Sun Aesthetic Clinic was founded in January 2022 by Dr. Jay Sun, MD — an anesthesiologist and pain management specialist who wanted to build a different kind of medical spa. What started as one physician’s idea of how a careful aesthetic practice should feel has grown into a boutique clinic in Bellevue’s Crossroads district, with a fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon on the clinical team and a small, settled staff who know their patients by name.
This is the long version of that story — the people, the philosophy, and the way a visit here is meant to feel.
How the Clinic Came to Be
Dr. Jay Sun spent the formative years of his career inside operating rooms. After medical school at Nanjing Medical University and an anesthesiology residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, he practiced for years in clinical anesthesia and pain management — the parts of medicine where a quiet hand, a calm voice, and an exact protocol matter most. Anesthesiology is, at its core, the medicine of safety and comfort. It teaches a physician to track physiology in real time, to anticipate what the body is about to do, and to keep the patient settled through whatever the procedure asks of them.
That training carried over when his clinical interests began to widen. Pain management is rarely a single-visit conversation; patients return, protocols evolve, and the physician learns to think in arcs rather than appointments. From there, the questions started to feel adjacent: how the body recovers, how tissue regenerates, how a face — or a system — ages well. Regenerative medicine sat at the natural intersection of all of that.
By the late 2010s, Dr. Sun had begun administering injectable cosmetic treatments alongside his pain practice. The work suited him: precise, anatomical, repeatable, and built on the same physiological vocabulary he had been speaking for years. But the more time he spent inside the aesthetic field, the more he noticed a gap. Some clinics offered exceptional procedural skill but felt like assembly lines. Others felt warm but ran thin on protocol. A few good ones did both, but the patient often had to drive across the lake to find them.
The opening, as he describes it, was for an unhurried, surgical-grade consultation delivered inside a space that felt like a place a patient might want to return to — for the next decade, not the next quarter. January 2022, Sun Aesthetic Clinic opened at the Crossroads in Bellevue. Suite A-8. Nine providers, eventually. One front door.
What the Clinic Tries to Be
The phrase Dr. Sun uses for the standard he wanted is homey feel — and it deserves a moment of unpacking because, on its face, it sounds like a small thing.
Inside an anesthesiology practice, comfort is a clinical outcome. A patient who tenses up changes their hemodynamics. A patient who feels rushed reports more pain. A patient who trusts the room is easier to treat, recovers faster, and returns sooner. So homey feel — at Sun Aesthetic Clinic — is not the décor. It is the protocol.
That looks like a few specific things in practice:
- Consultations that run as long as the conversation needs, with written take-home plans rather than verbal urgency.
- Treatment rooms with thirty-minute scheduling buffers, so the visit ahead of yours does not run into yours.
- A refusal of the upsell script. If a treatment is not appropriate for a given patient, the answer is no — and the room rate matters less than the relationship that gets walked out the door.
- Bloodwork-informed planning on the wellness side, where it changes the protocol.
- A small, settled staff who know returning patients by name and remember the last conversation.
None of those things are unique on their own. Together, inside one boutique, they describe a way of practicing that is hard to do at scale and easy to drift away from. Keeping the clinic boutique was always the point.
A Practice With Two Branches
There is a structural reason Sun Aesthetic Clinic is organized into two clinical branches — a MedSpa side and a Wellness side — and it is worth saying out loud, because the structure is doing real clinical work, not marketing work.
The MedSpa branch answers one kind of question: how does the surface present, and what would refine it. That is the territory of injectables, energy-based devices, skin protocols, and the surgical-anatomical judgment that decides where a millimeter matters. It is the work patients usually associate with the words aesthetic clinic.
The Wellness branch answers a different question: how is the underlying system performing, and what does it need. That is the territory of bloodwork, peptide protocols, IV therapy, weight management, and the slower-arc protocols that influence how the surface looks years from now. It is the work that an anesthesiologist with a pain-and-regenerative background is uniquely positioned to oversee — because the questions are physiological before they are cosmetic.
The two branches share a building, a front desk, and a chart. They do not share a script. A patient who comes in for a Botox refresh is not being routed toward a weight-management protocol, and a patient on a peptide plan is not being upsold a laser series. The branches exist so the right clinical question gets asked first, and the second question is asked only if the patient wants to ask it.
The MedSpa branch is surgeon-led; the Wellness branch is physician-supervised under Dr. Sun. Both honesty-anchors matter, and both are kept honest by the same clinical leadership.
Adding a Surgical Lens: Albert Yang, MD
When the clinic was a year into its run, Dr. Sun made a deliberate addition to the team: a fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon to anchor the surgical-anatomical lens on the MedSpa side.
Albert Yang, MD completed his facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship with the American Association of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) at Emory University and Premier Image Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Center. Before that, he completed his head-and-neck reconstructive surgery residency at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, his medical degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University, a master’s in stem cell biology and human nutrition at Columbia University, and a biochemistry undergraduate at UC San Diego.
Board certification is anticipated in September 2026. Until that credential is awarded, the clinic uses fellowship-trained as the lead descriptor — accurate, defensible, and the credential that actually informs the work he does inside the clinic today.
What he brings is specific. A fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon spends years learning the anatomy of the face in the most demanding way the field knows how: under the lights, with instruments in hand, through tissue planes that do not forgive a guess. That training does not vanish when the procedure is non-surgical. It comes with him into every filler placement, every laser setting, every injection plan, every consultation where the right answer might be not now or not this.
The combination is rare and intentional. Dr. Sun’s anesthesiology and pain background contributes the comfort-and-physiology lens. Dr. Yang’s fellowship contributes the surgical-anatomical lens. Both lenses get applied to the same plan, and the patient gets the benefit of two physicians who have spent their careers looking at the human body from complementary angles.
What a Visit Looks Like
The arc a patient travels through the clinic was designed to feel like one continuous conversation, even when it stretches across years.
The first visit is a complimentary consultation. It is unhurried, it is private, and it is built around the concern that brought you in. We listen first. We look at the anatomy in front of us. We ask about timeline, history, prior treatments, comfort thresholds, and what success looks like in your own words. The output is a written protocol you take home — never a same-day pressure decision. If the right next step is to come back in two weeks after thinking it over, that is the right next step.
The protocol is built for your face, your skin, and your physiology — not for a template. Aesthetic plans at Sun Aesthetic Clinic are constructed from the consultation outward. The device or injectable that fits the goal is selected because it fits the goal, not because it was the last thing the clinic invested in. Where the wellness branch is involved, bloodwork or relevant labs inform the plan before anything is prescribed.
The treatment day is paced, not rushed. Thirty-minute scheduling buffers exist so a patient who needs another fifteen minutes gets them. The treatment room is yours for the visit; the comfort protocol is built around an anesthesiology-trained standard of what comfortable actually means.
The relationship is longitudinal. Aesthetic medicine is not a single appointment. Skin changes. Faces age. Protocols evolve. The clinic’s small, settled team is set up to remember the last conversation when you walk in for the next one — because the same providers are the ones delivering your care six months and three years from now.
The follow-up is yours to set the cadence on. Some patients come in twice a year. Others build out a slower-arc plan over several visits. The clinic does not run a subscription model; it runs a relationship.
Commitments We Try to Keep
A few principles run underneath everything the clinic does. They are worth naming directly.
Voice. Quiet, considered, never push-sell. If a treatment is not right for a patient, we say so. If a plan needs to wait three months, we say that too. The brand voice the clinic uses in writing is the voice you should hear in the room.
Quality. The device array, the injectables, the wellness protocols — Sun Aesthetic Clinic owns and operates everything inside the suite. Nothing is leased; nothing is franchised. Boutique standards do not survive when the work is outsourced.
Discretion. Patient privacy is a clinical baseline, not a feature. Consultations happen behind closed doors, charts are kept tightly, and the small footprint of the suite is part of how that discretion is engineered.
Longitudinal care. The clinic is built for the patient who will still be a patient ten years from now. That changes how we plan today.
The Team Around the Two Physicians
Sun Aesthetic Clinic runs with nine people inside one boutique suite. Two physicians anchor the clinical work — Dr. Jay Sun and Dr. Albert Yang — supported by three aestheticians, two nurses, and two front-of-house staff who keep the visit experience consistent across a busy schedule.
Each role exists so the clinical work stays focused on the patient in front of it. The aesthetician team carries the skin protocols and the device-driven treatments that benefit from a settled, experienced hand. The nursing team supports injectables, wellness administration, and clinical safety across both branches. The front-of-house team owns the welcome — and the small, real moment of being remembered when you walk back in.
It is a small team on purpose. Everyone who works inside the suite has a hand in the patient experience, and the size of the staff is part of how that experience stays consistent.
Meet your providers for full bios and clinical backgrounds.
Where to Go From Here
If you have read this far, you have spent more time with the clinic’s story than most patients do before booking. There are a few places worth turning to next, depending on what you are looking for.
- Meet your providers — the full roster of the nine people who make the clinic run, with clinical backgrounds and the part of the work each provider owns.
- Patient testimonials — patient voices in their own words; the patient-side experience of what is described above.
- MedSpa branch — the surgeon-led aesthetic side of the clinic: injectables, devices, skin protocols, surgical consultations.
- Wellness branch — the physician-supervised wellness side: bloodwork-informed protocols, peptides, IV therapy, weight management, longevity planning.
- Visit our Bellevue Crossroads clinic — the suite itself, with address, hours, and parking detail.
Start With a Conversation
Every protocol at Sun Aesthetic Clinic begins with an unhurried, written-plan consultation. Whether you are weighing your first injectable, considering a longer-arc wellness protocol, or exploring a surgical consultation, the first conversation is the same: we listen, we look, and we write the plan down so you can take it home.
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