Milton Waner, MD,an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in the treatment of hemangiomas and vascular malformations, is Co-Director of the Vascular Birthmark Institute of New York (VBINY) at Roosevelt Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center.

Dr. Waner and his colleague Dr. Alejandro Berenstein, a renowned endovascular surgeon at the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN) and co-director of the VBINY, work closely together to provide the most advanced treatment options for birthmarks, including port-wine stains, hemangiomas and vascular malformations in children and adults. For more information on hemangiomas and vascular malformations click here.

Over the past 20 years, Dr. Waner has treated thousands of patients with these types of disorders.

He was previously Director of the Vascular Anomalies Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and was a professor of otolaryngology and plastic surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He earned his medical degree in his native South Africa at the world-renowned University of Witwatersrand Medical School, where he also completed his residency in otolaryngology.