Dr. Michael E. Hill, MD, PhD, FACS, is a board-certified plastic surgeon. A native of Virginia, he received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Virginia Tech, his PhD in Anatomy from the Medical College of Virginia, and his medical degree from the University of Virginia. After medical school, he obtained his general surgery training at the University of Kentucky and went on to complete a three-year Plastic Surgery residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. At the time, this program was regarded as one of the foremost plastic surgery training programs in the world. After completing his Plastic Surgery residency in 1992, Dr. Hill moved to North Carolina and was in solo private practice until January 2007, when he moved to Palm Desert, California, to continue his private practice.