Dr. John Mesa, MD, is a Harvard-trained, triple-fellowship and board-certified plastic surgeon NYC. He is practicing in New York City, New Jersey, and Miami. He specializes in buccal fat removal, extended chin liposuction, facelift, neck lift, facial masculinization, and eyelid surgery, all performed on fully awake patients under local anesthesia.

Dr. Mesa is the author of Atlas of Operative Craniofacial Surgery (Thieme, 2019), holds ABPS Board Certification #8284, and maintains active medical licenses in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. His offices are located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in Livingston (NJ), and in Miami.

Dr. John Mesa, MD, is a board-certified plastic surgeon who has spent fourteen years advancing the art and science of his craft, authoring two medical textbooks and building a career that traces an extraordinary path from Medellin, Colombia to Harvard to the pinnacle of New York plastic surgery.

Dr. Mesa’s origin story is inseparable from his philosophy. He grew up in Medellin, Colombia, where he graduated from the University of Antioquia School of Medicine as Cum Laude, finishing second in his class. He came to the United States with a singular focus: to train under the best surgeons in the world at the best institutions in the world.