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Meet Your Surgeons
Dr. Lawrence Foster
Founder Dr. Lawrence Foster was born and raised in California. After
studying pre-med at UCLA, he attended medical school at UC Medical
Center in San Francisco. His internship at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
was followed by three years of general surgery residency at William
Beaumont Hospital in El Paso, Texas. A year at the 44th MASH Hospital
in Korea was followed by two years assigned to the Brooke Army Burn
Unit in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Foster was honorably discharged with
the rank of Major.He then furthered his plastic surgery training at the Crippled Children's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona working on children with birth defects. He completed his training with an additional eighteen months back in San Francisco at UC Medical Center. He passed the Plastic Surgery Board exam in 1970 and was accepted as a fellow in the American College of Surgeons in 1971. Shortly after going into private practice in San Francisco he was appointed Clinical Instructor in Plastic Surgery at UC Medical Center.
In 1976 Dr. Foster moved his practice to Lake Tahoe. Soon there were so many patients coming to Tahoe for surgery that an overnight facility was designed. Tahoe Plastic Surgery now accommodates patients from around the world, including New York, Anchorage, New Zealand, Miami, Rio de Janeiro and Geneva, Switzerland.
He is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the American Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons, International Society of Aesthetic Surgery, American College of Surgeons and the International Society of Clinical Plastic Surgeons. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Bariatric Medicine.
Dr. Foster is a former president of the California Chapter of Flying Physicians. He resides year-round at Lake Tahoe. When time permits he enjoys skiing, wind-surfing, sailing, scuba diving and water-skiing. His newest interest is Anti-Aging Medicine, to make the inner body as youthful as the surface looks.
Dr. Lilla Breyer
Dr. Lilla Breyer first came to Tahoe Plastic Surgery in 1990. She is a
Fellow of The American College of Surgeons and a Diplomat of the
American Board of Plastic Surgery. She is the only female Plastic
Surgeon within 100 miles in all directions.Dr. Breyer was born in Hungary, lived in four countries, crossed the equator twice and had learned three languages by the age of six. After growing up in the outback of Australia, she came to America at age 11. Her teens were spent in South Dakota, along the banks of the Missouri River. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine (1969). Her training in General Surgery and Plastic Surgery was at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago (1975).
She has had a wide range of experience in cosmetic, congenital and reconstructive surgery. She has performed face, eyelid, nose, breast, tummy, female genitalia and body contouring surgery at Tahoe Plastic Surgery since 1990, all with a perfect safety record.
Dr. Breyer has a significant medical heritage; her great uncle performed the first pneumonectomy in Hungary. Her father was both the Chief of Pediatrics and the Superintendent of the National Children's Hospital in Hungary. Her brother set up the first Cardiology Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Dr. Breyer is available to her post-op patients 24/7 by cell phone. You will like her. She's not only very competent and experienced, but open-minded and incurably joyful.