WEforum Health and Wellness Conference 2016
DR. MATTHEW KAUFMAN – Board Certified Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon
Institute for Advanced Reconstruction at the Plastic Surgery Center
Botox Beyond Beauty: Can the most Infamous Injectable also Relieve Headaches, Stop Excessive Sweating, Prevent Scars, and Cure Depression?
Wednesday, April 20th 10:00-10:45 PM – Promenade 3
Botox has become the most popular and highly regarded treatment in plastic surgery to reverse facial aging. Because it is extremely safe and effective, and can be performed in-office versus a surgical procedure, millions of women every year are seeking this treatment. While the anti-wrinkling properties of Botox may be familiar to most, what may be surprising are the many other potential benefits of this “magic” therapy. There is a plethora of medical evidence supporting its use to treat everything from migraine headaches to chronic depression. We will explore how Botox has transformed the cosmetic surgery world and is now being used for many other medical disorders, many of which impact women’s daily lives.
*No nursing contact hours awarded for this presentation.
Dr. Matthew R. Kaufman, M.D. is a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon board certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery & the American Board Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Kaufman is an attending physician at Monmouth Medica Center, a co-Director of the Center for Treatment of Paralysis and Reconstructive Nerve Surgery at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the David Geffen UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Kaufman has been consecutively named as a Top Plastic Surgeon for the last seven years, in both the Castle Connelly Guide (New York metro area) and Inside New Jersey magazine. He has also been named as a Top Plastic Surgeon by New Jersey Monthly magazine for 2012 & 2013. Dr. Kaufman’s training was completed at the best surgical programs in both New York City and Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he graduated with Honors and was named to the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society. He attended medical school at the State University of New York at Syracuse, graduating in the top 5% of his medical school class. While there, he received numerous honors including acceptance into the AOA medical honor society and an endowment scholarship for outstanding academic performance.
Dr. Kaufman embarked on his surgical training at one of the nation’s top training programs for Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. While there, he trained with world famous surgeons dedicated to complex Head and Neck Reconstruction and Facial Plastic Surgery. Upon completion, he continued his training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the prestigious UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, he learned the most advanced and innovative plastic surgery techniques from leaders and innovators practicing in the epicenter of the cosmetic surgery world.
Dr. Kaufman is highly skilled in all cosmetic surgery procedures of the face and body. These procedures include: facelift, blepharoplasty (eyelid rejuvenation), browlift, nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), ear reshaping (otoplasty), chin/lip surgery, skin resurfacing, liposuction, breast augmentation, breast lift/reduction and abdominoplasty. In addition, he has advanced expertise in complex revision rhinoplasty and ethnic rhinoplasty (non-Caucasian rhinoplasty).
Dr. Kaufman has the rather rare distinction of achieving board certification in both Plastic Surgery and Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery. This gives him the added expertise necessary to deal with complex cosmetic and reconstructive problems of the head, face and neck. He has pioneered treatments for breathing muscle (diaphragm) paralysis and ventilator dependency due to spinal cord injury, and has successfully treated over 250 patients with these conditions from throughout the U.S. and from countries as far away as Australia and Israel. Dr. Kaufman is a regional expert in nerve decompression surgery for migraine headaches and occipital neuralgia. He has been surgically treating this condition since 2006 and is amongst the most experienced in the U.S.
Dr. Kaufman has been featured in Cosmetic Surgery Times for his tissue engineering research and has been a medical consultant for “Untold Stories of the ER”, a syndicated series on The Learning Channel. Other media appearances include PBS (NJTV), WCTC (The Voice of Central New Jersey), SIRIUS Doctor Radio, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Discovery Health, CBS News, Radio Pacifica, and Eyewitness News.
Dr. Kaufman has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the surgical literature, and has lectured at more than 60 national and international surgical meetings. He is a lead author of “Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery for Darker Skin Types”, the first textbook dedicated to cosmetic surgery in darker racial ethnic groups. He also has chapters on “Ethnic Rhinoplasty” and “Reduction and Augmentation of the Breasts.”
Dr. Kaufman is the founder and co-director of Axon Advance Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization developed in 2013 to improve the lives of people with spinal cord injury through clinical research, access to innovative surgical procedures, and community outreach.
