Dr. Sam Assassa, MD

Dr. Sam Assassa is a physician who has practiced aesthetic medicine full time since he founded Beverly Hills Aesthetics in 1995. He treats the face and body without surgery, using injectables, lasers, microneedling, peels and laser-assisted liposuction performed in the office under local anesthesia. He has performed more than 25,000 procedures and is board certified in internal medicine.

He received his medical degree with honors from Damascus University, completed his internship at Loyola University affiliated hospitals in Chicago, and finished his internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University affiliated hospitals in Cleveland. Before 1995 he built a general internal medicine practice in Huntington Beach, California.

He developed two procedures offered at the practice: SmileLift, a 30-minute in-office procedure that repositions a downturned mouth corner, and SweatZap, a laser treatment for excessive underarm sweating. He founded the American Association of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery, where he is CEO and Program Director and has been president since 2006, and he is CEO and Medical Director of Pacific Lipo.

Dr. Assassa has served as faculty at the AMWC World Congress in Paris and the AMWC Latin America World Congress in Bogotá, and has directed the AAAMS Basic and Advanced Aesthetics Training in Taipei since 2013. He has taught more than 5,000 physicians and nurses, and his work has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC, KTLA and Univision.