Taught by Florida's most respected aesthetic practitioners.
Co-founders, lead instructors, and visiting faculty drawn from Florida's plastic-surgery, dermatology, and clinical-esthetics community. Every credential on this page is verifiable through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
Dr. Tali Arviv, MD — the physician who insisted aesthetic medicine begin with anatomy.
Dr. Tali Arviv is a Florida-licensed internal medicine physician and the founder of Arviv Medical Aesthetics, with locations in Tampa, Miami, and Ocala. She earned her BS in Biology at the University of South Florida, her MD at Ross University School of Medicine, and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Orlando Regional Medical Center in 2014.
She co-founded MSI on a simple thesis: the difference between a competent aesthetician and an exceptional one is not technique — it is anatomical literacy. Knowing which facial nerve runs beneath the masseter. Knowing why a chemical peel behaves differently on Fitzpatrick V skin. Knowing when not to perform a treatment.
Dr. Arviv is also the founding medical director of 360 Surgery Center, a Quad A–accredited ambulatory surgical facility. Every MSI curriculum runs through her review desk, and she personally directs the Surgeon-to-Surgeon Aesthetic Fellowship and the Aesthetic Medicine Fellowship for MD / NP / PA.
- BS Biology — University of South Florida
- MD — Ross University School of Medicine
- Internal Medicine residency — Orlando Regional Medical Center (2014)
- Continuing education — Allergan Medical Institute, Galderma Master Trainer
- Facial anatomy intensive
- Aesthetic Medicine Fellowship (MD / NP / PA)
- Surgeon-to-Surgeon Aesthetic Fellowship
- Injectable safety review board
Rita Kruse — the educator who built the curriculum a thousand careers have run on.
Rita Kruse has spent her entire professional life in cosmetology education. Before MSI, she founded and led one of the most respected aesthetic training programs in Florida, where she personally certified more than fifteen hundred licensed estheticians over a fifteen-year run.
When Rita joined MSI as co-founder and Director of Education, she brought a complete, time-tested, state-board-aligned curriculum that has been refined through five exam-cycle revisions. The MSI 220-hour facial specialist program is built on her framework. So is the advanced continuing-education ladder we offer to working professionals.
Rita's classroom philosophy is unfashionable in a good way: students do not advance to the clinic floor until they have demonstrated three consecutive flawless practical exams on a mannequin head. Repetition is the curriculum. Mastery is the only acceptable outcome.
- FL Facial Specialist licensure — FL DBPR
- FL Cosmetology Instructor licensure — FL DBPR (1,200-hour program)
- Board of Cosmetology CE Council — appointed member
- Facial Specialist 220-hour core curriculum
- Practical board-exam preparation
- Instructor development & mentorship
Three rules our faculty live by.
Every instructor is a working practitioner.
No MSI instructor teaches full-time. Every member of our faculty maintains an active aesthetic practice — clinic floor, surgical center, or independent studio — and brings that week's cases into the next week's classroom.
Every credential is publicly verifiable.
Every license number, board certification, and accreditation listed on our credentials page is verifiable through the issuing authority. We provide the lookup links.
No paid endorsements taught as curriculum.
MSI does not accept teaching fees from device manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies in exchange for product-specific instruction. When our faculty teach a device, it is because the device deserves the chair.
The active roster.
Our current faculty, across Miami and Tampa. Click any name for a full profile.
Florida-licensed physician with two decades in plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic medicine. Directs every MSI clinical curriculum.
Cosmetology educator with a fifteen-year run building one of Florida's most respected facial-specialist programs. Built MSI's 220-hour curriculum from the ground up.
Florida-licensed facial specialist leading the Miami campus with a decade of treatment-room and clinical-floor experience.
Master esthetician leading the Tampa facial-specialist track with a focus on board-exam practicals and clinical-floor mentorship.
EmailGuest faculty.
Each intake hosts at least two visiting practitioners — board-certified physicians, master estheticians, or industry educators — who travel in for a single module.
Guest faculty rotate seasonally. Past contributors include board-certified plastic surgeons from Miami and Tel Aviv, master estheticians from New York and Los Angeles, and senior brand educators from Allergan and Galderma. We publish the visiting roster for each intake two weeks before classes begin.
The people are why this school works.
Come meet them in person. Most prospective students who visit a campus say it was the faculty conversation that made up their mind. Faculty teach across every track, from the 220-hour esthetician pathway to the aesthetic medicine program for MDs, NPs and PAs.