Post Author: Heather Furnas, MD
Heather Furnas is an adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford and an aesthetic surgeon in Northern California. She co-hosts the Skintuition podcast and can be reached on her website, Heather Furnas, and on Twitter @drheatherfurnas, Instagram @drheatherfurnas, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Dr. Furnas has been published in Ms. Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and the Boston Globe and her research and peer-reviewed publications focus on labiaplasty, safety in female genital plastic surgery, and professional and personal differences between male and female surgeons. She is co-editor of The Business of Plastic Surgery and has served on the editorial boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and PRS Global Open.
She is married to another plastic surgeon, Paco Canales, and together they raised two now-grown children, Diego and Siena.
Heather Furnas is an adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford and an aesthetic surgeon in Northern California. She co-hosts the Skintuition podcast and can be reached on her website, Heather Furnas, and on Twitter @drheatherfurnas, Instagram @drheatherfurnas, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Dr. Furnas has been published in Ms. Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and the Boston Globe and her research and peer-reviewed publications focus on labiaplasty, safety in female genital plastic surgery, and professional and personal differences between male and female surgeons. She is co-editor of The Business of Plastic Surgery and has served on the editorial boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and PRS Global Open.
She is married to another plastic surgeon, Paco Canales, and together they raised two now-grown children, Diego and Siena.
Letters of recommendation help open gates to university admissions, jobs, and scholarships. Now that more colleges are ditching SAT/ACT requirements and medical schools are grading pass/fail, these letters will likely rise in importance. As a decision-maker myself, I rely on a letter writer’s personal judgment in vouching for (or not mentioning) an applicant’s work ethic, experience, and character.
At least I did—until the subject of one of my own letters …
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