Stacey E. Whitehead, M.D.

Dr. Whitehead earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa and her medical degree from University of Iowa College of Medicine. She completed her General Surgery residency at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado. She joined Physician’s Clinic Council Bluffs as a general surgeon in 2003. Dr. Whitehead continued in Council Bluffs Surgical Associates from 2005-2012 adding clinic based aesthetic treatments to her general surgery practice in 2008. In 2012, CB Skin Secrets was started as a sole proprietorship when Dr. Whitehead “retired” from General Surgery. From 2012 to 2026 I filled in as needed as a provider at the Advanced Wound Center at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.

Dr. Whitehead is board certified in General Surgery and has completed extensive additional training and education in aesthetic medicine, including the physics of laser and light applications through Sciton and Medical Laser Dynamics. Her advanced training includes Botox, Jeuveau, PRP, PDO lifting and rejuvenation treatments, Morpheus8—including Resurfacing and newer Body modalities—thermiTight, and thermiVa, as well as a variety of dermal fillers, including Revanesse Versa Lips and the JUVÉDERM family of fillers. She also served as a clinical investigator in studies involving thermiSmooth that contributed to FDA clearance for applications including the temporary reduction in the appearance of cellulite and relief of minor soft tissue pain. Dr. Whitehead was also among the first group of physicians in the United States trained in the SPYDR Lift technique for in-office rejuvenation of multiple areas of the body.

Products used, recommended and sold are specifically chosen and all (minimally as well as many non) invasive procedures are performed by Dr. Whitehead herself. If patients have any concerns, critiques or questions, they are invited to share them with Dr. Whitehead directly and openly. A true partnership in attaining your aesthetic goals and creating a maintenance skincare regimen which works well for each patient is a founding principle at CB Skin Secrets.

She and her husband have two children.

PROFESSIONAL INTEREST

• General Surgery, Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Wound Care
• Aesthetic Treatments and Minimally Invasive Procedures
• Injectables
• Skincare
• Light and Laser Treatments
• Minimally invasive lifts including Silhouette Lift (InstaLift) and SPYDR lift, Avelar and S lifts but progressing to less invasive, no incision methods with PDO threads
• thermi Smooth/Tight/Va noninvasive and Morpheus8 microneedling radiofrequency treatments
• Sciton Forever Young BBL, BBL HERO, Moxi nonablative laser and Erbium Profractional and other ablative modalities

EDUCATION

• Double B.A., University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 1989-1993, Summa Cum Laude
• M.D., University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 1993- 1997
• Postgraduate Research Assistant, Autosomal Dominant Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss in a Large Kindred Dr. R. J. H. Smith, Dept. of Molecular Otolaryngology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA June 1997 – May 1998

RESIDENCY

• General Surgery Saint Joseph Hospital Denver, Colorado 1998-2003

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

• Whitehead, Stacey and Peter Jochimsen. “Contour Conserving Surgery For Breast Cancer After Augmentation Mammoplasty.” Surgical Rounds March 1999: 134-140.
• Whitehead, Stacey and George Peters. “Medical Error and Mammography.” American College of Surgeons, Colorado Chapter Meeting, Breckenridge, CO, June 2000.
• Whitehead, Stacey and George Peters. “Medical Error and Mammography.” Southwestern Surgical Conference, Cancun, Mexico, April 2001.
• Whitehead, Stacey, Michael Fenoglio, and Erik Ratzer. “The Importance of Preoperative Imaging for Patients with ITP Prior to Laparoscopic Splenectomy” The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons Conference, New York, NY, Dec 2001.