Our Hair Transplant Team
The Entire Team at the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration
Excellent hair restoration is not a solo endeavor. As much as you might attribute excellent results to Dr. Lam himself, he only contributes a portion (albeit a vital one) to your total hair-transplant result. His team is the key to offering you consistently superlative results with Dr. Lam being a critical element to the equation. Like building a car, every individual on the team must be equally excellent to ensure that the car performs with perfection. Such is the way that hair restoration must be viewed, and it is at the Lam Institute for Hair Restoration.
Most hair clinics perform multiple procedures a day with different teams that rotate to perform your procedure under the guidance of a single hair transplant surgeon. The fallacy of this method is that consistency is rarely achieved. Every team member of LIHR has been hand selected and trained on site and will be the same team members performing your procedure for you in every case. Dr. Lam likes to think of his hair transplant team as offering what he terms “a boutique hair transplant experience” because it is completely customized for you.
The pride that every team member shows is critical to the success of your hair transplant. Dr. Lam recalls one time that he referred to one of his team members as a “cutter”, and she replied, “Please, Dr. Lam, we are an elegant dissection team NOT cutters.” Of course, he humbly apologized for this grievous offense to his team member. Dr. Lam believes that his team does not work for him but with him to ensure your success.
In most clinics you will never meet your team again after the day of your procedure. However, Dr. Lam believes that continuity of care, feedback, and being a vested team member are critical to ongoing improvement and self-learning. He is extremely proud of his team and would like you to meet them:
Emina
Emina Karamanovski lectures annually at the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery and has worked to establish national and international guidelines for maintaining quality control in hair restoration for the hair-transplant team. She is the co-author of numerous publications with Dr. Lam and is the co-author of their new book on hair transplant to be published by Elsevier in 2010.
Darla
Darla Stewart has been an essential team member at LIHR who functions as an expert hair-graft dissector and placer for many years and is fully vested in your experience with us. She is proud to be working in an environment that stimulates her desire to learn and in which she is encouraged to monitor constantly her own quality control. Besides excellent graft dissection and placement, Darla assists Dr. Lam in the early phases of set-up and is religious about uncompromising graft-to-site fit.
Vassi
Vassilka Djinov has also been working for many years at LIHR and is committed not only to excellent graft dissection and placement but expresses her zest for learning about every facet of hair restoration and fulfills that desire by assiduous application. She is in charge of collaborating with Dr. Lam on graft number calculation and ensuring that her team members are accurately creating the right proportion of grafts based on constant review and team leadership.