Cynthia Elliott, MD - Tampa Bay Aesthetic Physician
Cynthia Elliott, MD, is the owner of Skinspirations as well as the clinician training facility, ExpertEsthetics. She’s taught advanced esthetic injectable and laser techniques to over 250 clinicians, including many plastic surgeons and dermatologists in the US and the Caribbean.
That means it’s likely that if you get an esthetic treatment in Tampa Bay, the provider who does it was trained by Dr. Elliott. When it comes to your face, wouldn’t you rather see the teacher than a student?
Background and Experience
Cynthia Elliott, MD, 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, after two additional years of training with a cosmetic dermatologist, she opened Skinspirations, a practice devoted exclusively to aesthetic and regenerative medicine in Clearwater, Florida. She opened her clinician training company, ExpertEsthetics, that provides hands-on advanced injectable and esthetic laser training, at the same location in 2007.
With a patent currently pending, Dr. Elliott’s passion is using innovative techniques to address her patients’ goals and concerns.
Esthetic Company Speaker and Clinician Instructor
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 Cynthia Elliott, MD’s injection instruction videos on Youtube.
Areas Of Expertise
With over 36 years experience practicing both emergency and esthetic medicine, and 4 years spent in clinical research, Cynthia Elliott, MD, draws from a wide breadth of knowledge to provide out-of-the-box problem-solving for her patients.
Biostimulants (Radiesse®, Sculptra, Bellafill®, Polycaprolactone, etc.) - Dr. Elliott was one of the first providers to offer Sculptra in 2005 and has been a physician trainer for the company that makes Bellafill®.
Fat-derived regenerative treatments (Nanofat, Stem Cell therapies, Renuva®, and fat transfers) - Dr. Elliott has been using adipose-derived stem cells since 2014 to help patients postpone knee replacements, treat hair loss, and replace facial fat lost with aging.
Ablative laser skin and scar resurfacing with proprietory methods to magnify results. Since 2007, Dr. Elliott has been an instructor for Cutera Lasers and has taught ablative laser techniques to her ExpertEsthetics students.
Advanced facial contouring utilizing combinations of biostimulants, absorbable threads, PRF (platelet-rich fibrin), and fillers.
Patent-pending biocellulose matrix - To prevent regenerative biostimulant liquids from being flushed from a treatment site quickly by the body, Dr. Elliott has developed a biodegradable, antibacterial powder to mix with it that holds the material in place for weeks, as it releases it’s regenerating ingredients.
A patient of Dr. Elliott’s before and after laser scar treatments and injections
Education And Training
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 tree 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 to 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 (Class Clown)” 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 traveling to remote regions where indigenous populations still exist, all water activities, snow skiing, reading, watching horror movies, and designing next year’s Halloween props.
Obviously, she doesn’t get out much.
Feel free to email (or report) Dr. Elliott at dr@skinspirations.com.