After completing a prestigious yearlong fellowship at Manhattan Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital—working under such plastic surgery masters as
Sherrell Aston, Alan Matarasso and Dan Baker—Shafer opened his own
practice last summer. The boyish 35-year-old does everything from teeny
tweaks (earlobe repair, injectables, chemical peels) and dental surgery
(he collaborates with his office mate, periodontist Jeffrey Lemler, on
gum surgeries) to full-face and body work (lifts and lipo). He has even
picked up a few of his mentors’ former clients. “One lady had her face
done by [famed Brazilian surgeon Ivo] Pitanguy, and then Baker, and I
did it for the third time,” he says, obviously proud. “I called my
friends and said, ‘It goes Pitanguy, Baker, now Shafer.’
I like the
sound of that.”
Shafer Plastic Surgery,
New York, 212.888.7770
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