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Who treats you

Our clinicians

Four people, four suites, four separate books. Each keeps their own schedule and sees their own clients, so you can choose the one whose work suits you and stay with them — and you see the same person every visit.

Dr. Naomi Vasquez-Ferreira, Injectables & Facial Balancing at Woodside Med Spa

Dr. Naomi Vasquez-Ferreira, MD

Injectables & Facial Balancing

Medical Director · Suite 1 · here since 2016

Naomi opened this practice in 2016 after eleven years in hospital medicine, and she is the reason the consultation room has a table in it instead of a couch. She takes the difficult conversations: the client who was treated somewhere else and is unhappy, the one who wants considerably more than their face needs, and the one who arrives with a photograph of a stranger. She is the person here most likely to tell you that the answer is nothing at all, or that the answer is a dermatologist, and she says it at the first appointment rather than after the third.

  • Injectable treatment
  • Facial assessment
  • Complication management
  • Second opinions

English, Spanish, Portuguese

Elena Petrosyan, Injectables & Skin Health at Woodside Med Spa

Elena Petrosyan, Nurse Practitioner

Injectables & Skin Health

Nurse Practitioner · Suite 2 · here since 2018

Elena sees most of the people having something done for the first time, which is deliberate: she is unhurried, she explains everything twice without being asked, and she is entirely comfortable spending an hour with somebody who then decides not to go ahead. She also runs the practice's skin programmes, which makes her the clinician most likely to talk you out of an injectable and into six months of unglamorous resurfacing instead.

  • Wrinkle-relaxing injections
  • Skin quality
  • Acne and scarring
  • First-time clients

English, Armenian, Russian

Marcus Adeyemi, Laser & Energy Treatments at Woodside Med Spa

Marcus Adeyemi, Physician Assistant

Laser & Energy Treatments

Physician Assistant · Suite 3 · here since 2019

Marcus runs the laser room, and he has spent his career on the part of this field that can genuinely injure somebody. He treats a great many clients with deeper skin tones and is candid that much of the laser industry was built and tested around pale skin, which is why he test patches more often than anybody else here and why he will postpone a treatment over a fortnight-old holiday tan without any negotiation at all.

  • Laser hair reduction
  • Pigment and vessels
  • Deeper skin tones
  • Test patching

English, Yoruba, French

Thandiwe Okonjo, Medical Facials & Resurfacing at Woodside Med Spa

Thandiwe Okonjo, Licensed Aesthetician

Medical Facials & Resurfacing

Licensed Aesthetician · Suite 4 · here since 2017

Thandiwe does the work that actually changes skin, which is repetitive, gradual and almost never photogenic. She sees people every four to six weeks for months at a time, and a large part of her job is persuading them that the thing working slowly is working. She writes the home routines, and she is ruthless about cutting them down — most people arrive using eleven products and leave using four.

  • Medical facials
  • Chemical peels
  • Microneedling
  • Home skincare

English, Zulu

How each of them works

Approach, in their own words

Worth reading before you choose, because they genuinely differ — and the difference is about temperament and judgement rather than about which machine they have been trained on.

  • Dr. Naomi Vasquez-Ferreira — Injectables & Facial Balancing

    Slow, conservative and written down. She treats less than most injectors and she will explain why in detail. Expect a long first appointment, a great many questions about your health and your medication, and a plan with a review date on it. She does not treat anybody on the day they first walk in unless they arrived expecting that and have thought about it beforehand.

  • Elena Petrosyan — Injectables & Skin Health

    Small amounts, reviewed at two weeks, adjusted then rather than guessed at on the day. She would rather under-treat and add than over-treat and wait for it to wear off, and she says so before she starts.

  • Marcus Adeyemi — Laser & Energy Treatments

    Conservative settings, a test patch wherever there is doubt, and a course planned around your calendar rather than around ours. He is direct about which hair and skin combinations respond poorly, and he tells you before you pay rather than after the third session.

  • Thandiwe Okonjo — Medical Facials & Resurfacing

    Build tolerance first, escalate slowly, change one thing at a time. She will not perform a strong peel on skin that has not been prepared, on skin that has been in the sun, or on somebody flying somewhere hot on Friday, and she would rather move the appointment than take the money.

We claim nobody else's approval, and we name nobody's product. Aesthetic medicine is regulated in New York State, the treatments here that are medical are performed or supervised by our medical director, and every clinician is licensed for what they do. What we will not do is decorate this website with the name of a board, an academy or a manufacturer as though somebody else vouches for us. Nobody outside this practice has reviewed it. So instead of a wall of logos, these pages tell you plainly who will treat you, what they will do, what they will not do, what it costs, what can go wrong and how likely that is. Ask us about any of it before you book.

Why no letters after the names

Job titles rather than credentials

You will notice that nobody on this page has a string of post-nominal letters after their name, and that no board, academy or examining body is mentioned anywhere on this website.

Partly that is because this is a demonstration site for a practice that does not exist, and printing a real certifying body's name beside an invented person would be a false statement about that body. But it is also the honest version of a real problem: aesthetic clinics accumulate acronyms from training courses of wildly varying seriousness, and a wall of them tells a client almost nothing about who is safe to be treated by.

What is worth asking anywhere, including here: who exactly will perform this, what are they licensed to do, who supervises it, how many of these have they done, and what happens if it goes wrong.

The team at Woodside Med Spa, Woodside NY

Pick a clinician

Book with whichever suits you

Each of the four keeps their own calendar, and the booking page shows every hour they genuinely have free. If you are not sure who is right for what you are asking about, choose any available or telephone and ask.