Dr. Mark Lees is one of the country’s most noted skin care specialists, having been quoted and interviewed by Glamour, Shape, Teen, Self, The Miami Herald, The Associated Press, and NBC News, to name a few. His professional awards are numerous and include American Salon Magazine Esthetician of the Year, the Les Nouvelles Esthetiques Crystal Award, the Dermascope Legends Award, the Rocco Bellino Award for outstanding education from the Chicago Cosmetology Association, and Best Educational Skin Care Classroom from the Long Beach International Beauty Expo.

Dr. Lees holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences, a Master of Science in Health, and the prestigious CIDESCO International Diploma, and also serves as an International CIDESCO Examiner. He has been in practice in Northwest Florida for over 20 years at his award-winning CIDESCO-Accredited Dayspa and Salon.

Dr. Lees is past president and current Chairman of the Board of the Esthetics Manufacturers and Distributors Alliance (EMDA), a division of the American Beauty Association. He is former chairperson of EstheticsAmerica, the skin care division of the National Cosmetology Association, and is a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.

He started his products company, Mark Lees Skin Care, Inc. in 1983, because, as an esthetician, he had difficulty finding specific products for acne-prone, sensitive, and sun-damaged skin. The product line is now used and sold in hundreds of salons and clinics all over America.

Dr. Lees is an accomplished writer, having published dozens of skin care, technical, and business articles for almost every major beauty and esthetics trade publication. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Les Nouvelles Esthetiques - American Edition. He is the author of the popular skin care reference book, Skin Care: Beyond the Basics, used by estheticians all over the world. He also authored the science and advanced skin care chapters of the new advanced Milady’s Standard Comprehensive Training for Estheticians, and also appeared in the Video Library for the Milady System.

An extremely popular and award-winning speaker, Dr. Lees is constantly in demand for his classes at professional beauty and medical conventions, as well as consumers and women’s groups, and major universities including UCLA, Purdue and Columbia Universities. He has also made appearances in both Australia and Europe.