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Dr. Basil Michaels and Dr. George Csank are Ivy League trained (Harvard, Cornell), board certified plastic surgeons. Both doctors are Assistant Professors of Clinical Surgery at The University of Massachusetts. In addition to busy clinical practices and research, they teach surgical residents and medical students.

Dr. Michaels is the president of the Berkshire District of the Massachusetts Medical Society and active at the state and national plastic surgery societies.Dr Csank is the plastic surgeon for the North Adams Regional Hospital Wound Center.

Berkshire Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery Center opened in 1998 and is an ambulatory surgery center dedicated to the delivery of safe, confidential and exceptional plastic surgery. It is licensed by the state of Massachusetts and accredited by the American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities. The operating suite is contracted with most health insurances including Medicare.

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