Natalie Plana, MD

Natalie Plana is a New York facial plastic and craniofacial surgeon who treats a newborn's cleft lip and a grandmother's facelift with the same eye for 1mmr of difference.

Trained in classical ballet and modern dance, Dr. Plana spent three years at the Ailey School while earning her degree at Fordham.

A single email as a medical student changed her direction. She reached out to Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, NYU's newly recruited chairman of plastic surgery and a pioneer of facial transplantation, and...