He currently practices in Norfolk just minutes from Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Portsmouth. Dr. Colen graduated from Colgate University in 1972, where he was awarded membership to the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society for academic achievement. A graduate of the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1975, Dr. Colen went on to do his residency training in general surgery and plastic surgery at the University of California San Francisco from 1975 to 1983. Upon completion of his Plastic Surgery Residency in 1983, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. In 1990 he joined a Plastic Surgery practice in Norfolk, Virginia, where he currently resides. He is Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive) at Eastern Virginia Medical School.