Education
She attended Cornell University and graduated from State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse in 1978 for her medical degree.
She attended Cornell University and graduated from State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse in 1978 for her medical degree.
She has appeared on Good Morning America and American Broadcasting Company News, among other media, weighing in on plastic surgery matters. She has been an advocate of Botox-use since the 1990s, before its approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration in April 2002. In 2003, she weighed in on Michael Jackson"s nose job supporting the view that it was not as the star had described in the media, and that it was actually beyond repair.
She has also been forthright about taking in patients in their 30s although experts have opined such an age is too young for facial procedures due to the risk of scarring spreading.
On HealthGrades, she rates 67 (out of 100) in patient satisfaction. In 1999, a Manhattan jury awarded a 62-year-old patient of Lipkin"s $600,000 for what they believed was an overzealous series of cosmetic procedures--face and brow lift operations, a nose job, and cheek implant corrections—on a woman who was already suffering from an addiction to plastic surgery.