Dr. Cindy Elliott is the owner of Skinspirations as well as the clinician training facility, ExpertEsthetics. She’s personally performed over 29,000 esthetic treatments and 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.
Experience
Dr. 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.
Dr. Elliott’s specialty is using regenerative techniques and outside-the-box approaches to solve her patients’ problems.
Esthetic Medical Trainer 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.
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 spent two years in a physiological psychology PhD program at Indiana University. She returned to the University of Illinois where she received her MD and completed an emergency medicine residency at the Denver Health system.
Dr. Cynthia Elliott’s Most Gratifying Treatment Experiences
From Dr. Elliott:
Two patients stand out in my career so far for making me the most grateful for the excellent medical training I’ve recieved.
#1
The first person was a healthcare professional who had been hit by a car and among other severe injuries, required surgery to repair the shattered bones around one eye. As the incisions healed, the scars shortened and pulled her outer eyelids together, which not only was unsightly, it affected both her vision and her balance.
The surgeons she sought help from told her that further surgery wouldn’t improve the scars and that she had no other treatment options.
She was already my client and she trusted me when I suggested the following treatment.
Using a metal intra-ocular shield to protect her eye and an erbium ablative laser, I used the laser to separate the scar pulling the lids together. I then injected medication into the separated edges of the scar to prevent them from sealing back together and used the laser to soften the scarring underneath her eye. I used Botox to relax the “winking” muscles on the side of the scar so there wasn’t any tension pulling them back together.
A few months after a second similar treatment, it was almost impossible to see her scars and her vision and balance returned to normal.
#2
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 nurse for all of the surrounding areas. We headed into the jungle the next day 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 his with the amputated part of his finger wrapped in gas-soaked leaves, in his pocket.
Thankfully, I still had injectable anesthetic, sutures, and some remaining antibiotic. Just before the sun set, I used a multi-purpose tool with a wire cutter to cut off the protruding bone in his finger. I attached the pad from the amputated part of his finger to provide a cushioned “fingertip” over 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. Elliott lives in Clearwater Beach with her spousal equivalent, Rick and 4 rescue cats, all of whom are neutered. She loves boating, scuba diving, snow skiing, watching horror movies, preparing the next year’s Halloween props, growing mushrooms, and inventing medical products (and Halloween props) made from fungus. Seriously.