Dr. Susan Tan

Board-Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon · The Face & Neck Expert · Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Dr. Susan Tan, MD ABFPRS — Facial Plastic Surgeon, Honolulu
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What Sets Her Apart

Hawaii's only female fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon — specializing exclusively in the face and neck.

Dr. Susan Tan is the Founder and Medical Director of Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery and the only female fellowship-trained board-certified facial plastic surgeon practicing in Hawaiʻi. Her board-certification through the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS) — combined with her surgical training at the University of Toronto, one of the most rigorous programs in facial plastic surgery — gives her a clinical depth that general cosmetic surgeons simply cannot replicate.

Her specialty is precise: the face and the neck. Everything she does — from a deep plane facelift to a physician-directed skincare protocol — is informed by the same surgical anatomy that governs her operating room. She does not refer patients elsewhere. She does not operate at high volume. She does not delegate her consultations. Every patient relationship is personal, and every plan is built around one face at a time.

With over 17 years of surgical experience and a woman's perspective on the patient experience, Dr. Tan has built Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery into Honolulu's most trusted boutique facial surgery practice. Her patients choose her not just for her credentials — but for her honesty, her restraint, and her ability to see the whole story, not just the face.

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ABFPRS
Board Certified
AAFPRS
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Castle Connolly
Top Doctor 2026
Fellowship
Trained
Modern Luxury
Dynamic Women

"The most successful outcome is the one no one can quite identify — they simply notice you look well. My approach is rooted in facial anatomy and structure, not trend or transformation. Refreshed, never different."

— Dr. Susan Tan, MD ABFPRS · Founder, Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery

A True Specialist

The clinical depth that sets Dr. Tan apart.

Specializing exclusively in the face and neck is not a marketing position. It is a clinical commitment — one that shapes every recommendation, every technique, and every outcome Dr. Tan delivers.

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Double Board-Certified Surgical Authority

Board-certification through the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS) represents the highest standard of training in facial surgery. Dr. Tan earned this distinction through a fellowship at the University of Toronto — one of the most competitive facial plastic surgery programs in the world. It means every procedure she performs is governed by a precision that only dedicated specialty training can produce.

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The Only Female Facial Plastic Surgeon in Honolulu

Dr. Tan brings a woman's perspective to every consultation — an intuitive understanding of how her patients want to look, not just what a procedure can technically achieve. Her patients tell her they feel genuinely heard from the first conversation. That quality of listening, combined with surgical precision, is what produces results that look quietly and entirely like themselves.

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A Complete Continuum — Surgery to Skincare

Dr. Tan is the only physician in Hawaii offering a complete physician-directed continuum of care for the face and neck — from medical skincare memberships and regenerative in-office treatments to deep plane surgery. Her surgical anatomy expertise informs every non-surgical recommendation she makes. Nothing is referred out. Nothing is disconnected. The plan that begins in consultation carries through every layer of care.

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Boutique by Design — Not by Circumstance

Dr. Tan limits her patient volume deliberately. Every surgical consultation is conducted by Dr. Tan personally — never delegated, never rushed, never templated. The practice is built around one patient at a time, in a private setting where every decision is made with that patient's specific anatomy, goals, and life in mind. This is what her patients mean when they say the experience felt nothing like they expected.

Medical Training & Expertise

A surgical education built for one specialty.

Dr. Tan's training was designed from the beginning around the face and neck — not adapted from general plastic surgery. Her residency, fellowship, and hospital surgical appointments all concentrated surgical precision in the one anatomical territory she now exclusively treats.

This kind of dedicated training produces a different quality of surgical judgment. Not just the ability to perform a facelift or a rhinoplasty — but the ability to look at a face and understand precisely what it needs, what it doesn't need, and what order of care will produce a result that ages well and feels entirely natural.

She brings that same precision to every non-surgical recommendation her clinical team makes. The Facial Longevity Assessment, the Pigmentation Protocol, the Collagen Clinic — all of it is designed with surgical-level anatomical thinking, because that is the only kind of thinking Dr. Tan knows.

Medical Degree
Doctor of Medicine

Graduated from medical school with surgical training emphasis. Foundation in anatomy, physiology, and reconstructive principles that inform every procedure performed today.

Residency
Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery

Specialty residency in head and neck surgery, building the anatomical foundation that distinguishes Dr. Tan's work from general cosmetic surgeons. Board-certified in this specialty as well.

Fellowship
Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · University of Toronto

One of the most rigorous and respected fellowship programs in facial plastic surgery in the world. Advanced training in deep plane facelift, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, and facial reconstruction. Board-certified through the ABFPRS upon completion.

Hospital Appointments
Surgical Faculty & Hospital Practice

Hospital-based surgical appointments following fellowship — developing the safety standards, precision protocols, and case volume that now define the quality of care at Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery.

Present · 17+ Years
Founder & Medical Director · Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery

Honolulu's only female fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon. Boutique private practice specializing exclusively in the face and neck — surgical and non-surgical. Castle Connolly Top Doctor 2026.

Recognition & Honors

Recognition built on patient outcomes and peer evaluation.

The recognitions Dr. Tan has received are not self-nominated or purchased. Castle Connolly Top Doctor is determined by physician peer nomination and independent review. Modern Luxury Dynamic Women honors women who have built something meaningful — in medicine, in business, and in their communities. Both reflect the same standard: excellence that others notice.

Modern Luxury · Dynamic Women Honoree

Named a Dynamic Woman
by Modern Luxury Hawaii

Modern Luxury Hawaii's Dynamic Women program recognizes women who have distinguished themselves through leadership, innovation, and meaningful contribution to their field. Dr. Tan was selected as a 2025 honoree — recognized not only for her surgical expertise and the practice she has built, but for what she represents as the only female fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon practicing in Hawaiʻi.

"Building a boutique surgical practice in Hawaii as a woman in a male-dominated field requires something beyond credentials. It requires vision, conviction, and the kind of patient trust that can only be earned one face at a time."

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Selected by Physician Peer Nomination — Two Consecutive Years

Castle Connolly Top Doctor is one of the most rigorous physician recognition programs in the country. Honorees are selected entirely by physician peer nomination — doctors nominating other doctors they would trust with their own family members. There is no self-nomination, no fee, and no advertising relationship involved in the designation.

Dr. Tan has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for two consecutive years — 2025 and 2026 — in the specialty of Facial Plastic Surgery. For patients evaluating a surgeon, this distinction is meaningful precisely because it comes from her peers, not from a marketing program.

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Board Certified
ABFPRS
Facial Plastic Surgery
Professional Memberships
  • American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS) — Board Certified
  • American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) — Fellow
  • American Academy of Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery
  • Hawaii Medical Association
Languages
  • English
  • Cantonese
  • Mandarin
Practice Location
  • 1150 S King Street, Suite 504
    Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96814
  • (808) 636-9084
  • By Appointment Only
Surgical Specialties
  • Deep Plane Facelift & Neck Lift
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Blepharoplasty (Upper & Lower)
  • Asian Blepharoplasty
  • Lip Lift
  • Facial Fat Grafting
  • Otoplasty
Why Patients Choose Dr. Tan

The practice was built around this exact patient.

She has done her research. She is not looking to be transformed. She wants to look like herself — only rested, only refreshed, only better. She chose Dr. Tan because she could tell the difference.

She sees you in consultation personally

Every surgical consultation is conducted by Dr. Tan herself. Your first meeting with her is not a screening with an assistant — it is a private conversation with the surgeon who will operate on you.

The plan begins with what you need, not what's available

Dr. Tan's HFPS Facial Longevity Assessment exists because she believes no treatment should be recommended before the clinical picture is understood. The plan follows the assessment, always.

Natural results are the standard, not the goal

Patients tell her their closest friends noticed they looked well but couldn't say exactly why. That is the result Dr. Tan designs for — not the most impressive before-and-after, but the one nobody can quite place.

She is honest about what surgery can and cannot do

If surgery is not the right answer, Dr. Tan will say so. If a non-surgical approach serves you better right now, that is what she will recommend. Her patients return because they trust that the recommendation is always genuine.

Your relationship continues after surgery

Surgical patients are integrated into the HFPS non-surgical continuum — Pigmentation Protocol, Collagen Clinic, or ongoing injectable care — so that surgical results are maintained over time, not left to fade.

The only complete face and neck specialist in Hawaii

From medical skincare to deep plane surgery — under one physician, one philosophy, without a single referral. No other practice in Hawaii can say this. It is the reason patients travel from the neighbor islands to see her.

A True Specialist

What it means to focus exclusively on the face and neck — and why that depth of specialization changes everything about the care you receive.

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Our Team

Tari and Brittany, our aesthetic nurses, conduct all non-surgical patient care under Dr. Tan's physician-directed clinical framework.

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Patient Reviews

What Dr. Tan's patients say — in their own words — about the experience of care, the quality of results, and the relationship that continues after surgery.

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Begin with a private conversation. Every patient relationship at Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery starts the same way — with honesty, not a treatment menu.

Get in Touch

Begin with a conversation.

Every patient relationship at Hawaii Facial Plastic Surgery starts the same way — with an honest, unhurried conversation about what your face actually needs. You will leave with clarity, not pressure.

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