
Iñigo de Felipe y Gárate was born in Guipuzcoa, Spain, in an intellectual family. From childhood he wanted to become a doctor though his great passion was the piano, with which he gave several concerts. He went to medical school at the University of Navarra in which he was student representative several years. In 1992 he finished his studies and completed his training at Harvard University in Boston and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He then took his residency in Dermatology and Venereology under the direction of Professor Quintanilla in Pamplona’s Clinic University of Navarra, considered to be the leading hospital in Spain. There he soon started working with lasers and other technologies for treating skin diseases. He did his PhD in Radiofrequency and skin tightening and discovered the effects of this technology in fat tissue.