Lilit Garibyan, M.D., Ph.D.


Physician Investigator (NonCl)
Wellman Ctr Anderson Lab M, Mass General Research Institute
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Harvard Medical School
Director of Magic Wand Initiative
Massachusetts General Hospital
BS UCLA 2001
MD Harvard Medical School 2009
PhD Harvard University 2007
adipose tissue; biomedical devices; chronic pain; clinical innovation; collaborative problem solving; common variable immunodeficiency; cosmetics; cryoablation; cryosurgery; dermatology; education medical; immunology; lasers; lipectomy; peripheral nerves; pruritus; selective cryolipolysis; skin aging; skin diseases; sunlight; sunscreening agents; transmembrane activator and caml interactor protein; ultraviolet rays

Dr. Lilit Garibyan is a board-certified, practicing dermatologist and Associate Professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Physician-Scientist at Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has expertise in cutting edge translational research in areas of device development, dermatology, cutaneous neurobiology, adipose tissue, and immunology. She has spent 20+ years at Harvard Medical School, where she has taught and trained students, residents and fellows in dermatology, laser and energy-based devices, and problem-based innovation. Her research focuses on innovative biomedical translational discoveries aimed at identifying unmet medical needs and working with multidisciplinary teams to develop novel treatments for those needs.  Dr. Garibyan is an inventor on >16 pending and granted patents, has published over 54 original, peer-reviewed publications and has obtained over $5.3 million grant funding from Department of Defense and NIH for her innovative research. She is the inventor of a platform cooling technology with various therapeutic applications that has led to three venture-backed, start-up companies.  She is the scientific co-founder of two of those companies. She has received “Women in Energy-Based Devices Early Career Development Award” in 2020 and “Dr. Horace Furumoto Young Investigator Award for Innovation” in 2022 from the American Society for Lasers Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS).She serves on the board of ASLMS and Photodermatology Society, and on the scientific advisory board of two startup biotechnology companies.

Dr. Garibyan is the co-founder and the Director of the Magic Wand Initiative® and the “Virtual Magic Wand” programs, which teach the process of innovation to clinicians.  These internationally-recognized programs empower, engage, and teach healthcare professionals on how to identify unmet needs and collaborate to identify and implement solutions to problems. Dr Garibyan has given many national and international lectures on the topic of engaging clinicians in problem-based innovation.  She had directed sessions and led workshops in national and international meetings designed to engage healthcare workers in innovation.

Dr. Garibyan has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has been invited to give talks at national and international conferences. Dr. Garibyan has also organized and pioneered the establishment of a medical laser clinic in Yerevan, Armenia for the treatment of scars and vascular lesions.

Dr. Garibyan received her B.S. summa cum laude from University of California Los Angeles, her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Experimental Pathology/Immunology. 


 

 

Publications Clinical Profile
lgaribyan@mgh.harvard.edu
(617) 726-2005
Wellman Center for Photomedicine
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