Arisa Ortiz, MD is the Director of Laser and Cosmetic Surgery and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Diego.  Dr. Ortiz is a board-certified dermatologist and double fellowship trained in Laser and Cosmetic Surgery and Mohs Micrographic Surgery. She received her training in Mohs Micrographic Surgery at UC San Diego and completed the prestigious Cosmetic and Laser Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Wellman Center for Photomedicine. She has presented at international and national conferences and is an invited speaker at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS), and the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS). She actively serves as a journal reviewer and guest editor for the Journal of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, the British Journal of Dermatology, and the Dermatologic Surgery Journal. She has won several awards including the ASLMS research grant, ASLMS Best Cutaneous Laser Surgery Research Award, and the ASDS Cutting Edge Research Grant. Dr. Ortiz has also served on the AAD Telemedicine Task Force, the ASLMS Social Media Task Force, and is the Co-Chair of the Masters of Aesthetics Symposium. Her research interests are in laser treatment and noninvasive imaging of nonmelanoma skin cancer.