Dr. Marwan R. Khalifeh, MD
Dr. Marwan Khalifeh is Board-Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and co-founder and senior partner at Ivy Plastic Surgery Associates, a private plastic surgery partnership dedicated to offering patients the latest and safest cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery techniques.
Dr. Marwan Khalifeh completed all of his surgical training (six years) at the top rated Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the American College of Graduate Medical Education accredited Plastic Surgery Program. After graduating, he was appointed Instructor in the department of plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University and spends two days each week instructing upcoming surgeons in the art of science of reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery. He is both a speaker and an author of several research papers and book chapters in the field of Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Khalifeh earned his medical doctorate degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he earned numerous awards including the Top Spear award in human physiology and was elected by his graduating class to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.
Dr. Khalifeh spent his undergraduate years in Philadelphia, where he attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, earning a Bachelors of Arts in Biology and a Bacherlor of Science in Economics. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and earned the Phi Beta Kappa distinction.
Dr. Navin K. Singh, MD
is 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 recepient 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 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 committes 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 Massachussets 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 philantrhopic surgical missions with groups such as Ecuadent, Interplast, Operation Smile, and Rotaplast. Navin Singh received a Certificate of Special Recognition for Community Service and Volunteerism from American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2005.