Dr. Kenneth Siporin Has Passed Away but his Legacy Lives on

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the death of recommended hair transplant surgeon Dr. Kenneth Siporin. Earlier this month, Dr. Siporin passed away unexpectedly in his sleep at the young age of 51.

A Southern California native, Dr. Siporin received a Master of Science degree from Stanford University and earned his medical degree at Chicago Medical School. He spent the next five years at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where he tended to many of the most severely ill and complex surgical patients as a Chief Resident. After his time in Los Angeles, Dr. Siporin continued his training in a general plastic surgery residency at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which was followed by two plastic surgery fellowships; the first at Boston University, where he specialized in hand and breast surgery, and finally, an aesthethic fellowship at the Davies Medical Center.

After completing his training, Dr. Siporin returned to Southern California to practice general plastic surgery and hair transplantation in Los Angeles (Beverly Hills). Always one to promote health and natural results, Dr. Siporin founded his practice on the idea of “age optimization,” and encouraged his patients to seek wellness from the inside and out. By limiting the number of procedures he performed each year, meticulously training his own staff of technicians, and heavily concentrating on each patient’s surgery, Dr. Siporin applied this philosophy to his hair transplant work as well. This dedication allowed Dr. Siporin to become a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and a recommended member of the Hair Transplant Network.

Friends and family will remember Dr. Siporin not only for his drive and academic achievements, but also for his kindness, bright smile, sense of humor, and love of outdoor activities like surfing and football. Dr. Siporin is survived by his father, mother, his brother and sister, and uncle and aunt. Along with his family and fellow loved ones who knew him personally, Dr. Siporin will be greatly missed by our hair restoration community and the thousands of grateful patients and people he’s helped over the years.

Rest in Peace Dr. Kenneth Siporin

Pat, Bill, Dave, and Blake – The Hair Restoration Team for the Hair Transplant Network and the Coalition Hair Loss Learning Center

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Visit to Dr. Kenneth Siporin’s Clinic in Beverly Hills, California 

After eight plus years of looking high and low for gem in the rough hair transplant surgeons, a new discovery is a rarity these days for me. Most of the hair transplant physicians who are outstanding in the field of hair restoration surgery have typically been discovered and are presented on our community and the Internet in general. In the hair restoration world you have to turn over a lot of rocks to find a real gem. But when you find such a gem it makes all the searching worth while.

Dr. Ken Siporin is one of those rare finds. As a board certified plastic surgeon he has a strong aesthetic surgery background, which includes over nine years experience in performing hair transplantation. He is also an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. He now has his own private practice in Beverly Hills that is primarily focused on hair restoration.

However, during the past five years he performed surgeries for Medical Hair Restoration (MHR), which would normally count against him in my book. But his reputation for insisting on quality care and results, while resisting pressure from MHR corporate HQ to increase his volume, has earned him the respect of both his patients and his medical technicians.

Medical technicians are a great source of inside information about a clinic and its physician. They know a physician’s real commitment to quality perhaps better than anyone. I make a point of spending plenty of time talking with the techs in the back room when I visit a physician’s clinic to observe surgery. They are gold mine of information.

Dr. Siporin’s medical technicians spoke with genuine enthusiasm about the care he takes in removing the donor tissue, suturing the donor area with a double layer closure (including a trichophytic closure) and making the graft incisions while avoiding existing hair follicles. Dr. Siporin also insists upon quality graft trimming using microscopic dissection. The techs also admired how he insisted on maintaining these quality standards of care and would often cancel surgeries at his own expense when he felt the corporate offices over booked he and his staff’s time.

The quality of the grafts being cut during my visit was very good. In observing Dr. Siporin’s surgery I was impressed by the care he took in carefully making very refined incisions in and around the patient’s existing hair follicles to avoid transecting them. He used a very small 0.8 mm incision for the one hair grafts and a 1 mm incision for the 2 and 3 hair grafts. His careful pattern of incisions and their orientation showed very good judgment and skill in my opinion.

To view photo highlights from this surgical visit, visit our hair restoration discussion forum.

I was also impressed with the before and after photos he showed me in his office. I look forward to sharing some of them on this community. I also had an opportunity to view a couple of his patients who had very natural results. Dr. Siporin’s rapport and relationship with his patient’s was excellent.

In my opinion Dr. Siporin is passionate about his hair restoration surgery and his patients. Given his credentials, reputation and obvious skill and refined technique  he is now  recommended on the Hair Transplant Network in the state of California. 

I expect that he will establish a very strong reputation on our community, at which time he will then be eligible to join the proven masters of ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation as a member of the Coalition.

(Pat Hennessey)