About
Dr Christopher Lalemi
Founder and Medical Director, REGEN Clinic
Dr Christopher Lalemi — known to clients as Dr Chris — is the founder and Medical Director of REGEN Clinic, a doctor-led aesthetics, regenerative skincare and wellness practice with clinics in London Mayfair and Norwich. He qualified in medicine at King's College London and trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery within the NHS. He is registered with the General Medical Council, accredited by Save Face, and a published author on injectable safety in the Journal of Aesthetic Nursing.
Why REGEN exists
I built REGEN Clinic because the aesthetics world was beginning to reward the wrong thing. Volume over restraint. Spectacle over restoration. Treatments stacked rather than treatments planned. The thing I respected most about the medicine I'd trained in — patience, judgement, the slow improvement of tissue over time — was being quietly written out of the conversation.
REGEN is what happens when you put that judgement back in. We restore skin from within. We work with the architecture clients already have rather than against it. We measure success in skin quality, not in millilitres. And every client journey begins with a proper clinical assessment, because everything else flows from that.
That philosophy is the reason for the name. Regeneration — of skin, of confidence, of a calmer relationship with how you look — is the work. The treatments are the tools.
Training and background
I qualified in medicine at King's College London (Guy's, King's & St Thomas' Medical School) and trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery within the NHS.
Plastic surgery teaches you to see skin the way no other specialty does. You learn what scars mean. You learn how the deeper tissues hold the surface. You learn the difference between a treatment that has worked and a treatment that has only changed how something looks. I bring that lens to every consultation at REGEN.
REGEN began in London. The Mayfair / Fitzrovia clinic was the original. REGEN Norwich opened in 2024, bringing the practice to a city I'd come to know well during my training.
How I work with clients
Every new client at REGEN starts with the Reveal Consultation — sixty minutes with me, properly. We assess the skin, talk through what you're noticing and what you're hoping for, and we write a plan. Sometimes the plan is a single treatment. More often it's a sequence — what to do first, what to leave alone, what your skin needs at home, and when to come back.
I don't believe in pressure-led consultations and I don't sell from the chair. The plan you leave with is a plan you can take to any clinician — but my hope, and what most clients choose, is that we work through it together over time. Skin is a long conversation, not a single appointment.
The framework that holds it together is what I've come to call the REGEN Method — four pillars: Reveal (clinical assessment), Elevate (medical-grade homecare), Generate (regenerative treatments such as Profhilo, polynucleotides, PRP, microneedling), and Nurture (ongoing reviews and adjustment). It's the structure that turns treatments into outcomes.
Philosophy
Two phrases come up often in how I describe what we do: “the art of subtle aesthetics” and “wear your best skin”.
The first is shorthand for what I want every client to leave looking like — themselves, on a good day, and at no point in the consultation does the question “what have you had done?” become useful to anyone. The second is the bigger goal — that you stop spending energy fighting your skin and start spending it on everything else.
That sounds soft. It isn't. Subtle results are technically harder than dramatic ones, because they require restraint, sequencing, and the willingness to do less than is possible. The medicine of saying no is at least as important as the medicine of saying yes.
Recognition
REGEN Clinic has been recognised in successive years by LUXlife Magazine:
- Best Boutique Medical Aesthetics Clinic 2024 — UK
- Best Regenerative Aesthetics & Wellness Clinic 2025 — UK
- Most Innovative Scalp Health Wellness Treatment 2025
The 2024 award is the one that means most to me. It was given the year we opened REGEN Norwich — the second clinic — and to be recognised by the wider profession in the same year is the kind of timing you can't plan for.
The 2025 scalp health award is the second I'm proudest of. The Japanese Head Spa programme at our Norwich clinic was built quietly over a long period, and the recognition of scalp health as a serious wellness category — not a salon novelty — is overdue.
Published research
I have contributed to the peer-reviewed aesthetic medicine literature on the safety of injectable technique:
Kisyova R, Karkhi A, Lalemi C. Using a needle versus cannula: the advantages and disadvantages. Journal of Aesthetic Nursing. 2020;9(2):81–83.
The needle-versus-cannula debate sits at the centre of injectable safety. The published evidence — and our paper sat within it — points strongly toward cannula technique for most volumising work, particularly where vascular anatomy is unforgiving. Where I use needles, I use them deliberately, and only where they offer something the cannula cannot.
Outside the clinic
I write regularly for the REGEN Journal — long-form, doctor-led writing on skin, regeneration, and the realities of aesthetic medicine done well. The cornerstone piece, The Skincare Ladder, is the one I'd recommend reading first if you're considering working with us.
Credentials
- Qualification
- MBBS, King's College London
- Surgical training
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery (NHS)
- GMC registration
- 7560090
- Accreditation
- Save Face Accredited Practitioner
- Published research
- Using a needle versus cannula: the advantages and disadvantages. Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, 2020.
- Specialisms
- Regenerative skin treatments · Polynucleotides · Profhilo · PRP therapy · Microneedling · ZO Skin Health · Obagi Medical
Considering a consultation?
The Reveal Consultation is the first step for every new client. Sixty minutes with Dr Chris. £50, redeemable against treatment on the day.
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About Dr Chris — common questions
The questions clients most often ask about Dr Chris's training and how he works.
Who is Dr Chris Lalemi?
Dr Christopher Lalemi is the founder and Medical Director of REGEN Clinic. He qualified in medicine at King's College London and trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery within the NHS. He is registered with the General Medical Council and accredited by Save Face.
Is Dr Chris GMC registered?
Yes. Dr Christopher Lalemi is fully registered with the General Medical Council under registration number 7560090. The registration is verifiable on the GMC's medical register.
What is Dr Chris's surgical background?
Plastic and reconstructive surgical training within the NHS. Plastic surgery training shapes how Dr Chris approaches skin — with an emphasis on tissue quality, restoration, and restraint.
Does Dr Chris perform every treatment personally?
Dr Chris performs every injectable treatment, every consultation, and every regenerative treatment personally. Skin treatments such as facials, HydraFacial, peels and the Japanese Head Spa are delivered by trained REGEN therapists working within plans Dr Chris has prescribed.
Is Dr Chris Save Face accredited?
Yes. Dr Chris is a Save Face accredited practitioner. Save Face is the UK's only government and Department of Health-funded register of accredited aesthetic clinicians.
Has Dr Chris published any peer-reviewed research?
Yes. Dr Chris is a co-author of Using a needle versus cannula: the advantages and disadvantages, published in the Journal of Aesthetic Nursing (2020;9(2):81–83), examining the safety profile of injectable technique.
What does "the art of subtle aesthetics" mean?
It is Dr Chris's framing for what good aesthetic medicine should produce — results that look like you, on a good day, rather than results that announce themselves. The phrase reflects a clinical preference for restraint, sequencing, and natural-looking outcomes over dramatic single-treatment change.
Can I book a consultation specifically with Dr Chris?
Yes. The Reveal Consultation is sixty minutes with Dr Chris personally, in either the Norwich or London Mayfair clinic. This is the entry point for every new clinical client.