{{Use American English|date=June 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{short description|American plastic surgeon (born 1972)}} {{Infobox person | name = Michael Salzhauer | image = File:PictureofDrSalzhauer.jpg | alt = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972 |04|16}} | spouse = {{marriage|Eva Zafira Zion|1995}}<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/09/style/weddings-eva-z-zion-michael-a-salzhauer.html | title=WEDDINGS; Eva Z. Zion, Michael A. Salzhauer | date=July 9, 1995 | access-date=June 11, 2014 | work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_place = | education = | other_names = Dr. Miami | alma_mater = [[Rockland Community College]]<br /> [[Brooklyn College]]<br />[[Washington University School of Medicine]] | occupation = Plastic Surgeon }}
'''Michael Salzhauer''' (born April 16, 1972) is an American [[celebrity doctor]] who practices [[plastic surgery]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-20 |title=5 Things 'Dr. Miami' Says He Wishes Patients Knew About Plastic Surgery |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19983139/dr-miami-plastic-surgery/ |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=Women's Health |language=en-US}}</ref> He is active on social media as '''Dr. Miami''' and has been on reality television. Salzhauer runs a plastic surgery practice in [[Bay Harbor Islands, Florida]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-04 |title=Dr. Miami & The Twilight Of The BBL |url=https://www.bustle.com/style/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-bbl-surgery |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=Bustle |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-13 |title=Smile, Your Butt Is on Snapchat! Inside the Plastic Surgery Trend You Have to See to Believe (Just Make Sure No One Is Behind You) |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/771708/smile-your-butt-is-on-snapchat-inside-the-plastic-surgery-trend-you-have-to-see-to-believe-but-make-sure-no-one-is-behind-you |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=E! Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brecher |first=Elinor |date=April 4, 2012 |title=Noses out of joint over plastic surgeon’s promotional video |url=https://www.kansas.com/living/religion/article1089705.html |website=The Wichita Eagle}}</ref>
== Early life and education == At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Salzhauer's grandfather's family fled Ukraine and [[pogrom]]s there; his great-grandfather was clubbed to death by a [[Cossack]] as the family left. When the Nazis came to power, his grandfather moved to [[Mandatory Palestine]], and Salzhauer's father was born in Tel Aviv. His father moved to New York City in 1958, where Salzhauer was born and grew up.<ref name="MNT">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Michael E. |date=June 21, 2012 |title=Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/michael-salzhauer-miamis-wackiest-plastic-surgeon-risks-everything-for-internet-fame-6387194 |website=Miami New Times}}</ref>
Salzhauer went to a public high school, where he was teased over the shape of his nose, and he left and went to the [[Frisch School]], a Jewish high school. He then attended [[Rockland Community College]] from 1989 to 1990 before transferring to [[Brooklyn College]]. After two years he transferred to [[Washington University School of Medicine]] in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref>Staff. [http://issuu.com/sfjh/docs/sfjh_march29/34 "Behind the Jewcan Sam controversy: Controversial Plastic Surgeon Offers Free Surgery To Jewish Singles"], ''South Florida Jewish Home'', March 29, 2012. Accessed May 12, 2021. "I went to A.S.H.A.R. in Monsey, Moriah in Englewood, NJ; spent freshman year of high school in Public School (Tappan Zee High School), where incidentally I was teased pretty regularly for my 'big Jewish Schnoz'; then went to the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey."</ref>
After graduating, Salzhauer did his residency at first at [[Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute|Mount Sinai]] in Miami in general surgery, then at [[Jackson Memorial Hospital]] in Miami for plastic surgery, then did further training in plastic surgery at [[Cleveland Clinic]] in [[Weston, Florida]]. The other residents performed a [[rhinoplasty]] on Salzhauer as a gift for the completion of his residency, in addition to a chin implant and liposuction.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Michael Salzhauer|url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/michael-salzhauer-96215|publisher=U.S. News & World Report – Health|access-date=May 23, 2018}}</ref>
== Career == In 2003, Salzhauer opened his own practice in [[Bal Harbour, Florida]], and six years later moved to a new five-story building there.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Garcia-Roberts|first1=Gus|title=Let's Get Jiggly|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/lets-get-jiggly-6362671|work=Miami New Times|date=February 5, 2009}}</ref> He told a reporter for ''[[Miami New Times]]'' in 2012, that "marketing makes the world go 'round,'" and that he courted the publicity of controversy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Michael E. |date=2012-06-20 |title=Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/uncategorized/michael-salzhauer-miamis-wackiest-plastic-surgeon-risks-everything-for-internet-fame-6387194/ |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=Miami New Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
Salzhauer authored a children's book in 2008 titled ''My Beautiful Mother,'' which focused on a young girl whose mother undergoes a [[abdominoplasty|tummy tuck]], a [[rhinoplasty|nose job]], and [[breast augmentation]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=2Paragraphs |title=‘Dr. Miami’ Wrote Children’s Book To Explain Mommy’s Plastic Surgery |url=https://2paragraphs.com/2017/03/dr-miami-wrote-childrens-book-to-explain-mommys-plastic-surgery/ |access-date=2025-11-17 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Springen|first1=Karen|title=Kids' Book on Plastic Surgery|url=http://www.newsweek.com/kids-book-plastic-surgery-86421|work=Newsweek|date=April 14, 2008|language=en}}</ref> Salzhauer and the book were criticized for promoting elective cosmetic surgery and for a line that suggests that mother's new nose will "be prettier."<ref name="Abate">{{cite journal |last=Abate |first=Michelle Ann |year=2010 |title="Plastic Makes Perfect": My Beautiful Mommy, Cosmetic Surgery, and the Medicalization of Motherhood |journal=Women's Studies |volume=39 |issue=7 |pages=715–746 |doi=10.1080/00497878.2010.505152 |s2cid=144928492}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Reist|first=Melinda Tankard|title=The pornification of girlhood|journal=[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]|date=Jul–Aug 2008|volume=52|issue=7–8|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Alter|first=Cathy|title='My Beautiful Mommy': How a Picture Book Explains Liposuction to Kids|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/03/my-beautiful-mommy-how-a-picture-book-explains-liposuction-to-kids/73051/|access-date=February 19, 2014|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> [[Child psychologist]] Elizabeth Berger has noted that while an explanatory book will be helpful for children, it "can be difficult for small kids to understand."<ref>{{cite web|first=Karen |last=Springen |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/04/14/mommy-2-0.html |title=Mommy 2.0 |work=The Daily Beast |date=April 14, 2008 |access-date=November 19, 2011}}</ref> Salzhauer defended the book, saying that he wrote it to help parents explain such surgeries to their children.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bierly|first=Mandi|title=My beautiful, scarring-me-forever mommy?|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2008/04/18/my-beautiful-mo/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=November 20, 2011|date=April 18, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-plasticsurgery-idUSN1742411920080417 | work=Reuters | title=Mom's having tummy tuck? What to tell the kids | date=April 17, 2008}}</ref>
{{Infobox book | name = My Beautiful Mother | image = | caption = | author = Michael Salzhauer | illustrator = Victor Guiza | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | subject = [[Plastic surgery]] | genre = [[Children's literature]] | publisher = Big Tent Books | pub_date = 2008 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | exclude_cover = yes | pages = | isbn = 1-60131-032-3 | oclc = 226356256 | preceded_by = | italic title = no }}
In 2009, Salzhauer published a virtual plastic surgery [[iPhone application]] that allowed users to tweak photographs of themselves to simulate operations. ''The New York Times'' commented that the results were "worthy of a fun-house mirror."<ref>{{cite news|title=The Doctor Can See You Now|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/fashion/21SkinSide.html|access-date=September 19, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=January 20, 2010}}</ref>
In 2012, Salzhauer caused controversy within the [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] community after producing a video titled "[[Jewcan Sam]]" with the Jewish punk band [[The Groggers]].<ref name="huffingtonpost">{{cite news|last=McCorquodale|first=Amanda|title=Michael Salzhauer Offers Free Plastic Surgery To Single Orthodox Jews|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/michael-salzhauer-free_n_1373186.html|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Huffingtonpost|date=March 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ravitz|first=Jessica|title=Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me … a nose job appointment?|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/02/matchmaker-matchmaker-make-me-a-nose-job-appointment/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404045138/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/02/matchmaker-matchmaker-make-me-a-nose-job-appointment/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 4, 2012|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=CNN|date=April 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Michael|title=Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-06-21/news/michael-salzhauer-miami-s-wackiest-plastic-surgeon-risks-everything-for-internet-fame/|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Miami New Times|date=June 21, 2012}}</ref> The video features a young Jewish man who undergoes [[rhinoplasty]] at the request of his girlfriend. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons initiated an ethics investigation as a result,<ref name="huffingtonpost" /> and both Salzhauer and the band were accused of playing into [[Stereotypes of Jews|Jewish stereotypes]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish Plastic Surgeon In Trouble Over 'Jewcan Sam' Video|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/michael-salzhauer-jewish-_n_1389752.html|website=The Huffington Post|date=March 30, 2012}}</ref>
Salzhauer is also active on social media posting under his nickname "Dr. Miami." Apart from using [[Instagram]] and [[Twitter]], the surgeon is also active on [[Snapchat]]'s story mode, where he posts videos of cosmetic surgeries.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet Dr. Miami, the Plastic Surgeon Who SnapChats His Operations in Real Time|date=April 24, 2015 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-dr-miami-the-plastic-surgeon-who-snapchats-his-operations-400/|publisher=Vice.com}}</ref> As of 2016, he had around a million followers on Snapchat.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lights! Camera! Suction! How A Plastic Surgeon Became A Snapchat Sensation|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/marisacarroll/how-plastic-surgeon-dr-miami-became-a-snapchat-sensation|website=BuzzFeed|date=May 12, 2016|first=Marisa |last=Carroll}}</ref> Salzhauer is also active on TikTok, where he has 2.7 million followers as of 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-04 |title=Dr. Miami & The Twilight Of The BBL |url=https://www.bustle.com/style/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-bbl-surgery |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Bustle |language=en}}</ref>
In 2016, Salzhauer was nominated for the eighth annual [[Shorty Award]] in the Snapchatter of the year category.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Miami Michael Salzhauer Up For Snapchatter Of The Year Award|date=February 12, 2016 |url=http://www.inquisitr.com/2789938/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-up-for-snapchatter-of-the-year-award-can-the-famous-plastic-surgeon-beat-kylie-jenner-and-dj-khaled/|publisher=Inquisitr|access-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Real Dr. Miami Finalist In Snapchatter Of The Year|url=http://shortyawards.com/8th/therealdrmiami|publisher=Shortyawards.com|access-date=January 19, 2016}}</ref> He came in second place, losing to [[DJ Khaled]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Snapchat's 'Dr. Miami' Records Surgeries Live in Operating Room|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/miami-plastic-surgeon-snapchat-record-surgeries-live-operating/story?id=38745074|website=ABC News|access-date=May 1, 2016|date=April 29, 2016}}</ref> That same year, [[We TV|WE TV]] announced a reality television series, ''Dr. Miami'', starring Salzhauer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-we-tv-plastic-surgery-1201811525/|title=We TV Orders 'Dr. Miami' Plastic Surgery Reality Show|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=July 11, 2016|work=Variety|access-date=July 17, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> The series premiered on March 31, 2017, and ran for six episodes on WE TV.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wetv.com/shows/dr-miami|title=Dr. Miami|website=WE tv|language=en-US|access-date=July 17, 2017}}</ref>
In 2017, Salzhauer and recording artist [[Adam Barta]] released a song called "Flawless".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wetv.com/shows/dr-miami/videos/season-01/episode-01-plastic-makes-perfect/the-making-of-flawless|title=The Making of Flawless|website=WE tv|language=en-US|access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://toofab.com/2017/03/31/wetvs-dr-miami-wants-to-give-donald-trump-a-butt-lift-and-make-lena-dunham-look-like-jemima-kirke/|title=WeTV's Dr. Miami Wants to Give Donald Trump a 'Butt Lift' And 'Make Lena Dunham Look Like Jemima Kirke'|website=toofab|access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref> The song reached #24 on the [[Billboard charts|Billboard]] dance/electronic digital chart,<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/dance-electronic-digital-song-sales/2017-04-22|title=EDM Digital Songs: Top Dance Music Chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref> #9 on [[iTunes]] dance singles chart,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://healthtuition.com/dr-miami-net-worth|title=Dr. Miami Net Worth 2023: How Much Does Dr. Miami Make?|date=January 15, 2017 }}</ref> and #32 on the Billboard hot club dance chart.<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/7865863/dance-chart-upstarts-san-holo-justin-caruso-dr-miami-adam-barta|title=Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: San Holo, Justin Caruso and Dr. Miami & Adam Barta|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 17, 2017}}</ref>
In 2020, Salzhauer's documentary, ''They Call Me Dr. Miami'' (directed by Jean-Simon Chartier) was released on [[Discovery+]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/discovery-picks-up-plastic-surgery-doc-they-call-me-dr-miami-1234677285/|title=Discovery+ Picks Up Plastic Surgery Doc ''They Call Me Dr. Miami''|last=White|first=Peter|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=January 21, 2021|accessdate=August 30, 2022}}</ref>
In 2025, a start-up venture co-founded by Salzhauer, Bliss Aesthetics, raised $17.5 million to bring artificial intelligence to cosmetic surgery.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-10 |title=Bliss Aesthetics secures $17.5M to bring AI to cosmetic surgery - Refresh Miami |url=https://refreshmiami.com/news/bliss-aesthetics-secures-17-5m-to-bring-ai-to-cosmetic-surgery/ |access-date=2025-11-11 |language=en-US}}</ref> The company was founded to use AI to connect patients with plastic surgeons and visualize potential results for cosmetic procedures.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-20 |title='Dr. Miami' startup raises millions for plastic surgery AI platform |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2025/04/20/dr-miami-bliss-aesthetics-plastic-surgery-ai.html |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=South Florida Business Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> Salzhauer assumed the position of Chief Medical Officer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-10 |title=Bliss raises $17.5M Seed round to bring AI to cosmetic surgery |url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sk322yhajx |access-date=2025-11-11 |website=ctech |language=en}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://balharboursurgery.com/ Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery Associates] *[https://www.forbes.com/sites/seamuskirst/2016/02/23/michael-salzhauer-aka-dr-miami-discusses-his-plastic-surgery-snapchat-videos-and-brand/#36d996e31b86 Michael Salzhauer, AKA Dr. Miami, Discusses His Plastic Surgery Snapchat Videos And Brand] (interview) [[Forbes.com]]
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