Few surgeons appear at the top of both national skill rankings and lists of the most compassionate physicians. Dr. Andrew Jacono does. The combination is not accidental it traces directly to the values he developed long before he entered medicine.
The Dual-Board Certified Surgeon Behind the Rankings
Dr. Andrew Jacono is dual board-certified and practices at offices in Manhattan and Great Neck. He trained at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, earning his medical degree in 1996, before completing a residency in Otolaryngology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as administrative chief resident. A fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, accredited through the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, rounded out his clinical education.
His signature technique, the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended (MADE) facelift, lifts skin, muscle, and fat as a unified structure rather than pulling the skin alone. The approach produces results lasting 12 to 15 years, with Town & Country noting that patients look like refreshed versions of themselves rather than obviously altered. Marc Jacobs credited Dr. Andrew Jacono with his facelift publicly in 2021. Dr. Paul Nassif, a plastic surgeon, underwent the deep-plane procedure with Jacono as well.
The Numbers Behind the Reputation
Newsweek placed Dr. Andrew Jacono third nationally among facelift surgeons for 2025. Harper’s Bazaar named him among the top 24 plastic surgeons in the country. He has received the Most Compassionate Doctor Award continuously from 2012 through 2022 a designation earned by fewer than 3% of physicians each year.
His publications number more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, appearing in journals like JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery and the Aesthetic Surgery Journal. He has spoken at more than 100 international conferences and published a medical textbook on extended deep-plane facelifting in 2021.
Dr. Andrew Jacono attributes the compassion side of his work to a formative experience watching a classmate with a cleft lip endure rejection and then, post-surgery, acceptance. He has since performed more than 750 cleft surgeries through Healing the Children and provided reconstructive care to over 100 domestic violence survivors through the FACE TO FACE program. Refer to this article to learn more.
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