Mark Alexander Mandel

Dr. Mark Alexander Mandel, MD is a plastic surgeon, and the author of one of the first books on plastic surgery for men, ‘Sculpture, A Man’s Guide to Cosmetic Surgery’. Retired from practice, he is currently a neutral court appointed medical expert.

Early life and education
Dr. Mark A. Mandel was born on May 12, 1939 in New York, NY to Charles Mandel, M.D., a family practitioner and World War I Veteran, and Sarah Mandel, one of the first female elementary school principals in New York. Growing up in the Bronx, Mandel played many sports including baseball, stickball, “off-the-point” and basketball while attending the Bronx High School of Science. He attended Colgate University where he was admitted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in his junior year and graduated Magna Cum Laude a year later. After Colgate, he went back to New york to start medical school at the NYU school of medicine. During medical school, he interspersed research time working on DNA synthesis in the Harvard Biochemistry department as well as working on the importance of purified immunoglobulins on tumor development at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. He spent most of his senior year in medical school working on kidney transplantation with Dr. Paul Russell, then Chief of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

After medical school, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio for six years of surgery training at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Following Cleveland, he spent two years of research in cancer immunology at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. After that he had fellowships at the University of Miami in Cosmetic Surgery and cleft lip repair and in Phoenix in complex hand reconstruction cases.


 * June, 1960 A.B., Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
 * Summer, 1961 Research Assistant in Biochemistry (Dr. Paul Doty, Supv.), Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
 * June, 1964 M.D., New York University, New York, New York
 * 1964-1966 Junior Assistant in Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio
 * 1966-1968 Research Associate, Laboratory of Germfree Animal Research NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
 * 1968-1972 Resident in General and Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio
 * Crile, Bunts, Lower Research Fellow in Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
 * April, 1969 Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Immunology (Dr. Lloyd and Old, Chief), Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, April, 1970 New York
 * Summer, 1972 Maytag-MacCahill Fellow in Plastic Surgery (Dr. D. Ralph Millard, Jr.), University of Miami Medical School, Miami, Florida
 * Fall, 1972 Fellow in Hand Reconstruction (Dr. John Ricker), Phoenix, Arizona

Career
Mandel was appointed the Director of Plastic Surgery in Cleveland, as well as an Associate Professor in Medicine and Dermatology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He was also the Director of Plastic Surgery at the Veterans’ Hospital which was the regional center for reconstruction treating many injured Vietnam War Veterans. In Cleveland he developed and chaired many national courses in trauma for the American College of Surgeons and in cancer treatment for the American Cancer Society even before the continuing medical education requirement became mandatory for physicians in the United States. Dr. Mandel is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of numerous plastic surgical and academic societies and a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. He has performed over 18,000 surgical procedures with considerable expertise in the physiology and care of the skin and its contents.

Military Service: July, 1966 - June, 1968. Active Duty, U.S. Public Health Service to National Institutes of Health

Academic Positions

 * 1972 Assistant Professor of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 * 1973 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 * 1973 Chief of Emergency Ward and Clinics, University Hospitals of Cleveland
 * 1974 Surgical Representative, Long Range Planning Committee, University Hospitals of Cleveland
 * 1975 Chairman, American College of Surgeons National Course, “The Critically Injured Patient: Emergency Surgical and Medical Care”
 * 1975 Chairman, Supplementary Training Committee, Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
 * 1975 Associate Professor of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 * 1975 Chief of Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland
 * 1975 Director, Division of Plastic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 * 1976 Chairman, American Cancer Society and CWRU School of Medicine Course, “Controversial Aspects of Cancer Management”
 * 1976 Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 * 1977 Chairman, American College of Surgeons National Course, “The Trauma Patient: Care and Complications”
 * 1978 Abstract Editor, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
 * 1979 Chairman, Fellowship Training Committee, Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
 * 1982 Co-Chairman, Communications Committee, Los Angeles County Medical Association
 * 1992 Board of Reviewers, Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
 * 1993 Board of Reviewers, Annals of Plastic Surgery
 * 1991-1996 Editor, Lipoplasty Newsletter

Associations & Certifications

 * American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * American Association for Cancer Research
 * American Association for Hand Surgery
 * American Association for Surgery of Trauma
 * American College of Surgeons
 * American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
 * American Society for Maxillofacial Surgeons
 * American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
 * Association for Academic Surgery, California Chapter
 * American College of Surgeons
 * California Medical Association
 * California Society for Industrial Medicine and Surgery
 * International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
 * International Society for Dermatologic Surgery
 * Lipoplasty Society of North America
 * Los Angeles County Medical Association
 * D. Ralph Millard Surgical Society
 * Plastic Surgery Research Council Society of Cosmetic Chemists
 * Society of University Surgeons
 * Transplantation Society

Certifications:


 * General Surgery – 1973
 * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – 1973
 * Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand - 1994

Publications

 * Editor, Symposium on Skin Tumors for Clinics in Plastic Surgery VII:3. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders Company; 1980.
 * Sculpture: A Man’s Guide to Cosmetic Surgery, New York, NY Paperjacks LTD; 1988
 * Cramer, S. F., Ruehl, A. and Mandel, M. A. (1981), Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: A distinctive bone-forming lesion of the soft tissue. Cancer, 48: 1016–1021.
 * Mandel M.A. Orbital floor 'blowout' fractures. Reconstruction using autogenous maxillary wall bone grafts(1975) American Journal of Surgery, 130 (5), pp. 590–595.