What you'll learn

  • Identify safe practices of laser surgery therapy and its role in clinical practice.

  • Evaluate potential complications and mistakes when using lasers for aesthetic procedures.

  • Outline appropriate treatment modalities and duration of action required for laser and dermal filler injections that minimize complications and deliver optimal patient outcomes.

  • Assess the risks and benefits involved in performing dermal filler injections.

  • Analyze controversies in the field of laser surgery and aesthetic skin therapy.

  • Summarize new and emerging technologies for laser surgery and aesthetic skin therapy treatment.

Course description

Staying current with the rapid advances in laser and aesthetic skin therapy is an increasingly important challenge for physicians. Our patients’ demand for such services has resulted in the need to be better educated and trained in safe and effective practices. At present, few non-industry-sponsored meetings exist for those who practice laser and aesthetic skin therapies. This highly-rated course will emphasize new techniques and technologies, along with clinical endpoints and laser safety, while also critically evaluating current treatment practices—all free of commercial exhibits from industry.

You will leave this course with an understanding of new laser treatment paradigms and emerging technologies, and get a glimpse into the future of this cutting-edge field with exciting talks given by world-renowned experts. This will be a critical, well-informed, clinically relevant course that highlights proper patient evaluation and aesthetic techniques.

This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Massachusetts General Hospital. This course is targeted to, Dermatologists, Plastic Surgeons, Ophthalmologists, Otolaryngologists, and Physicians who practice or have an interest in laser and aesthetic skin therapies.

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Contact ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu with questions.

*Register before September 1, 2023  to receive the discounted price.

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