Dr. Ballesteros joined O.C. Medical Aesthetics Inc, DBA South Coast MedSpa as a regional medical director in 2012. Dr. Ballesteros took over as the Chief Medical Director in 2015, and continues to serve in that capacity.
Dr. Ballesteros is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and has been practising medicine since 1999. His interest in aesthetics has lead him to pursue the role with South Coast MedSpa. His continued education includes manufacture trainings, CME as well as keeping up on medical journals and papers in the area of cosmetic laser medicine.
Dr. Ballesteros supervises the medical treatments of laser hair removal, laser skin resurfacing treatments, laser tattoo removal and skin rejuvenation treatments.
Dr. Ballesteros was born in Riverside, California and been a permanent resident of Southern California. Medicine has forever been a career choice of his and the sciences have intrigued him from a young age.
For his undergraduate studies, he attended the University of California San Diego, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Microbiology. He was then accepted into the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Ballesteros completed Medical School in 4 years, and earned his Medical Degree from USC in 1999.
He was then accepted into the elite Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. Here he trained under the country’s leading ER Physicians, and was exposed to a multitude of cultures and pathology. Dr. Ballesteros completed his USC Emergency Medicine Residency in 2003, and immediately joined an ER Physician Group in San Diego. He has been working at local underserved community hospital emergency departments for the past 9 year before joining the South Coast Med Spa team in 2012.