This WebClinic was recorded live on March 12, 2025, and is approximately 90 minutes.

Topic:  Designing Your Office and Surgery Center: Space Requirements and accreditation
Speakers: Brittany Eidson, DDS, FAACS, FACS, and Mark Mandell-Brown, MD, FAACS

Description

This WebClinic will explore the common challenges of designing and building a new surgical practice as well as discuss the ways you can maximize your space for profitability and reduction of waste. In addition, it will discuss the important steps, benefits and challenges of accreditation for your surgery center.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the activity, the learner should be able to:

1. Discuss the challenges of designing and building a new cosmetic surgery practice
2. Determine the ways to maximize the space you have to maximize revenue and minimize waste
3. Incorporate critical steps in planning and implementing your surgery center 
4. Explain the importance of accreditation for your center 
5. Name the steps to obtain accreditation 
6. Identify common shortcomings in seeking accreditation.

Target Audience

Practitioners in the field of cosmetic surgery including, but not limited to, dermatology, general surgery, and plastic/reconstructive surgery.

Registration Required

Instructions for accessing the webinar will be provided immediately upon registration.

Registration Fees

• $60 - AACS Member (Resident)*
• $60 - AACS Member (Training Fellow)*
• $60 - AACS Member (Physician or Allied Health)
• $120 - Non-Member Practitioner

*Residents and training fellows - After adding the course to your cart, use the coupon code in your renewal confirmation letter to bring the price to $0. If you need assistance, please email AACS headquarters.

CME Credit

This is a non-CME course

About the Speakers

Dr. Brittany Eidson completed residency training in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in the Army at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the DC area and then served as a staff surgeon in the Army at Fort Hood in Texas.  After her military career, Dr. Eidson completed a 1 year fellowship with the AACS in Facial Cosmetic Surgery in McLean, VA.  After fellowship, Dr. Eidson returned to her family and Michigan and opened a surgical practice with her husband in 2022.

With 21 years of accreditation survey experience, Dr. Mark Mandell-Brown has surveyed over 100 cosmetic surgery centers, both office based and ambulatory, for AAAHC He has served as Chairman of the Surveyor Training & Education Committee, Complaint Investigation Committee, as well as a trustee on the AAAHC board until 2023. Dr Mandell -Brown was honored to receive the AACS Webster award in 2017. He served as President of AACS from 2020 to 2022. He practices in Cincinnati Ohio and multiple years has been voted “Best Plastic Surgeon” by Cincinnati Enquirer and CityBeat Magazine. He has been named “Top Doc" in Plastic Surgery in physician polls by Cincinnati Magazine as recently as 2025. He has owned and operated his own free standing surgery center since 2000.