Tina Alster, MD
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Tina S. Alster, MD is the founding director of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery and is a clinical professor of dermatology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC as well as consulting associate of dermatology at Duke University. She received her B.S. and M.D. degrees with highest honors from Duke University and completed her dermatology residency at Yale University.
Dr. Alster is a world-recognized leader in dermatologic laser surgery and is credited with having written the first textbook on cosmetic laser surgery. She has since published hundreds of articles and 7 additional textbooks on the subject. Dr. Alster has held and maintains leadership and board positions in numerous professional and national organizations including the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS), American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery (ASLMS), Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS), among others. She served on the Board of Visitors at Duke University School of Medicine, on the Board of Directors for Ford’s Theatre, and as a consultant to several skin care and device companies, including Lancôme and La Mer. Her commitment to teaching and mentoring others is evident in the hundreds of physicians she has trained in her career as well as her establishment of scholarship endowments for women pursuing careers in medicine at Duke University and a cosmetic dermatology resident education fund at Yale University. Dr. Alster has received numerous accolades by her peers including the prestigious ASLMS Leon Goldman Lectureship Award (2001), American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Presidential Citation Award (2017), Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) Mentorship (2009) and Legacy (2014) Awards, ASLMS Leadership, Mentorship & Public Advocacy for Women in Medical Science Award (2018), Dermatology Foundation Practitioner of the Year Award (2019), and ASDS Samuel Stegman Award for Distinguished Service (2019). She has been a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in America for each of the past 25 years. In addition to serving as an expert on TV and radio, she has been acknowledged in America’s Top Doctors, Town & Country’s Best Cosmetic Surgeons, America’s Elite 1000, Allure’s Influencer of the Year, Elle Genius Awards and Washingtonian’s Best Doctors and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 1 percent of physicians in dermatology in US News & World Report. |
