Dr. Brian M. Kinney is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, USA, and reputable board certified plastic surgeon.

Dr. Kinney earned his bachelor’s degree (Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering) and master’s degree (Mechanical/Electrical Engineering) after completing the Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. He then attended medical school at Tulane University and was further trained in general surgery and plastic surgery at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Dr. Kinney is a staff member of major hospitals in West Los Angeles, such as Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and St. John’s Hospital and Health Center. He has been affiliated with many professional and medical organizations, which include the following:
• Board Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
• Board of Directors, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
• Past President, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) of the USA
• Deputy Secretary General, Board of Directors Member, International Confederation of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (IPRAS)
• Associate Editor, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal (IPRAS Journal)
• Associate Editor, Archives of Plastic Surgery (Korea)
• Former Board Member, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS)
• Former Associate Editor, Aesthetic Surgery Journal
• International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS)
• Former Chairman, Board of Governors, National Endowment for Plastic Surgery (NEPS)
• Former Chief, Plastic Surgery, Century City Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Former Clinical Chief, Hand Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles
• Former Chairman of the Educational Technology Committee of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF)
• Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program
o Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
o Master’s in Mechanical Engineering – MIT
o Research Assistantship
• Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
• Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
• Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
• University of California at Los Angeles, (UCLA), training in general surgery and plastic surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• FDA Clinical Trials and Related Work
o Botox post approval (cosmetic) launch educational program
o breast implant post-approval studies center
o breast implant post-approval studies clinical trial data analysis
o Puragen Hyaluronic filler for nasolabial folds and lips
o Purtox botulinum toxin injectable, one and three year trial
o Prevelle Silk post approval launch educational program
o Prevelle Lift clinical trial monitor and co-submitter of application
o Xeomin post approval launch educational faculty
o Belotero post approval launch educational faculty
o Kythera / ATX101 post approval educational program

A Past President of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation of the US and a current Board Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, he is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a member of numerous organizations in medicine, science and engineering, including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF), the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the California Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS), the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (IPRAS), the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), the AMA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAAS). A Clinical Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at USC School of Medicine, Dr. Kinney served on the Editorial Board of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal from 1997-2008 and the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal starting in 2009. He has won several awards for his professional work, presents and teaches at national and international meetings, serves as a consultant to biotech and engineering companies, and continues to author articles in many journals and textbooks.

Dr. Kinney has appeared on ABC network's Nightline, Fox Network's Extra, CNN, Hard Copy, The Discovery Channel, most of the local Los Angeles news television stations and all of the four major national news networks. He has been featured on radio and in numerous newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, London Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. Journalists from Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Newsweek, Spa Magazine and many others have interviewed him about plastic surgery, cosmetic and beauty treatments. He has also presented/interviewed on radio, television and in newspapers in Europe, Russia, China, throughout Asia, South and Central America, and been featured in documentary films. He is well-known in China as肯尼·布莱恩. He has performed live surgery and injections for teaching conferences in worldwide locations, such as Moscow, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Copenhagen, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Belgrade, Buenos Aires, Dubrovnik and Mumbai (India).

During the Bosnian war, Dr. Kinney led surgical relief missions and was received in the Presidential Palace in Zagreb, Croatia. He has also volunteered and organized surgical relief missions in Mexico. With years of experience, he remains sought for teaching at national and international conferences, as well as consulting for various biotech and engineering companies. Dr. Kinney has authored numerous articles for journals, magazines and co-edited a new 2,000 page, standard textbook of Plastic Surgery. His work in the fields of plastic surgery and technology has garnered him many awards and placed him in the group of the world's most well-known top plastic surgeons.

He has served as a formal or informal scientific/business consultant to many companies such as Mentor/Ethicon, Sanofi/Aventis, Allergan, Merz, Medicis, Eleme/Smoothshapes and others. A former member of the Board of Directors of BioElectronics Corporation, he has also worked with Electropharmacology, ADM Tronics, Mirror Image Software, Crisalix, KLOX Technologies, ThermiGen and other tech ventures.