$500 off pre-enrollment — Master Peptide Practitioner Certification launches December 1
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Clinician-Led
Certification Program Faculty
The certification curriculum is developed and led by board-certified physicians and advanced practice clinicians who use peptide protocols in active clinical practice — not career lecturers. Meet the faculty behind the credential.
Every level of the certification is built on curriculum Empire developed in tandem with practicing, board-certified physicians — the same standard behind Empire's live course catalog since 1998.
Lead Instructor
Dr. Joseph B. Beavers, MD
Board-Certified, Family Medicine
Residency, Mayo Clinic — Rochester
20+ Years in Clinical Practice
Dr. Beavers is the creator of Empire's multi-part peptide video curriculum — the detailed, module-by-module foundation that anchors Level I of the certification program. He earned his medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine and completed his Family Medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Before medicine, he trained at the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Florida, where he earned both a BS and an MS in Applied Physiology — a background that still shapes how he teaches peptide science: physiology first, protocols second. He brings more than 20 years of clinical experience to the program. Full faculty profile →
Peptide Therapy Faculty
Dr. Valerie F. Civelli, MD
Board-Certified, Family Medicine (ABFM)
Board-Certified, Functional & Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM)
Chief Resident, UCLA-Affiliated Residency
Dr. Civelli is double board-certified — in Family Medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine, and in Functional & Regenerative Medicine through ABAARM. She earned her MD at Windsor University School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine residency at UCLA-affiliated Rio Bravo, where she served as Chief Resident.
Her research on chronic disease and innovative therapies has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Oxford University Press and the Journal of Investigative Medicine. She has served on multiple executive health and community boards, and her honors include being twice named "Outstanding Physician of the Year" and receiving the Hans Einstein Award. A physician, educator, and researcher, she bridges conventional medical rigor and innovation — with a mission to educate and empower clinicians through personalized, scientifically sound care.
Chief Medical Officer, Empire Medical Training
Dr. Chris Croley, MD
Board-Certified, Anesthesiology
Board-Certified, Critical Care Medicine
20+ Years of Clinical Experience
As Chief Medical Officer of Empire Medical Training, Dr. Croley oversees the medical standards behind every Empire program — including this certification. He is board-certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, trained at Rush and Northwestern, with more than 20 years of clinical experience.
His role in the certification program is the standard itself: ensuring the curriculum, assessments, and clinical protocols meet the bar Empire has held its training to since 1998. Full faculty profile →
Director of Anti-Aging, Empire Medical Training
Dr. Betsy Greenleaf, DO
Board-Certified, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Board-Certified, Urogynecology
Two Decades in Women’s Health
Dr. Greenleaf is Empire’s Director of Anti-Aging and the first board-certified female urogynecologist in the United States. She teaches Empire’s hormone pellet therapy and medical weight loss programs — the two areas where clinicians most often meet peptides first.
That work maps directly onto this curriculum: the metabolic and weight-management module, the hormone–peptide interface, and the longevity protocols where hormones and peptides have to be coordinated rather than stacked blindly. Full faculty profile →
Founder, President & Medical Director, Empire Medical Training
Dr. Stephen Cosentino, DO
Board-Certified, Family Medicine
Founder of Empire Medical Training, 1998
22+ Years in Aesthetic Medicine
Dr. Cosentino founded Empire Medical Training in 1998 and still keeps daily, hands-on oversight of what it teaches. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University and completed his Family Practice residency at Mt. Sinai in New York.
Every Empire credential carries his standard, and this one is no exception: he signs off on what the program claims, what it assesses, and what a graduate is entitled to say they can do. Full faculty profile →
Clinical oversight; the live instructor for a given session may differ.
Functional Medicine Faculty
Dr. Faride Ramos, MD
Board-Certified, Internal Medicine
Board-Certified, Functional Medicine (ABAARM, FAAMFM)
Gut Health, Microbiome & Integrative Medicine
Dr. Ramos is double board-certified in Internal Medicine and Functional Medicine. She practiced internal medicine for several years after medical school before earning her functional medicine board certification, and today leads her own functional and integrative medicine clinic in South Florida.
Her work bridges conventional internal medicine with a root-cause, functional approach — the same framework she brings to Empire's curriculum, where she teaches the Functional Gut Health course and serves as medical reviewer for Empire's gut health and functional medicine guides. Full faculty profile →
Empire Educator
Susan Omar, NP
Nurse Practitioner, 7+ Years in Practice
Advanced Training in Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine
U.S. Army Veteran — 8 Years of Service
Susan Omar is a nurse practitioner with more than seven years of experience specializing in aesthetic and regenerative medicine, with advanced training across anti-aging, aesthetic and regenerative medicine, sexual health and wellness, and interventional pain management.
She serves as an educator for Empire Medical Training, where she trains and mentors other providers in advanced medical aesthetics, and practices at ELIVATE. She is a U.S. Army veteran with eight years of service.
Aesthetic & Regenerative Medicine Faculty
Dr. Francisco Hernández Gómez Crespo, MD
MD, MBA — Aesthetic & Regenerative Medicine
Cadaver Anatomy & Ultrasound for Fillers, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Research in Biostimulation & Biomimetic Peptides
Dr. Hernández is an aesthetic and regenerative medicine physician practicing in Mexico, where he founded the Élevé clinic. His clinical work centers on advanced facial harmonization, rhinomodeling and non-surgical facial lifting, and he has developed his own protocols in facial harmonization and biorevitalization.
His research interests sit squarely in this program’s territory: biostimulation and biomimetic peptides for evidence-based skin regeneration, alongside hyaluronic acid and growth-factor approaches. He completed cadaver anatomy and ultrasound training for filler materials at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, and speaks regularly at national and international aesthetic medicine congresses.
Empire Faculty
Dr. Gamil Makar, MD
Board-Certified, Family Medicine
Board-Certified, Aesthetic Medicine
In Practice Since 2009
Dr. Makar is board certified in Family Medicine along with several additional boards including Aesthetic Medicine. He entered the aesthetic field in 2009 — initially including liposuction and fat transfer — and has focused exclusively on non-invasive aesthetics since 2019.
He currently practices out of two offices in Clifton and Paterson, New Jersey. Full faculty profile →
Lead Colombia Instructor
Dra. Julieth Martínez Ocampo
International Master’s in Aesthetic Medicine, College of Catalonia
Master’s in Aesthetic Medicine, Nutrition & Clinic Management (CTO)
Permanent Lecturer, ACICME Colombia
Dra. Martínez Ocampo is an aesthetic physician with extensive academic and clinical experience across aesthetic medicine, nutrition, and clinic management. She holds an International Master’s Degree in Aesthetic Medicine from the College of Catalonia and a Master’s from CTO and the Colombian Medical Federation, plus a Diploma in Epidemiology from Universidad del Rosario.
She is a permanent lecturer at the annual courses of the Colombian Scientific Association of Aesthetic Medicine (ACICME), and her practice emphasizes research and clinical study alongside patient care. Full faculty profile →
Lead Mexico Instructor
Dr. Ana Cecilia Becerril
Master’s in Aesthetic Medicine, UIB — Palma de Mallorca
Master’s in Aesthetic & Longevity Medicine, Mexico
President, Asociación de Medicina Estética, Longevidad y Cosmética Clínica
Dr. Becerril holds a Medical Degree from the Universidad del Estado de Morelos, Mexico, a Master’s in Aesthetic Medicine from UIB in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and a Master’s in Aesthetic and Longevity Medicine in Mexico.
She serves as President of the Asociación de Medicina Estética, Longevidad y Cosmética Clínica and Academic Director of its Advanced Diploma Program. A certified member of AMWC and the Sociedad Española de Medicina Estética, she is also a certified instructor with the Sociedad Médica Mexicana de Terapia Celular. Full faculty profile →
The Empire Faculty Model
Built by Empire, in tandem with its faculty.
Empire has led procedural medical education since 1998, and it builds every program the same way: Empire sets the curriculum standard, and its faculty — practicing clinicians who run these protocols daily — shape it with what works in the clinic. The result carries both: Empire’s educational rigor and its faculty’s clinical reality.
Empire's developing faculty appear across the program's webinars, interviews, and conference stages, and each cohort session is delivered by Empire faculty — clinicians whose work is public, published, and accountable.
Curriculum developed by Empire in tandem with board-certified physicians in active clinical practice
Faculty-led live webinars and virtual Q&A sessions throughout the program
Empire promotes its faculty — interviews, webinars, and conference appearances — so you learn from clinicians whose work is public and accountable
Empire leads program design, accreditation infrastructure, and operations — faculty focus on teaching
The PPC is available now. MPPC pre-enrollment is open at the $4,995 first-cohort rate ahead of the December 1 launch. Call and we will match you to the right program.
