A dual board-certified facial plastic surgeon based in New York, Dr. Andrew Jacono has spent decades building a career that reaches far beyond the walls of his Park Avenue practice. His humanitarian work, rooted in a conviction that surgical expertise carries a responsibility to serve those without access to care, has taken him to operating rooms across multiple continents and into the lives of survivors who had nowhere else to turn.
A Career-Defining Moment
The foundation of Dr. Jacono’s humanitarian commitment traces back to medical school, when he witnessed the profound impact of reconstructive surgery on a young girl living with a cleft lip and palate. Isolated by her classmates and excluded from everyday social life, she underwent surgery that changed not just her face but her place in the world. That moment shaped a philosophy Dr. Jacono has carried through his entire career.
Since then, Dr. Andrew Jacono has developed two distinct pillars of charitable work. The first addresses domestic violence survivors in the United States who require reconstructive facial surgery but cannot afford it. The second involves international missions to developing countries, where children born with facial deformities often face severe social stigma and limited access to specialized care.
International Missions
Dr. Andrew Jacono has provided surgical care to more than 750 children across Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, Vietnam, and other countries. Working with organizations including Healing the Children, the HUGS Foundation, and THAI Children, he typically conducts two international missions annually. The conditions he treats range from cleft lip and palate to microtia, facial tumors, and burn scars. For many of these children, such deformities prevent school attendance and restrict participation in community life. His surgeries address both functional difficulties, such as problems with eating and breathing, and the social barriers that visible differences create.
As Fellowship Director for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and through his academic positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and North Shore University Hospital, Dr. Jacono also trains the next generation of surgeons to view specialized skills as both a professional and ethical obligation. See this page for more information.
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