Meet Dr. Akshay Sanan

Dr. Sanan was accepted to the Boston University School of Medicine out of high school through the highly competitive and prestigious seven-year accelerated medical program at Boston University. Upon graduation, he received the Dean Eleanor Tyler Award, given to the top graduate of the medical program, and was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Dr. Sanan then pursued a five-year residency in head and neck surgery at Jefferson University in Philadelphia, which was ranked a top 10 program during his time there. In residency, he was inducted into the resident chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Dr. Sanan was then selected from over fifty candidates to be the sole Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellow at Stanford University. This fellowship was under the auspices of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. This busy year was spent training directly with world-renowned Dr. Sam Most, chief of facial plastic surgery at Stanford, and encompassed rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, and aging face surgery including deep plane facelift and necklift, browlift, and eyelid lift.

During Dr. Sanan’s fellowship, he was a Clinical Instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine. During this time, he was directly responsible for the education in the clinic and the operating room of head and neck surgery residents, plastic surgery residents, and ophthalmology residents. His responsibilities also included serving as staff facial plastic surgeon for the US veterans at the Palo Alto VA Hospital.

Dr. Sanan is proud to be dual-board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. These board certifications encompass years of training, multiple oral and written examinations, and peer-review of surgeries performed by Dr. Sanan.

In addition to his clinical accomplishments, Dr. Sanan is an avid researcher, performing research on surgical and non-surgical facial cosmetic surgery treatments including rhinoplasty, facelifts, and browlifts. He has also published about skin cancer reconstruction and scar revision of the face. He has presented his original research at national meetings throughout the country. Please see Dr. Sanan’s CV for all his research projects, presentations, and publications.

Finally, Dr. Sanan is committed to giving back, locally and internationally. He values medical mission work and has participated in mission trips to the Philippines and Cambodia. He received the Ashley Grewoode Memorial Scholarship in residency to fund a cleft lip and palate medical mission trip to the Philippines.

Dr. Sanan is thrilled to bring his skillset and diverse background to West Hollywood and to provide his clients with the safest, most innovative, and personalized techniques available.