Dr. Rahul Seth

Dr. Rahul Seth is an experienced, double-board certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He specializes in surgeries of facial aesthetics and rejuvenation, rhinoplasty and nasal airway breathing, facial reconstruction from skin cancer, craniofacial skeletal and soft tissue trauma, treatment of facial paralysis, and gender-affirming facial surgery. His expertise also includes head and neck free flap tissue transfer, a reconstructive microvascular surgery technique for transplanting tissue from one part of the body to another.
After being fulltime faculty as a busy, vetted, and successful surgeon at the University of California San Francisco for 9 years, Dr. Seth joined Golden State Dermatology to lead Golden State Plastic Surgery. He continues as an Adjunct Associate Professor performing complex facial, head, and neck reconstruction at UCSF. In 2019, among hundreds of amazing physicians, he was awarded honorable mention for the UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award.
Dr. Seth earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester. He completed a five-year surgical residency in Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery (disorders of the nose, throat and other structures of the head and neck) at the Cleveland Clinic. Thereafter, he completed further subspecialty fellowship training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California Los Angeles. Just as he obtained training from some of the most prestigious and gifted surgeons, he continues to help train the next generation of surgeons and advance medicine through research.
With a background in engineering, Dr. Seth has innovated and patented new technologies used to diagnose and treat head and neck diseases. His research has won several national awards as well as laboratory and clinical research grant funding, and he has published numerous scientific medical articles in his field. He regularly gives lectures at national facial plastic surgery conferences.