Leland Deane, MD

Garden City, New York, US

About Us

Dr. Leland M. Deane got his M.D. degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York in 1978. After his internship, he completed his General Surgical Internship and Residency at the Tufts New-England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He finished his Plastic Surgery Residency at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia. Proceeding his education, Dr. Deane completed a Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Division of Hand Surgery and Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Deane joined the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group as a partner in 1986 and became a companion in the Group in 1988. Please see the site for the Group at Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, PC. Currently, Dr. Deane is Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the North Shore/LIJ Health System, Southside Hospital. As a teaching professional, Dr. Deane is a faculty member at Cornell University Medical College. He has actually authored documents in plastic surgery literature and continually participates in conferences and courses in the national and international medical community. Dr. Deane has actually organized and led humanitarian objectives to Colombia, South America to treat congenital malformations in children. He is also a Fellow of The American College of Surgeons and a previous Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Deane is on the Advisory Board of several patient assistance organizations, including Mother of Supertwins (for numerous birth families) and Bariatrics Today/ObesityHelp. com (for patients recovering from weight loss surgery). He has been featured and interviewed on the Wall Street Journal televised network, the Discovery Health Channel, Cablevision Network, the New York Post, and several other media sources.