Dr Dr Cristiana Andrade

Dr. Cris's career didn't begin in a Madison Avenue treatment room. It began under the fluorescent lights of one of Brazil's largest public trauma hospitals, where, as a young surgical resident, she learned that precision and empathy are not opposites but partners. Those years shaped everything that followed: a steady hand, an eye trained to the millimeter, and a lifelong belief that medicine is at its most powerful when it is also deeply human. Her path there was itself unusual. She matched into surgical residency before finishing medical school, and completed her final academic year on rotation with the Brazilian Navy an early sign of the discipline and ambition that would define her career. From there, she went on to pursue advanced training in face and neck microsurgery, refining t...