Dr Ava Shamban M.D., a board-certified dermatologist, owner and director of two practices and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the UCLA-Geffen School of Medicine, talks to Professional Beauty about her role at Cosmetex.
How relevant do you think Cosmetex is to industry professionals?
Cosmetex provides critical updates to healthcare professionals involved with restoring and rejuvenating patients faces and bodies. I am looking forward to sharing my expertise with and learning from my fellow faculty and attendees of the conference. The entire field is advancing in terms of technique, technology and new research at a rapid pace. It is vital to the field that we share our experience in an international setting.
What can visitors expect from your talk at Cosmetex?
Details on new concepts in restoring harmony to a young face and new approaches in erasing time from an older face. Corrections in asymmetry and scar revision are now possible, and a more natural look can be attained in an older face. Say good bye to the trout pout, pillow face and expressionless visage.
How will your seminar make a difference to visitors’ professional skill in cosmetic surgery/aesthetic medicine?
Understanding the impact a person’s face has on their self-esteem and ability to function at an optimal level in their personal life. Learning how to treat patients who are under extreme stress. Taking care of the post-chemotherapy patient.. Understanding the concept of the “signature feature”.
What is your number one piece of advice for someone working in your industry?
Aesthetic responsibility and skill.
Cosmetic surgery predictions for 2012? More advances in the efficacy of non-invasive techniques to tighten saggy body parts as well as the face and restore a natural look to an aged face. More advances in maintaining these results obtained in the office with at home treatments.
As a key opinion leader in the field, Dr Shamban has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally on topics ranging from medical to cosmetic to laser dermatology. She is a pioneer in developing the multimodal treatment approach to acne, acne scars, pigmentary problems, rosacea as well as photoageing, and ageing that includes the use of laser technology, injectables and at home programs. Her extraordinary approach to rejuvenating the face incorporates combinations of injectables like Restylane, Perlane, Juvederm, Radiesse, Botox and Dysport as well as lasers such as Fraxel, Active Fx, Isolaz and the radiofrequency devices Accent and Thermage. As a physician interested in teaching, she is a member of Allergan's National Exchange Forum, an instructor for the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Fillers and Injectables course, and a lecturer for CME courses and prominent pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Shamban is a magna cum laude graduate from Harvard University. She received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve Medical School. She completed an internal medicine internship at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and went into practice as a general practitioner in California for two years. Dr Shamban then received a Dermatology Foundation Fellowship for the study of extra cellular matrix proteins, with Dr Jouni Uitto. Under his direction she performed bench research on the expression of the elastin gene in various genodermatoses. Dr. Shamban completed her dermatology residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 1989.
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