Dr. Christine M. Shaver

Christine M. Shaver, MD is head of the Manhattan office of Bernstein Medical - Center for Hair Restoration, where the clinic states she and Dr. Robert Bernstein perform hair transplants daily.1 The clinic states she is a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs micrographic surgeon, and says her Mohs-fellowship skills underlie the FUT and FUE transplants she now performs.1

The practice's stated procedure list includes FUT (strip), manual FUE, Robotic FUE with the ARTAS iX system, long-hair Robotic FUE, transplant repair, transgender hair transplants, and eyebrow transplants.1 In FUT, the clinic describes the surgeon excising the donor strip and closing it with sutures or staples, with a technician team then dissecting it into grafts under microscopes, while the physician creates recipient sites with a fine needle instrument.6 Graft placement is done manually by a trained team using forceps, since the site states the ARTAS robot does not yet have graft-placement capability.8 For robotic FUE, the clinic says it uses custom 0.8mm and 0.9mm punches instead of what it calls the industry-standard 1.0mm punch, to reduce scarring, though it states some patients have less transection with the larger punch.5 The clinic states a typical session runs 300 to 3,000 grafts and can last eight or more hours, with the longest split across two days.8 Hairline and crown design is described as a physician-led judgment made with the patient, bounded by finite donor supply.8

A physician evaluation for patterned hair loss costs $250, per the clinic's published consultation fees; surgical cost itself is not published and is instead determined at consultation based on graft count, with CareCredit financing offered.3

The practice offers in-office, paid virtual, and free photo-assessment consultations, though it states virtual and photo options don't substitute for an in-office visit when surgery is being considered.7 The clinic states it does not advise surgery in patients younger than 25 for five reasons, including that a physician cannot reliably determine whether a young patient's donor area will remain stable over time.4

Her CV lists membership in the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons, American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, and American Academy of Dermatology.2