Cynthia Elliott, MD
Dr. Cindy Elliott is the owner of Skinspirations as well as the clinician training facility, ExpertEsthetics. She’s taught her advanced esthetic injectable and laser techniques to over 250 clinicians.
That means it’s likely that if you’ve had a treatment in Tampa Bay, the provider who did it was trained by Dr. Elliott. Why see a student when you can see their teacher?
Background and Experience
Dr. Elliott has practiced in the Tampa Bay area since 1990. Originally residency-trained and board-certified in emergency medicine, she spent fifteen years practicing in the emergency departments of local trauma centers and was an Associate Professor for the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
In 2005, she opened Skinspirations, a practice devoted exclusively to aesthetic and regenerative medicine. Dr. Elliott’s passion is using innovative techniques to address her patients’ goals.
Esthetic Company Speaker and Trainer
In 2007, because of her reputation for achieving dramatic esthetic results, Dr. Elliott was chosen to be a national speaker and trainer for several esthetic product companies, including Allergan, (makers of Botox), Suneva Medical (producers of Bellafill), and Cutera Aesthetic lasers.
Her company, ExpertEsthetics, provides clinician workshops and has trained over 250 providers in both the U.S. and the Caribbean.
You can view some of Dr. Elliott’s injection instruction videos on Youtube.
Education
Dr. Elliott:
Emergency medicine residency at Denver Health
Medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine
Postgraduate studies in neuroscience at Indiana University
Bachelor of Science in biology and psychology from the University of Illinois
Affiliations And Memberships
“The absolute BEST! – Dr. Elliott and her staff are compassionate, insightful and above all very experienced. Dr. Elliott listens to your desires and expectations. Then together you decide what treatment will produce the desired results. No pressure and always willing to listen and explain. My husband said it best; "awesome" and that is after 42 years of marriage. Now I know why my friends say Dr. Elliott is so special. ”
— Gramma EWhy You Should Invite An Emergency Doctor When You Travel Off The Beaten Path
by Dr. Cindy Elliott
I was on an expedition in West Papua, Indonesia, to see the last Stone Age tribes, and had taken a bush plane up into the Highlands. Before we headed off into the forest, I shared some of my medical supplies with a man who served as the nurse for the surrounding tribes.
After we left, the nurse accidentally cut off half of one of his fingers with a machete. He wrapped it in leaves, put it in his pocket, and then walked several hours to catch up to us.
Thankfully, I’d brought anesthetic. After performing a nerve block and sitting on a stump just before we lost the sunlight, I used the wire cutter on a multi-tool to trim off the protruding bone. After cleaning his hand in river water with camp soap, I removed the fingertip pad from the severed portion and sutured it over the stump. I gave him the last of the antibiotics I’d brought with me, and he headed home in the dark back up to his village.
Three days later, we returned to take the bush plane back to Jayapura, and he showed me his finger. I’d expected it to be severely infected, but even the grafted tip looked pink and healthy. Only someone who hasn’t ever taken antibiotics before could have resisted an infection under these circumstances.
Helping this man preserve the function of his finger with just the tools I had with me was one of the most gratifying experiences of my life, and I’d never have been able to do it if I hadn’t had such excellent emergency training in my residency at Denver Health.
Feel free to invite me on your next vacation, and Leatherman Tools, I’m available for commercials.
Dr. Cindy Elliott can sometimes be more fun, especially in her own mind, than the above content implies.
Her proudest achievements were being described as “The Funniest Emergency Physician” by her revered mentor, John Marx, MD, and being voted “Funniest Classmate” at her junior high school graduation. As she told her parents after the ceremony, “Anyone can win Best Dressed.”
Dr. Elliott lives in Clearwater Beach with her spousal equivalent, Rick, and three, plus or minus two, rescue cats, all of whom are neutered.
She loves fishing, diving, lobstering, snow skiing, reading, watching horror movies, preparing next year’s Halloween props, growing mushrooms, and inventing medical products made from fungus.
Seriously.
Feel free to email (or report) Dr. Elliott at dr@skinspirations.com.