Drawing on close to two decades of experience in the medical field, Dr. Yale Popowich is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who served as partner at the Portland Plastic Surgery Group, an Oregon company he co-founded in 2014. Dr. Yale Popowich has received honors such as the John Henry Smith III Award for outstanding performance as a general surgeon, among others. The work of Dr. Popowich has been featured in a variety of professional journals during his career, including Operative Techniques in General Surgery, where he published “Intussusception” (an intestinal disorder) alongside Dr. Baird Mallory. He has also given several presentations, including “PMN Exposure to a Quantified Bacterial Load Leads to a Rapid, Non-Apoptotic Cell Death,” at the Surgical Forum of the American College of Surgeons in 2001. Alongside his M.D., which he obtained in 1998, Dr. Yale Popowich holds a B.A in political science and a healthcare M.B.A., which he acquired in 1986 and 2012, respectively.