Afshin David Rahimi

Afshin David Rahimi is a dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon practicing in Los Angeles, California.

Private Practice

Dr. Rahimi is a Board Certified Dermatologist and Diplomat of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, who founded the Forever Young cosmetic surgery practice in 1999. He was called "one of the most revered dermatologists in the field" by RDH Magazine, and performs both elective and non-elective surgery. Dr. Rahimi advocates against the "overdone" cosmetic surgery trend popularized by reality television shows. In practice of this, Dr. Rahimi developed a method of surgery called the "Tuliplift", which is a minimally invasive facelift technique that focuses on the under eye and cheek-horizontal vector, the jowl-combination of horizontal and vertical vectors, and the neck-vertical vector. The goal is to get these areas of the face to look approximately ten to fifteen years younger. The surgical procedure involves minimal incisions and is based a form of minor liposuction. The entire surgery is done with only local anesthesia and mild (not full) sedation. Rahimi is a strong advocate of not using general anesthesia during cosmetic surgery and only using local anasthesia during surgeries, stating that he believes most complications from facelifts come from the use of general anasthesia during procedures. Rahimi performs a large range of other cosmetic procedures in addition to the Tuliplift, all without the use of general anasthesia.

Academia

Dr. Rahimi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from UCLA in 1990 and his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1994. Afterward, Rahimi held a dermatological residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, winning the William Newman Award in Pathology and Walter F. Rosenberg Award in Dermatology in 2005, and becoming Chief Resident in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, Rahimi held a Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship at the Fulton Skin Institute. While at the Institute Rahimi published several papers in the journal Dermatologic Surgery. Rahimi has continued to publish original research in addition to his private practice, including additional research with the Fulton Institute. In 2010 he self-published the book Please Don't Die Trying to Become Beautiful: A Surgeon's Plea, which centers on his belief that general anesthesia is not necessary for cosmetic surgery. In it he wrote "Hundreds, maybe even thousands of people die every year because of the adverse reactions of elective cosmetic procedures" done under general anasthetic, yet in studies of cosmetic procedures done using only local anasthesia, "There were no fatalities, and most side-effects were rare and minor."