Dr. Shruti C. Tannan

Dr. Shruti C. Tannan is a board-certified plastic surgeon with an added sub-specialty certification in hand surgery. Dr. Tannan is a long-time resident of the Triangle in North Carolina. She is proud to be an active member of both of the top-tier plastic surgery organizations in the US: The Aesthetic Society and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in addition to the North Carolina Society of Plastic Surgeons.

After graduating from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics high school in Durham, Dr. Tannan completed her undergraduate and medical school studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was honored with numerous awards, most notably induction into the prestigious medical group, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AOA). Residency training in plastic surgery took her to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she excelled in both technical skills and educating medical students. She received recognition there with induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and the School of Medicine Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award, among other honors.

Many procedures in plastic surgery, such as breast surgery, involve complex techniques taking tissue from one part of the body and transplanting to another part. They often involve microvascular surgery using an operating microscope to sew together vessels as small as 1-2 mm. To further establish herself as an expert plastic surgeon, Dr. Tannan completed fellowship training in microvascular and hand surgery at the world-renowned Hand Center of San Antonio in Texas. There she trained with leaders in plastic, reconstructive, hand and orthopaedic surgery. Dr. Tannan is proud to serve her community and is licensed to practice medicine in the state of North Carolina.

Since graduating from fellowship in 2015, Dr. Tannan has been a practicing plastic surgeon in the Tar Heel State. In her early career, she was on the faculty at Wake Forest University in the Plastic Surgery Department, teaching the next generation of plastic and reconstructive surgeons. She ultimately chose to focus on pursuing her passion, aesthetic plastic surgery of the face and body, when she established her solo practice, Tannan Plastic Surgery, in 2017. With her all-female team, she provides the highest level of care to her patients and helps women move forward as the most confident versions of themselves. She firmly believes that plastic surgery can help you come into alignment with yourself, so that the version of you in the mirror is in alignment with what you hold in your mind’s eye. She has kept her passion for education alive on her blog, where she answers popular plastic surgery questions ranging from what to do about Menopause Belly, to where to find the best bras to wear while recovering from plastic surgery.