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Katy Romeo is the Office Manager at Novella Medical Services. She has 7+ years of experience as a Medical Assistant and enjoys working with patients. Katy’s knowledge of customer service, office procedures, and workflow promote a positive patient experience that will leave you feeling fresh and confident in your skin. Katy is working on her Bachelor of Science in Nursing to become a nurse in 2024. She is here to address any of your questions or concerns!

Dr. Sam Romeo is a board-certified family medicine, sports medicine, and certified aesthetics physician who believes in bringing out the best in everyone. He listens carefully to understand who you are as a whole person and what you would like to accomplish, and then crafts a beautiful plan that results in a natural look and feel that you will love.

After spending his childhood years moving around the country, including attending three different high schools in four years, Dr. Sam makes it a priority to help people always feel at home. He graduated from Boston College as an undergraduate, University of Southern California for medical school, completed his family medicine residency and sports medicine fellowship from Kaiser Fontana. After working as a medical director in Los Angeles, he moved to Turlock in 2002 to be closer to family. This move coincided with Botox’s FDA approval for aesthetic purposes and Dr. Sam became one of the early aesthetic medicine injectors. Twenty years later, he and his physician sister, Dr. Lisa, developed one of the busiest aesthetic medicine practices in the United States.

Dr. Sam has served as an Allergan faculty trainer for many years and has trained many aesthetic injectors throughout California. He makes sure all Novella patients look and feel like they were cared for by the best.

Dr. Sam’s Core Values of Impact, Wisdom, Encouragement, and Spirituality guide him daily. His wife and 4 daughters describe him as “a definite girl dad”. He sees patient visits as an opportunity to impact, encourage, and connect with people and his “less-is-more” approach leaves people looking natural and youthful.

Dr. Lisa Romeo is a board-certified family medicine physician and certified aesthetics physician who believes in whole-person health for life optimization. She strives to help people discover their natural beauty by listening and developing a plan that focuses on rejuvenation and balance.

After spending her childhood years in Idaho, family moves brought her to Southern California and Florida to attend four high schools in four years. She graduated from St. Louis University magna cum laude and the Medical College of Wisconsin before training at the largest family practice residency program in the United States, John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. She served as house staff vice president during her second year of residency, house staff president during her third year of residency, and then worked as a faculty member for the family medicine residency Program. The desire to be near family brought her back west where she has worked in both solo and group settings.

Around 2012, Dr. Lisa’s brother, Dr. Sam Romeo, began urging her to join him in an aesthetic medicine practice. Initially thinking this might require her to give up the intimacy and connection she valued with her family medicine patients, she soon discovered she could continue connecting with patients using a different medical tool. She now enjoys both connecting with patients and the artistry that aesthetic medicine provides to help patients become the best version of themselves.

Dr. Lisa’s Core Values of Harmony, Mastery, and Responsibility guide her daily. She takes each patient visit as an opportunity to connect with a person who trusts her to deliver incredible results that appear natural and healthy. Her overarching goal is to help bring out the underlying beauty in each patient she sees to help them optimize their mental health and happiness.