Kathryn Russo, FNP-BC

Kathryn Russo owns and founded KDR Aesthetics + Wellness in Newton, where she works as lead injector and runs the team. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who started in aesthetic medicine in 2009. She holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in nursing and has worked in healthcare systems affiliated with leading academic medical institutions. Her aesthetic practice focuses on neuromodulator therapy, dermal fillers, and PRP and PRF treatments, and she has added the O-Shot and P-shot. In hormone care she offers hormone replacement therapy, including pellet therapy, and over more than ten years she has developed hormone optimization and peptide therapy within her practice. Her work has been featured on television, in InStyle Boston and in Forbes Magazine, and a 2024 televised news segment reported on her medical weight management and peptide therapy. She is also a founding member of AMP MA, a group focused on professional collaboration and responsible growth in aesthetic medicine. Her clinical approach stresses anatomical precision, patient safety and individualized treatment planning.