Richard E. Carlino, MD, FACS
I always wanted to be a doctor and knew from the beginning that with a compulsion for taking things apart and putting them back together, I would be a surgeon. It was when I understood that while many physicians save lives, plastic surgeons constantly change lives and with that my fate was sealed. My goals are threefold: 1. To offer my patients an extraordinary level of expertise in a very individual and personalized setting; 2. To understand the aesthetic goals of my patients while helping to establish realistic expectations; 3. Above all, to form a comfortable and trusting relationship allowing each patient to undergo their surgery with confidence.
Training compliments ability. Some cosmetic surgeons receive limited training with limited exposure. Cosmetic Surgery is about performing procedures while Plastic Surgery is about developing artistry and concepts. It is about working with patients and defining the correct procedures to perform to get their desired results. It'
s about the ability to understand and communicate realistic from unrealistic aesthetic goals. With every patient, I work to combine my in-depth plastic surgery training, over 14 years of experience as a plastic surgeon in the Triangle and ability as a surgeon to provide each patient extraordinary results.
Licensure and Board Certification:
- Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
- Fellow American College of Surgeons
Educational Training:
- Medical School: Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
- General Surgery Residency: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
- Plastic Surgery Residency: Duke University Medical Center
- Hand Fellowship: Kleinert Hand Center, Louisville, KY
- Cleft Lip/Cleft Palate Fellowship: Taipei, Taiwan
Memberships:
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- American College of Surgeons
- North Carolina Society of Plastic Surgeons
- North Carolina Medical Society
- Wake County Medical Society
Hospital Affiliations:
- Rex Hospital
- Duke Raleigh Hospital
- WakeMed
