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    Macrene R. Alexiades, MD, PhD

    Associate Clinical Professor
    Yale University School of Medicine

    Biography of Dr. Macrene Alexiades MD PhD
    Macrene Alexiades, MD PhD FAAD received three degrees from Harvard University: BA from Harvard University, MD from Harvard Medical School; and a PhD in Genetics from Harvard University. She has received the Fulbright Scholarship in molecular biology and biotechnology; the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Report, Paul Dudley White Award, Husik Prize, Fitzpatrick Clinical Innovations Award, and Melanie Grossman Award Leadership, Mentorship and Public Advocacy for Women in Medical Science; and grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute and Radcliffe College. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, the American Dermatologic Association, and achieved the rare status of Double Board-Certification in Dermatology in the European Union and US. She is Associate Clinical Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor at Sygros Hospital, University of Athens and Founder Director of the Dermatology and Laser Surgery Center in Manhattan and the Hamptons. She is an attending at Yale/New Haven Hospital and Yale/West Haven VA Hospital and has numerous publications and discoveries in the fields of basic science, dermatology and laser surgery. She runs clinical research trials and a basic science laboratory alongside her active skincare MACRENE actives.
    She has served on numerous academic and pharmaceutical boards. She is Assistant Editor for Dermatologic Surgery, Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, and Editor for Journal of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery and reviewer for over 12 medical journals. She has written a textbook entitled, Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgery (Wolters Kluwer Lippincott) and currently in press on her second textbook, Photodynamic Therapy (Elsevier).
    She is the lead genetics investigator for Allergan AbbVie, the lead clinical investigator and lead author on four seminal articles in the past year: the newest class of hyaluronic acid fillers published in Dermatologic Surgery, the first FDA approved acne laser published in the JAAD, the first consensus article on best practices for lasers in urogynecologic health in Lasers Medicine and Surgery, and radiofrequency microneedling in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics and the most published author in her department at Yale.

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