Dr. Cecilia Rusnak.
Thirty-two years of clinical work. A doctorate in acupuncture, a master's in Oriental medicine, an associate degree in paramedical aesthetics from Florida College of Natural Health, and twelve certifications in the discipline she founded the Academy to credential.
The Academy is the institutional form of what she has spent a career building: a standard, a curriculum, an assessment, and a credential meant to be earned.
I. A career, an institution
The discipline she practised into being.
Dr. Cecilia Rusnak is a licensed acupuncture physician, a licensed medical aesthetician and a Doctor of Acupuncture. She holds a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine and a Bachelor of Professional Health Studies from Florida College of Integrative Medicine, and a Doctor of Acupuncture from the Pacific College of Health and Science in San Diego.
Her clinical training included internships at Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and at Kunming Yuan An Hospital, with specialisations in internal medicine and tongue and pulse diagnosis. Her paramedical aesthetics training was completed at Florida College of Natural Health, where she earned an associate degree. She has since earned twelve certifications in paramedical tattooing.
II. The work
Clinic, service, and a personal note.
The clinical work
Her practice, Healing Skin Medical Aesthetics in Kissimmee, focuses on restorative tattoo work for patients who have completed surgical or medical treatment: areola restoration after mastectomy, scar camouflage, stretch mark restoration and inkless techniques. Patients arrive after oncology, after trauma, after surgery. The discipline she teaches is the discipline she practises.
The veterans
Dr. Rusnak has served as a VA Community Care provider since 2015, working with veterans on pain management, scar revision after surgical or combat injury, and non-opioid therapeutic alternatives. That work shapes the curriculum directly: the Academy teaches practitioners to approach the work as clinical, not cosmetic.
A personal note
Dr. Rusnak is a cervical cancer survivor. The experience of being a patient, of receiving care and carrying the marks of treatment, is not abstract to her. She does not lead with it, and the Academy does not market it. It is the lens through which she teaches, and the reason for the standard she holds practitioners to.
III. Credentials and training
Four institutions, one discipline.
IV. The Academy
Why an Academy.
Paramedical tattooing has lacked a credentialing body of its own. Not an industry association. Not a continuing-education provider. A formal Academy: one that defines what qualified means, assesses candidates against it, and awards a credential that means something.
Dr. Rusnak Academy is that institution. Founded in 2026 as the credentialing arm of a clinical practice that has trained practitioners for years, the Academy formalises what was already happening: a standard, a curriculum, an assessment and a credential meant to be displayed, framed and earned.
V. The practice ecosystem
Four divisions of a single clinical practice.
Healing Skin
The clinical home. Paramedical tattooing, areola restoration, scar camouflage, stretch mark restoration and inkless work. Kissimmee, Florida.
Visit Healing SkinWellnessAcuMedGroup
Acupuncture, integrative medicine and pain management. The clinical foundation of Dr. Rusnak's practice. Kissimmee, Florida.
Visit AcuMedGroupSkincareDr. Rusnak Wellness
A clinical skincare line developed for healing and recovery, formulated for the restorative practice context.
Visit Dr. Rusnak WellnessCredentialingDr. Rusnak Academy
Professional training and certification in paramedical tattooing. Where practitioners are trained, assessed and credentialed in restorative work.
The credentialsBegin
Train under the founder of the Academy.
Four credentials. One certifying academy. Each track culminates in a credential awarded by Dr. Rusnak Academy and signed by Dr. Rusnak.