The Breast Reduction Center of NYC, located on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, NY is spearheaded by the best in class NYC board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Keith Blechman, who is an NYC top rated breast reduction specialist.
The absolute best! Dr Blechman was simply amazing. I went into his office for a breast reduction consultation. His assistant Alina handled all the paperwork with my insurance company. Fast forward 2 months later and one week post op…I’m loving the new me. I had a massive breast reduction with a lift and I am so elated Dr Blechman did such a wonderful job, he has completely changed my life. I went from a 40 H to a 40 c. Thank you, thank you – you are simply the best! ~ RealSelf
Keith M. Blechman, M.D. is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon practicing in New York, New York and Beverly Hills, California. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and offers excellence and compassion in breast reduction and breast lift surgery for cosmetic or medical reasons, as well as transgender and non-binary top surgery (chest masculinization and breast augmentation). Dr. Blechman provides the highest quality care and offers the most cutting-edge techniques and therapies.
Dr. Blechman is from Stony Brook, New York, and received his undergraduate degree with Honors from Brown University. Upon graduating college he was recruited by Teach for America to work as a physics and chemistry teacher at a public high school in Oakland, California. After teaching for two years Dr. Blechman attended New York University School of Medicine.
After graduating, he remained at New York University Medical Center in the renowned six-year plastic surgery residency program and was mentored by a host of internationally recognized cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeons. Dr. Blechman then went on to complete a fellowship in reconstructive microsurgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, the nation’s highest-ranked cancer hospital. He has been in private practice for nearly a decade and is a pioneer in innovating new strategies for postoperative pain control without narcotics, as well as a trailblazer in learning how to integrate telemedicine into surgical practice. Dr. Blechman has presented his clinical experience at numerous conferences and meetings across the country.
Dr. Blechman has had an active role in leadership positions in plastic surgery for many years. He is the Chair of the PlastyPAC Board of Governors of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the largest political action committee advocating for plastic surgeons and their patients. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Executive Council of the New York State Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Blechman is also a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Aesthetic Society, and the Medical Society of the State of New York.
Dr. Blechman loves to surf, bike, hike, and ski, and has run the New York City Marathon each year since 2013 raising over fifty thousand dollars to support cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He also keeps a dedicated yoga and meditation practice which he has had for over 20 years. Dr. Blechman has traveled to over 40 countries and splits his time living in Brooklyn, New York and Redondo Beach, California.
Dr. Blechman presents his professional research at numerous national and international conferences and is an author of multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals including Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Breast Journal, and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. Textbook chapters written by him appear in the most recent edition of Grabb and Smith’s Plastic Surgery as well as in Problems in Breast Surgery: A Repair Manual.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship, Houston, TX - New York University School of Medicine
Plastic Surgery Residency, New York, NY - New York University School of Medicine
Plastic Surgery Research Fellowship, New York, NY - New York University School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine, New York, NY - Brown University
Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Providence, RI
BOARD CERTIFICATION
- American Board of Plastic Surgery
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons
- New York State Society of Plastic Surgeons
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons – Chair, PlastyPAC Board of Governors
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons – Legislative Action Committee
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons – Young Plastic Surgeons Steering Committee
- American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery
- American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Medical Society of the State of New York
- New York County Medical Society
CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS
- Kennedy Health System
Consultant, Plastic Surgery, Stratford, NJ - Doylestown Hospital
Affiliate Staff, Plastic Surgery, Doylestown, PA - Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
Assistant Attending, Plastic Surgery, Camden, NJ - New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Assistant Attending, Plastic Surgery, Brooklyn, NY - Lenox Hill Hospital / Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital
Assistant Attending, Plastic Surgery, New York, NY - New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
Assistant Attending, Plastic Surgery, New York, NY
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- Lenox Hill Hospital / Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital
Teaching/Supervising Attending, Aesthetic Surgery Clinic, New York, N
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Castle Connolly Top Doctors 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Super Doctors New York 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- Super Doctors New York Rising Star 2017
- Super Doctors New York Rising Star 2016
- Super Doctors New York Rising Star 2015
- ASMS/MSF Synthes Research Grant Award – New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
- Alpha Omega Alpha Student Research Fellowship – New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
- Honors Program Research Fellowship – New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
- Graduation with Honors – Brown University, Providence, RI
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search National Semifinalist – Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY
VOLUNTEER HISTORY
- 04/2010 Haiti – LEAP Foundation
- 09/2008 Nepal – Kathmandu Model Hospital
- 03/2004 Nepal – Kathmandu Model Hospital
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
1. Dillon A, Sinno S, Blechman KM, Berman R, Saadeh PB. Functional reconstruction of a large anterior thigh defect using contralateral anterolateral thigh flap with tensor latae and motorized vastus lateralus. J Recon Microsurg. 2015; 31(1): 79-82.
2. Blechman KM, Tanna N, Broer PN, Ireton JE, Ahn CY, Allen RJ. Stacked profunda artery perforator (PAP) flaps for breast reconstruction: a case report. J Recon Microsurg. 2013; 29(9): 631-4.
3. Alperovich M, Tanna N, Samra F, Blechman KM, Shapiro RL, Guth AA, Axelrod DM, Choi M, Karp NS. Nipple-sparing mastectomy in patients with a history of reduction mammoplasty or mastopexy: how safe is it? Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013; 131(5): 962-7.
4. Blechman KM and Kronowitz SJ. Commentary: Long-Term Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Immediate 2Stage Expander/Implant Reconstruction and Postmastectomy Radiation. Breast Dis Quart. 2012; 23(4): 368-9.
5. Blechman KM, Karp NS, Levovitz C, Guth AA, Axelrod DM, Shapiro RL, Choi M. The lateral inframammary fold incision for nipple-sparing mastectomy: outcomes from over 50 implant-based breast reconstructions. Breast J. 2012; 19(1): 31-40.
6. Grieves MR, Samra F, Pavlides SC, Blechman KM, Naylor SM, Woodrell CD, Cadacio C, Levine JP, Bancroft TA, Michalak M, Warren SM, Gold LI. Exogenous calreticulin improves diabetic wound healing. Wound Repair Reg. 2012; 20(5): 715-30.
7. Blechman KM, Zervos M. Post-thoracotomy Horner syndrome associated with extrapleural infusion of local anesthetic.
Interact Cardiovasc Thor Surg. 2009; 9(2): 309-10.
8. Khonsari RH, Blechman KM, Michaels J, Vigler M, Chiu DT, Wallerstein R, Blei F. Vascular malformations and upper extremity anomalies associated with a subtelomeric microdeletion of chromosome 4p. Clin Dysmorph. 2008; 17(3): 193-
9. Michaels J, Churgin SS, Blechman KM, Aarabi S, Galiano RD, Gurtner GC. db/db mice exhibit severe wound-healing impairments compared with other murine diabetic strains in a silicone-splinted excisional wound model. Wound Rep Regen. 2007; 15(5): 665-70.
10. Kleinman ME, Grieves MR, Churgin SS, Blechman KM, Chang EI, Ceradini DJ, Tepper OM, Gurtner GC. Hypoxia-induced mediators of stem/progenitor cell trafficking are increased in children with hemangioma. Arterio Thromb Vasc Biol. 2007; 27(12): 2664-70.
11. Gold LI, Rahman M, Blechman KM, Greives MR, Churgin S, Michaels J, Callaghan MJ, Cardwell NL, Pollins AC, Michalak M, Siebert JW, Levine JP, Gurtner GC, Nanney LB, Galiano RD, Cadacio CL. Overview of the role for Calreticulin in the enhancement of wound healing through multiple biological effects. J Invest Derm. 2006; 126S: 57-65.
12. Blechman KM, Karch SB, Stephens BG. Demographic, pathologic, and toxicological profiles of 127 decedents testing positive for ephedrine alkaloids. Foren Sci Internat. 2004; 139(1): 61-9.
13. Aronson BD, Fisher AL, Blechman K, Caudy M, Gergen JP. Groucho-dependent and –independent repression activities of Runt domain proteins. Mol Cell Biol. 1997; 17(9): 5581-7.
OTHER ARTICLES
1. Blechman KM. Microsurgery and lymphedema. World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery Newsletter. 2013; 4(4): 13-5.
2. Blechman KM and Kronowitz, SJ. Commentary: Long-Term Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Immediate 2Stage Expander/Implant Reconstruction and Postmastectomy Radiation. Breast Diseases: A Yearbook Quarterly. 2012; 23(4): 368-369.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Blechman KM, Lerman OZ, Haddock NT, and Allen RJ. Stacked Profunda Artery Perforator Flaps for Unilateral Breast Reconstruction. In Breast Reconstruction: Art, Science, and New Clinical Techniques. Ed: Shiffman M. Springer; 2016.
2. Blechman KM and Kronowitz SJ. Problems in Breast Reconstruction: Autologous Breast Reconstruction After Lumpectomy or Mastectomy. In Problems in Breast Surgery: A Repair Manual. Ed: Fisher J and Handel N. CRC Press; 2014.
3. Ceradini DC and Blechman KM. Dermatology for Plastic Surgeons II: Cutaneous Malignancies. In Grabb and Smith’s Plastic
Surgery. 7th ed. Ed: Thorne C: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2014: 115-26.
ONLINE CME TUTORIALS
1. Blechman KM, McCarthy CM, Cordeiro PG. Breast Reconstruction and Radiation Therapy. In Plastic Surgery Hyperguide.
www.plasticsurgery.hyperguides.com . Sept 2011.
PRESENTATIONS
1. Blechman KM. Mindfulness meditation for physicians. April 12, 2017. Hudson Wellness, New York, NY.
2. Blechman KM. Mindfulness meditation for physicians. October 18, 2016. Hudson Wellness, New York, NY.
3. Blechman KM, Suami H, Skoracki RJ, Chang DW. Evaluation of indocyanine green lymphography following upper extremity lymphaticovenular bypass. International Symposium for the Surgical Treatment of Lymphedema. April 10, 2013. Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan.
4. Alperovich M, Choi M, Karp NS, Blechman KM, Samra F, Levine JP, Schnabel F, Axelrod DM, Shapiro R, Guth AA. Nipplesparing mastectomy and subareolar biopsy: to freeze or not to freeze? Evaluating the role of subareolar intraoperative frozen section. American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium. September 14, 2012. San Antonio, TX.
5. Alperovich M, Samra F, Blechman KM, Shapiro RL, Axelrod DM, Choi M, Karp NS, Guth AA. Nipple-sparing mastectomy in patients with a history of reduction mammaplasty: How safe is it? American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium. September 13, 2012. San Antonio, TX
6. Blechman KM, Reavey PL, Weichman KA, Levine JP, Choi M, Karp NS. Use of the Biopatch drain dressing to reduce infection in implant-based breast reconstruction. European Association of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting. May 26, 2012. Munich, Germany.
7. Blechman KM, Reavey PL, Weichman KA, Levine JP, Choi M, Karp NS. Use of the Biopatch drain dressing to reduce infection in implant-based breast reconstruction. American Association of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting. April 14, 2012. San Francisco, CA.
8. Blechman KM, Saadeh PB, Rapp T, Berman R, Otterburn D, Jacobs J. ASRM Best Case/Best Save: Functional reconstruction of a large anterior thigh defect using contralateral ALT/TFL with motorized vastus lateralis. American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery Annual Meeting. January 15, 2012. Las Vegas, NV.
9. Guth AA, Blechman K, Levovitz C, Small K, Axelrod D, Karp N, Choi M. Nipple-areolar sparing mastectomy: Utility of the lateral inframammary incision in immediate implant-based reconstructions. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. December 6, 2011. San Antonio, TX.
10. Blechman KM, Levovitz C, Karp NS, Choi M. The lateral inframammary fold incision for nipple-sparing mastectomy: outcomes from over 50 implant-based breast reconstructions. Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting. April 30, 2011. Louisville, KY.
11. Blechman KM, Levovitz C, Choi M, Karp NS. The lateral inframammary fold incision for nipple-sparing mastectomy: outcomes from over 50 implant-based breast reconstructions. American Association of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting. April 10, 2011. Boca Raton, FL.
12. Blechman KM, Ashjian PJ, Small KH, Levine JP. Predictors of adverse outcomes following deep sternal wound reconstruction.
New York State Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons Resident’s Night. March 8, 2010. New York NY.
13. Blechman KM, Flores RL, Friedman DW. Hand trauma associated with high energy winch and cable pulley accidents. American Association for Hand Surgery Annual Meeting. January 11, 2006, Tucson, AZ.
14. Churgin SS, Callaghan MJ, Galiano RD, Blechman KM, Ceradini DJ, Gurtner GC. Therapeutic administration of superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetics normalizes wound healing in diabetic mice. American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. October 16, 2005, San Francisco, CA.
15. Gold LI, Rahman M, Michaels J, Blechman KM, Churgin S, Callaghan M, Deveau-Rosen J, Michalak M, Gurtner G, Nanney LB. Annual Montagna Symposium on the Biology of Skin. October 13, 2005, Salishan Lodge, OR.
16. Blechman KM, Seiser N, Bhatt K, Ceradini DJ, Gurtner GC. Expression of anti-oxidative genes protects multipotent progenitor cells from hypoxia-induced apoptosis. Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting. May 18, 2005, Toronto, Canada.
17. Churgin SS, Callaghan MJ, Galiano RD, Blechman KM, Ceradini DJ, Gurtner GC. Therapeutic administration of superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetics normalizes wound healing in diabetic mice. Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting. May 18, 2005, Toronto, Canada.
18. Kleinman ME, Churgin SS, Ceradini DJ, Blechman KM, Galiano RD, Tepper OM, Gurtner GC. Mediators of stem cell mobilization and recruitment in children with infantile hemangioma. Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting. May 18, 2005, Toronto, Canada.
19. Blechman KM, Karch SB, Stephens BG. Demographic, pathologic, and toxicological profiles of 127 decedents testing positive for ephedrine alkaloids. American Academy of Forensic
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