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 outside-the-box techniques to address her patients’ concerns.
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.
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.
Most Gratifying Experience So Far
I was on an expedition to see the last stone age tribes in Irian Jaya, Indonesia (the west side of New Guinea) when a man who had accidentally amputated half of a finger came to me for help. He’d been present when our bush plane landed and heard I was a doctor.
After the accident, he walked three hours through the jungle to catch up to us. He brought the disengaged part of his finger with him wrapped in leaves.
Just before we lost the light from the sun and sitting on a stump, I anestheticized his hand and used a Leatherman tool to cut off the protruding bone. I removed the finger pad from the amputated segment and sutured it onto the stump to cushion the bone. I gave him the last antibiotic pills I’d brought and when I returned to his village 3 days later to catch the bush plane back to Jakarta, his finger was healing without any signs of infection. The lack of infection was almost certainly due to not being exposed to antibiotics before.
Cindy Elliott can sometimes be more fun, especially in her own mind, than the above content implies. Her proudest achievements are being named “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 3 rescue cats, all of whom are neutered. For fun, she enjoys boating, scuba diving, snow skiing, 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.