Medical director

In a medspa or multi-provider clinic setting, the medical director is the physician whose license and oversight structure allows non-physician staff to perform certain procedures under supervision, and whose judgment governs which products and procedures the practice offers. That oversight role is separate from day-to-day ownership or management of the business, which may sit with a non-physician in some practice structures.

State law shapes what a medical director can authorize and under what conditions. Florida's SB 1768, effective July 1, 2025, created a framework letting MDs and DOs use certain non-FDA-approved stem cell therapies in orthopedic, wound care, and pain management contexts with informed consent and defined disclosures, but it operates alongside, not instead of, federal FDA rules governing the product itself. Other states have their own experimental-treatment statutes with different terms, and a medical director's authority over a given product depends on whichever state and federal rules actually apply to that practice.

For physician-supervised practices, ask what account information and authorization PB requires. This entry does not advise on what a medical director may authorize in a given state; that determination belongs to the practice and its own legal counsel.

For medspas, ask what account information PB requires regarding medical director oversight.