FOR PRACTITIONERS
FHI provides detailed hair-specific assessment, biologically informed interpretation, longitudinal monitoring, and structured feedback to support diagnostic, treatment, referral, and follow-up decisions.
Led by Peter R. Feldman, PhD (Medicine), Certified Trichologist and Evidence-Based Hair Fellow.
The referring practitioner identifies the clinical question and remains central to the patient’s care. FHI adds the time-intensive hair-specific assessment and measurement layer: timeline reconstruction, distribution analysis, clinical photography, trichoscopy, treatment-response review, integration of existing records, and defined monitoring markers.
With patient consent, relevant findings, unresolved questions, and follow-up priorities are returned to the referring practitioner.
Persistent or recurring hair loss with an unclear trajectory. Ongoing visible change despite normal or non-explanatory laboratory findings. Discordance among the clinical distribution, photography, trichoscopy, biopsy, or prior assessment. Competing diagnoses, mimickers, or overlapping alopecias.
Baseline assessment before treatment. Response that is difficult to interpret or poorly documented. Relapse, partial recovery, or treatment benefit that varies across scalp regions. Patients considering prescriptions, PRP, laser, product programs, exosomes, transplantation, or treatment escalation.
Alopecia areata activity, relapse, response, recovery, and monitoring. Scarring or inflammatory-pattern cases requiring documentation and longitudinal assessment. Drug-induced, post-illness, congenital, inherited, syndromic, chemotherapy-, radiation-, fungal-, or breakage-related presentations.
Structured history, photography, laboratory, biopsy-report, and treatment review. Patient-facing explanation and a defined monitoring framework. Objective comparison during treatment follow-up. A concise practitioner-facing summary and continued feedback in referred cases.
The practitioner defines the clinical question. FHI completes the hair-specific assessment and interpretation, returns relevant findings, and can continue objective monitoring while the practitioner remains responsible for clinical decisions and treatment.
Offer your patients access to an independent, in-depth hair-loss assessment within your clinic.
FHI performs the assessment and provides findings with an evidence-informed plan for practitioner review. The referring practitioner retains control of the patient relationship and treatment-plan management. Patients may elect separate FHI follow-up and monitoring.
Send the clinical question and available records. FHI will confirm the appropriate assessment route before the patient books.