Board Certified
Cynthia M. Lopez, M.D.
Laser Surgery · Aesthetic Medicine
Her Story
A Lifelong Calling
Dr. Cynthia Lopez wanted to be a doctor since she was 7 years old. She was born in Nassco, Mariveles, Bataan in the Philippines, a rural town of about 5,000 people. Her little town was nestled in between the vast beautiful forest and the blue South China Sea. She was not sure why she wanted to be a doctor even at a young age but one thing for sure she knew, was to honor her parents by being a doctor.
Dr. Lopez graduated as a medical doctor in 1982 at University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Research Center in the Philippines. From there, she trained at a U.S. Naval Hospital in the Philippines, then at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
In 1994, she and her husband settled in Fresno, California. They have a blended family with 5 grown up children. In 2007 when she was 51 years old, she thought of seeing a good friend who is a plastic surgeon. She wanted to look fresh and kind of younger in preparation for her 25th medical school reunion. The plastic surgeon immediately recommended for her to have a facelift, brow lift and neck lift – all excisional surgery. This confused and horrified her. At that time, she had no idea about aesthetic medicine. She left the surgeon's office feeling terrible. She thought there must be ways to look better without surgery.
