Mentor. Artist.
Soldier. Surgeon.

Dr. Robert Kessler is a native of New York City, where he lived until completing his undergraduate degree Summa Cum Laude from Stony Brook University. He received his medical degree with Honors from Tufts University in Boston, then completed a distinguished General Surgical Residency with North Shore/NYU in New York.

He was then selected for a plastic surgery residency with the US Air Force and the University of Texas. He returned to active duty with the US Air Force for three years. During this time, Dr. Kessler served as Professor of Surgery to the Uniformed Services University Health Sciences and Wright State University School of Medicine, teaching residents and medical students the art of surgery. He is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with Fellowship Training in Advanced Facial Aesthetics.

After many years of advanced surgical training and cosmetic surgery practice, Dr. Kessler settled his family in Newport Beach and founded Kessler Plastic Surgery. He lives here with his wife of 30 years and his three daughters. Dr. Kessler is active in the community and brings the same level of commitment to the community that he does to his aesthetic surgical patients.

After 3 years of active cosmetic surgery practice and Board certification in both General and Plastic Surgery, Dr. Kessler pursued advanced training in facial cosmetic surgery with Dr. Bruce Connell in 2003. He then opened practices in Beverly Hills and Santa Ana. Dr. Robert Kessler, worked closely with Dr. Garth Fisher as a surgical consultant and surgical assistant on ABC’s Extreme Makeover. He has been lecturing nationally and internationally on topics of facial rejuvenation, plastic surgery, and body contouring after massive weight loss teaching these advanced techniques to fellow plastic surgeons. Dr. Kessler has an active role with Administrative Committees of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.