A graduate of Sacred Heart University, Charis is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner of Family Practice and Aesthetics. She served many years as an emergency nurse at Bristol Hospital and Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut. Charis left nursing after 13 years to pursue her love of aesthetic medicine on a full time basis.

She created Grace Medical Aesthetics—a concierge home visit medical aesthetics practice, in April of 2012. Since then, Grace has evolved into a successful boutique practice with locations in Middlebury and Satellite locations across Connecticut and Mahnattan. She is one of the hightest utilizers of Galderma products in the state. (Dysport, Restylane Silk, Restylane Lyft, Sculptra)