In portraying himself on television as the antithesis of the white-coated, patrician Park Avenue plastic surgeon, Rey says he is promoting plastic surgery to a wider population and showing that it can be a happy experience. Rey said he has merely postponed taking the certification exams because he has been too busy. To top it off, critics say, Rey, 44, does not have board certification in plastic surgery, an optional credential that many plastic surgeons consider the gold standard of achievement in their specialty. Skeptics in the medical profession question everything from Rey's bedside manner (on a recent show he advised a patient, after giving her breast implants, to "take care of these babies, I worked hard for them") to the way he rakishly wears a stethoscope - plastic surgeons seldom use one - draped around his Italian suit collars. Jewell, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, say that Rey is a skilled surgeon but that his informal way with patients is inappropriate, even undignified, and that the reality show gives viewers the impression that plastic surgery is a casual beauty treatment rather than a serious surgical procedure. 90210 is the show that traditional plastic surgeons love to hate.Ĭritics, including Mark L. About 38-million viewers in the United States have seen this season's episodes of Dr. Television has turned Rey into a household name, perhaps the best-known plastic surgeon in America. On the show he hugs his patients, calls them "sweetheart" and even tells them, after he has operated on their breasts, that they look "hot!"
When he is not doing martial arts routines or weightlifting in his signature black scrubs, he is consulting with patients while clad in a Versace suit, getting into his black Porsche or swimming with his wife and children in the pool of his Beverly Hills mansion.
90210.Īlthough the show, now in its third season, follows the professional and personal lives of six doctors, Rey steals almost every show.
In both Mexico and Brazil, he has performed humanitarian medical missions, primarily on children in need of reconstructive surgeries, and he has frequently done this work in poorly equipped and primitive clinics without all the latest technologies.Like many patients in Rey's busy practice, Valdez and her husband had seen him on the E! Entertainment network's Dr.
In Los Angeles, he has done pro bono work in the East LA communities, helping primarily Latino victims of domestic abuse and gang violence. But he has becoming increasingly involved in charitable work in the United States and around the world, using his medical training to bring much-needed help to those in need. Rey is widely known for his success in the glamorous world of Beverly Hills. And he served in The Office of the United States Surgeon General, as health policy speech-writer to Dr. Rey also earned a Master’s degree in Health Policy from the Harvard University John F. In addition to his surgical training, Dr. He is fully trained as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. School of Medicine, to Tufts University School of Medicine, to Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital where he completed a plastic surgery fellowship. Rey has attended some of the top American educational institutions, from U.C.L.A. Rey excelled in his undergraduate and medical studies and became one of America’s-and the world’s-most recognizable doctors, and he is one of the few worldwide television personalities and medical authorities who is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.ĭr.
He frequently appears on such other shows as THE VIEW and THE TODAY SHOW, seen by millions.Ĭoming to the United States after a poverty-stricken childhood in Brazil, Dr. DREW’S LOVELINE, a weekly segment in Los Angeles for TELEMUNDO, a national Spanish language radio segment on ESTRELLA, and numerous segments for ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT and THE INSIDER, where he covers a variety of different stories. He appears frequently on a wide variety of television and radio shows, including Dr Hollywood and Programa Marcia in Brazil, DR.
Robert Rey is also an author, he is an accomplished martial artist with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, he is an expert in fitness and nutrition, and he has become a successful businessman with numerous brands in the apparel, skin care, and nutritional categories. Best known in the US, Brazil and around the world as the star of the E! Network hit series, DR.