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Dr. Mark Knight is a talented general and plastic surgeon who served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval and Marine Corps. Dr. Knight obtained his medical degree at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution that established the first Medical School in the USA and today is ranked consistently in the top 5 medical schools in the country. Through that perseverance, awards and accolades easily followed. Dunn & Bradstreet listed him in their National Register of Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals. He was awarded the Ford Foundation Prize in Biochemistry, The SAINTS Founders Award, and The Lloyd E Sergeant Scholarship. He was highly recognized by his peers through the inductions into the Sigma Beta Honor Society, the Golden Key National Honor Society, and is a member of the National Honorary Chemical Society which has produced several Nobel Prize winners.

Dr. Knight is an award winning artist recognized by the Columbia Press Association, which allows him the advantage of thinking simultaneously as an artist and as a surgeon. These skills have distinguished him as one of the premier Plastic surgeons in southern California.