Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

and today on the podcast,

we are interviewing the one and only iconic Dr. Gene Carruthers. Gene is a globally

recognized pioneer in cosmetic surgery and non-invasive procedures with unparalleled expertise

and research and clinical practice. Together with her husband, Dr. Alistair,

she revolutionized the cosmetic industry and basically helped to bring botulinum toxin to life

and to practices around the world into millions, 100 million treatments and millions and millions of patients.

Botox has since then become the most widely performed cosmetic procedure worldwide,

and her insights have been featured in all kinds of scientific publications, but even

publications like Vogue, Time, and Newsweek, New York Times, she's truly a thought leader,

and she has authored over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 70 book chapters, wow, and nine

textbooks.

And she is the foremost authority in her field on botch lamb toxins.

She is really truly groundbreaking.

I'm so honored to have you on the podcast today.

And she's also a clinical professor in the Department of Anthemology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she continues to inspire me and the next generation of physicians.

So welcome to the podcast, Gene, Dr. Brothers.

Thank you.

Oh, please call me, Jean.

I would love to know what it's been like to come up in this field that's always science

and medicine or male dominated.

And at the time, 25 years ago or around that time that

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