Board-Certified Oculoplastic Surgeon American Board of Ophthalmology · Fellowship-Trained in Oculoplastics
A surgeon whose career has moved between four worlds — the operating room, the research lab, the global clinic, and the frontier of healthcare innovation — and brings all of them to your care.
Clinician
Fellowship-trained in oculoplastic, orbital & reconstructive surgery, with 15 years as an academic surgeon and clinical leader at UPMC — and nearly a decade as team ophthalmologist for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Researcher
A patent-holding investigator funded by the NSF and Department of Defense, with work spanning drug delivery, imaging, and surgical technique.
Humanitarian
Co-founder of Project Theia, delivering surgical care and education to communities in Ghana, India, Kenya, and beyond.
Innovator
Chief Medical Officer of RVO Health and a recognized voice for clinical integrity and quality across digital and consumer care.
The philosophy
Aesthetics isn't something done to you. It's a relationship you evolve — from the inside out.
This is the lens Dr. Yu brings to every consultation: care that begins with who you are, not with a procedure.
Our point of view
Aesthetics is…
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Yours to evolve
Your face, as it ages, is not a problem to fix. It's yours, and as it changes over time, we move with it, at your pace.
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Preferences based on proportions
Beauty is balance. Discernment is refined. Choices are made as it relates to the whole of your face.
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Natural, refreshed — you first
The goal is a rested, more like-yourself you. Never done, never someone else. You, well-founded.
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First principle
Yours to evolve
Aging isn't a defect and treatment isn't a reset button. Your appearance is something you shape deliberately, over years — the way you'd tend anything you care about.
That reframes the whole conversation. We're not chasing a fixed endpoint. We're supporting an evolution that stays recognizably, comfortably you.
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Second principle
Preferences based on proportions
The eye reads harmony before it reads any single feature. So we start with how things relate — brow to eye, midface to jaw, light to shadow — then let your preferences guide the choices within that balance.
It's why two people can want the same treatment and need entirely different plans. Proportion is personal.
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Third principle
Natural, refreshed — you first
The best outcome is the one people can't quite name. You look rested. Well. More like yourself on a good day — not like a different person.
"You first" is the constant. Every decision is measured against whether it brings you back to you.
Inside out
What you put in is what you get out.
Aesthetics doesn't stop at the surface. Nutrition, rest, and how you care for yourself are part of the result — which is why our approach carries through renewal, not just the procedure. It's the same idea behind everything we do: aesthetics, nutrition, renewal.
How we assess
Your face at rest, and in motion
At rest
The face you see in a still photo — proportion, volume, symmetry, the way light falls when everything is settled.
In motion
The face that laughs, speaks, and expresses. A plan that ignores movement can look right in a mirror and wrong in life. We plan for both.
What we're working with
Three layers, one face
Every plan reads the face in depth — from the foundation up. Each layer asks a different question, and the right treatment starts by naming which one is doing the talking.
SurfaceFoundation
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Skin quality
Texture, tone, and light. The finish that makes everything beneath it read as healthy.
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Muscle layer
Movement and expression — where the face at rest becomes the face in motion.
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Bony structure
The architecture underneath. It sets the proportions everything else is built on.
What guides a plan
Small things matter — and so does dimension
Two truths sit side by side. The millimeter details are often what make a result feel real. And the face is not a flat canvas — volume and projection move in three dimensions.
Small things matter
Subtle, precise adjustments compound into a result that reads as natural rather than done.
3D volume & projection
We shape in three dimensions — how features sit forward, how light and shadow fall — not just outlines on a page.
The approach
Non-surgical approaches
Nutrition
Age-appropriate macro- and micronutrient assessment, translated into a personalized plan.
Skincare
An ingredient-driven routine, grounded in your physiology — not an off-the-shelf regimen.
Injectables
A restrained use of neurotoxins, fillers, and fat to achieve a dynamic balance.
The approach
Surgical approaches
Brow lift
Upper & lower eyelid blepharoplasty
Mid-face lift
Ptosis repair
Canthoplasty & canthopexy
In service of one aim — restoration of the upper and middle third of the face.
The care doesn't start in the room
Prehab, procedure, post-op
Before · Prehab
Prepare the ground
Skin, nutrition, and overall health readied in advance. What you bring in shapes what you get out — better tissue heals better.
During · Procedure
Surgical & non-surgical
The plan chosen for your face — reading rest and motion across all three layers, in three dimensions.
After · Post-op
Support the renewal
Recovery is part of the result, not an afterthought. We guide the healing so the outcome settles the way it was designed to.
