Dr. Mathew M. Avram is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Dermatology Laser & Cosmetic Center. Dr. Avram is an assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, where he is also faculty director for procedural training in the department of dermatology. Dr. Avram was the program co-chair of the 2010 American Society for Laser Medicine Surgery (ASLMS) Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He has served as co-chair of the cutaneous laser surgery section of the ASLMS Annual Conference in 2009 and 2011. He now serves as treasurer for ASLMS, where he is a member of the executive committee. Dr. Avram has also served as co-chair for an annual laser teaching session for three years for the FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has also been elected to the board of trustees of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS). He is co-author of the first and second editions of A Color Atlas of Cosmetic Dermatology published by McGraw-Hill (which have been translated into five languages) and is an “iPhone app. He is also a co-editor of Laser and Lights published by Elsevier and Laser and Light Source Treatments for the Skin by Jaypee. He has also published multiple papers in each of the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine and Dermatologic Surgery as well as multiple chapters in leading dermatology textbooks. He is co-director of the MGH/Wellman Laser and Cosmetic Fellowship. He is an affiliate faculty member of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy and serves as secretary of the American Society of Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Advisory Board. He serves on the editorial boards of JAMA Dermatology, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Dermatologic Surgery and Lasers in Medical Science. Dr. Avram is a frequent guest on the Dr. Oz show, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and has appeared multiple times in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and numerous other media. Dr. Avram has chaired 17 national meetings and has given over 300 invited lectures at national and international meetings. Dr. Avram attended college at Princeton University and completed his dermatology residency training at Harvard, where he served as chief resident. Subsequently, he completed his Mohs micrographic surgery, laser and cosmetics fellowship at UCLA.