Mark L. Smith is an American physician and plastic surgeon based in New York City. He is Chief of Plastic Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Beth Israel Medical Center, Director of Plastic Surgery for Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, Director, The Friedman Center for Lymphedema Research and Treatment, CoDirector of The Lipedema Project, and Professor of Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His areas of focus include microsurgical breast reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction, facial paralysis, reconstruction of congenital defects and the surgical treatment of lymphedema and lipedema. Early life, education Smith was born in Huntington, NY and raised in the United States. He attended college at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and graduated with a BA in biology in 1987. In 1991 Smith earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. His post-doctoral training included: 1991–1994: General Surgery Residency – Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 1994–1996: Plastic Surgery Residency – Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 1996–1997: Fellowship in Microsurgery and Oncologic Reconstruction – MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas 1997–1998: Fellowship in Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery – University of Washington, Seattle, WA Smith was certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 2000, and recertified in 2008. Smith began doing volunteer medical work in 1993, traveling to Guatemala with Healing the Children to perform cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries. Since then he has worked and volunteered at clinics and hospitals in countries as diverse as Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Israel and Vietnam. Career Smith is Chief of Plastic Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. He has been an attending physician at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West since 1999, at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary since 2001, and at St. Vincent's Medical Center from 2002 to 2010. Smith serves as Director of Plastic Surgery for Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, a multi-hospital cancer program including Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He has developed numerous programs at Continuum including the Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction Program, the Facial Nerve Program, the Lymphedema program and the Continuum Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center. He is a Professor of Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Smith is a diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and