A moment on a school bus decades ago still shapes how Dr. Andrew Jacono practices medicine today. As a young medical student, he watched a girl who had been isolated by classmates because of a cleft lip and palate undergo reconstructive surgery. Her transformation, both physical and social, convinced him that surgical skill carried an obligation stretching well beyond paying patients.
That early observation grew into a career split between two worlds. Dr. Andrew Jacono runs a Park Avenue practice in New York, where he holds dual board certification in facial plastic surgery. Yet alongside that cosmetic work sits a parallel commitment to survivors of domestic violence and children born with facial deformities who have no way to pay for treatment.
Care for Survivors of Abuse
Dr. Andrew Jacono serves as senior advisor to the FACE TO FACE project, run through the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Through that program, he has performed reconstructive procedures for more than 100 survivors of domestic violence, repairing facial injuries left behind by abuse and offering patients a path back to their previous identity.
Missions Reaching Children Overseas
The international side of his humanitarian work has treated over 750 children in developing regions, addressing conditions such as cleft lip, cleft palate, microtia, and burn scars. He partners with groups including Healing the Children and the HUGS Foundation, traveling roughly twice a year to countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Dr. Jacono has also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Cotopaxi, and Mount Elbrus as fundraising efforts tied to this work, generating support for both domestic violence survivors and pediatric surgical missions abroad. He additionally trains the next generation of surgeons as Fellowship Director for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, folding humanitarian obligation directly into surgical education.
For Dr. Jacono, the throughline connecting a Manhattan operating room to a clinic in rural Vietnam is simple: technical mastery only means something when it reaches people who could never otherwise access it. Visit this page for related information.
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