2024 Annual Conference Recordings – Tightening, Lifting and Contouring Non-Invasive Approaches (Non-CME)

Dr. Catherine M. DiGiorgio is a board-certified dermatologist and the founder and director of CMD Dermatology, Laser & Aesthetics in Boston, MA. She has consistently been selected as one of Boston Magazine's Top Doctors, Castle Connelly Top Doctors, and Newsweek Magazine's Top 100 Cosmetic Dermatologists in America.

Dr. DiGiorgio completed medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Dermatology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She subsequently completed a 2-year Laser and Cosmetic dermatology fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine.

Dr. DiGiorgio has authored many peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters. Dr. DiGiorgio is regularly invited to speak on her expertise in laser and cosmetic dermatology at national medical conferences. She is an active member of several professional organizations including the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.

Dr. Jason Pozner is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a member of numerous medical societies. He is the founder of Sanctuary Plastic Surgery in Boca Raton, Florida. He is currently adjunct clinical faculty at Cleveland Clinic Florida and Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. Dr. Pozner is a consultant or advisory board member of several laser and aesthetic companies and is actively involved with new product development. He is the author of many scientific articles, books and book chapters and lectures nationally and internationally on many aesthetic surgery related topics.

Aria Vazirnia, M.D., M.A.S. is a board-certified dermatologist practicing in Los Angeles, California. He graduated summa cum laude from UCLA and received his master's degree, his medical degree and his dermatology residency training at UC San Diego. During residency, he served as the ASLMS Resident/Fellow Student Board Representative. Following residency, he went onto pursue an ASDS-accredited fellowship in lasers and cosmetics at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Wellman Center for Photomedicine where he worked with the pioneers and inventors of the energy-based devices that are widely used today.

E. Victor Ross, M.D., CAPT MC, USN (ret) attended Mississippi State University where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physics. He obtained his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine where he was a junior year inductee into Alpha Omega Alpha. Following internship, Dr. Ross went to Sasebo, Japan as a General Medical Officer. In 1992, he completed a three-year dermatology residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. In 1994, he was the first Navy-sponsored fellow in photomedicine and lasers at the Massachusetts General Hospital. While there, he conducted basic research experiments and human clinical trials in photodynamic therapy and novel laser applications in dermatology. He was honored as the 2001 Navy Recipient of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Award for excellence in Military Medicine.

Dr. Ross is presently the director of the Laser and Cosmetic Dermatology Center at Scripps Clinic in San Diego. He also served on the boards of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (president in 2008), the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and the American Society for Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Surgery. His special interests are fractional laser skin rejuvenation, photodynamic therapy, non-ablative skin remodeling, laser management of scars, laser treatment of acne, and laser hair reduction in dark skinned patients. He is the author of over 100 articles and nine book chapters. Presently, Dr. Ross is investigating novel approaches in pigment quantification as well as conducting comparative trials of picosecond laser sources, novel RF technologies in skin rejuvenation, photon recycling, and laser assisted acne treatments.

Biography of Dr. Macrene Alexiades MD PhD
Macrene Alexiades, MD PhD FAAD received three degrees from Harvard University: BA from Harvard University, MD from Harvard Medical School; and a PhD in Genetics from Harvard University. She has received the Fulbright Scholarship in molecular biology and biotechnology; the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Report, Paul Dudley White Award, Husik Prize, Fitzpatrick Clinical Innovations Award, and Melanie Grossman Award Leadership, Mentorship and Public Advocacy for Women in Medical Science; and grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute and Radcliffe College. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, the American Dermatologic Association, and achieved the rare status of Double Board-Certification in Dermatology in the European Union and US. She is Associate Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor at Sygros Hospital, University of Athens and Founder Director of the Dermatology and Laser Surgery Center in Manhattan and the Hamptons. She is an attending at Yale/New Haven Hospital and Yale/West Haven VA Hospital and has numerous publications and discoveries in the fields of basic science, dermatology and laser surgery. She runs clinical research trials and a basic science laboratory alongside her active skincare MACRENE actives.
She has served on numerous academic and pharmaceutical boards. She is Assistant Editor for Dermatologic Surgery, Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, and Editor for Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery and reviewer for over 12 medical journals. She has written a textbook entitled, Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgery (Wolters Kluwer Lippincott) and currently in press on her second textbook, Photodynamic Therapy (Elsevier).
She is the lead genetics investigator for Allergan AbbVie, the lead clinical investigator and lead author on four seminal articles in the past year: the newest class of hyaluronic acid fillers published in Dermatologic Surgery, the first FDA approved acne laser published in the JAAD, the first consensus article on best practices for lasers in urogynecologic health in Lasers Medicine and Surgery, and radiofrequency microneedling in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics and the most published author in her department at Yale.