Carrie L. Clifford-Bennett, APRN, ANP-C, MSN

Carrie L. Clifford-Bennett, APRN, ANP-C, MSN, is compact state licensed as a Registered Nurse in 43 states and an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in KY and CA. She maintains national board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB). Carrie practices aesthetic medicine in KY at CCB Facial Aesthetics. Carrie is a promotional, private, and CME national educator and key opinion leader who consults, counsels, and instructs providers in facial aesthetic medicine. Carrie has been pursuing a professional role in forensic nursing. She is actively receiving her credentials in forensic examinations and evidence collection to be licensed in Kentucky as an Adult/ Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. She is pursuing board certification through AANPBC as a Forensic Nurse Examiner.

Carrie is collectively using 30 years of medical, nursing, and life experiences to provide skilled and experienced leadership, advocacy, and care to victims of sexual assault crimes, domestic partner violence, adult abuse, and strangulation to represent and advocate for victims’ legal and human rights. Her mission is to help victims recover by finding their voice post-trauma, entering society as high-functioning, and incorporating self-care and aesthetics to achieve this outcome. Carrie will use her passion for providing exceptional patient outcomes, sharing medical knowledge, educating medical providers, setting progressive artistic standards for the non-surgical aesthetic industry, and encompass best safe practices that represent the most recent scientific data while fulfilling her medical, ethical, and legal responsibilities to be an educator, medical provider, and patient advocate.

She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Kentucky and her Master of Science at the University of Cincinnati. Carrie’s 29 years of nursing experience encompass practice in cardiovascular medicine, intensive care, outpatient surgery, plastic surgery, and medical facial aesthetics. During her tenure as a plastic surgical nurse specialist, her passion for facial aesthetics evolved into a 24-year career. Carrie launched CCB Facial Aesthetics in 2012, bridging the gap between promotional and continuing medical education. Carrie has participated in various capacities in over 30,000 facial aesthetic injection procedures and has conducted 750+ educational programs, including hands-on training, lectures, workshops, and virtual classes. She is among the first nurse injectors in the Southeast United States and is recognized as a Key Opinion Leader in the industry.

Carrie considers her medical practice an “artful science” in attaining proper facial proportion while preserving unique attributes of patient gender, age, preference, and ethnicity in restoration. She is motivated by a solid commitment to providing safe and exceptional patient outcomes, sharing clinical experiences, teaching other providers, and meeting the challenge of setting progressive standards for the non-surgical industry using evidence-based best practices and the latest scientific knowledge.

Carrie is serving her 12th year as faculty for Allergan Medical Institute in numerous educational training programs and advisory boards. She is a 12-year faculty member for PALETTE Resources, leading national continuing medical educational workshops. Carrie is affiliated with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board, the International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses, and the International Association of Forensic Nursing.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.

Carrie L. Clifford-Bennett, APRN, ANP-C, MSN

Carrie L. Clifford-Bennett, APRN, ANP-C, MSN, is compact state licensed as a Registered Nurse in 43 states and an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in KY and CA. She maintains national board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB). Carrie practices aesthetic medicine in KY at CCB Facial Aesthetics. Carrie is a promotional, private, and CME national educator and key opinion leader who consults, counsels, and instructs providers in facial aesthetic medicine. Carrie has been pursuing a professional role in forensic nursing. She is actively receiving her credentials in forensic examinations and evidence collection to be licensed in Kentucky as an Adult/ Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. She is pursuing board certification through AANPBC as a Forensic Nurse Examiner.

Carrie is collectively using 30 years of medical, nursing, and life experiences to provide skilled and experienced leadership, advocacy, and care to victims of sexual assault crimes, domestic partner violence, adult abuse, and strangulation to represent and advocate for victims’ legal and human rights. Her mission is to help victims recover by finding their voice post-trauma, entering society as high-functioning, and incorporating self-care and aesthetics to achieve this outcome. Carrie will use her passion for providing exceptional patient outcomes, sharing medical knowledge, educating medical providers, setting progressive artistic standards for the non-surgical aesthetic industry, and encompass best safe practices that represent the most recent scientific data while fulfilling her medical, ethical, and legal responsibilities to be an educator, medical provider, and patient advocate.

She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Kentucky and her Master of Science at the University of Cincinnati. Carrie’s 29 years of nursing experience encompass practice in cardiovascular medicine, intensive care, outpatient surgery, plastic surgery, and medical facial aesthetics. During her tenure as a plastic surgical nurse specialist, her passion for facial aesthetics evolved into a 24-year career. Carrie launched CCB Facial Aesthetics in 2012, bridging the gap between promotional and continuing medical education. Carrie has participated in various capacities in over 30,000 facial aesthetic injection procedures and has conducted 750+ educational programs, including hands-on training, lectures, workshops, and virtual classes. She is among the first nurse injectors in the Southeast United States and is recognized as a Key Opinion Leader in the industry.

Carrie considers her medical practice an “artful science” in attaining proper facial proportion while preserving unique attributes of patient gender, age, preference, and ethnicity in restoration. She is motivated by a solid commitment to providing safe and exceptional patient outcomes, sharing clinical experiences, teaching other providers, and meeting the challenge of setting progressive standards for the non-surgical industry using evidence-based best practices and the latest scientific knowledge.

Carrie is serving her 12th year as faculty for Allergan Medical Institute in numerous educational training programs and advisory boards. She is a 12-year faculty member for PALETTE Resources, leading national continuing medical educational workshops. Carrie is affiliated with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board, the International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses, and the International Association of Forensic Nursing.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.

Steve Yoelin, MD

Steve Yoelin, MD, is a board-certified ophthalmologist based in Orange County, California, with over 22 years of experience in minimally invasive medical aesthetics, such as techniques using dermal fillers, collagen stimulators, and neurotoxins, as well as fat reduction procedures. He serves as a strategic advisor to companies ranging in size from innovative early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar industry leaders. He also operates a private practice that focuses on aesthetic injectables and has a multiyear waitlist, which he has built exclusively from repeat visits and word-of-mouth referrals.

Dr. Yoelin has trained other clinicians through 2,500+ industry-sponsored global training programs and hundreds of continuing medical education programs. He has also led dozens of clinical trials (Phases 1-4) and investigator-initiated trials and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed journal articles, posters, presentations, and a book chapter. In addition, he has been awarded several patents for his research.

Dr. Yoelin has performed dozens of fresh-frozen cadaver dissections over the past several years. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture science and management, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis, where he was a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Vivian W. Bucay, MD, FAAD

San Antonio is home to Dr. Vivian Bucay. In private practice since 1991, Dr. Bucay is a member of the volunteer faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. Dr. Bucay also serves as faculty on several continuing medical educational initiatives in the United States. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in minimally invasive facial rejuvenation using her combination approach.

Licensed in both the United States and Mexico, Dr. Bucay is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she completed her undergraduate studies in 1983, while serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. She earned her medical degree in 1987, and completed an internship in pediatrics in 1988, at Houston-based Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Bucay then began a residency in dermatology at the University of Miami School of Medicine, which she completed at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1991.

A personal battle with stage 4 melanoma has enabled Dr. Bucay to connect with her patients in a unique way. Dr. Bucay’s patient empathy is born of the mental, social, and physical challenges she experienced as a patient in her fight with cancer, a journey that began in May 2006. Cancer-free since August 2007, her victory has been an inspiration to her patients.