Dr Marie-Claire Edmunds is a doctor and researcher with 19 years in medicine, including twelve years in plastic and reconstructive surgery. She has taught surgical anatomy at the Universities of Edinburgh and Melbourne, and holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, based at the Queen's Medical Research Institute.
Founder and sole physician of her Melbourne practice, Dr Marie-Claire · Aesthetic Medicine.
Published research informs the treatment options discussed in consultation.
Dr Marie-Claire has taught anatomy to undergraduate medical students and doctors training in surgery and radiology. That depth of anatomical knowledge shapes every assessment and every plan she writes.
The goal is to look rested, refined and entirely yourself. Considered enhancement, staged over time, always in proportion.
Dr Marie-Claire's approach draws on her medical experience and anatomical teaching background.
Her PhD research covered ischaemia-reperfusion injury, the study of tissue oxygen stress, alongside stem cell and extracellular matrix biology. It is the science of how tissue heals and ages, and it shapes every plan she makes.
She does not perform surgery. If your concerns would be better addressed surgically, she will tell you and refer you on. Knowing the limits is part of the job.
A full assessment and a written, staged plan built around your anatomy and your goals. This is where every patient starts.
What it coversEvidence-based care for texture, tone, pigmentation, vascularity, volume and hydration will be matched to your skin and reviewed over time.
Laser treatments for skin remodelling and skin quality, selected on published evidence and planned in consultation.
Your care is reviewed with you over time. Follow-up appointments provide an opportunity to discuss your plan and any questions.
Every path starts with the Aesthetic Assessment. Treatment is planned only after a full consultation.
Australian rules restrict public advertising of prescription-only medicines and how patient images can be used in advertising. This site focuses on consultations and care. Treatment options, suitability, risks and pricing are discussed privately.
Considered treatments, grounded in real anatomy, assessed for safety before anything else.
Every patient is photographed with standardised imaging, including 3D photometry. A measured record, not a guess.
Individual results vary, and no outcome is guaranteed.
Leave your details and Dr Marie-Claire will contact you to discuss the next step. Your request does not book an appointment or take payment.
Your consultation includes a full assessment of the face, décolletage and hands, a medical history, and standardised imaging, including 3D photometry. Whether your concern is broader signs of ageing or something isolated, such as a scar, it is an honest conversation, not a sales one.
A staged, written plan with transparent pricing. Treatment begins only when you are ready.
Dr Marie-Claire's practice is in St Kilda, with consultations by appointment.
The consultation is a full medical appointment, not a sales conversation, and the fee secures your hour with Dr Marie-Claire. Payment is arranged when your appointment is confirmed.
Your first consultation includes a full medical history, a structural assessment of the face, décolletage and hands, standardised imaging including 3D photometry, and an honest conversation about what will and will not work for you, whether your concern is broader ageing or something isolated, such as a scar. Treatment is not carried out on the day unless it is clinically appropriate.
Standardised imaging combines clinical photography and 3D photometry, taken from fixed positions and under matched lighting, to build a measured record of your face, décolletage and hands. It shows how you're changing over time, so any plan is built from something measured, not from memory.
New patients start with the Aesthetic Assessment. It is how Dr Marie-Claire plans safely, and it means any treatment that follows is chosen for you, for your face, décolletage and hands, not picked from a list.
Australian regulations restrict how clinics use patient imagery in advertising. Your results are captured with standardised imaging, including 3D photometry, belong to you, and are reviewed privately in consultation. They are only used for research, publication, or as a demonstration of treatment with your specific, separately given consent.
No. Request a callback to discuss your first appointment. Your medical history is taken as part of the consultation.
Consultations run from within a clinic in St Kilda. To discuss an appointment, you can contact the practice or reach @drmarieclaire.au.
Cosmetic medicine advertising in Australia is tightly regulated to protect patients. Two frameworks govern what any clinic here can publish.
So this site can explain what a treatment involves and who it might help. It cannot name the medicine, price it, or promote it. That is not evasiveness. It is the law working as intended, so that treatment decisions get made in a proper consultation rather than from an advertisement.
The specifics are always available face to face.
One conversation, one honest assessment, one written plan. That is where every patient starts.
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