Howard Bellin
Howard T. Bellin is an American plastic surgeon, the director of CosMedica, a plastic surgery center in New York. Education Bellin obtained his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1957, and his M.D. from New York Medical College in 1962, followed by an internship at the University of California Hospital. Family Howard Bellin was born to Maurice Bellin and Etta Bellin. His family lived in Passaic Clifton and then South Orange, New Jersey. In 1964 he married Christina Paolozzi, a model, daughter of Alicia Spaulding and Count Lorenzo Paolozzi. The couple were known for their extravagant parties attended by a variety of glamorous personalities. The Bellins divorced in 1982. He has three children, Cheryl Blanchard, Marco Bellin and the director and screenwriter Andy Bellin. Career Bellin began his general surgery residency at the Metropolitan Hospital in New York for three years. In 1966 he joined the United States Air Force Medical Corp, stationed at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. He returned to New York in 1968 to complete his plastic surgery residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. In the following years he was an instructor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Medical College. He then started