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Dr. Brian Wyche Hurley is medical director of Illumination MedSpa in Irmo, South Carolina. Dr. Hurley received his BS (’83) and MD (’89) from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona in 1993, and has since been involved in academic medicine. Dr. Hurley then worked as an assistant professor of Medicine and staff hospitalist at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. He moved back home to Columbia, South Carolina, in 2005 to become medical director of Hospital Internal Medicine at Palmetto Health Richland. In 2008, Dr. Hurley resigned as the medical director to pursue his true passion, and established Illumination MedSpa. He still works an assistant professor of Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and is a board-certified internist with additional training and certification in medical cosmetic procedures. He was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is an active member of the American Society For Laser Medicine and Surgery and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.