Experience shaped by curiosity, precision, and care.
A board-certified plastic surgeon, Harvard graduate, Oxford scholar, humanitarian, husband, and father.
Dr. Christopher L. Johnson, M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.S. is a highly trained and widely respected board-certified plastic surgeon with more than two decades of surgical experience.
Throughout his career, he has practiced in Southern California, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and New York. He believes every patient deserves the finest available preparation, technology, surgical skill, and clinical knowledge to realize their cosmetic or reconstructive potential.
Education & training
Dr. Johnson earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Chemistry and Russian Language and Literature from Grinnell College. During his undergraduate studies, he spent a year at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow.
As a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, he studied at Merton College, University of Oxford, receiving a Master of Science in Biochemistry. He later received his Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School, graduating at the top of his class.
His postgraduate training included general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco; surgical research at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York; and further general surgery training at Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew University Medical School in Los Angeles.
He completed fellowships in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His cosmetic training included study at Lenox Hill Hospital under the auspices of Dr. Norman Schulman.
Areas of focus
- Facial plastic surgery
- Blepharoplasty
- Septo-rhinoplasty
- Face and body contouring
- Brazilian Butt Lift
- Injectable facial rejuvenation
A holistic philosophy
Dr. Johnson believes enhancements should be subtle. His aesthetic combines minimally invasive and surgical procedures to harmonize the face and body in a natural manner.
His approach considers spirit, mind, and body. Skin care and thoughtful age management are treated as important parts of maintaining health, confidence, and vitality. This philosophy also led him to formulate his own focused skincare products.
He continues to study evolving techniques and therapies, applying a broad understanding of surgical and non-surgical options to every patient interaction.
Service beyond the practice
Dr. Johnson views giving back as an obligation. He has performed more than 2,000 pro bono procedures during service trips to Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Haiti, Tanzania, and Zaire. His humanitarian work includes numerous cleft lip and palate repairs.
He currently lives in Manhattan and practices reconstructive, cosmetic, and plastic surgery in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where he holds hospital privileges. He speaks several languages, including Spanish, Russian, French, and Greek.
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