Meet The Team
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Meet The Team ✦
Treatment Providers —
At Aura Med Spa & Aesthetics, our team is more than just providers—we are passionate professionals dedicated to helping you look and feel your very best.
Alma Peña RN
Experienced. Compassionate. Focused on You.
With 20 years of nursing experience, I bring a strong foundation of clinical expertise, surgical knowledge, trauma care, leadership, and patient-centered care to aesthetic medicine.
I have spent my career working in the Operating Room, including as a Trauma RN, PACU, and Outpatient Surgical Services, as well as serving as a Clinical Coordinator in an Outpatient Surgery Center. I also have experience as a Bariatric Surgical Nurse in a Bariatric Clinic, supporting patients throughout their surgical and weight-loss journeys.
My passion for aesthetics led me to pursue specialized training at NLI in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I developed advanced knowledge and skills in aesthetic treatments and techniques.
I have also successfully completed Medical Professional Aesthetic Training with Monarch Master Injectors, expanding my expertise in Dermaplaning, Microneedling, neurotoxin treatments, IV Therapy, weight management, and wellness services.
Today, I combine my background in trauma and surgical nursing, clinical leadership, bariatric care, wellness, and aesthetic medicine to provide personalized treatments focused on safety, precision, and natural-looking results.
I believe aesthetic and wellness care should be about more than appearance. It is about confidence, self-care, wellness, and helping each person feel comfortable and confident in their own skin.
Lucille Mercado, MD
Provider & Medical Director
Dr. Lucille Mercado brings over two decades of dedicated medical experience. With a distinguished career at a renown healthcare organization in both Los Angeles and South San Francisco, she served as a primary care physician and kidney specialist, leading her department with expertise and compassion.
Dr. Mercado also practiced as an internist and kidney specialist in New Orleans, Louisiana, deepening her commitment to comprehensive patient care.
Passionate about holistic health, she now focuses on integrating skincare and overall wellness, providing a personalized approach that empowers patients to achieve their best health from the inside out and so she creates and transitions to Aura Med Spa & Aesthetics.
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