Professional profile
About Dr. Patel
Mina Patel, MD, joined AREOLA after practicing in a broad aesthetic surgery group where patients often lost continuity once the procedure itself was complete. She helped develop the Cascadia center around a different premise: the plan should name who remains responsible for questions months and years later.
Dr. Patel sees unilateral, magnetic-system and other elective replacement patients in Seattle. Her consultations pay close attention to the opposite side, the history leading to revision and the practical work of coordinating follow-up for people traveling from across the region.
Education & training
A focused path into the specialty.
Cascade University
Perception and patient experience
Cascade University School of Medicine
General medical education
Rainier Medical Center
Plastic and aesthetic surgery
AREOLA Philadelphia
Elective areolar plate replacement
Career history
Selected appointments and milestones.
Began aesthetic practice in the Pacific Northwest.
Completed AREOLA fellowship and joined the Seattle program.
Created the Cascadia Long-Term Systems Clinic.
Appointed Regional Medical Director, Seattle.
Institutional responsibilities
Leadership at AREOLA.
- Regional Medical Director, Seattle
- Director, Cascadia Elective Replacement Program
- Physician lead for regional long-term care coordination
- Member, National Complex Case Conference
Research & teaching
Questions shaping the work.
Continuity after traveling-patient elective care
Unilateral planning and patient expectations
Long-term communication with patients who live far from a center
Outside AREOLA
Work, life and perspective.
Dr. Patel is a year-round gardener who plans vegetables more successfully than flowers. She listens to public-radio documentaries while cooking, walks the Pacific Northwest shoreline with her family and keeps an unapologetically large collection of rain jackets.