INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. Aging is a natural, necessary part of life. Over time, your body begins to illustrate the bends, twists and turns your life has taken. Wrinkles and sun spots reflect damage from days spent under the intense glow of harmful ultraviolet rays. Joint and muscle pains may indicate too little or even too much exercise over a lifespan. Skin sags in places you wish it wouldn't, fat cells accumulate in unflattering proportions, and hormone imbalances only expedite the aging process.

But what if you could rehabilitate a torn meniscus without surgery and a long recovery process? What if you could lose weight quickly without going under the knife? What if you could look 10 years younger without the painful aid of a face lift?

Dr. Rebecca Gelber is proving that you can.

As founder of Tahoe Medical Spa in Incline Village, Gelber's mission is to bring minimally invasive anti-aging therapies to the aesthetic medical field through innovative treatments and technologies. At her boutique-like practice, which she co-owns with her husband Michael, Gelber offers an abundance of non-invasive services like dermal fillers, vein sclerotherapy and weight loss plans.

It sounds vain; however, Gelber is anything but.

In fact, until opening the medical spa nearly two years ago, Gelber had dedicated her life's work to emergency response medicine. After graduating from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1993, Gelber completed her residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where she met the love of her life, Michael.

When I started looking for a job with a university, Michael said to me, I'll follow you any place in world as long as it's in California and not within 3 hours of Los Angeles,' Gelber said, turning to her husband with a grin stretched across her angelic face.

Without hesitation, Gelber followed her heart's desire to Northern California where she worked as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center for eight years before relocating to Tahoe in 2000.

With a passion still burning for emergency medicine, Gelber went to work in the ER unit at Renown Medical Center and also taught classes at UNR, but the chaos and hardships of emergency response began to take their toll on Gelber's graceful spirit.

I really did enjoy emergency medicine, but after a long period of time, you start to want to develop relationships with your patients that are ongoing you really want to help people be well, and what you're seeing in emergency medicine is the end result of people who haven't been able to take care of themselves, Gelber said.

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