Integrative Aesthetics Symposium: Immersive Training in the Art and Science of Beauty from Within ($495 Separate Fee to Attend)

Thursday, June 26, 2025

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM PDT

Chair(s)

Mark Tager, MD

CEO
ChangeWell
Rancho Santa Fe, California

Faculty(s)

Serena Mraz, MD

Board Certified Dermatologist
Solano Dermatology Associates
Novato, CA
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS

Pasadena, California
Steven Sorr, NMD
Nico Misleh, NP
J.D. McCoy, NMD

MEDICAL DIRECTOR
CONTOUR MEDICAL
GILBERT, Arizona

Panelist(s)

SG

Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD

Faculty(s)

RS

Raja Sivamani, MD
Richard Goldfarb, MD

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Integrative Aesthetics Symposium: Immersive Training in the Art and Science of Beauty from Within
Up to 6.5 CME credits available
Additional fee to attend: $495

This immersive and interactive one-day experience will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and support to bring an elevated level of personalized lifestyle and nutrition treatments into your practice. This emerging approach is known as “Integrative Aesthetics,” and it holds the key for both improved outcomes and enhanced practice revenue.

Patients don’t come to you for treatments. They come to your practice for results.

Increasingly patients are being drawn by the promise of personalized “wellness” programs for skin health and beauty. They understand that modifications in diet and supplements, exercise, and sleep can improve how they look and feel. Yet the information overload leaves many confused and seeking out practitioners to guide them through an intelligent approach to beauty from within. This process includes assessments, recommendations, and follow-up. You may be interested in simply including some skin supplements into your treatment plans, or conversely, building a comprehensive wellness-oriented methodology. No matter which approach you’re looking for, you will leave this program with a wealth of newfound knowledge, an actionable Integrative Aesthetics plan, and the confidence and commitment to implement it.

By attending this one-day training, you will:

Identify the key dietary and lifestyle factors that affect skin health.

Develop knowledge of the evidence supporting supplements targeting skin, hair, and nails.

Discover which specific nutrients support the skin barrier, connective tissue, hormonal health, acne prevention, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) protection.

Review basic labs, as well as nutrigenomics, microbiome, gut, and food sensitivity testing that can be used to personalize a treatment plan.

Understand the role hormones play in skin health.

Make the connection between gut health and common dermatological conditions such as acne, rosacea, eczema, and atopic dermatitis.

Investigate ways to effectively initiate the “beauty from within” discussion with your patient/client.

Design an Integrative Aesthetics Program that fits the needs of your practice.

Course Schedule:

8:30 am – 10:00 am
Part I: The Science of Integrative Aesthetics
(1.5 CME credits)

What to Expect | Learning Objectives:

Introduce the Diet-Gut-Microbiome-Skin Connection and ways to influence it for better skin health and beauty.

Examine the foods that promote health along this continuum.

Acquire skills to help patients identify what they should eat and what foods to minimize, as well as how to have this discussion with them.

Review the role of macro- and micronutrients including vitamins and minerals and examine evidence for collagen and herbal supplementation.

Understand the rationale for intelligent supplementation and how selected nutraceuticals affect the skin.

Learn about the microbiome and its connection to skin health and beauty.

Role play activities to practice evaluating the supplements that a patient is currently taking and provide the guidance to improve their regimen.

10:00 am – 10:15 am
Break

10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Part II: Assessment (1.75 CME credits)

What to Expect | Learning Objectives:

Review assessments to personalize treatments.

Learn about personalizing nutrition questions to expand your intake forms.

Understand how to conduct the nutrition-related physical exam; making the connection between skin, hair, nails and nutrient deficiency.

Learn how to interpret nutrition-related variables in basic labs.

Receive guidance on incorporating genomic assessments to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that impact nutrient needs, connective tissue and skin barrier.

Hear tips and expertise related to selecting and utilizing advanced lab testing including food sensitivities, skin genomics, gut health, microbiome analysis, and hormone testing.

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Part III: Patient Treatment, Counseling & Communication (1.5 CME credits)

What to Expect | Learning Objectives:

The communication phase of the program.

Examine some of the most common skin-related protocols.

Small-team exercises to practice modeling the best ways to communicate with patients about diet and exercise, the benefits of selected testing, supplement quality, and answering other frequently asked questions.

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Break

2:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Part IV: Program Design & Implementation (1.75 CME credits)

What to Expect | Learning Objectives:

Discover the process to determine the scope of your program as well as the resources you will need.

Become acquainted with different pricing models.

Conclude with a panel discussion featuring selected practices from around the country describing how and why they designed their program, what’s working well, what needed refinement, and the results.