Training and Education of Plastic Surgeon Dr. Grzeskiewicz

After graduating from college, I received a U.S. Navy Health Professions Scholarship to medical school. I earned my medical degree from the prestigious University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia.

• Surgical Internship: 1987 U.S. Naval Hospital San Diego. The Navy then selected me for the U.S. Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute in Pensacola, Florida, where I completed training to become a Navy Flight Surgeon. I served another 3½ years as a Flight Surgeon with the U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, with overseas assignments to Asia. In 1992, I became a Lieutenant Commander and served as Medical Department Head of Marine Aircraft Group 39. It was then that I decided to leave the Navy to pursue my dream of becoming a plastic surgeon.
• Integrated Program, General and Plastic Surgery: Following my time in the Navy, I joined the staff at The University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics in Columbia, Missouri. There, I trained in general surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and microsurgery with Dr. C. Lin Puckett, Past Chairman of The American Board of Plastic Surgery and Past President of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. One of the highlights of my residency training was achieving successive scores in the 99th percentile on the annual national in-service examination during each year of my plastic surgery residency.
• Preceptorship, Aesthetic Surgery: Miami, FL. My preceptorship in aesthetic surgery was under the guidance of internationally renowned facial rejuvenation experts, Drs. Thomas Baker and James Stuzin.
• Postgraduate Surgical Training: When I finished my residency in 1998, I returned to my alma mater, The University of Virginia, for my eighth year of postgraduate surgical training with Dr. Raymond Morgan and Dr. Frank McCue.
• Private Practice: I entered private practice in La Jolla in 1999. I joined LJCSC in 2005.
• Board Certification: The American Board of Plastic Surgery
• Memberships
  • The American Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  • The California Medical Association
  • The San Diego Plastic Surgery Society – President
  • The San Diego County Medical Society
• Affiliations
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, medical staff

Dr. Grzeskiewicz’s Curriculum Vitae

Learn more about Dr. Grzeskiewicz’s extensive training and experience in his Curriculum Vitae.