7025 N.Scottsdale Road #302
Scottsdale, AZ 85250
Office : 480-657-7006
Fax : 480-657-7020
Ellie Zara Ley MD
Ellie Zara Ley MD is an accomplished board certified plastic surgeon. Her impressive surgical training background, with multiple plastic surgery subspecialty fellowships allow her to provide superb comprehensive care to the transgender community. After completion of her training, Dr Ley became an assistant clinical instructor at the University of Utah. She enjoyed teaching the full breadth of plastic surgery to the new generation of young surgeons. She then moved her practice to serve southern Arizona before coming to Scottsdale to join Dr. Meltzer along with his wonderful staff to specialize in plastic and transgender surgery.
Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
LEY Institute of Plastic & Hand Surgery, LLC
Arizona Craniofacial & Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Education
UNDERGRADUATE
Bachelor of Arts: 07/1991 – 12/1995
Spanish Literature
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Bachelor of Science: 07/1991 – 06/1995
Biochemistry
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
HONORS
Outstanding Student of the College of Chemistry and Physics, 1978, 1979
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Society
Dean’s Committee of Academic Appeals
MEDICAL
Fifth Pathway Program: 07/2000 – 06/2001
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY, USA
Diploma de Medico-Cirujano: 08/1996 – 06/2000
Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara
Facultad de Medicina
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Training
POSTGRADUATE EXPERIENCE
University of Utah, Dept. of Plastic Surgery
Assistant Clinical Instructor
LEY Institute of Plastic & Hand Surgery, LLC
Arizona Craniofacial & Pediatric Plastic Surgery
RESIDENCY
07/2001 – 06/2006
General Surgery
University of Arizona / James Warneke, M.D.
Tucson, AZ, USA
FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowship: 07/2008 – 06/2010
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
University of Utah / W. Brad Rockwell, M.D.
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Fellowship: 08/2007 – 06/2008
Hand and Microsurgery
University of Southern California / Randy Sherman, M.D.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fellowship: 07/2006 – 06/2007
Craniofacial/Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Primary Children’s Medical Center / Louis Morales Jr., M.D.
Salt Lake City, UT, USA Rodney E. Schmelzer, M.D.
LICENSURE
Arizona (Active)
California (Active)
Oregon (Active)
Utah (Inactive)
STAFF PRIVILEGES
HonorHealth Osborn Campus
Scottsdale, Arizona
Legacy Health Good Samaritan
Portland, Oregon
Tucson Medical Center
St Joseph’s Hospital
St Mary’s Hospital
Holy Cross Hospital
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Professional Organizations:
American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
02/2007 – Present
( WPATH) World Professional Association for Transgender Health
09/2015 – Present
BOARD STATUS
Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery
LEY Institute of Plastic & Hand Surgery, LLC
Arizona Craniofacial & Pediatric Plastic Surgery
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER - REVIEWED JOURNALS
1. Staged Cleft Sternum Repair Using Dermal Allograft and
Synthetic Mesh
Eleazar Ley, Rita Sharshiner, Peter Kouretas, Faizi Siddiqi.
Annals of Plastic Surgery. Aug 2011; 67(2): p. 156-158.
2. Salvage of SIEA Flaps Using the Retrograde Internal Mammary System.
Eleazar Ley, Rita Sharshiner, Peter Kouretas, Faizi Siddiqi.
Internal Mammary System.”Microsurgery. Oct 2010; 30(7): p. 545-548.
3. Endovascular therapy of spontaneous aortocaval fistulae associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Luis Leon R., Arslan Bulent, Eleazar Ley, Nicos Labropoulos.
Vascular 2007; 15(1): p. 35-40.
4. The expression of an aquaporin promoter in mesenbryanthemum crystallinum in tobacco.
Shigehiro Yamada, Donald E. Nelson, Eleazar Ley, Sheila Marquez, Hans H. Bohnert
Plant and Cell Physiology. 1997; 38(12): p. 1326-1332.
5. Book Chapter: Chapter 19: “Abdominal Flaps”
W. Brad Rockwell, Eleazar Ley
Published by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) August 2009 ISBN 9781935121022
6. AM:STARs Adolescent Medicine:State of the Art Reviews
Surgical Options in Transgender Youth
Ellie Zara Ley,MD, Toby R Meltzer, MD, Linda L. Takata,BS
Spring 2018 Volume 29 Number 1