DR. RAJ SAWH-MARTINEZ
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
After graduating with honors from New York University with a bachelor's in Neural Science, Dr. Sawh-Martinez attended the Yale University School of Medicine. It was at Yale that he earned a coveted position within the university’s plastic and reconstructive surgery residency program with a Chief Resident appointment at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Sawh-Martinez later became the inaugural Yale University Craniofacial Surgery Fellow, serving with an appointment as a Clinical Instructor of the plastic and reconstructive surgery department.
During medical school at Yale, Dr. Sawh-Martinez spent two years as an NIH Research Fellow in the Vascular Tissue Engineering Laboratory that was the first in the world to implant tissue-engineered blood vessels into human infants to repair their congenital heart defects.
Dr. Sawh-Martinez has diligently researched advances to the plastic surgery industry with his interests leading to the authorship and co-authorship of over 30 peer-reviewed publications, multiple national and international research presentations, and several book chapters.