By Maddi Hebebrand, MC, Associate Editor, David J. Goldberg, MD – Dermatology –
At the 2026 South Beach Symposium, David Goldberg, MD, JD, offered a wide-ranging and pragmatic overview of regenerative medicine in dermatology—where it began, why it is accelerating, and how it may reshape both medical and aesthetic practice. For clinicians accustomed to lasers, energy-based devices, injectables, and surgery, his message was both familiar and disruptive: Much of what dermatology has relied on for decades is fundamentally reparative. Regenerative medicine, he argued, aims for something different.
