As a major contributor to continuing education, Ms. Rayner used her extensive experience in the medical field to write the very first and definitive textbook on the specialty of clinical cosmetology/medical esthetics -- "Clinical Cosmetology; A Medical Approach to Esthetic Procedures." Since that time, she has co-authored numerous chapters for physicians' textbooks which include "Cosmetic Dermatology," 1st and 2nd Editions published by William and Wilkens, "Dermatologic Clinics" published by W.B. Saunders, and "Cosmetics - A Basic Textbook" published by Martin Dunitz Publishers. As a veteran author, Ms. Rayner also writes on issues concerning professional career women. She has built on her diverse background in business and is active in several national women's organizations.

In addition, Ms. Rayner consults with attorneys as an expert on disfigurement cases pertaining to personal injury. Because of the temporary scarring from a facial burn she suffered in 1972, Victoria Rayner has a special empathy for people with facial disfigurements. As she began to work with patients such as herself she realized more and more that cosmetic rehabilitation and image development can be extremely important to a patient's overall well-being, and for some is a last resort where they can benefit no further from medical or surgical treatment. Ms. Rayner learned that there was a real need for medical esthetic skills, but a notable lack of appropriately trained candidates to perform practices.

She discovered that there too were few sources of such training, it was quite costly, and that the few courses that were available did not encompass all of the clinical knowledge needed. Since there was no real established curriculum, she had to seek out alternatives. She attended support group meetings with hospital burn centers and cancer treatment clinics to learn about the psychological aspects of being disfigured, and took courses in corrective makeup as well as theatrical and stage makeup and sculpting.

Mainly because of the difficulties associated with her own initial training, for over 20 years, Ms. Rayner has actively campaigned to create a bridge between the cosmetology and the medical professions and to help establish a nationally recognized, accredited curriculum for the study of the clinical cosmetology and medical esthetics.

In 1987 Victoria Rayner founded the Camouflage Therapy Clinic within the Dermatology Department of U.C.S.F. Medical School. There she has participated in Surgical Grand Rounds, lecturing on cosmetics in oral maxillofacial surgery. In 1988 she opened her second in-hospital clinic, the Camouflage Therapy Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. This clinic specializes in camouflaging the Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions of AIDS patients. Ms. Rayner also founded the Cosmetic Rehabilitation Clinic in the Burn Center of the Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California in April of 1989. And most recently, in August of 1995, Ms. Rayner helped to establish a medical - esthetics division by training and consulting at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dedicated to the study of medical esthetics and image development, Ms. Rayner is the founder and Director of Education for the Center for Appearance and Esteem. The Center provides training (including specialties) to cosmetologists, estheticians, nurses and physicians. Ms. Rayner developed the curriculum, established rigorous certification criteria, and built a unique program of guest speakers which included burn survivors, AIDS patients, psychologists, cosmetic and reconstructive surgeons, anaplastologists and other allied health care providers.

Ms. Rayner has contributed to numerous audio training programs for nurses and physicians which include: "Practical Reviews in Dermatology," offering physician CME units, and audio training cassettes for the Dermatology Nursing Association (DNA). Ms. Rayner is one of the featured speakers for the DNA's national annual conference. Most recently, Ms. Rayner participated as a contributing educator at the Stanford University School of Medicine's Cosmetic Surgery Symposium.

A strong advocate for career advancement in the esthetic/cosmetology professions, Ms. Rayner has volunteered her services as a contributing educator to over 50 cosmetology schools. She encourages further communication between the cosmetology schools and the Board of Cosmetology, the Cosmetology School Association, and the California Cosmetologists Association that would allow students to receive 40 hours of credit for supervised skin care in a medically affiliated facility.

Ms. Rayner was the founder and served as president for the Bay Area Skin Care Association in San Francisco. She has been an active board member of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, participated in the Alta Bates Self-Help Burn Support Organization and the National Brain Tumor Foundation, among many others. Ms. Rayner is a frequent speaker and featured guest on national and international radio and television media. Her media exposure includes such programs as Jane Riley's "Women in Business" radio talk show on KCBS in San Francisco, California and Dr Dean Edel's nationally syndicated show, "Medical Report." She was also interviewed on the internationally broadcasted "Voice of America," KPIX (CBS affiliate) and Channel 7 (ABC affiliate) in San Francisco, "Nouvelles Esthetiques," "Dermascope," "Skin, Inc." and the "Dermatology Nursing" medical journal and has a  column in this web site entitled "Monthly Column".

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