Chicago Hair Institute

Oakbrook Terrace, United States

Raymond J. Konior, MD, FACS ✓ verified

4.4 composite score 26 reviews · 1 platform low confidence

Chicago Hair Institute is a hair-transplant clinic with an authority-verified surgeon in Oakbrook Terrace, led by Raymond J. Konior, MD, FACS (verified in an authority-body directory). This clinic does not publish its own price; the market-level estimate for the region is Market average: $3–$12/graft. Cross-checked against 9 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.

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4.4 Google 26 reviews

Surgeon & safety signals

What Reddit and forum users actually argue about: who does the work, and whether it's a "hair mill". We state only what's verified; the rest is honestly marked not disclosed.

Hair-mill riskLow

ISHRS / authority memberYes, directory-verified

Years in hair restoration38+ yrs

Named surgeonYes

Doctor performs incisionsYes

Doctor performs extractionNot disclosed

Surgeon involvementSurgeon personally performs every consultation and surgery (or his associate Dr. Sahar Nadimi); makes the recipient micro-incisions himself and is reported to personally place grafts and stay with the patient until the case is finished

Technician involvementNot disclosed

Procedures per day1 hair transplant/day

Revision rateNot disclosed

Surgeons

Raymond J. Konior, MD, FACS verified

MD; ISHRS Full Member (own ISHRS directory profile, listed at Chicago Hair Institute, 1 South 280 Summit Ave Suite C-4, Oakbrook Terrace IL 60181); one of the 15 surgeons named on the ABHRS's own History page as the Founding Board of Directors of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; board certified in Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery; in hair-restoration practice since 1988

Verified profile ↗ (https://www.chicagohairinstitute.com/doctors/raymond-j-konior-md-facs/)

Sahar Nadimi, MD

MD; facial plastic surgery / hair restoration; trained in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Loyola University Medical Center under Dr. Konior; assistant professor at Loyola; listed on the clinic's doctors page and its virtual-consultation page as a current operating surgeon. Not found in the ABHRS public physician registry or as an individual ISHRS directory profile during this pass

Qutaibah Khatib, MD

MD; confirmed still listed on the Chicago Hair Institute doctors page during this verify pass. Not found in the ABHRS public physician registry or ISHRS directory

Real patient discussion

Independent forum threads and community posts we found while verifying this clinic. Read the unfiltered patient experience, not just the marketing.

Pricing

Market average: $3–$12/graft (~$8,000–$20,000 all-in for ~2,500 grafts). Clinic-specific price not published. not confirmed on the clinic's own site · source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)

Market-level estimate for the region, not this clinic's own published price. Source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)

Contact

Website	www.chicagohairinstitute.com/
Phone	+1 630-932-9690
Google Maps	View on Maps
Accreditations	ABHRS Founding Board of Directors member (confirmed on the ABHRS's own History of the ABHRS page), ISHRS Full Member (own ISHRS directory profile), American College of Surgeons (FACS)

Notable

Dr. Konior is one of the fifteen surgeons the ABHRS itself names as its Founding Board of Directors — the group that wrote the first certification examination in 1997. Verified against the board's own history page, not the clinic's marketing. Consistently the most-named US surgeon in r/HairTransplants surgeon-choice threads.

Sources & verification

Compiled into the 2026-08-14 dataset build. No separate re-verification date is recorded for this clinic. Placed by verification, never by payment.

Editorial note: CREDENTIAL CORRECTED. The founding-member claim CHECKS OUT at the authority body: the ABHRS History page lists 'Raymond Konior, M.D.' among the Founding Board of Directors, and states those directors were granted grandfathered diplomate status subject to ten-year recertification. However, the claim of CURRENT ABHRS board certification is NOT confirmed — Dr. Konior does not appear anywhere in the ABHRS public physician registry (all 293 listings pulled and searched this pass), and unlike Drs. Dauer, Keene, Vories, Cooley, McGrath, Gabel and Dorin his ISHRS profile carries no 'ABHRS Diplomate' badge. The credential line was rewritten to state the founding role as fact and to drop the unverified 'board-certified in Hair Restoration Surgery' and 'co-author of the exam' wording. ISHRS Full Member status, clinic address and phone all verified directly against his ISHRS directory profile. Low Google review volume (26) relative to reputation — patients here report on forums, not GBP. Reddit reports costs around $35k for multi-session work but the clinic publishes no price list, so priceOrRange stays null. The critical 1,000-graft thread is retained deliberately. Nadimi and Khatib were re-confirmed as currently listed on the clinic's doctors page but remain verified:false — neither is in the ABHRS registry or the ISHRS directory.