Dr. Edward P. Miranda, MD, FACS

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Get to know Plastic Surgeon Dr. Edward P. Miranda, who serves patients in San Francisco, California.

Highly qualified and skilled cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr. Miranda is nationally recognized and named one of America’s Top Surgeons. He is the Medical Director of Pacific Plastic Surgery Group, ranked #1 in plastic surgery in San Francisco specializing in body contouring, hair restoration, and medspa services. 

The plastic surgeons of Pacific Plastic Surgery Group – Drs. Miranda and Dudas – offer the highest-quality care while offering an outstanding customer experience. They provide a full range of surgical and non-invasive procedures to accommodate each patient’s lifestyle, performed with a personal touch and focused attention. From face and neck to breast and body, they are highly-skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable to provide each patient with an individual experience to best achieve their goals.

A compassionate, intelligent, and principled leader, Dr. Miranda’s philosophy on aesthetic surgery is that natural, subtle changes reveal true beauty. Demonstrated throughout each patent’s interaction at Pacific Plastic Surgery Group, from beginning to end, he is involved and committed to creating a positive experience. 

There are a multitude of approaches to a better you and those are all explored while acknowledging the benefits, risks, recovery, and results of each potential treatment. Dr. Miranda is sought out by patients from every corner of the world for many procedures, most notably; breast augmentation, body contouring, and hair restoration. 

A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), he is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Ivy League educated, Dr. Miranda attended Cornell University Medical College in New York, where he graduated with highest honors (Alpha Omega Alpha). Upon graduation, he went on to complete his residency and fellowship training in plastic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He was then awarded a research fellowship to study breast and brain cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

In addition to his medical studies and plastic surgery training, Dr. Miranda has worked for Estee Lauder Companies. There, he was trained in the design, production, and testing of high-quality, state-of-the-art cosmetics and cosmeceuticals. He uses his experience at Estee Lauder and his plastic surgery training to create a custom skin treatment plan for each patient using his own Ravish by London Riley Skin Care line.

Priding himself on results and quality patient experience, the doctor is board-certified in plastic surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS). The mission of the ABPS is to promote safe, ethical, efficacious plastic surgery to the public by maintaining high standards for the education, examination, certification, and continuous certification of plastic surgeons as specialists and subspecialists.

Widely respected within the medical community, Dr. Miranda is considered a specialist and surgeons refer patients to him for complex procedures such as abdominal reconstruction and migraine surgery. He has been featured in numerous media publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Stylelist.com, Star, and VioletFog.com.

Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories – reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. A plastic surgeon’s primary responsibility is performing surgical and non-surgical procedures, and they use a variety of reparative and reconstructive techniques to get the job done. 

Among his most notable achievements, Dr. Miranda has been named [415] Top Doctors, Distinguished Doctor Designation©, RealSelf Top Doctor, and RealSelf “Most Loved Injector”. He has also been honored with a Patient’s Choice Award, and named one of America’s Top Surgeons – a testimony to Dr. Miranda’s reputation, experience, extensive training, and the cutting edge plastic surgery services that his office provides.

A published author, he has written several chapters in major surgical textbooks that are used to train plastic surgeons, general surgeons, and pediatric surgeons around the world. Additionally, he regularly gives lectures at many major surgical meetings.

A native of New York City, he speaks several languages, including English, Spanish, and Cantonese.

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