaches at
Facial and Rhinoplasty Symposium 2026
A smiling woman relaxing on a white sofa

Training and board certification

Stage Detail Source
Undergraduate Columbia University, magna cum laude about
Medical school Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Alpha Omega Alpha about
Residency Combined general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery, University of Pennsylvania; chief resident about
Fellowship Cranio-maxillofacial aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital about
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "Board-Certified Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon." The board is not named (about).
  • Clinical instructor of surgery at Harvard Medical School during fellowship (about).
  • Over 20 peer-reviewed articles and three book chapters; co-author of the textbook Atlas of Facial Implants. The publication list includes a 2020 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery paper on SMAS movement in the tumescent facelift (about).

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Facelift. The page states she performs most facelifts with SMAS techniques, "6 different types of SMAS lift techniques" including her signature deep plane facelift, lifting on a mostly vertical vector (facelift).
  • Neck lift. Outpatient, under IV sedation, through a small incision below the chin and behind the ears; compression bandages worn for 7 to 10 days (neck lift).
  • Revision facelift. Page for secondary facelifts correcting a prior facelift (revision facelift).
  • Bijoux Lift. Mini lift for patients in their 20s and 30s with early jowling; the jawline is tightened with internal sutures through incisions behind the ear, sometimes with a small incision under the chin (Bijoux Lift).
  • Men. Male facelift and neck lift page; most patients return to work and light activities within two to three weeks (men).
  • Recovery. The facelift page says "a few weeks" are required before fully resuming normal activities.
  • Prices. None published.
  • Gallery. One gallery page linking 19 facelift cases; case captions list deep plane facelift, neck lift, submental liposuction, fat grafting, blepharoplasty and CO2 laser, and one revision facelift (gallery, example case).

Other facial procedures

Blepharoplasty (most patients back to work in a week or less), brow lift, facial fat grafting, lip lift, buccal fat removal, chin augmentation, custom facial implants, rhinoplasty, otoplasty and skin cancer reconstruction; skin treatments include CO2 laser, CoolPeel, Morpheus8 and FaceTite (eyelid, brow lift, CO2 laser). The gallery page also links 9 eyelid cases, 1 brow lift case and 6 facial implant cases.

Practice

Field Value
Practice Privé Beverly Hills
Address 9300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (contact)
Phone (323) 990-5330 (site header); the contact page body lists (310) 424-5330 and the facelift page lists (323) 990-6908
Website https://privebevhills.com/
Instagram instagram.com/catchangmd
Facebook facebook.com/catchangmd
TikTok tiktok.com/@catchangmd

Not verified: the certifying board is not named on the pages read.

Practice location and recovery

From privebevhills.com, read 2026-09-30. Prices and recovery times are quoted as the practice publishes them.

The marker carries the surgeon's Top 500 rank and sits on the practice's street address. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Top facelift surgeons in California

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Swelling"compression bandages that need to be worn for 7-10 days and that help increase blood flow and reduce swelling (neck lift)" Source10
Back to work"Most patients can return to work and light activities within two to three weeks. (male facelift and neck lift)" Source21
Back to work"The recovery period for both procedures is comparable, with a few weeks required before fully resuming normal activities." Source

Why #126: the score, line by line

Points come from sources read the same way for every surgeon. The method is on the methodology page.

SignalPointsOfSource
Research0300 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 0 since 2021
Teaching8.3252 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition610Newsweek facelift list 2024, 2025
Score34.3100#126 in the Top 500

Meetings taught

Facelift, neck and facial rejuvenation sessions Dr. Catherine Chang taught to other surgeons, newest first.

2026
Facial and Rhinoplasty Symposium 2026
Boca Raton, FL, USA · Achieving the Aesthetic Neck; The Facelift Practice
2026
AMWC Asia - TDAC 2026
Taipei, Taiwan · Energy-Based Devices: The Basics and Untold Truth
2024
The Aesthetic Meeting 2024, panelist
General Session: Recurrent Neck Laxity & Band: Does Anything Work?
2024
The Aesthetic Meeting 2024, faculty
Course 402 Advanced Techniques for Rejuvenation of the Neck and Lower Face