SkinSpirit's Gaithersburg Medical Spa

Alissa Selby is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Emory University and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Before transitioning into aesthetics, she worked as a registered nurse on a cardiac step-down unit.

With five years of injecting experience, Alissa is dedicated to helping her clients achieve their aesthetic goals. She values each treatment and enjoys being a part of her clients' lives throughout their aesthetic journey.

Alissa’s favorite in-office treatments are neurotoxins and microneedling, two highly effective options for achieving a refreshed and rejuvenated appearance. She believes the combination of neurotoxins and microneedling works in perfect harmony to address both skin quality and facial refinement.

Her go-to skincare product is SkinMedica’s TNS Serum, a must-have for any skincare routine.

Alissa loves being an aesthetic injector because it allows her to use her skills to boost her clients' confidence and enhance their natural beauty. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband and two children.

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Emily Clarke-Pearson is a native of North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina and graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Fine Arts, Emily began her career as an artist and teacher in East Los Angeles, teaching middle school with the Teach For America organization. Inspired by her mother, a former teacher who then became a pediatrician, and her father, a GYN-oncologist, she decided to return to school to pursue a medical career.

Emily became Dr. Clarke-Pearson after graduating from medical school at Brown University in 2007. She then completed a residency in general surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Here, while assisting in breast cancer reconstruction surgery, she saw women transformed from cancer patients into empowered survivors. Inspired, Dr. Clarke Pearson decided to become a plastic surgeon.

Emily Clarke-Pearson entered Harvard Medical School's plastic surgery residency as one of three women in a group of 27. As a woman in a predominantly male environment, she made the most of any opportunity to motivate female medical students and residents to pursue a career in plastic surgery - a field where the vast majority of patients are women, but the vast majority of surgeons are still men.

After Harvard, Dr. Clarke-Pearson spent a year in fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, learning how to perform surgery at the microscopic scale to get the best aesthetic results after advanced cancer and trauma surgery.

Coming full circle, Dr. Clarke-Pearson now practices primarily aesthetic plastic surgery. She specializes in face, breast and body cosmetic procedures, as well as in non-surgical techniques like Botox and facial filler injection. Her background in fine arts gives her a good eye for restoring natural beauty and making her patients look fresh but not "fake". She listens closely to her patients' concerns, and translates that into the surgery or procedure that best fits each patient's goals.

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Kendra received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Radford University in 2013. Kendra is passionate about being a nurse injector and loves the results she can provide to enhance her client's confidence. She loves to treat her patients like friends and be herself at work. Kendra is the nurse you see dancing in the room at a training!

Kendra's favorite treatment is lip filler. She loves to embrace the challenge that lips provide as every pair of lips are different. Her goal is to enhance a natural lip with a little refresh, hydration, and plump! Her favorite part of the treatment is to watch her clients glow after and pose in the mirror.

Outside of work, you can find Kendra at a country concert, singing karaoke, binging Netflix, out to dinner with friends, or spending time with her dog at the dog park.