Training and board certification
Source for all rows: facesplus.com/about/dr-steven-r-cohen/
| Stage | Institution |
|---|---|
| General surgery | Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City |
| Two-year fellowship (cardiac surgery) | National Institutes of Health |
| Plastic surgery | University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Fellowship, craniofacial and facial plastic surgery | UCLA, with Dr. Henry Kawamoto |
- Board certification, as the site states it: "Board certified through the American Board of Plastic Surgery."
- Director, Craniofacial Program, University of Michigan, 1990-1993; Co-Director, Center for Craniofacial Disorders, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1993-1999.
- Chief of Craniofacial Surgery and Surgical Director of the Craniofacial Center, Children's Hospital of San Diego, from 1999, when he founded FACES+.
- Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego; directs the Craniofacial Fellowship at Rady Children's Hospital and UCSD; established the UCSD/San Diego Multidisciplinary Aesthetic Fellowship in 2009.
- Section editor for Fat Grafting and Stem Cells, Aesthetic Surgery Journal.
- Co-developer of Lipocube, a fat-processing device; inventor of the MID internal distraction system (Stryker).
- Medical school: not named on the bio page.
Facelift and neck lift work
- Deep plane facelift. Releases the ligaments that tether the facial muscles and lifts deeper structures including the midface, nasolabial folds and jowls (deep-plane-facelift).
- SMAS facelift. Lifts and repositions the SMAS layer to treat jowls, nasolabial folds and sagging skin (smas-facelift).
- California facelift. Targets the neck, jawline and midface, with volume added if needed (california-facelift).
- "Scarless" facelift. Small incisions behind the ears or within the hairline (scarless-facelift).
- Mini facelift and male facelift pages (mini-facelift, male-facelift).
- Neck lift. Lower rhytidectomy through incisions behind the ears and sometimes under the chin, with liposuction as needed; platysmaplasty to tighten and suture the platysma muscles (neck-lift).
- Deep neck and submandibular gland reduction. Reduces enlarged submandibular glands and neck fat, combined with neck lift (deep-neck page).
- Fat grafting. The bio describes regenerative facial fat grafting ("Injectable Tissue Replacement and Regeneration") and fat processed with Lipocube, combined with facelift (bio).
Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-26), with patient-numbered before-and-after cases:
Practice
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Practice | FACES+ |
| Address | 4510 Executive Drive, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121 (contact) |
| Phone | (858) 544-3005 |
| Website | https://www.facesplus.com/ |
| instagram.com/faces_plus | |
| YouTube | YouTube channel |
| facebook.com/Facesplus | |
| TikTok | tiktok.com/@facesplusplasticsurgery |
Not verified: the queue lists FACS; the bio page does not print FACS.