About Dr. Restore
Education & training
Dr. Perry attended Brown University for pre-medical studies. He simultaneously attended the Rhode School of Design (RISD), one the world’s preeminent colleges of art and design to advance his sculpture techniques.
After college Dr. Perry stayed at Brown for his MD degree. He then did General Surgery residency training at Brown University followed by Head and Neck Surgery residency training at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Academic appointments
Immediately following his residency Dr Perry became a Full-Time Clinical Professor of Surgery and Director of the Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic at SUNY Buffalo. The next year he became Department Chief of Head and Neck Surgery at the Erie County Medical Center, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the region.
As Professor of Surgery at a Level 1 Trauma Center Dr Perry trained resident doctors while performing trauma surgery for; shootings, stabbings, motor vehicles and industrial accidents, also cancer and cosmetic surgery. He also instructed medical students on examination, assessment and management for the above conditions.
Beginning over 20 years ago Dr Perry has taught a special workshop in sculpture for medical students to help them develop their diagnostic skills
Sculpture & the Art of Cosmetic Surgery
Dr Perry started creating sculptures at home when he was about 5 years old. He often made his own “action figures” by sculpting plastiline clay figures. None of this early work was photographed until 5th grade when he was about to bring a sculpture he had created for a class project into school.
In 10th grade Dr Perry started making sculptures in school art classes. In school Dr Perry worked on his own ideas. Occasionally another student was assigned to sit as he created their portrait. In 11th grade a new art teacher referred him to a figure sculpture class which he continued attending until he started college. While still in high school he did private commissions, had a piece sold through an art gallery and started to work commercially on a series of pewter miniatures.
At RISD Dr Perry studied design, refined his sculpting and learned bronze casting.
