Pediatric Facial Plastic Surgery
Director of Vascular Birthmark Institute
Dr. Milton Waner is an internationally recognized pioneer in the development
of successful treatments for hemangiomas and vascular anomalies. He is also dedicated to the advancement of medical and surgical therapies for children and adults with vascular anomalies.These include hemangiomas, port wine stains, venous malformations, lymphatic malformations, arteriovenous malformations and other vascular tumors. >>More >> Ask Doctor Waner
Director of Vascular Birthmark Institute Director, Hyman-Newman Institute
for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Director, Center for Endovascular Surgery
Dr. Berenstein is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of interv-entional neuroradiology. He has been
an innovator and has developed many
of the instruments used in this field. He
is constantly searching for new and better ways to treat vascular malformations
and works closely with Dr. Milton Waner
in this field.
Dr. Fay is a pioneer in the field of orbital surgery and vascular malformations. He has been an innovator in the development of many of the operations that are used to correct these deformities. Dr. Fay has published extensively in this field and is a founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hemangioma and Vascular Malform-ations Clinic He is currently an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard University.
Dr. Blei is a unique individual who has restricted her practice to the management of children with vascular anomalies. She is a board certified pediatric hematologist and oncologist and is one of the most experienced physicians in her field.
Dr. Rosen is a leader in the field of interventional radiology and endovascular surgery. He pioneered many of the techniques and procedures in use today.
Dr. Rosen is recognized internationally as one of the leading experts in the treatment
of pediatric and adult congenital vascular malformations of the extremities. >>Ask Dr. Rosen
Dr. Waner is an internationally recognized expert and a pioneer
in the treatment of hemangiomas and vascular malformations.
His colleague, Dr. Berenstein is a renowned endovascular surgeon
who heads the Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Waner has restricted his practice to the
treatment of hemangiomas and vascular malformations. We believe he is the only physician in the world to have done so. As a result of this, he has accumulated a wealth of experience and we believe that he has performed more surgeries in this field than anyone else. Dr. Waner has developed a unique approach to children and adults with hemangiomas and vascular malformations and he is responsible for convincing physicians to operate earlier on children with hemangiomas.
Our mission is to continue to provide world-class care in the diagnosis, treatment, management, and research of all vascular birthmarks.
In The News
First Annual "Picnic in the Park" Event
Thank you to all our wonderful patients and participants - volunteers and friends for making the Picnic in the Park such an incredible event. 500 attended the event... an incredible turn-out for the very first one. I had the opportunity to listen and watch parents hug, cry and laugh together - children played together, and new friends were made. We will post photos as soon as they are available. The drawings from the children are so wonderful and we will have them up and ready for your votes soon. Please join our discussion forum at www.wanerkids.org/forum and continue the community and support. Mark your calendar for June 5, 2011 - it is sure to be another wonderful picnic. It was an incredible day and emotional day for everyone. We truly have the very best parents... hope to see you all soon.
Maddox Flynn, an adorable 2 year old boy from Canada, was treated for his Lymphatic Malformation by Dr. Milton Waner, this past May with tremendous success. Maddox's family have expressed their thankfulness to Dr. Waner and his staff for outstanding patient care throughout the whole process pre and post surgery. Maddox is expected to have part two of his surgical excision of malformation on his cheek July 19th at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Canadian Maddox Flynn and his life-changing surgery
Friday, May 21, 2010 - EDMONTON - CBC
Edmonton boy's facial surgery 'amazing': dad Surgeons in New York City have removed a deformity from around the left eye of a two-year-old Edmonton boy.
March 8, 2010 (South Africa)
In this special, "Changing Faces," Dr. Milton Waner is profiled as he treats two patients: a baby girl born with a massive hemangioma and an older female patient from Iran who has lived with her vascular anomaly for years, but finally crossed paths with Dr. Waner who will treat her condition. Click here to watch
Dr. Milton Waner was featured in the medical documentary , "Super Face Surgeries", aired on The Learning Channel (TLC), Sunday, January 3rd, 10pm EST.
"Super Face Surgeries" Three people, Nick Madison, Marwa Naim, and Kevin Holloway have endured ridicule from strangers all their lives for their facial disfigurement. Now, a group of skilled doctors using the latest techniques will try to give these people hope for a new life.
The crew filming for the series followed one of Dr. Waner's patients named Kevin Holloway through his treatment of facial port wine stain.
It will surely be an uplifting story of one man who has lived with his port wine stain for so many years into adulthood,
and was finally able to find Dr. Waner to make him feel
whole again.
Both Dr. Waner and Dr. Berenstein's work is unique and has been featured in the press and on many educational TV programs including, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and Discovery Health.
Dr. Waner has been featured in a three part series on MSNBC called "A Change of Face". Click on the play buttons below to see some of the videos.
Vascular birthmarks: What are they?
The most common forms of vascular birthmarks are hemangiomas, venous malformations, portwine stains, arteriovenous malformations, and lymphatic malformations.
How are they treated?
There are a variety of treatments including steroids, lasers, embolization, surgical excision or combined therapies which may be used depending on the diagnosis. We use a tailored, yet tested approach to therapy as no child or birthmark is the same.
Dr. Waner is also committed to understanding the nature and etiology of vascular tumors through active basic science and clinical research. Through his colaboration with Dr. Yupo Ma of the Nevada Cancer Institute, cutting-edge research is being performed in this field. His team recently showed that hemangiomas are stem cell tumors. This may shed new light in the development of novel medical therapies.
Our multidisciplinary team approach to patient care is provided by specialists from pediatric facial plastic surgery, endovascular surgery, head and neck surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, dermatology, pediatric hematology-oncology, pediatrics and patient advocacy.
Clinical Office
126 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-3977
Fax: (212) 636-3979
Staff Sonya Allende-Akins Practice Administrator
Phone: 212-636-3971
Email: soakins@vbiny.org
