Professor Rhoda MacKenzie

Cosmetic Doctor

Years of Practice: 21

Professor Rhoda MacKenzie Founder & Medical Director, Age Reversal Therapies Ltd. Rhoda MacKenzie spent twenty years working in the NHS as a surgeon — the kind who operated on people, not just their illness

General surgery, vascular surgery, a higher doctorate, a professorship at the University of Aberdeen. It is, by any measure, not the obvious path to running an aesthetics clinic in the Aberdeenshire countryside. And yet. In 2005 she opened Age Reversal Therapies, initially alongside her surgical career, and has been quietly doing things differently ever since. The clinic sits about twenty minutes west of Aberdeen — unhurried, private, and deliberately nothing like a high street beauty salon. Because it isn’t one. What Rhoda brings to aesthetics is something the industry doesn’t manufacture: the kind of anatomical understanding and clinical honesty that only comes from years of actual medicine. She’ll tell you what will make a difference and what won’t. She’ll tell you if something isn’t right for you. She’ll also make you laugh, which wasn’t necessarily what you expected walking in. She will also help you prioritise what’s best for you and will give you the most value for your money. The clinic has grown to reflect what her clients are actually dealing with. Alongside surgical and non-surgical aesthetics, the team at Age Reversal Therapies now offers women’s health and menopause medicine, and a longevity programme built around the idea that how you age on the outside is only half the conversation. The two things, it turns out, are not unrelated – wellness fundamentally changes how well your aesthetics treatments work and last. Her clients are men and women who’ve done their homework, know what they want, and are tired of being handed a leaflet instead of an answer. They tend to stay. No menus, no packages, no pressure. Just a female surgeon who decided that helping people feel like themselves again — at every level — was the most interesting problem she’d ever tackled.