Michael
Beehner, MD
•Diplomate:
American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery
•Diplomate: American Board of Family Practice
•Associate Clinical Professor: Albany Medical
College Dept. of Dermatology
Dr.
Michael Beehner has been involved in hair restoration
surgery since 1989 and has been full-time in transplanting
hair since 1995. He has been a leader in the specialty
during the past several years – conducting
several important research projects, chairing the
Examination Committee for the new American Board
of Hair Restoration Surgery, serving as co-editor
of the Hair Transplant Forum International,
the principal journal of hair surgery in the world,
lecturing at almost all of the various hair surgery
conventions around the world, and authoring two
chapters in the latest edition of Hair Transplantation,
the principal text in our specialty, edited by Dr.
Unger.
In 2001 he published in Dermatologic Surgery
the landmark article, “Nomenclature Proposal
for the Zones and Landmarks of the Balding Scalp,”
which put together for the first time a coherent
system for naming all of these areas, which is now
followed by all of the hair surgeons and dermatologists
in the world. He has been a pioneer in the use of
the “frontal forelock concept” for the
extremely bald male and has done recent important
research on “stretch-back” in scalp
reductions and on the affect of “limited-depth
recipient sites” on hair growth. For his research
efforts, he was awarded the Platinum Follicle
Award in 1999 by the International Society of
Hair Restoration Surgery for the year’s best
research, and on three separate occasions has been
awarded a Research Grant Award by the ISHRS.
Dr. Beehner has been married for 34 years to his
wife, Harrilyn, who serves as office manager. They
have four grown children and three grandchildren.
In his spare time, he enjoys running marathons,
playing baseball, playing guitar and harmonica,
stamp collecting, and working in prison ministry
on behalf of the Catholic Church.
Dr. Beehner attended Loyola University in Chicago
for his pre-med studies and obtained his M.D. degree
in Chicago at the University of Illinois Medical
School, where he also met his wife. His internship
was at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas
in family practice. After two years in the military
service, he did a one-year general surgery residency,
which included three months of plastic surgery.
He finished his formal education by finishing a
family practice residency at the University of Wisconsin.
He is presently an Associate Clinical Professor
of Dermatology at Albany Medical College, and will
be involved with teaching dermatology residents
hair transplant surgery in the newly formed department.
He is fascinated with the artistic aspects of hair
restoration surgery and the fact that each patient
is uniquely different. His practice has been cutting
all grafts under stereoscopic microscopes since
1995 and offer patients the choice of being transplanted
with all follicular unit grafts or with a “combination
approach”, which utilizes around 80% FU’s
and 20% “combination FU’s” (mostly
composed of either 2 or 3 adjacent FU’s, carefully
dissected under the microscope). Around 15% of his
patients are females, and the practice also takes
great pride in their frequent eyebrow restoration
work. Around 20% of the patients fall into the category
of being “corrective” situations, in
which past transplant work is corrected and refined.
Other background can be obtained by clicking on
“curriculum vitae” or by clicking on
our website. We are happy to answer any questions
sent to us by e-mail.
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