About Dr. Acosta
Dr. José Hernando Acosta Ramírez is a hair restoration surgeon whose work
sits at the intersection of surgical craft and medical rigor. He holds a
master's degree in epidemiology, the study of how and why conditions
develop and progress across populations, and has completed postgraduate
coursework in dermatology, the medicine of the skin and scalp. Together
with his background in aesthetic medicine, that training shapes the
methodical way he assesses each case.
That perspective matters most in the consult. Before recommending a plan,
he looks at the pattern and likely progression of your hair loss, the
quality and capacity of your donor area, and what a natural result should
look like a decade from now, not just on the day you fly home. If a
transplant is not the right call, he will say so.
In the procedure itself, he plans and performs FUE and DHI personally,
combining the two techniques where it serves the result: harvesting
conservatively to protect the donor area for the long term, and refining
the hairline and high-visibility zones with the precision DHI allows.
A growing share of his practice is repair work: patients who arrive with
a transplant done elsewhere, an over-harvested donor area, a hairline
placed too low or too straight, or visible scarring. These are the least
forgiving cases in hair restoration, because what remains of the donor
supply has to be read precisely and spent wisely. His dermatology
training and his epidemiologist's eye for progression are why the clinic
assigns him its most complex scalps, and why second procedures over
previous FUE work are where his experience shows most.
Focus areas
- Hairline design and restoration
- Combined FUE and DHI hair transplants
- Repair of transplants performed elsewhere and complex scalp cases
- Long-term donor-area management
- Aesthetic-medicine support around the procedure