About Charles Pierce, DO
Dr. Pierce is a double board certified plastic surgeon. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is committed to providing the safest and highest quality care in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Pierce attended the University of Michigan, University of Colorado, and completed his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of the Virgin Islands. While pursuing his degree, he began volunteering on medical mission trips around the globe aimed at cleft lip and palate reconstruction and has continued to do so throughout his career. He attended medical school at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating at the top of his class. Dr. Pierce trained at some of the country’s premier medical institutions including Johns Hopkins University where he received a master’s degree in public health. While there, he researched health care quality and its effect on current trends in care delivery as well as hospital benchmarking metrics. He then went on to complete five years of general surgery training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. There he worked to establish a statewide trauma education program, teaching trauma related educational classes throughout the state. Dr. Pierce completed three additional years of plastic surgery training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN where he researched outcomes related to breast reconstruction and contemporary treatments of craniofacial abnormalities. Dr. Pierce’s broad training provided the opportunity to not only care for adult patients, but children as well. Arkansas and Memphis’s Children’s hospitals as well as the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital provided a wide experience with pediatric care and reconstruction of congenital anomalies. Dr. Pierce uses the latest techniques in plastic surgery for adults and children. He has training and interests in all aspects of aesthetic surgery, skin care, and non-surgical enhancement, preferring a more natural appearing, personalized approach to rejuvenation. He has extensive experience with all types of breast surgery, particularly breast augmentation, lift, and reduction procedures involving short or minimal scar techniques. He has an interest in facial aesthetic and reconstructive procedures as well as all types of body contouring. He is married with two children and lives in Oceanport, NJ.