Vanessa Karsch Hinson, MD, PhD

How you feel about your appearance affects your overall well-being. At MUSC Health Cosmetic Dermatology, we help you achieve your best self through customized treatment plans and a wide range of innovative, noninvasive procedures for your face and body. As skin experts backed by years of experience, we are committed to meeting each person’s desired results while delivering natural-looking, ageless beauty.

Dr. Kevin Delaney's specialties include all techniques of breast reconstruction, including minimally invasive prepectoral breast reconstruction, surgical conversion from subpectoral to the prepectoral breast reconstruction in patients who have had breast reconstruction with implants but have persistent pain, tightness, animation deformity, poor cleavage, or poor cosmetic outcome. Dr. Delaney performs DIEP flap breast reconstruction as well. He also frequently performs cosmetic breast surgery, including breast augmentation and breast lift surgery as well as cosmetic and reconstructive facial surgery. Dr. Delaney also works closely with the MUSC Weight Loss Surgery Program to help patients complete their journey following weight loss by removing excess skin and fat that frequently develops after weight loss. He has extensive experience in body contouring surgery after weight loss, including abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), brachioplasty (upper arm lift), thigh lift, and liposuction. Dr. Delaney also specializes in the treatment of abdominal wall ventral incisional hernias that require the specialty repair technique of component separation due to the recurrence or large size of the hernias. A graduate of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), he completed his general surgery residency as well as a fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Delaney then completed a hand and upper extremity surgery fellowship at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He is board certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Delaney is currently an assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Joel Cook grew up in Northeast Tennessee and came to Charleston to attend the College of Charleston where he graduated magna cum laude. Enamored with Charleston, he remained here for his medical school education at MUSC where he graduated second in his class. Following medical school, he completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Virginia. His dermatology residency was at MUSC. He then completed the prestigious fellowship in Mohs and dermatologic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, Shadyside in 1997.Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Cook joined the faculty of the Department of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. He currently is a professor of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery and the division head of Dermatologic Surgery. He has held many national appointments including the board of directors of the American College of Mohs Surgery. He has published extensively on varied topics in cutaneous oncology and reconstructive dermatologic surgery. He is the director of the fellowship training program in Dermatologic Surgery.Dr. Cook is regarded as one of the country's leading experts on Mohs and reconstructive dermatologic surgery and frequently lectures at national and international meetings. His area of expertise is Mohs micrographic surgery and reconstructive dermatologic surgery. His special interest is flap reconstruction of post-surgical facial defects. Dr. Cook has completed over 55,000 Mohs procedures. Dr. Cook has participated in several multicenter national clinical trials for Mohs surgery and melanoma treatments.