Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Anarchy. This is Ecta. I'm really, really excited about our guest today because he is truly an expert in his field, and I've been really meaning to talk to him for a while.

Without further ado, I would love to

discuss today, Dr. Belkin, is lasers, but walking the show, I'm so excited to host you. Thank you so

much, I'm excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's an honor. I would love to actually

kind of get started with learning more about you. What got you into dermatology? So my parents both

are doctors and they always encouraged me to go to medical school

and I kind of resisted for a while and I was really into art actually.

So I explored a bunch of things in college and then eventually you sort of wasn't sure what to do with myself.

I ended up going to medical school and was really drawn to sort of more aesthetic fields

because of my interest in art. And I found dermatology and dermatologic surgery, also known as

Moe's surgery, which is where we kind of cut out and reconstruct from skin cancers. I found a mentor

when I was at Cornell Med School is a well-known Moe surgeon,

and he and I did some research together,

and that's sort of how I got into the field.

And then I did residency at USC in Southern California,

and then I came back to New York for a fellowship in dermatologic surgery.

And usually fellowships in germ surgery include both mose surgery and also depending on the

program, some cosmetic and laser. And I did a very laser heavy fellowship with a man named

Roy Geronimus who was sort of one of the pioneers of laser

or medicine. I mean, you know, I feel like dermatology, we don't really talk about the field a lot,

but it's such a competitive field. And there's so much that is there in terms of specializing that

we don't really get to hear about it. I was talking from the medical side. Yeah, it's a very rich field with so many varied places to go. You could focus on allergy or

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