Dr. Cynthia Elliott is the owner of Skinspirations esthetic and regenerative medical practice and ExpertEsthetics clinician training. She’s personally performed over 30,000 esthetic treatments and taught her advanced esthetic injectable and laser techniques to over 250 esthetic providers. That means it’s likely that if you’ve had a treatment in Tampa Bay, Dr. Elliott trained the clinician.
Dr. Cynthia Elliott’s Multi-Specialty Experience
Dr. Cynthia Elliott has practiced in the Tampa Bay area since 1990. Originally board-certified in emergency medicine, she spent fifteen years 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 years of cosmetic medical training with a renowned local dermatologist, she opened Skinspirations, a practice devoted exclusively to aesthetic and regenerative medicine. She’s done one-on-one training with physicians known for their expertise in fat transfers and stem cell treatments and remains committed to staying updated on the newest procedures.
Dr. Cynthia Elliott and the rest of the trauma team, treat a shooting victim
A Doctor Who Thinks Outside-the-Box
Patients have told Dr. Elliott they appreciate that she thinks of outside-the-box approaches to solve their problems. Here, she describes an experience using only the tools in her backpack to repair an amputated finger in one of the most remote areas of the world.
“I travelled to Irian Jaya, Indonesia (the west side of New Guinea) because I wanted to visit one of the last Stone Age tribes in the world. We flew into the mountains on a missionary bush plane and near the airstrip where we landed, I met the only nurse for the surrounding areas.
We headed into the jungle and just before sunset, the nurse caught up to us. He’d cut off half of one of his fingers that morning cutting down a tree. He’d spent most of the day trying to catch up to us with the amputated part of his finger wrapped in gas-soaked leaves, in his pocket.
Thankfully, I still had anesthetic, sutures, and some remaining antibiotic left although I was out of gloves. Just in time before the sun set, I used river water to wash the injured parts and a multi-purpose tool with a wire cutter to cut off the protruding bone. I trimmed away everything but the finger pad on the amputated part and sutured it onto the stump. (Thank you Denver General for my emergency medical training.) I gave him the last antibiotics I had and when I returned to his village 3 days later to catch the missionary plane back to Jakarta, his finger was somehow healing without any signs of infection.
Dr. Cynthia Elliott – Esthetic Clinical Trainer, Author and Speaker
In 2007, because of her reputation for achieving dramatic esthetic results, Dr. Elliott was chosen to be a national speaker and trainer for several aesthetic product companies including Allergan, (the makers of Botox and Juvederm), Suneva Medical (producers of Bellafill), and Cutera Aesthetic lasers. Her company, ExpertEsthetics, provides hands-on clinician workshops and has trained over 250 clinicians in both the U.S. and the Caribbean.
Her articles have been featured in publications such as MedicalEsthetics and Dermatology Times and she’s been interviewed on television stations including CNN Health, Fox News, and 10 Tampa Bay.
Affiliations and Memberships
Dr. Elliott has served as an Expert Witness for the Florida Board of Medicine, is a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, the Aesthetic Multispecialty Society, the Interventional Orthobiologics Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Education
Dr. Cynthia Elliott received her BS in biology and psychology from the University of Illinois and then completed two years of a physiological psychology PhD program at Indiana University. She returned to the University of Illinois for medical school where she received her MD and went on to complete a four-year residency program in emergency medicine at the renowned Denver Health medical system. Dr. Elliott practiced emerency medicine in trauma centers for fifteen years with the last two simultaneously spent training with a cosmetic dermatologist before opening Skinspirations in 2005.
Life Outside of Work?
Life Outside of Work?Dr. Elliott lives in Clearwater Beach with her spousal equivalent, Rick and 4 rescue cats, all of whom are neutered. If she had free time, she would spend it boating, scuba diving, fishing, snow skiing, watching horror movies, preparing the next year’s Halloween props, growing mushrooms, and inventing medical products (and Halloween props) made from fungus.
In this photo she holds skulls (plastic) covered with the zombie skin she makes from dried kombucha scobies. No, she does not get out much.