In the News

October 01, 2006

"America’s Top Physicians," a publication of the Consumers’ Research Council of America, named Drs. Arndt, Dover, Kaminer, Kane, Sobell, Rohrer, and Travers to their 2006 edition.

August 01, 2006

Dr. Kaminer was named one of the top golfing doctors by Golf Digest Magazine.

April 01, 2006

At the annual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Arndt was awarded the Ellet H. Drake M.D. Lectureship Award for outstanding contributions to laser medicine and surgery.

February 10, 2006

SkinCare Physician’s Drs. Michael Kaminer, Jeffrey Dover and Katrinka Heher were named as Boston Magazine’s Best Doctors, 2006.

February 01, 2006

Drs. Dover, Rohrer and Kaminer were listed as Top Dermatologists in Boston by Boston Magazine. They were chosen by a survey conducted by Best Doctors, a Boston-based company founded in 1989 by two Harvard Medical Schoolaffiliated physicians. Each year, Best Doctors polls the medical profession, asking, If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, who would you choose?

December 06, 2005

Dr. Kaminer was the live in-studio guest for the popular Night Beat television show. The host was Portland Helmich, and the topic was hair loss for both men and women. Night Beat is well regarded as a forum for discussion of important topics in and educational, non-sensational, in depth format. The show aired on December 6, 2005.

One of the central topics discussed was the role of hair transplantation for women. It is now known that women can lose hair for genetic reasons just as men do, and fortunately hair transplantation is a successful treatment. the procedure takes about 4 to 5 hours, and can give women (and men) back the hair they have lost with time.

Other topics discussed included medical causes of hair loss, as well as non-surgical options in partnership with our colleagues at PK Walsh in Needham, MA.

May 27, 2004

The European Society for Cosmetic and Aesthetic Dermatology invited Dr. Kaminer to be their featured guest speaker in Paris. Dr. Kaminer spoke about the advances made with the Thermage technique, as well as the expanding number of options for non-invasive treatment of the face and neck. The Thermage skin tightening procedure has improved dramatically. With techniques pioneered at SCP, results have dramatically improved with Thermage, and pain has been virtually eliminated. Some of these new breakthroughs have not even been released to the general medical community! New areas are also being treated, including cellulite, as well as tightening of arms, thighs, and abdomens.

April 23, 2004

Dr. Arndt was one of the featured speakers at The First Ackerman Symposia on Medicine and Culture, a 2 day program presented in April by the Harvard University Division of Medical Ethics. He discussed "The Physicians’s Position in the Age of Consumerism" and reflected on academic medicine and delivery of quality, patient-directed care in the teaching hospital contrasted to an academic private practice such as SkinCare Physicians.

April 18, 2004

In April 2004, Dr. Sobell was invited to speak at the Atlantic Dermatology Meeting in Boston. Also in 2004, Dr. Sobell spoke at the International Psoriasis Symposia in Toronto, and he spoke about the treatment of psoriasis at over 30 venues across the nation, including in Santa Fe, Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco, and New York.

April 24, 2003

Kenneth A. Arndt, MD was awarded the prestigious Leon Goldman Memorial Award by the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. The Leon Goldman Memorial Award was established in 1998 to recognize the many contributions in the areas of clinical laser research, laser patient care, and medical laser education of Leon Goldman, MD, the "Father of Laser Medicine". The award is given to a practicing who has demonstrated longitudinal excellence throughout their career in performing clinical laser research, providing high quality laser services to patients or educating others in medical laser applications. The individual must also share the characteristics of honesty, high ethical standards, and a dedication to patients that were possessed by its namesake.