Welcome to ABAM 2023 in Park City, Utah! The American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting serves as a forum for international clinical exchange of knowledge in aesthetic surgery discussion of the current socioeconomic conditions and how they affect plastic surgery communities in the United States, Brazil and the rest of the world. This episode, the first in a multi-part series, features interviews with: ABAM Founder Dr. Renato Saltz Engage Technologies CEO & Crytica Security Founder Lloyd Mahaffey T...
Mar 07, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 91
“Why is this category, aesthetics, so transformative and yet so niche at the same time? … We think we have the answer.” In this wholly-unique episode, Dr. Grant Stevens interviews author, strategist, founder & creator, Eddie Yoon. A newcomer to aesthetics, Eddie has dedicated his career to studying consumer habits to help build and grow category creating businesses. Through his work with Colgate, Gillette, Nike, Keurig, Samsung, Nestle, and many others, he has helped companies realize $10 bi...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 90
Have we been looking at aesthetics all wrong? "The total addressable market of beauty, combined with wellness, is a trillion dollar market." And it's growing, says Lindsay Carlson, Managing Director of Beauty and Wellness at William Blair. She would know, considering that she has navigated transactions involving the likes of BeautyHealth, Revision Skincare/Goodier Cosmetics, and Elevation Labs — not to mention serving as the sell-side advisor to Alastin in their acquisition by Galderma. But abou...
Jan 25, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 89
We heard a lot about exosomes on The Technology of Beauty in 2022 — could these nanoparticles have a gigantic impact in 2023? Two of Benev's leading luminaries may have the answers. As we launch into our fourth season with this spectacular opening episode, CEO Ethan Min and Chief Scientist Dr. Richard Jin introduce us to seminal research into the novel potentials of exosomes in topical applications. Find out how they hope to change a paradigm in terms of regenerative aesthetics, and stay tuned f...
Jan 09, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 88
"Conferences are where you go to see the interesting young companies coming into the space. And so we all have to attend. It's probably odd for a physician to see somebody from Wall Street attending a medical meeting, but we all do it." Imagine casually referencing how your company manages over $100 billion in assets. As the head of the biotechnology equity research team for William Blair & Company, Tim Lugo does just that in this interview with Dr. Grant Stevens. With all manner of aestheti...
Nov 16, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 87
How does a brand with the eminence of Alastin manage the balancing act of pairing distinction and excellence with convenience and accessibility? After all, it's not exactly your average over-the-counter product line, so driving growth requires an innovative approach. In this episode of The Technology of Beauty, Global Head of Alastin Skincare Amber Edwards describes how Galderma's acquisition of Alastin has kicked expansion plans into overdrive. As she notes in this interview with Dr. Grant Stev...
Oct 25, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 86
"I love the combination of energy with suture suspension, because I felt like that could take a patient who might need skin removal and change them into a patient who wouldn't need it, and we could address the underlying muscles without having to open the neck." A plastic surgeon practicing in Beverly Hills since 1998, Dr. Greg Mueller is first and foremost an aesthetic pioneer who counts the MyEllevate facial rejuvenation procedure and the Ovio360 Imaging System among his most significant inven...
Sep 13, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 85
Plastic Surgeon. Professor. Scientist. The list of accolades is lengthy for Galderma's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Alan Widgerow - MBBCh(MD) MMed(MHS) FCS(Plast) FACS. And with Galderma's acquisition of Alastin, he continues to lead Alastin Innovations in his new expanded role as CSO for Galderma. Using in-house R&D and organic research to launch moonshots into uncharted realms of subcutaneous tissue at a cellular level, Professor Widgerow takes a disruptive yet wholly scientific approach ...
Aug 30, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 84
With an economic downturn looming on the horizon, patients still want to look their best — but they might not know how to pay for the procedures they desire. With his latest venture, Yes Doctor, Dr. Tim Sayed hopes to "optimize the market and lending rates for both patients and surgeons" by delivering fully qualified and financed patients directly to plastic surgeons. The rare plastic surgeon who is also versed in computer science and a licensed scrum master, Dr. Sayed sees other aesthetic finan...
Aug 16, 2022•50 min•Season 3Ep. 83
It seems as though the hottest topic in aesthetics right now is exosomes. And if the research we're seeing tells us anything, herein lies the potential to remake the entire subject of healing, let alone revolutionizing aesthetics as we know it. Yes, it sounds almost exaggerated or absurd — but the science shows that the more we understand about exosomes, the more likely it is that we can leverage the body's own regenerative potential to encourage targeted healing. Rion's Commercial Lead Jodi Bri...
Aug 02, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 82
On this week's episode we hear from a man with an innovative vision for the future of aesthetics real estate — Cloud Medspas. Vansanity Founder Ignacio Fanlo sits down in the studio to discuss how the startup's Silicon-Valley-inspired business model is empowering independent providers through on-demand access to treatment space, capital equipment, and product, as well a host of ongoing business support services. While some aesthetic professionals may not find the cutting edge of business innovat...
Jul 19, 2022•44 min•Season 3Ep. 81
In this episode of The Technology of Beauty, Dr. Grant Stevens interviews CEO Brian Phillips & CCO Sean Shapiro of MedShift. By offering bundled subscription services for state-of-art equipment and technology, MedShift provides mutual benefit for practices and manufacturers. Doctors can choose from a menu of industry-leading aesthetic devices and begin delivering services to patients without footing the bill for upfront costs. For the manufacturers, MedShift offers fully integrated software ...
Jul 06, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Galderma recently made national headlines with a new neurotoxin that promises rapid onset and long duration up to 6 months — and while that may sound too good to be true, the data comes directly from two phase III clinical studies. If that were the only news Galderma CEO Flemming Ørnskov had for us, it would be worthy of an episode in itself. But in this interview with Dr. Grant Stevens, he announces that Galderma will be launching a total of 22 new products this year alone! Tune in to hear all ...
Jun 23, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 79
It’s one thing to say you want to do a better job in aesthetic medicine, to enhance your offerings, and “be part of something bigger.” It’s another thing entirely to actually achieve it. Drawing on experience gained as an executive at Lumenis, Biolase, Allergan and Medicis, Athenix CEO James Haefner set out to find a way to achieve consistent, reproducible results while maximizing the value of a practice. And in creating the Athenix Body Sculpting Institute, James built a model for providing pla...
Jun 14, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 78
"A lot of what's happening in the world of industry and aesthetics happens here." Welcome to the Aesthetics Innovation Summit in San Diego, where that quote from Dr. Steve Dayan has never been more true. For while "innovation" as a word can tend toward overuse, at AIS we find factual transformation and metamorphosis in the most creative and novel developments the aesthetic industry has to offer. In this extended episode, recorded live at AIS, Dr. Grant Stevens interviews over a dozen of the bigg...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 64
We are proud to present a very special episode featuring BeautyHealth Executive Chairman Brent Saunders, recorded live at AIS 2022. Best known in the aesthetic world as the former Chairman/President/CEO of Allergan, Brent's impressive leadership resume includes PwC, Bausch + Lomb, and Cisco (not to mention his $1.1 billion SPAC deal to take HydraFacial public in 2021). In this Keynote Interview conducted by Dr. Grant Stevens, find out what Brent forecasts for the future of aesthetics, along with...
May 17, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 63
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens discusses the intersection of aesthetics and private equity with Ezra Simons of Physician Growth Partners. Ezra's experience with the expansion of provider service networks and service line offerings for health systems gave him a deep knowledge of day-to-day operations of physician practices and groups — which is all to say, he is uniquely qualified to navigate the unique challenges of mergers and acquisitions as they relate to aesthetic exit strategies. With "...
Apr 26, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 62
When Enrique Rangel first entered the world of aesthetic lead management, he was shocked to discover that practices were waiting an average of nine and a half hours to follow up on their leads. Maybe that doesn't sound egregious at first — after all, plastic surgeons and medspas can get pretty busy. But considering that many other industries respond to their leads within minutes, the need for an aesthetic-focused lead management system that could help optimize and organize follow up and increase...
Apr 13, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 61
In this special traveling episode of The Technology of Beauty, recorded live in Park City at the 15th American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting, Dr. Grant Stevens sits down for micro interviews with over a dozen movers and shakers from the aesthetics business. Tune in to get a feel for the buzz at ABAM 2022 and hear about the latest products and clinical developments emerging in the aesthetic world. Featured guests include: 00:01:20 Dr. Renato Saltz 00:06:01 Caro Van Hove (Revelle Aesthetics) 00:11:2...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 48
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens welcomes Dr. Shari Sperling and Ari Katz of Sperling Dermatology for something a little different from our regular programming — our first installment of The Entrepreneurs of Aesthetics, where we invite innovative aesthetic business owners to break down how they built their practices from the ground up. In only a five year span from opening to becoming the #1 body contouring practice in the country, Shari and Ari established a blueprint for building a wildly su...
Mar 15, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 47
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens discusses the Ellacor™ micro-coring system with Karen Cronholm, President and CEO of Cytrellis Biosystems. Promising to improve more severe wrinkles, not just fine lines, this new FDA approved approach to non-surgical facial rejuvenation is designed to eliminate excess skin on the microscale. What's more, healing time for patients is typically faster than with energy-based devices, there's no scarring, and it promises to produce natural-looking results. Tune in...
Mar 01, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 46
“I always go in directions where everyone thinks you can’t do something. I’m not a follower. I like to blaze new ground, and I like to take on hard challenges.” When it comes to biodesign and medical device innovation, Josh Makower takes a different approach. Unimpressed by incremental improvements and copycat products, Josh and his team insist on filling gaps in the market by pioneering breakthrough solutions where true need exists — all while considering the full length and breadth of the pati...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 45
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens interviews Tim Holt, the CEO of R2 Technologies, to discuss how his company is leading a revolution in cryoaesthetics with Glacial Rx. Learn how cryomodulation works to effectively reduce dermal inflammation and address skin lesions while providing a patient experience that Dr. Grant himself describes as relaxing and soothing. You'll also want to tune in for a glimpse at a future replete with autonomous robotics capable of delivering cryogen sprays and patient ...
Feb 08, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 44
How do you properly introduce a man who is the author of over 60 US patents, the co-founder, chairman and key investor in 20+ companies, and the inventor of IPL technology? It may well be impossible to do justice to Dr. Shimon Eckhouse's legacy and contributions to aesthetics. In this exclusive interview with Dr. Grant Stevens, Dr. Eckhouse tells us not just what he did, but how he did it, in a profound and illustrative look behind the curtain at conclusions and thought processes that revolution...
Jan 26, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 43
To start off with a bang for the first episode of 2022, Dr. Grant Stevens invites InBrace Senior VP Brent Hauser to discuss a category creator that could rival Fraxel, CoolSculpting, and Botox … but in the field of aesthetic dentistry. With Solta, Zeltiq, Allergan, and AbbVie on his resume, Brent brings over two decades of aesthetic experience to his latest venture — a truly revolutionary Smartwire technology for straightening teeth that comes straight out of the aerospace industry. Brent descri...
Jan 12, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 42
In the last episode of 2021, Dr. Grant Stevens interviews a serial entrepreneur who has dedicated much of his career to helping aesthetic practices solve problems through the use of technology. With a background in software, Izhak Muesli’s first foray into aesthetics was as the founder and CEO of practice analytics platform Atlas KPI. Following a successful exit, he developed a lead management system for patient acquisition, which was subsequently acquired by aesthetic EHR company Symplast. Afte...
Dec 29, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 41
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens discusses both the history and future of Botox with the Canadian eye doctor who is credited with spearheading its use in cosmetic applications, Dr. Jean Carruthers. Having used botulinum toxin as an ophthalmologist to treat blepharospasm (a condition that forces the eyes to involuntarily shut), Dr. Carruthers discovered that one of her patients loved what it did to eliminate wrinkles between the brows. She worked with her husband, a dermatologist, to pioneer th...
Dec 14, 2021•28 min
In this episode, Dr. Grant Stevens sits down with one of the eminent leaders of the aesthetic dermatology space in Jonah Shacknai. As the Founder and 23-year CEO of Medicis, Jonah was responsible for bringing hyaluronic fillers to the U.S. when his company received FDA approval for Restylane® in 2010. While he could be described as a pioneer, he describes himself as “an American entrepreneur.” With several successful ventures to his name, today he serves as the Executive Chairman of SkinBetter S...
Nov 23, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 39
In this episode, Dr. Stevens interviews Moshe Segebre, President and Founder of Estetique Inc. USA, a provider of non-invasive medical aesthetic equipment present in over 1,000 centers in 25 countries. With the goal of "reinventing the non-invasive market in the USA and Latin America alike", Moshe was one of the first in the aesthetic space to focus on servicing clients across South America, Central America and the Caribbean with personalized attention in English, Spanish and Portuguese. » Apple...
Nov 02, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Dr. Grant Stevens chats with Bill Carpou, CEO of Octane — the organization that brings you the Aesthetics Tech Summit, Ophthalmology Tech Summit, and other MedTech events. Listen as Bill explains his four cornerstones for driving innovation and growth: content and thought leadership, a foundation that serves as a launchpad accelerator, support from venture capital, and a consulting platform for operational and functional expertise. While Octane is focused on building the SoCal of tomorrow, the l...
Oct 06, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 36
