Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Hootan Zandifar.
Dr. Zandifar, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I am an immigrant to Los Angeles. I came here at the age of 13 to Los Angeles. I grew up in the South Bay area and attended UCLA Undergraduate and Medical School. Then I left to go to Syracuse, NY for my training in Ear, Nose and Throat and then spent a year in Indianapolis, Indiana to sub specialize in Facial Plastics and Reconstructive surgery. I’ve been at the Osborne Head and Neck Institute for the past 11 years and now am venturing on my own to start a solo practice mainly focusing on facial plastics and reconstructive surgery.
Has it been a smooth road?
Definitely not a smooth road but in reality what I always say is the pathway to success is never a straight line. It’s hard to point out struggles along the way because after the fact they seem so much a part of what you have become that they don’t seem like the struggles that you felt when you were going through them. There has been many times that I feel like there just isn’t enough time in the day for everything that needs to be done.
You know there is always that questions that come up if you could choose a superpower, which one would you choose and I would choose the ability to multiply myself so that I can get everything done. Even this interview has been on the list for the past week and I just couldn’t get 10 minutes to sit down and completely devote my time to it until now. So the biggest struggle is that there isn’t enough time for everything. I have a wonderful wife and two adorable kids but they require time as well so the struggle continues, I guess.
We’d love to hear more about your practice.
I am a double board-certified and fellowship-trained surgeon in field of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive surgery. So I do everything involved in that from Hair transplants to Facelifts, Nose Jobs to Facial Trauma and Facial bone fractures to Skin cancer reconstruction. I am proud of the quality of my work and the relationship I make with my patients. I think that these relationships are what makes the hard work worthwhile. I think that what sets me apart is that I try to treat each of my patients like family and really often times it feels that way. I feel comfortable enough to talk to them honestly about their health but also their lives. I definitely take their trust in my skills seriously.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
My friends and family know this phrase I always say about Los Angeles (I’m sure they are annoyed by it) “Los Angeles is my city everyone else just lives in it”. That’s what I feel about LA. It is so filled with everything you can imagine. From different cultural areas such as China town in downtown to little Tokyo on Sawtelle to Persian Square in Westwood to the Valley to East LA to Long Beach and beyond, I have probably visited each part of LA. I know most of the short cuts to get to each place and sometimes I feel like I do a better job than Waze. I’ve been to all these places because there is so much to experience here. Each neighborhood feels different. Foods and entertainments are different. I love going to Korea Town for authentic Korean food or go to Watts for some of the best authentic tacos you can have. We are so diverse and yet so connected to this city. I’ve traveled all over the world and can’t really think of anywhere else where this would be true.
What I like least is that most days it takes so long to get to these places. The traffic is of course the biggest challenge we have in Los Angeles but I’m happy to see we are making headways in that regard too. Hopefully, the Metro commuter trains will expand and we can then get from Santa Monica to Downtown in 20 minutes or from the Valley to LAX in 40 minutes.
Contact Info:
- Address: 8920 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 604
Beverly Hills, CA 90211 - Phone: 3107364272
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drhootanzandifar/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drhootanzandifar/?ref=bookmarks
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