Steven G. Yoelin, MD

Steven Yoelin completed his undergraduate study at the University of California, Davis, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attained his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine, where he received numerous awards for his academic and research efforts.

Dr. Yoelin is a board-certified ophthalmologist, and completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine.  He currently practices in Newport Beach, California.  In addition, he enjoys working in the clinical and research fields.

Over the past eight years, Dr. Yoelin has developed a keen interest in the use of neurotoxins, dermal fillers, and collagen stimulators.  He has long been very interested and heavily involved in the very important role that these injectables play in the field of nonsurgical facial aesthetics, and will continue to focus on this area in the future.

Dr. Yoelin speaks at numerous professional events and conferences throughout the country.  For example, he speaks annually at every major ophthalmology meeting regarding all FDA-approved facial injectables.  In addition, he continues to actively participate in various FDA and investigator-initiated clinical trials regarding a variety of issues related to facial aesthetics.

Dr. Yoelin has been the lead investigator in several pilot studies and trials that in one instance led to an entirely new FDA-approved aesthetic product at the end of 2008.

Dr. Yoelin thoroughly enjoys teaching other physicians to master the administration of all the various injectable products, as well as the proper step-by-step approach and methodology needed to develop, maintain, and grow a very successful aesthetic practice.

Keith Marcus, MD

Dr. Keith Marcus is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon in private practice in Redondo Beach, California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with honors and attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. After medical school, he completed a five-year residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he specialized in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. In Michigan, he spent five years training under one of the world’s most renowned facial plastic surgeons, Dr. Shan Baker. Subsequently, he completed one of the busiest and most diverse Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellowships in the United States.

Dr. Marcus received an award for passing his facial plastic surgery boards in the 99th percentile, and won the prestigious John Orlando Roe Award, given by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, for his groundbreaking research.  Dr. Marcus has also served as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery since 2014.

Dr. Marcus balances his busy clinical practice with his passion for education and research.  He lectures, teaches and trains on a weekly basis, in addition to performing clinical research and clinical trials for new product indications.  He travels both nationally and internationally to teach and educate on expert techniques for noninvasive aesthetic modalities, including injectables and lasers.  Dr. Marcus strives to treat patients with respect and integrity while achieving optimal cosmetic results. 

Julie Bass Kaplan, FNP-BC, NP-C, CANS, CPSN, MSN, HCMT, PHN

Julie began her medical aesthetics career in 1999, when she and her husband opened Disappearing Act Laser & Skin Rejuvenation, a medical spa, in Redding, California. Since then, she has devoted her career exclusively to aesthetic medicine.

Julie received her Family Nurse Practitioner certification (FNP) from Sonoma State University in California, and her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist (CANS) and a Certified Plastic Surgical Nurse (CPSN). She is also a Public Health Nurse (PHN) and holds a certificate in Health Care Management (HCMT). Julie currently holds nursing licenses in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada.

Julie has a special interest in teaching safe aesthetic injection techniques. She is a faculty member for PALETTE Resources, a speaker/trainer for the Allergan Medical Institute, and a member of Allergan's Advisory Board. She is also a Scientific Sessions Planning Committee (SSPC) member for the International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses (ISPAN) Annual Meeting and an Editorial Board member for Plastic Surgical Nursing. Julie has published articles in several medical journals and made presentations at various professional international meetings. She also provides individual injection training workshops through her company, JBK Aesthetics.

Julie’s professional affiliations include the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, and ISPAN. She is also a past president for the North State Cancer League in Redding, California.

Julie loves spending time with her husband and three children. She loves to run and hike with her two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, Stingray and Jamba. She paints with watercolors, acrylics, and oil paints whenever the mood strikes. Julie believes that art is her best therapy, and she feels blessed to have a career that allows her to artistically enhance her patients’ natural beauty.

Glenn Vallecillos, MD, FACS

Glenn Vallecillos, MD, FACS is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and a Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Doctor Vallecillos has a Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Practice, serving as a Principal at the Haworth Institute, a think tank for aesthetic surgical innovation in Beverly Hills, California.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, and son of Spanish immigrants, Doctor Vallecillos graduated from UCLA with a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry prior to completing his clinical training at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London College of Medicine in London, England. Following graduation, he trained in General Surgery at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan in affiliation with the University of Michigan Medical Center. Doctor Vallecillos went on to complete his fellowship training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Institute for Craniofacial Surgery and Providence Hospital and St. John's Medical Center in Southfield, Michigan.

Doctor Vallecillos established his practice in 2005. He has a comprehensive practice breadth spanning all areas of aesthetic, plastic and reconstructive surgery. His focus of interest includes full facial volumetric rejuvenation, breast revision, and liposuction revision surgery. He is an expert in fractionated laser skin resurfacing, having personally performed over 2000 fractional laser procedures. He utilizes concomitant proprietary skin rejuvenation techniques, utilizing collagen induction therapy (C.I.T.) to address and diminish the stigmata of photo-aging, rhytidosis, and stretch marks. His work at the Haworth Institute focuses on the development of surgically innovative techniques with an emphasis on skincare and the prevention and reversal of soft tissue senescence.

Doctor Vallecillos is a clinical investigator for Mentor Corporation and Allergan Inc. and is the Chief Treating Investigator for Coapt Systems Novielle Injectable Filler Study

Doctor Vallecillos has contributed to dozens of scientific publications, and continually produces articles for national specialty journals in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a contributing author for the European Journal of Plastic Surgery and serves as medical consultant for InStyle Magazine and Sherdog.com.

Charles M. Boyd, MD, MBA, FACS

Dual Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Charles Boyd is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in facial plastic surgery. Board certified by the highly elite American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Boyd is also a diplomate of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also board certified in the American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Dr. Boyd specializes in all aspects of surgical and non-surgical facial rejuvenation including facelifts, brow and eye lifts, rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and neck lifts. He is also a specialist in cosmetic dermatology and laser surgery. A surgeon of extraordinary talents, Dr. Boyd has trained hundreds of top physicians throughout the United States and abroad on advanced injection techniques utilizing Botox, Juvéderm, and other minimally invasive modalities. He is also one of a select group of physicians involved in several research studies including FDA trials to test and evaluate cosmetic products created for consumer use.

As a full-time faculty member at the University of Michigan for over 14 years, Dr. Boyd has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology as well as the Department of Otolaryngology, and has served as the associate chief of staff of the University of Michigan Health System. He also teaches residents, fellows, and medical students at the University of Michigan. Highly respected and widely admired, Dr. Boyd is routinely invited to present cosmetic surgery lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Dr. Boyd has published his research in several medical and surgical journals and has authored book chapters on cosmetic surgery. He has been featured in numerous media outlets and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. Dr. Boyd also frequently appears on television and radio educating the public about cosmetic surgery.

Dr. Boyd is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He completed his undergraduate education at Howard University where he graduated at the top of his class, Phi Beta Kappa, and Summa Cum Laude in just three years.

An avid humanitarian, Dr. Boyd serves on the board of Bethany Kids, a non-profit organization that provides healthcare to children in East Africa. He devotes at least two weeks of every year to volunteering with World Medical Missions to perform cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries on children in Kenya.

Steven G. Yoelin, MD

Steven Yoelin completed his undergraduate study at the University of California, Davis, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attained his medical degree from the University of California, Irvine, where he received numerous awards for his academic and research efforts.

Dr. Yoelin is a board-certified ophthalmologist, and completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine.  He currently practices in Newport Beach, California.  In addition, he enjoys working in the clinical and research fields.

Over the past eight years, Dr. Yoelin has developed a keen interest in the use of neurotoxins, dermal fillers, and collagen stimulators.  He has long been very interested and heavily involved in the very important role that these injectables play in the field of nonsurgical facial aesthetics, and will continue to focus on this area in the future.

Dr. Yoelin speaks at numerous professional events and conferences throughout the country.  For example, he speaks annually at every major ophthalmology meeting regarding all FDA-approved facial injectables.  In addition, he continues to actively participate in various FDA and investigator-initiated clinical trials regarding a variety of issues related to facial aesthetics.

Dr. Yoelin has been the lead investigator in several pilot studies and trials that in one instance led to an entirely new FDA-approved aesthetic product at the end of 2008.

Dr. Yoelin thoroughly enjoys teaching other physicians to master the administration of all the various injectable products, as well as the proper step-by-step approach and methodology needed to develop, maintain, and grow a very successful aesthetic practice.

Keith Marcus, MD

Dr. Keith Marcus is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon in private practice in Redondo Beach, California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with honors and attended medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. After medical school, he completed a five-year residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he specialized in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. In Michigan, he spent five years training under one of the world’s most renowned facial plastic surgeons, Dr. Shan Baker. Subsequently, he completed one of the busiest and most diverse Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellowships in the United States.

Dr. Marcus received an award for passing his facial plastic surgery boards in the 99th percentile, and won the prestigious John Orlando Roe Award, given by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, for his groundbreaking research.  Dr. Marcus has also served as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery since 2014.

Dr. Marcus balances his busy clinical practice with his passion for education and research.  He lectures, teaches and trains on a weekly basis, in addition to performing clinical research and clinical trials for new product indications.  He travels both nationally and internationally to teach and educate on expert techniques for noninvasive aesthetic modalities, including injectables and lasers.  Dr. Marcus strives to treat patients with respect and integrity while achieving optimal cosmetic results. 

Julie Bass Kaplan, FNP-BC, NP-C, CANS, CPSN, MSN, HCMT, PHN

Julie began her medical aesthetics career in 1999, when she and her husband opened Disappearing Act Laser & Skin Rejuvenation, a medical spa, in Redding, California. Since then, she has devoted her career exclusively to aesthetic medicine.

Julie received her Family Nurse Practitioner certification (FNP) from Sonoma State University in California, and her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist (CANS) and a Certified Plastic Surgical Nurse (CPSN). She is also a Public Health Nurse (PHN) and holds a certificate in Health Care Management (HCMT). Julie currently holds nursing licenses in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada.

Julie has a special interest in teaching safe aesthetic injection techniques. She is a faculty member for PALETTE Resources, a speaker/trainer for the Allergan Medical Institute, and a member of Allergan's Advisory Board. She is also a Scientific Sessions Planning Committee (SSPC) member for the International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses (ISPAN) Annual Meeting and an Editorial Board member for Plastic Surgical Nursing. Julie has published articles in several medical journals and made presentations at various professional international meetings. She also provides individual injection training workshops through her company, JBK Aesthetics.

Julie’s professional affiliations include the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, and ISPAN. She is also a past president for the North State Cancer League in Redding, California.

Julie loves spending time with her husband and three children. She loves to run and hike with her two Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, Stingray and Jamba. She paints with watercolors, acrylics, and oil paints whenever the mood strikes. Julie believes that art is her best therapy, and she feels blessed to have a career that allows her to artistically enhance her patients’ natural beauty.

Glenn Vallecillos, MD, FACS

Glenn Vallecillos, MD, FACS is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and a Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Doctor Vallecillos has a Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Practice, serving as a Principal at the Haworth Institute, a think tank for aesthetic surgical innovation in Beverly Hills, California.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, and son of Spanish immigrants, Doctor Vallecillos graduated from UCLA with a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry prior to completing his clinical training at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London College of Medicine in London, England. Following graduation, he trained in General Surgery at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan in affiliation with the University of Michigan Medical Center. Doctor Vallecillos went on to complete his fellowship training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Institute for Craniofacial Surgery and Providence Hospital and St. John's Medical Center in Southfield, Michigan.

Doctor Vallecillos established his practice in 2005. He has a comprehensive practice breadth spanning all areas of aesthetic, plastic and reconstructive surgery. His focus of interest includes full facial volumetric rejuvenation, breast revision, and liposuction revision surgery. He is an expert in fractionated laser skin resurfacing, having personally performed over 2000 fractional laser procedures. He utilizes concomitant proprietary skin rejuvenation techniques, utilizing collagen induction therapy (C.I.T.) to address and diminish the stigmata of photo-aging, rhytidosis, and stretch marks. His work at the Haworth Institute focuses on the development of surgically innovative techniques with an emphasis on skincare and the prevention and reversal of soft tissue senescence.

Doctor Vallecillos is a clinical investigator for Mentor Corporation and Allergan Inc. and is the Chief Treating Investigator for Coapt Systems Novielle Injectable Filler Study

Doctor Vallecillos has contributed to dozens of scientific publications, and continually produces articles for national specialty journals in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a contributing author for the European Journal of Plastic Surgery and serves as medical consultant for InStyle Magazine and Sherdog.com.

Charles M. Boyd, MD, MBA, FACS

Dual Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Charles Boyd is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in facial plastic surgery. Board certified by the highly elite American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Boyd is also a diplomate of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well as a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also board certified in the American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

Dr. Boyd specializes in all aspects of surgical and non-surgical facial rejuvenation including facelifts, brow and eye lifts, rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and neck lifts. He is also a specialist in cosmetic dermatology and laser surgery. A surgeon of extraordinary talents, Dr. Boyd has trained hundreds of top physicians throughout the United States and abroad on advanced injection techniques utilizing Botox, Juvéderm, and other minimally invasive modalities. He is also one of a select group of physicians involved in several research studies including FDA trials to test and evaluate cosmetic products created for consumer use.

As a full-time faculty member at the University of Michigan for over 14 years, Dr. Boyd has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology as well as the Department of Otolaryngology, and has served as the associate chief of staff of the University of Michigan Health System. He also teaches residents, fellows, and medical students at the University of Michigan. Highly respected and widely admired, Dr. Boyd is routinely invited to present cosmetic surgery lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Dr. Boyd has published his research in several medical and surgical journals and has authored book chapters on cosmetic surgery. He has been featured in numerous media outlets and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. Dr. Boyd also frequently appears on television and radio educating the public about cosmetic surgery.

Dr. Boyd is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He completed his undergraduate education at Howard University where he graduated at the top of his class, Phi Beta Kappa, and Summa Cum Laude in just three years.

An avid humanitarian, Dr. Boyd serves on the board of Bethany Kids, a non-profit organization that provides healthcare to children in East Africa. He devotes at least two weeks of every year to volunteering with World Medical Missions to perform cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries on children in Kenya.