Dr. Shadi Kourosh is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves as Director of the Center for Aesthetics at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and maintains a clinical practice in New York City on Park Avenue, where she applies cutting-edge innovations and leads research in aesthetic medicine.

Bridging a rare dual academic perspective, Dr. Kourosh integrates the rigor of public health, environmental exposure science, and clinical dermatology to elevate the discourse on skin longevity and regenerative aesthetics, and her work contributes to the emerging field of precision dermatology — translating insights from the epigenetics of skin aging and the influence of environmental and lifestyle factors on cutaneous biology into personalized, preventative, and regenerative aesthetic strategies.

Dr. Kourosh has chaired and delivered keynote lectures on skin longevity and the epigenetics of aging at premier global aesthetic medicine congresses and advises companies at the forefront of skincare, longevity science, and regenerative aesthetics, helping to shape a new paradigm in which aesthetic medicine is grounded in systems biology, sustainability, and long-term clinical outcomes.

Her research at the intersection of dermatology and public health — her pioneering work on Zoom dysmorphia, skin impacts of the Covid19 vaccine,  climate factors and pollution impacts on skin diseases and aging, especially in vulnerable populations, and on the skin signs of human trafficking — has reached international impact, featured on the Today Show, The Daily Show, PBS, NPR Wired magazine, among many others, and for which she has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Dr. Kourosh has a served as a Medical Correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America among other news outlets and is a contributing writer for US News and World Report. She has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology, serving in the national leadership of her field, and has been named one of Medscape’s 25 Stars Leading the Future of Medicine.