Meet Our Plastic Surgeon - Dr. Anire Okpaku

 

 

Doctor Anire Okpaku is a board-certified plastic surgeon and the Medical Director of Ocean View Plastic Surgery, serving the needs of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida. He specializes in cosmetic plastic surgery. He is an active member of the Bayside Medical Center at Mercy Hospital where he performs most of his surgeries. He also holds privileges in several other South Florida Hospitals.

 

 

Dr. Okpaku graduated from the prestigious Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, relocating later to Miami to where he completed his general surgical residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami. He went on to complete a Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Texas Health and Science Center, in San Antonio.

 

 

He is a Board Certified Diplomat of The American Board of Plastic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. As a recognized Miami and Fort Lauderdale plastic surgeon. On a personal side, Dr. Okpaku was born in Edinburgh Scotland, the son of a Nigerian Doctor who was attending the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and his mother a Dutch nurse, attending nursing school. Dr. Okpaku comes from a multi generational family of doctors dating back more than 300 years.

 

 

He is affectionately referred as Dr. "O" by patients and staff.

 

His personal accomplishments also include National Pan American and World Jiu Jitsu Championship title, under the training of Helio Gracie at Gracie Jiu Jitsu and Pedro Valente.

 

If you'd like to get to know Dr. Okpaku - Miami Plastic Surgeon - better, you can receive a free consultation when you schedule your appointment during one of the select times he has set aside exclusively for Web visitors.

 

 

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Key Facts About Dr. Anire Okpaku

 

Educational Highlights:

• Jefferson Medical College Graduate

• Honors in multiple Clinic clerkships Jefferson Medical School

• Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Texas

• Completed general surgical residency at

• Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami

• Deans list University of Colorado, Boulder.

• Collegiate All American Power Lifter

 

Personal and Physical:

• National and Pan American Sambo Heavy Weight Champion

• National Combat Sambo Heavy Weight Champion

• Multi time National Jiu-Jitsu Champion

• Multi time Pan America Jiu-Jitsu Champion

• World Jiu-Jitsu Champion

• Currently training for One Hour Bicycle World Record

• Dr. Okpaku regularly donates to the Salvation Army and the UNCF.

 

Memberships and Affiliations:

• American Medical Association

• American Board of Plastic Surgery

• American College of Surgeons

 

Dr. Okpaku has been featured on national TV including:

• 60 minutes National Syndicated TV Show

• Discovery and Learning Channel TV Shows

• Plastic Surgery TV

• Al Rojo Vivo con Maria Celeste -  Male Plastics Surgery, and Facial Rejuvenation

• Quien Tiene la Razon - Operated on the show host Dr Nancy Alvarez, also an total body makeover on an extreme weight lose patient. show is currently running.

• Paparazzi TV -  facial rejuvenation, Exilis, Operated on one of the main hosts

• "The Best of South Florida" - general piece about him and the practice

• Miss Intercontinental USA - sponsor and judge

• BBC America

 

On the Radio:

• La Classica

• El Sol

• Romance 106.7

 

In Print and Magazines:

• TV Novelas - multiple issues

• The Philadelphia Inquirer - newspaper

• Contorno Puerto Rico

• Vea Puerto Rico

• Selecta magazine