To All our Patients,
The Center for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery continues to carefully observe the COVID-19 situation in our area while adhering to the Federal Government Safety Recommendations.
We are pleased to inform you that both our offices – in Washington, DC and Annapolis, MD – are now fully open and providing all services. Both offices are now equipped with WiFi facilities, beside the regular amenities, for your convenience.
The safety of our patients and staff remain our primary concern and we strictly follow all health and hygiene guidelines issued by the authorities. All our staff members are now vaccinated for COVID-19. Vaccination is a major step we can take to contain the spread of the virus, and we believe this step will contribute towards ensuring the health and safety of you, our valued patients, and our staff.
While we try to minimize the inconvenience caused to our patients due to changes to our schedule and office hours being made at short notice, we are doing our best to keep everyone safe and reduce possible virus spread and transmission.
Arrangements have been made for our office staff to contact anyone who has a scheduled appointment that might be affected by any office closure as soon as the decision is made. We ask you to please check your email, text messages or our Instagram (@ctr4dermatology) and/or website for most updated announcements on office closures or changes in our schedules. If you call our main location at 202-955-5757 during our regular office hours and you receive our office closed message, this means our offices will be closed for the day.
Please remember to follow your state’s COVID-19 protocol if you are experiencing:
Safety measures implemented at Center for Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery
We have closed off the main entrance, and we want patients to come in through the side door. We have taped off the waiting room and chairs because we want you to go directly into the exam room.
Please do not bring anyone with you that is unnecessary since there will be no place to sit. We do have an extra chair in the exam room, but for now, we have closed off the waiting room.
We also have marked out on the floor social distancing areas so that we maintain a distance of 6 feet. We have also put in a plexiglass shield to protect the employees. Anything can be passed underneath the glass so that it will protect the person on the other side.
Please be safe, continue to wash your hands frequently and thoroughly, practice social distancing and pay attention to all health recommendations of your local authorities.
Best Regards,
Cheryl Burgess, MD, FAAD
2311 M Street, NW Suite 504
Washington, DC 20037
202-955-5757
202-955-5797 fax
cheryl.burgess@ctr4dermatology.com
Board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Cheryl M. Burgess is a nationally and internationally acclaimed authority on aesthetic and medical dermatology. The photos and articles below highlight a few of her many media appearances, interviews, and memorable events.
Hello! My name is Dr. Cheryl Burgess, I am a board-certified dermatologist in downtown Washington DC. I have been in practice for nearly 30 years, treating patients with scars, acne and cosmetic procedures. I also have a patented technique in injecting fillers and do a lot of clinical research in fillers and Botulinum toxin, acne, acne rosacea. So, as you can see my practice is pretty vast in the number of specialties that I concentrate on. I also primarily concentrate in skin of color issues because as of 2044 we will see that the US will be more skin of color than of white skin. Therefore, it is very important to understand the skin, know how to treat skin of color and also for the betterment of our patients know how to recommend certain products that they may get information by reading beauty magazines and women’s magazines and they feel that these procedures may be for them, however it important for us to direct than in their cosmetic path.
Hi, my name is Dr. Cheryl Burgess, and this is “Ask A Derm”.
My mission as a board-certified dermatologist is to educate the public in who’s the expert in skin, hair, and nails. Okay, the first question is:
1. What is the simplest and most overlooked skincare advice you wish everyone followed?
My best advice would be to protect your skin from the moment you’re born to the day you die, and there are a lot of aspects to why we suggest wearing sunscreen or sun protection every day.
2. So what are some new and innovative skincare ingredients that you are recommending for your patients?
Well there’s a lot of new preparations, one: Alastin – strengthening elastin in the skin which we tend to deplete around the age of 40, and therefore that is one of the products that I really, really encourage women over 40 or mid-life that they should be using.
3. So are morning and evening skincare regiments different and why?
Yes, they are different. For the most part, our body goes through a circadian rhythm and where the skin is protecting itself in the morning and repairing itself at night. So for the most part, the ingredients that you use need to be assisting what the body is typically doing. So for instance, your sunscreens and your antioxidants you want to use in the morning because your body is trying to protect itself from the environmental elements such as the sun. At night we want to repair any damage that was caused during the day, and therefore reusing our alpha hydroxy, beta hydroxy acids, we’re using our retinols and those other types of products that cause the body to repair itself.
