About Henok Araya, MD

Dr. Araya has performed over 5000 surgeries/procedures and several hundreds of thousands of minor cosmetic procedures. Plus, he has over 20+ years of surgical and cosmetic surgery research. Dr. Araya has operated on physicians, dentists, nurses and some notable individuals who have won Emmy awards. Members of State Department, Congress, US Senate, IMF, World Bank, Treasury Dept., NIH, and more have chosen Dr. Araya for cosmetic procedures. Dr. Araya attended the University of Michigan, Michigan State for medical school and University of California San Francisco for post graduate in surgery. Dr. Araya holds surgical and medical licenses from DC Board of Medicine, Virginia Board of Medicine and Maryland Board of Physicians. He is one of the very few cosmetic surgeons nationwide to hold three surgical and medical licenses from three state medical boards. Dr. Araya makes critical decisions that will never be overshadowed by technology of any kind. The curves and shapes, the amount of fat to extract or skin to remove, the evenness with which it is removed and the blending of one area into another are all artistic judgment calls on the part of the cosmetic surgeon. In his 20 years of surgical research, Dr. Araya is one of the few to recognize the potential reaction or a delayed hypersensitive reaction to surgical stainless steel equipment. His research has shown how to eliminate and reduce the delayed hypersensitity reaction. In his research, Dr. Araya has devised local anesthesia to take a better effect than previously expected. To eliminate and reduce post-surgery swelling, Dr. Araya’s research has shown that certain medications reduce swelling significantly. Ultimately, excellent outcome depends on an excellent and cooperative patient.