The Dr Harris Training Academy

Where Anatomy Guides Treatment

Aesthetic medicine has, in many ways, lost its way. What was once a highly nuanced and artistic medical discipline has increasingly been reduced to formulas, protocols, and arbitrary numbers. Driven by commercial pressure and social media amplification, a “more is more” approach has become normalised, often with little regard for anatomy, function, or long-term consequence.

This shift is not benign. It disproportionately affects vulnerable patients, including younger individuals and those with image-related distress, and it places both patients and practitioners at risk. But it also harms the profession itself. Aesthetic medicine should not be algorithmic. It should not be performative. And it should never abandon anatomy.

At its core, this field is about observation, restraint, proportion, and respect for natural variation. The greatest artists, Leonardo da Vinci among them, understood that mastery lies not in excess, but in understanding what is already there.

This course is built on that principle. Less, when done properly, is not limitation, it is precision.

– Dr Steven Harris

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Dr Steven Harris, MBBCh, MSc

My interest in aesthetics comes from the intersection of art, anatomy, and medicine. Raised in a creative household, with a painter mother and an inventor father, I developed an early appreciation for proportion, structure, and form.

I qualified as a doctor in Johannesburg in 1997 and began my career as a General Practitioner in London in 2001. My transition into aesthetic medicine followed shortly thereafter, but what has defined my work ever since is not technique alone, it is an insistence on understanding why treatments behave as they do beneath the skin.

Over the past two decades, my practice has evolved alongside advances in anatomy, imaging, and complication management. Today, my work focuses heavily on anatomy-led treatment, ultrasound-guided assessment, and avoiding overtreatment through precision rather than volume.

This course reflects that evolution.

It is not about trends, shortcuts, or templated outcomes. It is about developing the clinical judgement, anatomical understanding, and restraint required to practise aesthetic medicine responsibly and sustainably.

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