Martin Morse, MD, FACS

Mia Aesthetics is delighted to have Board-Certified plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Morse joining our team in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Morse is a Reconstructive Surgeon who graduated Summa Cum Laude from Duke University and at the top of his class from the Duke University School of Medicine where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed an Internship and Junior Residency in General Surgery at Barnes Hospital/Washington University and his Assistant Residency year, Senior Residency year and Chief General Surgery Residency training with world renowned Dr. Seymour Schwartz at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Awarded a Farley Research Fellowship in Pediatric Transplant Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he authored numerous peer reviewed basic science and clinical papers related to hepatobiliary disease in children under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Vacanti who along with Dr. Robert Langer furthered our understanding of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and Surgery for which the three have several patents for their work at Harvard and MIT.

Dr. Morse was trained in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Florida and is uniquely trained as a Plastic Surgeon having also completed an Orthopedic Hand & Upper Extremity Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In private practice for over 25 years Dr. Morse has also developed a significant experience in awake body contouring having performed thousands of liposuction procedures along with skin tightening Radio Frequency and skin excision procedures of the head and neck, torso and both upper and lower extremities. Trained by one of the pioneers of Laser Surgery, Dr. Raymond Lanzafame while in Rochester, Dr. Morse is also a Certified Expert utilizing multiple laser platforms performing thousands of treatments for head and neck skin resurfacing, hair, pigmented lesion and tattoo removal, and as an adjunct in many disparate general and plastic surgical procedures.

Dr. Morse strives to bring a strong sense of caring and commitment to each patient and believes that trust and understanding are key factors in the patient-surgeon relationship. He has been voted a Top Doctor for both Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery for over 25 years both nationally by U.S. News & World Report and where he has practiced in the Washington DC metro area, in Orlando, Florida, and in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona area. Dr. Morse also served his country during a distinguished 23 year career in the U.S. Navy including Desert Storm, the War on Terrorism and Iraqi Freedom, retiring at the rank of CAPTAIN and receiving (4) Navy Commendation Medals and the Meritorious Service Medal awarded by the President of the United States for his untiring care of hundreds of Marines and Sailors injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also trained at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and served as a NASA flight surgeon for a number of Shuttle Missions.

Dr. Morse volunteered for over two decades for both a Northern Virginia County Laser Tattoo Removal Clinic helping teens get out of gangs and for several County Anti-Bioterrorism organizations; and, he has been the lead surgeon on a number of volunteer medical missions in Central America and Africa. Moving to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in early 2022, Dr. Morse immediately began to make a significant impact on the cosmetic surgery community where he and his wife coined the term “Firmsculpt” for a patented procedure combining both outpatient liposuction and skin tightening under local anesthesia with truly outstanding cosmetic outcomes.

Dr. Morse and his wife support the arts and humanities, travel extensively, and in their free time enjoy exercise, tennis, golf, birding, spending time with their canine pack, the movies, and attending a diverse gamut of sports events and all genres of music concerts.