Dr. Marwan R. Khalifeh, MD

There is a reason Dr. Khalifeh is considered by many one of the top  plastic surgeons to the Washington DC area.  He is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and co-founder and Senior Partner at Ivy Plastic Surgery Associates.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions including the Top Spear Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and he was named one of America's top cosmetic surgeons by the consumer research council in 2007 and 2008.

With a top list of clients, his excellent care begins with his artistic approach to achieving aesthetically-pleasing and youthful results for Washington DC area professionals, politicians, and socialites alike.

These outstanding results are the reason Dr. Khalifeh enjoys a high level of patient satisfaction and trust:

"I had been searching for a surgeon for nearly ten years throughout the Baltimore/Washington metro area and stumbled onto Dr. Khalifeh's practice through a friend's recommendation. Here we are at five weeks after surgery and ...I am very happy with my breast lift and augmentation!! They look great. We just love them!! Dr. Khalifeh has been fabulous to work with and highly attentive. From our first meeting, I could not have asked for a better doctor. I am just thrilled. If you are in the market for an elective procedure for your body, speak with Dr. Khalifeh. You won't be disappointed." S.B. Washington DC Lobbyist.

Dr. Khalifeh specializes in minimally scarring plastic surgery by employing the latest techniques and laser technology to his surgeries.  Dr. Khalifeh brings to Washington DC, from the world renown Johns Hopkins Hospital, the absolute latest minimal scar and laser techniques. By treating a large number of DC professionals and government executives, Dr. Khalifeh is keenly aware of the importance of minimal or no scars and is highly dedicated to a natural look.

Dr. Khalifeh completed his surgical training at the top rated Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Plastic Surgery Program.  He then became Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Cosmetic Surgery Education Program at Johns Hopkins Univeristy in the  department of plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a noted speaker and an author of several research papers and book chapters in the field of Plastic Surgery. He is the recipient of numerous scientific honors and distinctions, including the Top Spear Award, Alpha Omega Alpha distictions at Vanderbilt University, top resident inservice award at Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Khalifeh's humanitarian plastic surgery work has taken him to Ecuador, Colombia, and the middle east with organizations such as Operation Smile and Heal the Children.

Dr. Khalifeh graduated high school from Friends School in Baltimore.  He then spent his undergraduate years in Philadelphia, where he attended the Prestigious University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School.  He graduated Summa Cum Laude and earned the Phi Beta Kappa distinction.

Dr. Navin K. Singh, MD

Dr. Singh is a Board-Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and co-founder and senior partner at Ivy Plastic Surgery Associates. He is also an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he directs the Cosmetic Surgery Educational Program and was the Residency Program Director in Plastic Surgery as well as Director of Breast Reconstruction. He is the recipient of the "Hero Award" from University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in 2001, as well as "Teacher of the Year" by the Johns Hopkins Plastic Surgery residents in 2002 and 2004. He is an Assistant Professor in Surgery (Plastic) and has honorary appointments as Assistant Professor in Gynecology and in Neurosurgery because of his notable expertise and collaborative research in those fields.

Singh is an alum of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, of Brown University, graduating magna cum laude, in Philosophy and Mathematics, and the Brown Medical School where he received the Dean's Prize for the Outstanding Male Student of the Graduating Class. He concurrently obtained a M.Sc. in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, and thereafter trained in plastic surgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1993-1999, becoming board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 2001. During his faculty tenure he also earned an MBA from The Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University in 2005.

Publications and investigative tomes of Dr. Singh have contributed to the current knowledge base via several noted journals. They impact both aesthetic surgery as well as reconstructive microsurgery--including robotic surgery and breast reconstruction. His research has received awards such as the Naval Warfare & Mobility Supervisor’s Award in the Department of Defense, Pentagon (1989), the Marge Drolette Prize in Biostatistics at Harvard (1992), and the Best Resident Research Paper for the of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (2005).

Dr. Singh has contributed chapters to 8 textbooks of surgery and plastic surgery, written over 20 medline-indexed papers and sits on the editorial board of The Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Microsurgery and has served as a reviewer for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Annals of Plastic Surgery. His media appearances include NPR, AP News wire, Maryland Public Television, and MSNBC.com. He has given over 40 national and international presentations and chaired sessions. Dr. Singh is on several committees in both American Society of Plastic Surgeons as well as the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. In 2005, he was listed in "America’s Top Physicians" by the Consumer Research Council of America.

He has been a visiting professor at multiple universities including Univ. of Massachusetts in 2003, Texas Tech, Brooke Army Medical Center, and New York Medical College in 2004. An intrepid traveler and humanist, Dr. Singh participates annually and donates to philanthropic surgical missions with groups such as Ecuadent, Interplast, Operation Smile, and Rotaplast. Navin Singh received a Certificate of Special Recognition for Community Service and Voluntarism from American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2005.