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SEIZING THE WAVE Dr. Klein���s parents stressed to her the importance of education, though neither had ���nished high school. Her mother immigrated to the United States from Belguim to escape Hitler���s invasion prior to World War II. Her father���the son of European immigrants���grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. ���My parents encouraged me to strive to be successful in whatever I chose to be,��� she says. ���They wanted me to try my hardest and become successful, so I was very ambitious and I am very competitive, mostly with myself. I want to be the very best I can be.��� A native of New Jersey, Dr. Klein attended Rutgers University and received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her internship at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and residency training at the University of California, Irvine, before settling in Southern California with her husband, Frank Paul. ���I wanted to be an artist, and my parents���seeing In a nod to the product that launched cosmetic dermatology, Dr. Klein saved all her Botox cartons for one year and displays them in her reception area. 64 MARCH/APRIL 2013 | MedEsthetics that I was getting straight As and being typical Jewish parents���wanted me to be a doctor, so they pushed me to look into that,��� she says. ���Both my parents��� families included small business owners, so entrepreneurship is sort of a family gene.��� The combination of artistic skill, academic success and entrepreneurial sensibility have proven a powerful combination for Dr. Klein. ���My ���rst of���ce was 900 square feet and had two small rooms, and now we���re huge,��� she says. ���We never had the intention of being a medspa.��� With the the help of her husband, Dr. Klein was one of the ���rst dermatologists to seize upon the link between dermatology, cosmetic dermatology and esthetics. The couple launched Euro Day Spa���an adjunct business to her dermatology practice���in 1999. ���My husband founded the spa with me. It was his idea,��� she says. ���He was doing ���nancial planning at the time and wanted to do something different. Spas were