Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay,

Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today I'm interviewing Madison Dini.

She's from Michaelsman and Robinson all the way in Houston.

She is a powerhouse attorney, really like a high-stakes trial lawyer.

And she's trusted general counsel who really is operating at the junction of science, medicine, compliance, and

innovation, all of this. She's helping us in aesthetics and health care and devices kind of

navigate all the legal and regulatory challenges that are coming up, and they're coming fast and

furious. I think technology is changing at a rate that is way faster than regulatory is keeping

up, and we're having to innovate, and maybe we are walking the line of the Wild West. But we're

going to talk to Madison about all the kind of interesting regulatory dilemmas that we're seeing

right now in aesthetics, up to and including PDGF, plate lift drive growth factors, exosomes, polynucleotides, all kinds of stuff.

Welcome to the podcast, Madison.

Thank you, Dr. Kay.

Thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

I'd love to start with your story and what kind of drew you first to the intersection

of law and science and aesthetics medicine?

Sure. So out of law school, and actually during law school, I clerked for a law firm that

specialized in health care litigation, meaning we handled lawsuits and trials on behalf of

health care providers big and small. So the hospital corporations, the physician groups

nationwide practices, and we did everything from slip and falls to what we refer to as baby cases.

So brain damage baby cases, birth injury cases, high value, high stakes cases. So I started my practice there,

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