ipras journal 6th issue

6th Issue October 2011

ISSN: 1792-457X

Five continents

100 countries - regions

37.000 Plastic Surgeons

The flag of IPRAS now proudly waves at the IPRAS Management Office in Athens

The flag of IPRAS now proudly waves at the IPRAS Management Office in Athens

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C O N T E N T S

• President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

• General Secretary’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

• Editor-in-Chief’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

• IPRAS Management office Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

• Pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

• Rising Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

• Senior Ambassador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

• In Loving Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

• Humanitarian Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

• Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

• National Associations & Plastic surgery organizations’ news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

• Historical Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

• ISPRES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

• ISPRES By-Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

• National & co-opted societies future events . . . . 86

• Industry news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

• Certificate of Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

• IPRAS website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

• IPRAS Benefits for National Associations & individual members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

PAGE4533rd annual congress of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, Cesme, Turkey

PAGE51ASPS Historical Account


PAGE39ISAPS Symposium in Urumqi, China

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9IPRAS Booth during 9th PanhellenicCongress and 2nd IMAFR Congress, Kos, Greece


• To promote the art and science of plastic surgery

• To further plastic surgery education and research

• To protect the safety of the patient and the profession of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

• To relieve as far as it is possible the world from human violence or natural calamities through its humanitarian bodies

• To encourage friendship among plastic surgeons and physicians of all countries

A I M S A N D S C O P E


I P R A S J O U R N A L

Dear Colleagues,now, after having created a stable fundament with our new IPRAS officers and sub-committees, we are ready to start the creative part, - actually the fun part: the promotion of ISPRES, the International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgery.The interest in stem cell applications and fat grafting techniques is growing rapidly.The complexity of this field requires interdisciplinary cooperation. And whenever we meet in these groups we are thrilled to realize how much progress has been achieved.What a great time to be a plastic surgeon!Shouldn’t we congratulate ourselves continuously for our “scriptdecision” to become plastic surgeons?And what personality traits are necessary to become a successful plastic surgeon?Courage and optimism, self-confidence balanced with modesty and frustration tolerance, the ability to embrace new challenges, risks and adventures and above all, - INTUITION.Why intuition? Simply because in critical situations - and we experience many more than most of the other professionals - our instinct takes over and supports our intellectual faculties.Why only then? Because we are educated to be rationalists. Albert Einstein stated: “The intuitive spirit is a holy gift and the rational spirit a faithful servant. We have created a society which honours the servant and forgets about the gift.” Is there anything we can do to enhance our intuition? Yes, there is.Creative people experience stimuli of all kind more intensively, not necessarily only the ones that are important for our professional performance or private happiness. A perfect place to train these skills will be our Chinese-European Congress in Beijing, October 27-30th! Our Chinese colleagues keep surprising us with unusual approaches to problems in our fields. There will be a lot of great ideas to take home with us!However, stimuli from inside are just as important as external stimuli. We must look more closely to all our ideas, thoughts and sometimes unusual associations from our subconscious. These unusual associations are the treasures that promote our creativity!As Albert Einstein states: “Nothing can exist without order, nothing can develop without chaos.”I believe strongly in this statement the longer I look at my desk….Its status was commented by a friend: “Now I can imagine how it looks when a post train runs off the rails.” Steve Jobs, one of the greatest minds of our time, stated: “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become, everything else is secondary. Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

P R E S I D E N T ’ S M E S S A G E

Board of Directors

PresidentMarita Eisenmann-Klein - Germany

General SecretaryNelson Piccolo - Brazil

TreasurerBruce Cunningham - USA

Deputy General SecretaryYi Lin Cao - China

Deputy General SecretaryBrian Kinney - USA

Deputy General SecretaryAhmed Noureldin - Egypt

Deputy General SecretaryAndreas Yiacoumettis - Greece

ParliamentarianNorbert Pallua - Germany

Executive DirectorZacharias Kaplanidis - Greece

Prof. Marita Eisemann-KleinPresident of IPRAS

Cordially yours

Marita Eisenmann-Klein

IPRAS President


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G E N E R A L S E C R E T A R Y ’ S M E S S A G E

One more issue of the IPRAS Journal, with lots to look forward to! IPRAS is truly fulfilling its role, which is making the specialty of Plastic Surgery and the specialist Plastic Surgeon more and more recognized and known around the world.Congresses and meetings held during these past couple of months have demonstrated a major interest of Surgeons from several different continents to share their ideas and standardize the way Plastic Surgery is performed, regardless of the site where this actually happens. Knowledge of the new horizons of the Specialty is being quickly and efficiently disseminated and these events are most certainly facilitating this. When the Surgeons

continental Country.This meeting, with more than 300 invited speakers, is organized by ESPRAS and the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Co-Organized by IPRAS (International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery), ASPS(American Society of Plastic Surgery), SBCP (Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery) , ISAPS (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), ESAAM (European Society of Preventive Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine) and ESLAS (European Society of Laser Aesthetic Surgery) demonstrating, as mentioned above, the true internationality of the Specialty, the essence of Plastic Surgery in the past, and even more evident today.Also, the 2011 National Congress of the Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plastica (SBCP) will take place in Goiania, Brazil. It is one of the largest ( if not the largest ) meetings in Plastic Surgery of the world, this congress is expected to be the meeting place for 2500 to 2800 plastic surgeons from all over Brazil and South America. Guests from 5 continents will be enriching the scientific program. The Brazilian Society is also extremely committed to present Plastic Surgery as a complete specialty and this meeting will bring the state of the art in all aspects of what is practiced today to our region.I personally, and IPRAS as a whole, would like to thank you all for your contributions in the past and would also like to encourage you to participate, whenever possible, presenting your papers in the congresses and meetings organized by IPRAS and in this Journal as well as. Your experience and ideas are most important us all!I also would like to send you all my very best wishes, while looking forward to meet you in person, in Beijing,

Goiania, September 2011

Prof. Nelson Piccolo

cannot visit more economically fortunate countries to participate in the traditional major congresses and courses, IPRAS is bringing these events to them. This October, we are holding a very large international event in Beijing, China, where Surgeons from all continents will be meeting our Chinese colleagues and share knowledge and experiences first-hand. We will certainly have a lot to learn from them, as well as who they are, where they work and what kinds of Plastic Surgery procedures are performed daily in this

2nd IMAFR Congress, from the left: Dr. Antonio Frota,Prof. Nelson Piccolo (IPRAS General Secretary),

Dr. Norbert Pallua (IPRAS Parliamentarian)


EDIT

ORIA

L “If You Ain’t Got The Swing, You Ain’t Got A Thing”. This is a U.S.A. golf saying and it has to do with the need for a connection of the hundreds of moves that make up a golf swing, and they need to be so much a part of a subconscious package, without which there is no fluidity. The same thing is true in Surgery. If we need to stop and think about our next move, we become victim of “paralysis by analysis”. I’ve spoken with a professional musician and the feeling is the same in music and, certainly, also true in dance. In his book The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell wrote that it is necessary to do something 10,000 hours to have it imprinted in your brain, so that you have it, without consciously seeking it. I am not sure about the specificity of 10,000, but I know it is a lot. When I was operating, I’d get into a “zone” where things went beautifully. I knew when I could go fast and knew when I needed to go slowly. I had “the swing” (which is what I’m trying to get in golf). I recall that, on numerous occasions, a resident would say, “Dr. Biggs, you make it look so easy”. I rarely responded with anything more than “thanks” but I thought “when you’ve done something thousands of times, perhaps it does look easy”. It has been said that Mozart’s father made him play for 8-10 hours a day, beginning when he was 3 years old. Some people are “naturals” but the great ones are naturals who have put in 10,000 hours. Ben Hogan, one of the great golfers of all time, once hit a particularly difficult shot and had a perfect result which brought him victory in a Major Tournament. An onlooker said “wow that was like magic” and Hogan responded, “No, not magic. I’ve been practicing that particular shot for 30 years”.Golf is much more than “the swing” as surgery is much more than the operative technique itself, so my discussion of this topic is with this understanding. I’m discussing only one part that contributes to excellence in surgical technique, but is still an essential part. Where does the surgeon achieve these 10,000 hours? It’s impossible in a standard residency. The experiences of hitting a golf ball, or playing the piano, are certainly different from operating upon a human being. Still, there are ways. Cadaver labs and live animal labs are a beginning. For the experience of operating on humans, we need to focus on the creation of hands-on training experiences. In our training program at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston, we had a program whereby a patient who wanted and could benefit from an aesthetic surgery procedure, but could not afford it, would be offered the operation by a senior resident, with staff assistance, at reduced or no cost. This allowed the resident to get the “feel” of the maneuvers... and it’s the “feel” that can’t be taught by lectures, videos, or even live animal cases.In many institutions, virtual reality technology is becoming available for teaching, thus bringing us closer to the real thing... closer to the “feel”.With these comments, I encourage all surgeons who are in a teaching role, to expand the opportunities for the resident’s growth beyond his/her core knowledge. Help him to begin the long road to getting the “feel” of the operation because until he/she gets it he/she will be pondering about each step and lose the “swing”... and “if you ain’t got the swing, you ain’t got a thing”’.

Dr. Thomas M. Biggs, M.D.Editor-In-Chief

I P R A S J O U R N A LE D I T O R - I N - C H I E F ’ S M E S S A G E

“If You Ain’t Got The Swing, You Ain’t Got A Thing”

Dr. Thomas M. Biggs, M.D.


The current developments in the international economy force and provoke us, as economists, to begin this report of the 3 last months with a few comments and our opinion on the prevailing international financial crisis. It appears not that easy for anyone to predict when these problems, mainly in Europe and America, will be solved, or when the international financial environment will regain its balance. Our opinion is that, whatever problems are emerging today from the fiscal debts of the Eurozone and American countries are heavily in the hands of their own leaders and consequently it all comes down to political decisions. It is difficult to make safe predictions on the urgency with which both sides of the Atlantic will make a step towards a more mature stance in the front of their political decisions opposite to the crisis (especially from the side of the Eurozone). On the other hand, we are certain that the worst possible path to follow is the one that leads to isolation through decisions that attempt to secure a nations own prosperity causing the introvert Nation to miss on significant international challenges.Interviewed civilians in China and Brazil (published in the financial times) or similar reports from Germany, portray public views on the shortage of money and concerns on whether it is ethical or economically reasonable to help “rescue” the countries with serious debts are on an individual level understandable, but not when it comes to leader’s decisions. Nations with a leading financial ranking such as China and Germany and other rapidly growing Nations like Brazil or India, owe a large part of their prosperity and development to their exports, even towards countries that face serious economic issues. Nowadays, no country can “stand alone”, and this

consequents not only to produce demands and benefits, but also obligations and further support wherever necessary.The global economy can and must return quickly to a balanced state and to a desired developmental status. The smooth course of international commerce, the unhindered distribution of services and expertise are a “one-way-road”. Undoubtedly, the plastic surgery field constitutes an important part of this process. In these times of International economic anomalies, for all sectors as well as for Plastic Surgery, the answer lies in the advanced use of extroversion through the distribution of expertise from country to country and from continent to continent. The international communication between plastic surgeons, the exchange of scientific knowledge and the increased mobility of doctors and relevant services from one country to another could be the short or long-term answer. We believe that today, closer scientific, professional and human relations, are more than ever necessary in the field of plastic surgery. For a few years now and without a doubt, IPRAS has been moving in this direction by communicating directly and frequently with 37000 plastic surgeons around the world. IPRAS is informing and distributing knowledge to its members/countries in all 5 continents, supporting in every possible way (even materially with sponsorships) the less powerful associations of Plastic Surgery (like Kenya, Armenia, and others) and also by healing, as much as possible, the human pain through its humanitarian bodies. This way, a powerful message is sent to all leaders of the planet and every individual citizen that there is only one way to achieve prosperity and this is through unity, solidarity and keeping the borders open. Recognizing that the solution of extroversion, knowledge exchange and mutual support is the only

I P R A S M A N A G E M E N T O F F I C E R E P O R T

August 2011 - September 2011

I P R A S M A N A G E M E N T O F F I C E R E P O R T

Mr. Zacharias KaplanidisIPRAS Executive Director


way out of the international crisis, IPRAS adopts a new philosophy that changes the status in the field of congress organization. More specifically, with the decision taken by the leadership of the Confederation, the exchange of scientific knowledge is dearly encouraged, through local, regional and international events such as workshops, meetings, symposiums and congresses. For the benefit and the largest possible participation of plastic surgeons and especially new scientists, IPRAS has established a policy of low registration fees, accommodation packages, low nourishment fees etc. For instance, the target for the World Congress in Chile in 2013 will be that all the costs, such as registration fees, accommodation, etc. will be 20-30% lower than those of the previous IPRAS World Congress. The same logic will be applied to all future congresses, e.g. regional congresses in which IPRAS is directly involved with the organization. Simultaneously, the same trend will be applied to the cooperation and the pricing policy towards the Industry which supports Plastic Surgery. We believe that the industry plays a very important role in the promotion and the everyday performance of science and, undoubtedly deserves the relevant respect. Therefore, the cost of all sponsorship packages and the participations via exhibition booths will be 20% to 30% cheaper in comparison to congresses of the past. What we are attempting is obvious. Affordable prices for everyone, easy access to knowledge and even closer relations among all our members with the Industry. Regarding the work and the actions of the Management Office during July, August and September 2011, we could say that although the 2 months out of the 3 are commonly considered to be “holiday season”, the IPRAS Management Office activities were rather colorful and successful.

More accurately, from the end of August, IPRAS’s newly designed exhibition booth was demonstrated during the 9th Panhellenic Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (August 29th – August 31st) and the 2nd International Meeting on Aesthetic and Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgery / IMAFR (September 1st – September 3rd), on the beautiful island of Hippocrates, Kos. Two very important congresses, which undoubtedly, met outstanding success, despite the serious financial problems that burden Greece and other European countries. On a scientific level, the success was significant, as the faculty list consisted of important scientists such as Baker Daniel, Bertossi Dario, Blondeel Philip, Botti Giovanni, Boukouvalas Zisis, Boutros Sean, Calvert Jay, Castana Ourania, Cohen Mimis, Coleman Sydney, Cordeiro Peter, da Frota Neto Antonio, Eisenmann-Klein Marita, Evans Gregory, Foustanos Andreas, Francesco Nocini Pier, Gubisch Wolfgang, Kaufman Andrew, Kontoes Vakis, Little William, Neligan Peter, Ninkovic Milomir, Pallua Norbert, Piccolo Nelson, Pitman Gerald, Poell Jan, Pribaz Julian, Ramirez Oscar, Roldan Camilo, Saadeh Pierre, Terzis Julia, Theodorou Spero, Tonnard Patrick, Uebel Carlos, Vinzenz Kurt, Voukidis Theodore, Yiacoumettis Andreas and others. During this time, the IPRAS booth was staffed by the Assistant Executive Director, Maria Petsa, who

IPRAS Booth during 9th Panhellenic Congress and 2nd IMAFR

From the left: Ms Maria Petsa as a translator, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein (IPRAS President) and Dr. Petros Palmos (Deputy Chairperson of the By-Laws Sub Committee) during the

interview at Ant1, Greek TV Channel.

informed all participants (more than 250 people for both congresses) about the IPRAS activities, the humanitarian projects, the sub-committees work, the IPRAS certificate, and all IPRAS endorsed future events. The highlight of the two consecutive congresses was the representation of


the Hippocrates oath, at the probably most ancient Asclepion, on the island of Kos. Furthermore, thanks to IPRAS Media Office’s efforts, two Press Conferences were arranged, which also met great success. In fact one of them was covered live by one of the most recognized Greek TV Channels (Antenna). We would like to give our sincere congratulations to the Presidents of the two Congresses, Dr. Apostolos Mandrekas, Dr. Dimosthenis Tsoutsos, Dr. Petros Palmos and Dr. Alexander Rapidis.

Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, in Cesme, Turkey (September 14th – September 18th). The Executive Director, Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis had the opportunity to officially speak to all participants about the new structure of IPRAS and about the benefits offered to all National Associations/members and to all individual plastic surgeons. The hospitality offered by the Turkish Society’s Board of Directors was very warm. Furthermore, they happily accepted our our Deputy General Secretary’s (Dr. Andreas Yiacoumettis) invitation and urge to staff the IPRAS sub-committees with members of the Turkish Society, and more effectively to have a more dynamic role towards the scopes and goals of our Confederation. Undoubtedly, the Turkish Society is one of the largest members of IPRAS (approximately 600 members) and more importantly, is a society of high scientific level which has achieved many successes in the medical field. Apart from our Deputy General Secretary, Prof. Andreas Yiacoumettis and the Executive Director, Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis, the IPRAS Management Office was accompanied by Mrs. Maria Petsa and Mr. Gerasimos Kouloumpis who staffed the IPRAS Booth during the Congress. During this time, the two later, had the opportunity to inform hundreds of Turkish participants about the Confederation’s activities. At this point we would like to thank the President of the Congress, Dr. Ramazan Kahveci, Dr.

From the right: Ms Maria Petsa, Mr. Gerasimos Kouloumpis, Dr. Ramazan Kahveci (Congress Chair), Prof. Andreas Yiacoumettis (Deputy

General Secretary), Dr. Reha Yavuzer (National Delegate of Turkey)

A few days later, IPRAS attended the 33rd National Congress of the Turkish Society of Plastic,

Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis (IPRAS Executive Director) at the Turkish Society Congress presenting the IPRAS New Structure and Aims of our Confederation.


Ibrahim Yıldırım, our trustee member Dr. Gursu Guler and the rest of the Turkish Society’s Board of Directors, for their hospitality and their interest

George Koliopoulos. The Executive Director had the opportunity to speak directly to the participants of the congress and invited the Balkan plastic surgeons to come closer to IPRAS and to actively participate in the confederation’s activities. The President of the Congress, Dr. Reuf Karabeg was undoubtedly the “soul” of the organization, and was promised through our President, Dr. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, that IPRAS would help and support the Bosnian Association as well as the Balkan Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, in any possible way. As far as we are aware, the next BAPRAS congress will take place in Serbia, and will be chaired by our outstanding member, Dr. Miodrag Colic, to whom we wish every success and promise that IPRAS will be by his side in order to help the Balkan Association grow even stronger. During the 7th BAPRAS, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein and Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis, had individual meetings with the Presidents of the Balkan Associations and more specifically, with Dr. Marko Margaritoni from Croatia, Dr. Dimiter Evstatiev from Bulgaria, Dr. Reuf Karabeg from Bosnia and Dr. Marijan Novakovic from Serbia.

to make more dynamic efforts towards spreading scientific knowledge worldwide. Congratulations and many thanks also to the Organizational Office, Figur, and more specifically to Mrs. Nur Olcer and Mrs. Ebru Ercan for their excellent efforts and their warm hospitality. Literally speaking, straight after Turkey, we traveled to the most sympathetic Sarajevo in Bosnia, in order to attend the 7th Congress of the Balkan Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (September 14th – September 17th) . This was a very interesting congress which attracted participants from the Balkan Area and more specifically, from Bosnia, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, FYROM, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia. The IPRAS President, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein attended the congress for 2 days and so did the Executive Director, Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis. The IPRAS Booth was also there during the congress and was staffed by Mr. Nicholas Yiacoumettis and Mr.

Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein (IPRAS President) from the opening Ceremony on of the 7th Congress of the Balkan Association

IPRAS booth in Sarajevo

From the left: Priv. Doz. Dr. Klaus Exner, Past President of The German Society of Plastic Surgeons, Prof.h.c. Marita Eisenmann-Klein IPRAS President, Prof. Peter Vogt, President German Society of Plastic Surgeons, Prof. Peter Kompatscher, Past President

Austrian Society of Plastic Surgery

We would like to thank Dr. Reuf Karabeg and his wife Amela, for their especially warm hospitality to our President, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein and the entire team of the IPRAS Management Office. Finally, the activities of the last 3 months ended in late September, with the IPRAS participation at the Joint Congress of the Austrian and the German Societies of Plastic, Reconstructive and


Aesthetic Surgeons (September 29th – October 1st) in Innsbruck, Austria. The German and Austrian Societies offered the space for the IPRAS booth to operate throughout this very important congress. Furthermore, the high scientific level of the congress attracted and contributed more than 600 participants and 30 exhibitors, one of which was our President,

We would like to thank the Presidents of the German Association, Dr. Peter Vogt and the Austrian Association, Dr. Helmut Hoflehner for their hospitality and their courtesy towards our IPRAS President and the IPRAS Management Office team. We would also like to add that many participants visited the IPRAS booth and were particularly interested in the newly founded ISPRES (International Society for Plastic, Regenerative Surgery), the IPRAS Sub-committees and all future events. Moreover, many obtained the IPRAS Certificate and as usual in every congress the IPRAS pin was also given. Hopefully, in the next edition of the IPRAS Journal, we will have the opportunity to present some of the notable scientific papers and abstracts that were analyzed during this congress. With this mission to Austria, we conclude the IPRAS Management Office’s main activities for the last 3 months which covered North-East Europe and Central Europe. We continue with two other Continents. Firstly, Asia and the significant congress of China (October 27th - October 30th) and secondly, South America with the Congress of the Brazilian Association in Goiana (November 11th – November 15th). Thank you all and we wish you the best of health and strength for this season which is filled with difficulties and challenges.

Zacharias KaplanidisIPRAS Executive Director

IPRAS Management OfficeZITA Congress

Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein with the President of the Austrian Society of Plastic Surgeons Dr Helmut Hoflehner.

Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, who was part of the scientific programme. The congress was also attended by Mrs. Maria Petsa and Mr. Gerasimos Kouloumpis, who staffed the IPRAS Booth.


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Dr Biggs: Dr. Chen, congratulations on being chosen as this Issue’s “Pioneer”. Please tell us a bit about your educational background.Dr. Chen: I graduated from the Medical School of the National University of Taiwan in 1972, did my General Surgery residency at the Hospital of the National University of Taiwan and completed my Plastic Surgery training at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Noordhoff.Dr. Biggs: Tell us a bit about the progress of your career.Dr. Chen: I am currently the Chairman of the Chang Gung Steering Committee, the leader of Chang Gung Group, and Professor of Surgery at the Chang Gung University. My role in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is the Chairman. The Group has 9 Hospitals and Institutes with nearly 10,000 beds, from Children’s Hospital, General Hospital and Chronic Hospital to Geriatric home. It provides from acute care to hospice, from Cosmetic Surgery to liver transplantation. It is a NGO and it is the largest medical provider in Taiwan.Dr. Biggs: Tell us about your personal surgical experience.Dr. Chen: Since 1980 I’ve performed over two thousand mid-facial and mandibular osteotomies, and numerous cleft and intracranial reconstructions. I have had a keen interest in Craniofacial Fibrous Dysplasia, about which I have published a number of papers. I have also been fortunate enough to develop several modifications of osteotomies in the maxillofacial region.Dr. Biggs: What has been your teaching experience?

Dr. Chen: I have been involved in the teaching and training of more than 250 Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery fellows from 35 countries. I have authored more than 200 publications and have made more than 300 presentations at numerous local and international scientific meetings. Right now I have a one-year fellow from USA (just finished his Harvard Plastic Surgery residency, Dr. Dhruv Singhal), an AO Craniomaxillofacial Surgery fellow from Spain (short-term, 3 months), and many visitors including Fellows. I also have fellows from Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Syria and Lithuania. I provide the opportunity for them to attend my clinics, operating room and clinical research.

Dr. Biggs: What Societies are you involved in and what honors have you received?

Dr. Chen: I am a member of many professional societies. In Taiwan, I have been elected President of the Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association, the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Association, and the Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Internationally, I have also been elected President of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (1997-1999), Secretary of the Asian-Pacific Craniofacial Association (1993-1997) , General Secretary of the Asian-Pacific Section of IPRAS (2001-2005) and Maliniac Lecturer of American Society of Plastic Surgeons (2008). Throughout my career, I have been appointed as Visiting Professor in many distinguished Institutions including the University of Illinois in Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Pennsylvania, the Singapore General Hospital, and the University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. Yu Ray Chen

P I O N E E R S


Dr. Biggs: What do you feel your most significant project has been?Dr. Chen: The most significant project in my years of practice is the set up and leadership of the Chang Gung Craniofacial Center. We have 13 full time attending Craniofacial Surgeons providing high quality medical service, including cleft lip and palate repair, microtia repair, craniofacial trauma, maxillofacial osteotomies (orthognathic surgery), sleep apnea surgery, facial contouring surgery and other cosmetic procedures. We have weekly research meetings, and more than 16 ongoing research projects (along with more than 10 full-time craniofacial orthodontists). We have international fellows from all over the world and hold the annual International Chang Gung Forum, with focus on cleft lip and palate and maxillofacial surgery. We regularly do surgery missions to Cambodia, Phillippines, Mongolia and China, along with the Craniofacial Foundation which was founded by my mentor, Dr. Samuel Noordhoff, and we carry on the international missions by teaching international cleft surgeons, orthodontists, speech therapists, nurses and coordinators.Currently, since April 2010, we have set up the Chang Gung Craniofacial Research Center with

active clinical and some basic research projects, randomized clinical research, image studies (cone beam CT and 3DMD photos), genetic research and some tissue engineering studies. I myself do studies on “the prevention of inferior alveolar nerve injury during sagittal splitting of the mandible”.Dr. Biggs: Where do you think we’re going in Plastic Surgery?Dr. Chen: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is more and more needed by the developing countries in Asia and all over the world. Cosmetic surgery will be the next one to be needed in the economically fast-growing countries. We should pride ourselves in providing high quality care, which other specialties can not reach. We should be “the best” in any field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by providing the best clinical results, new innovations, and research.Dr. Biggs: Thank you Dr. Chen

EDITOR’S NOTE:It is easy to see why Dr. Yu Ray Chen has been chosen as this Issue’s Pioneer. His clinical, educational, and research activities have caused eyes from around the world to look toward Asia


R I S I N G S T A R

Dr. Biggs: The following is some background of our Rising Star.

Dr. Ruhong Zhang got his regular training, including General Plastic Surgery, Microsurgery and Craniofacial Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery of the 9th People’s Hospital in Shanghai, which is one of the biggest centers of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in China. This included a PhD in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2002. He completed international fellowship training programs under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Marchac in Paris and Dr. Henry Kawamoto Los Angeles from 2001 to 2004.

He is currently the Professor of Plastic Surgery of the 9th People’s Hospital in Shanghai, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and also Vice Secretary of the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS).

He has published twenty two papers on Plastic Surgery, including twenty related to ear reconstruction. His articles have been presented in PRS, JPRAS, and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Eight years ago he established the Center of Ear Reconstruction and has performed over 1000 cases of microtia reconstruction, with a high ratio of favorable results.

In the Vancouver conference last May, as representative of the CSPS, he was the speaker for the bid presentation for the next IPRAS Congress and was very fortunate to win in the end.

Dr. Biggs: Congratulations, Dr. Zhang, for being selected as Rising Star for the IPRAS Journal. With the contributions you have already made, we feel certain that, in the coming years, your star will shine even more brightly and illuminate the path to greater progress in Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Ruhong Zhang


Dr Biggs: Dr. Chang, our studies reveal an extremely full life in Plastic Surgery. You were born in June 1916 and are currently a specialist in the fields of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Microsurgery, Craniofacial Surgery and Lymphology. You graduated from the School of Medicine, National Central University (Nanjing) in 1941, and were sent officially by the Chinese government to the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. In the 1960s, you invented the heating and bandage treatment for lymphedema, and in the 1970s, developed the one-stage penile reconstruction technique by use of the forearm flap. You also performed the first surgeries to correct hyperterolism and sternum cleft-ectocopia in China. We found that you hold the titles of Tenured Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine and Hononary Director of Shanghai Institute of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. You were awarded an Honorary Membership in the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the International Association of Craniofacial Surgery, and International Society of Lymphology. You hosted the 10th International Conference of Microsurgery (1989) and the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference of Craniofacial Surgery (2007) as Chairperson and Organizer. You were elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1996. You received one National Invention Prize from the National Government and 25 Science and Technology Progress Prizes from the Ministry of Education and Shanghai City, and you were the winner of “HeLiang-HeLi Fund Award for Advancement in Science and Technology” (2004), the 7th Guanghua Engineering Award (2008), and Shanghai Medical Honorary Award (1999). Prof. Chang, we found you have edited 18 monographs, in areas such as Plastic Surgery, Craniofacial Surgery, Practical Cosmetic Surgery,

Dr. Chang Tisheng

Chang Ti-sheng Plastic Surgery, Clinical Application of Microsurgery (English edition), Practice in Lymphology, and Diagnosis and Review on Difficult-Complicated Cases: Plastic Surgery Fascicle. You have also contributed more than 150 papers in domestic and international journals.This is a very impressive set of contributions. Please tell us your personal view of your career and what you see for the future in plastic surgery.

Dr. Chang: I was thrilled when I entered into the world of Plastic Surgery. At that time, we mostly did three things: skin grafting, flap transfer, and flap tubing. They may seem rough and out-dated today, but they helped save the lives of many soldiers in times of war. For many years they have continued to play a major role, being modified and refined over time. Microsurgery is something really innovative, and has stirred a big revolution in Plastic Surgery and many other disciplines. Luckily for us Chinese Surgeons, we manage to follow and seize the emerging trend, and have accomplished a lot in this field. Other major changes include the concept of mini-invasion, and the shift of patient spectrum. In peace, more concerns are naturally put on cosmetic surgeries. When the patient doesn’t want big surgeries, we don’t either. The future of our discipline, I suppose, depends largely on the exploit of current techniques and breakthroughs in fundamental research. They represent two directions and both deserve relentless passion. And only real good things will eventually remain and become part of our discipline.

Dr. Biggs: Thank you, Dr. Chang, and congratulations upon being selected our Senior Ambassador for the IPRAS Journal.

S E N I O R A M B A S S A D O R


John Clarke Mustardé (6 June 1916-16 October 2010)

Jack Mustardé, pioneer Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, was born and educated in Glasgow. He trained in ophthalmology and, in 1940, he was posted to Cairo as a lieutenant in the medical corps. When Tobruk fell, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and was then passed on to the Italians. He escaped, but was recaptured. He was sent home in 1943 due to ill health and wrote ‘The Sun Stood Still’, a book describing his life as a prisoner of war.

He then re-qualified as a Plastic Surgeon, seeing the great need amongst injured servicemen. At the time, he lived in Nottingham, but travelled down to Park Prewett Hospital in Basingstoke once a week to train under Sir Harold Gillies. He also sought training under Sir Harold’s cousin, Sir Archibald McIndoe and also Eric Peet in Oxford. In order to travel the distance, he bought an Auster aeroplane and taught himself to fly, using a road atlas and following main roads. On one foggy day he force- landed in a field and had to ask the owner of the farm where he was.

He was famous for being able to get out of difficult situations. Once, when stopped for speeding, he explained that he had to perform emergency surgery and continued his journey with a police escort.

In 1948 he was appointed to Basingstoke under Sir Harold Gilles. It was after the war and rationing was in force. Showing great initiative, he kept pigs, a cow and chickens and was able to feed his family, and the hospital, with meat and eggs.

In 1954 he was appointed to Ballochmyle Hospital in Glasgow, which had been established to treat wounded soldiers. The Plastic Surgery Unit also treated dental and maxillofacial patients, and children with congenital deformities.

His main interest was in periorbital surgery and, having moved to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, he published 40 papers and three books: ‘Repair and Reconstruction in the Orbital Region’ (1966), ‘Ophthalmic Surgery Up to Date’ (1970) and ‘Plastic Surgery in Infancy and Childhood’ (1971). He always emphasised the importance of anatomy, and many procedures and instruments bear his name – among them the rotational cheek flap for eyelid reconstruction, the Mustardé needle holder, and the Mustardé forceps.

He collaborated with Dr Paul Tessier in Paris and was instrumental in developing the subspecialty of craniofacial surgery. He was a founding member and the first President of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Those who knew him well recognised that he was a kind man, but he was not to be trifled with. He was meticulous in preparing his own case after being involved in a legal battle with the Greater Glasgow Health Board, who accused him of not honouring his contract. His defending counsel commended the thoroughness of Jack’s evidence and, after an ignominious defeat, the Chairman of the Health Board resigned.

Although he travelled the world and was invited to lecture and operate in many countries, his theatre at home in

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EDITOR’S NOTE:Dr. Khoo has written an excellent obituary about one of our specialties great men. In it I learned much about him I didn’t know but induced me to respect him even more. What he did NOT mention was the item for which I knew him best, and that was his approach to the prominent ear. I learned it in my training in the early 60’s and incorporated it (along with ancilary manuevers) in all my otoplasties.

Neven Olivari provided a touching portrait which he did himself in 1998 when John Clarke Mustardé was awarded the Dieffenbach Medal of the German Society of Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Plastic, Reconstructive and Ästhetischen Chirurgen Aesthetic Surgeons.

Canniesburn Hospital was always full of visitors. He was a natural and authoritative teacher and would give the visitors a running commentary on what he was doing, and why he was doing it. He never raised his voice, always remaining calm and in control. The most he would say if things were not going his way would be “now wait a minute …”

He retired from the National Health Service in 1991, at the age of 75. Even after retirement he continued his research. He spent time dissecting pigs’ eyelids, collected from the slaughter house, and he showed that, in the lower eyelid, it was the presence of tightly packed glands that conferred rigidity, and not cartilage.

At the age of 76 he joined a group of medical members of Rotary, visiting several African countries. In Ghana “there were lots of congenital deformities, cleft palates, twisted limbs, burns, tropical ulcers, there was work to be done”. He immediately began work at Accra Central Hospital, and at the end of the visit he was urged by the President of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant G Rawlings, to return.

For the next 10 years he organised volunteer surgeons from Scotland and he himself spent alternate months working there. He founded the Scottish charity “The Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Project, Ghana” raising money to train Ghanaian surgeons, and to build a treatment centre in the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, followed by a subsidiary service set up Kumaze, north of Accra. There was a close link between Ghana and the Canniesburn unit, and eventually there were eight fully trained surgeons working in both Ghanaian centres, who were able to train more local surgeons and also doctors from neighbouring countries in West Africa.

He was keen on hunting and fishing, and kept a loaded shotgun in his car in order to deal with any pheasants he found on his journey. He enjoyed being invited to South America because of the fishing. It was fortunate that the River Doon was near the bottom of his garden, so that he was able to stroll down and come back with a fine salmon.

On his 80th birthday, his son David took him to Russia, where the fishing was exceptionally good but was subject to a “catch and release” policy. After a week, when he had caught and released about eighty salmon, he was tempted to take a couple of the fish home to Scotland and there nearly was an international incident when his luggage was X-Rayed at the airport and two fish showed up on the screen. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 and awarded the Order of the Volta in 1997, Ghana’s highest civilian honour.

He died in October 2010, at the age of 94, being predeceased by his wife Maisie in 2006 and his daughter Patricia. He is survived by sons Alan and David, daughter Ruth, 12 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

He is remembered as an innovator, a great authority on his chosen specialist subject of periorbital Plastic Surgery, and for his teaching, demonstrating and operating throughout the world.

With special acknowledgements to Mr Martyn Webster, his friend and colleague.

Dr. Chris KhooMember of the ESPRAS ExCo

Member of the IPRAS ExCo as a geographicalrepresentative for Europe

Past President of BAPRASChairman of the British Academy of Cosmetic Practice


built Center of Combined Cranio-Facial Trauma in Leningrad, in 1976. At the same time, she became her father’s successor as Chief of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Scientific Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, chaired by Professor R.R. Wreden, holoding that position until 1992. Thereafter, she remained an active and well respected Professor and member of the faculty of the University of St. Petersburg. Alla Limberg was an engaged experimental surgeon and scientist, who authored more than 200 publications on facial fractures, clefts and burns. She was Chairperson of the Plastic Surgery section of the N.N. Pirogov Society and a member of many Plastic Surgery Societies. She enriched all major European and American congresses with her scientific work and her unique personality. Alla Limberg was most respected by her peers and the younger generation of Russian Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgeons. She was a most charming person, a demanding supervisor and an educator of the new generation of doctors. The talented scientist and brilliant surgeon was a worthy representative of the honored dynasty of Limberg. Alla is survived by two daughters, one of which is a

Obituary for Alla Limberg

Alla Limberg as a young Plastic Surgeon

Alla Limberg with her father Aleksander A. Limberg in 1965

Alia Aleksandrovna Limberg, “la Grande Dame” of Russian Maxillofacial Surgery has passed away in St. Petersburg, on May 19, 2011, at the age of 80. She has been the last member of the famous Limberg dynasty: her grand-father Aleksander Karlovich was the first Russian Professor of Stomatology in St. Petersburg, in the late 1800s. Her father, Aleksander Alexandrovitch, was the first Head of a Russian Maxillofacial Surgery department. He introduced autologous bone grafting of mandibular defects after World War I and described the geometrics of the rhomboid “Limberg flap” in 1928. His greatest contribution was his handbook on “Local Plastic Surgery Planning” in 1963, translated into English by S. Anthony Wolfe in 1984. He died in 1974, at the age of 80. Alla Limberg was born on September 3, 1930, in Leningrad, where she survived the siege during World War II, studied medicine and soon became Head of the University’s Facial Surgery Department. After a time of efficient surgical research on bone and diced cartilage grafts, she was elected chief of the newly

cardiologist and was buried in the Sredneokhtinskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg, next to her father. We will keep her memory as a wonderful friend and devoted teacher.

Oksana Dmitrienko, St. Petersburg, Russia and Gottfried Lemperle, San Diego, USA


About the Region of Chilmari Bangladesh, a country of “a thousand rivers” with much of its geography embedded in water, is recognized as the most densely populated country in the world by the World Health Organization. With a surface area of only 144,000 square kilometers and an escalating population of 160 million, diseases of poverty and overcrowding are rampant in the country. Living even below the poverty cutoff line for Bangladesh are the inhabitants of the northern riverbank of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta. The people of this region are nomadic in nature and dwell on semi-permanent islands known in Bengali as “Chars”. (Figure 1) These islets, formed from the melting snows of the Himalayas, undergo constant formation and erosion from its powerful currents, and typically have a lifespan of only months to a few years. Due to its vulnerable position at the northernmost tip of Bangladesh, Chilmari, in the district of Kurigram, is a frequent victim of natural disasters, such as flooding and cyclones. This was the location of the ninth mission for WomenForWomen by the International Confederation for Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS).

About the bond between WomenForWomen and FriendshipThe inhabitants of the northern riverbank and char areas of Bangladesh are amongst some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in the world. Recognizing the serious deficiencies in food supply, running water, electricity, basic sanitation and living infrastructure within the chars, WomenForWomen and Friendship teamed up for a second successful surgical mission between April 23rd to 30th. The local planning and on site organization in anticipation for our mission were coordinated by Friendship, a value-based Bangladeshi organization established in 1998 under the leadership of Mrs. Runa Khan. To fulfill its aim of providing essential basic services to the most inaccessible areas of the country, Friendship delivers both primary and secondary healthcare to the people living on the shifting

islands through its floating hospital at the mouth of the Brahmaputra River. Through a generous startup donation and sustained funding from the Emirates Airlines, the Emirates Floating Hospital (EFH) has provided essential medical care to around 4 million people of the chars since November of 2008. (Figure 2) The ability of the EFH to be self-contained and mobile affords the hospital the unique ability to relocate every few months to serve a different char, in addition to surviving natural disasters, common to this region. The EFH is a suitably equipped hospital with one full-time onsite medical doctor, one optometrist, 4 ward nurses, 2 OR nurses, 2 operating rooms, a pharmacy and a radiology department. (Figure 3) In addition, with the invitation of Friendship, there is a regular roster of foreign missionary teams that provide specialized medical and surgical care a few times a year, ranging from gynecology, orthopedics, cleft lip and palate and, finally, plastic and reconstructive surgery by Women For Women.

About Mission Chilmari BangladeshIn Bangladesh and other developing countries of the world, it is not uncommon for women to suffer from disfiguring physical injuries as a result of ethnic,

Women For Women by IPRAS: 2nd Mission - Chilmari Bangladesh

April 23-30, 2011

In Collaboration with “Friendship” and the Emirates Floating Hospital

Photo from the Emirates Floating Hospital

Toni Zhong, MD, FRCSC, MHS

H U M A N I T A R I A N W O R K S


social, marital, and other domestic disputes. Further compounding the issue of inadequate prevention and treatment of these avoidable injuries, it is known that female victims generally do not actively travel away from home to seek medical attention. As a result, they further exclude themselves from society and spend the rest of their lives hiding their physical deformities and tolerating the shame inflicted upon them by their perpetrators. The mission of Women For Women, therefore, aims to “help women suffering from physical injuries as a result of domestic abuse, war, or other socio-cultural reasons in third-world countries”. Women For Women (WFW) is a charity program, supported by IPRAS, and its missions are carried out by an international core group of socially conscious female plastic surgeons, who share a common vision to restore the skin and the lives of female victims of war and social crimes. The most common crime of female domestic violence in Bangladesh and other parts of South East Asia are burns, particularly acid burns to the face. This vicious form of attack is an unconscionable act that aims to disfigure the most presentable element of the female body. This is a large-scale problem that has afflicted Bangladeshi women for generations, from young to old, and from north to south. Only recently has it received its much-needed corrective attention, and today there

is a national society based in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, known as the Acid Survivors Foundation. (http://www.acidsurvivors.org)During this mission 6 months ago, the WomenForWomen team met with ASF Founder Mrs. Monira Raman and her team to evaluate synergies and visited the ASF-center and the surgical facilities.

About the WFW Team to ChilmariTeam WFW arrived in Chilmari on April 23rd and began screening potential patients the same day on the EFH. The surgical team consisted of two senior plastic surgeons, Dr. Connie Neuhann-Lorenz (President of WFW, Munich, Germany), Dr. Toni Zhong (Plastic, Reconstructive and Microsurgeon, University of Toronto, Canada), and junior plastic surgeon was Dr. Michelle Locke from Auckland, New Zealand currently completing her fellowship training at the University of Toronto. All three other members of the surgical team came from Munich, Germany, and consisted of Drs. Carola Stenzel and Christina Frey (anesthesiologists) and Mrs. Gabi Kerlstetter, a senior OR nurse. In addition, our team was privileged to have the company of Ms. Ann Christine Woehrl during the entire mission, an acclaimed photographer and journalist who was working on an exposé of acid burn victims of Asia.

The Emirates Floating Hospital on the bank of the Ganges-Brahmaputra River that provides medical service to 4 million people of the Char region.


able to provide personal hygiene care for herself, a right that should be basic to any adult human being.

Case 2: Dowry Dispute - Burns to the Face and Neck A 22-year-old girl was attacked by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law the day after her wedding, by setting fire to her veiled face and sari, as a result of an unsettled dowry dispute. As a result, she sustained third degree burns to her face, neck, chest and arms. After barely surviving the initial extensive burns, she was finally repatriated by her own family for the remainder of her recovery. Feeling ashamed and worthless with her physical scars, her family had taken her to the EFH to seek our reconstructive expertise. (Figure 5a,b) She underwent release of severe burn contractures to the right side of neck with local flaps and FTSG, ear reconstruction using a superiorly based pedicled tubed flap, and release of flexion contracture of her index finger. (Figure 6a,b) Despite our reconstructive efforts at restoring some semblance of normalcy to her face and hand, she will likely remain a woman who will be permanently physically and emotionally scarred by this tragic and preventable assault.

The Future In a society built on thousands of traditional rituals and customs, intentional burn attacks on women is one ritualistic practice that must be eliminated. Even today, one Bangladeshi woman is attacked with acid every two days. Especially in the “char” regions of Northern Bangladesh, where its residents have been completely neglected by the government and foreign non-government organizations (NGO), WFW intends to strengthen its loco-regional presence in assisting marginalized female patients who have nowhere else to turn. With the support of local organizations such as Friendship, and continued funding from Emirates Airlines and other sponsors, WFW team aims establish sustainability by educating, preventing, treating, and re-integrating female victims of burn injuries.

Toni Zhong, MD, FRCSC, MHS Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Staff Surgeon

Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,

Dept. of Surgery, University of Toronto

About the Patients For five consecutive days, from April 24th to April 28th, our team performed approximately 61 procedures in 32 patients. Many of these patients had multiple sites of burn injuries. The ages of the patients ranged from 2 to 70, and the most commonly performed procedure was burn contracture release and reconstruction using a full thickness skin graft. Since the intent of the WFW is not to be an exclusionary program embedded in feministic ideology, we also performed upper extremity burn contracture releases for two little boys who presented to EFH.

Case 1: Accidental Soot Burns to the PerineumThe most complex and demanding procedure of this mission involved the release of a severe full thickness soot burn to the perineum of a 17 year-old girl. She had an extensive burn contracture of the perineum that resulted in webbing of the proximal 1/3 of her inner thigh skin. (Figure 4a) Preoperatively, she had approximately 25 degrees of abduction between her proximal legs. Functionally, due to the distal extent of the webbing in her groin and both inner thighs, she was unable to provide independent perineal care. As a result, she was rendered to an infantile status where she had to have her basic personal hygiene needs provided by her family members. After reviewing her surgical options which were limited due to the presence of full thickness burns to both her thighs and the difficult nature of healing in the perineal region, we decided to reconstruct the anticipated large perineum defect caused by release of the contracture using a pedicled right vertical rectus abdominus myocutaneous flap (VRAM). (Figure 4b) Since the EFH ORs are not equipped with ventilators which excluded the option of providing general anesthesia and paralysis to the patient, we were relegated to performing the entire surgery under regional anesthesia and conscious sedation. (Figure 4c) In addition, to maximize the safety of the surgery and minimize OR duration, the three surgeons worked in concert and completed the entire surgery within an acceptable time frame with minimal blood loss. The patient was ambulating with assistance by postoperative day 1 and tolerating solid foods by postoperative day 3. Most importantly, for the first time in 3 years, she was

The Operating Theatre on the EFH

EDITOR’S NOTE: We would like to report on a typographic error in the previous edition (5th) of the IPRAS Journal “Women For Women” article entitled “2nd Mission - The Chilmari, Bangladesh”. It was incorrectly attributed to the President of the Women For Women effort when the author was Dr. Toni Zhong. We are reprinting the article under the name of its appropriate author with our sincere apologies.


The Namaste pendant was inspired by a beautiful young woman, Sri Lakshmi, who suffered severe burns on her hands and face. A team of IPRAS WomenForWomen Reconstructive Surgeons operated to release her scar contractures, so that she might regain function and resume a more normal life. Following surgery, she expressed her gratitude to the team with the graceful gesture of Namaste, as shown below. Ashley Bennett Stoddard (ashleybennettstoddard.com), an artist in Salt Lake City, Utah, who is well-known for sculptures and other pieces she donates to non-profit causes, provided her time and amazing talent to design this eloquent and delicate piece of art. She quoted that this piece represents “The collaboration and evolution of this pendant was very special. It was an honor working on this idea with this amazing group, who have such heart and dedication to their mission. The Namaste pendant brings to life the spirit of the female form with grace, strength and gratitude, from one human to another, not placing identity, only unity, through gesture and form. May this continue to be a gesture to help restore the future for those in need.”Drs. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Constance Neuhann-Lorenz, Andrea Pusic, Sydney Coleman and Lakshmi Saleem worked with Ashley through the development of

the pendant. The artwork crossed over several continents and cultures to ensure that it would fully convey a global embracement, so that Plastic Surgeons around the world

could proudly wear, offer to patients to purchase and give to friends to say “Namaste.” With every pendant sold, we are able to provide more surgical care to women in need.By purchasing a pendant you are conveying this message:“Thank you for being a friend to WomenForWomen. I give you a gift that will help transform the lives of others.”If you would like to buy a pendant and give the gift of transformation, please contact [email protected]. Sale proceeds will go directly to support future IPRAS WomenForWomen Reconstructive Surgery missions.

For more information about IPRAS WomenForWomen Reconstructive Surgery, please visit our website at www.womenforwomen-ipras.orgA video of a recent surgical mission can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/23305727(Christine Grogan works for ThePlasticSurgeryChannel.com, which is a Plastic Surgery Organization made up of Board Certified Plastic Surgeons and founded by William P. Adams Jr. M.D. A video of WomenForWomen can be viewed at http://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/gives/)

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Contrary to popular belief, a great communicator is never born as such, but is cultivated through study, experience, and training. Experienced public speakers and professional orators incorporate special tools and techniques to communicate more effectively, but nearly anyone can learn to use or incorporate their methods. The more practice and thought one dedicates to learning these tools, and techniques, the more sophisticated the speaker will become. The goal of this article is to help the reader hone her or his ability to get a point across in public speaking scenarios and explain some of the basic methods effective speakers use in public communication.When preparing a speech, professional communi-cators generally consider Lasswell’s maxim: “Who is saying what to whom, using what medium, with what effects?” This means the speaker must first give thought to her or his relationship with the audience and define what exactly has to be communicated. The communicator then needs to consider who the audience is and why the subject should matter to them. Finally, the orator must determine the best strategy for convincing the audience and the most effective means for doing so.When the speaker begins a presentation, she or he should connect with the audience on a personal level. Great communicators try to build a bridge between existing perceptions and the new perspective they hope to convey. In simple terms, the effective speaker seeks common ground and asks: What do the speaker and the listener have in common? The answer to this question helps the audience feel connected to the speaker and also reduces the orator’s fear of speaking to them. In an ideal scenario, the speaker should feel as if she or

he is talking to a group of friends. In contrast, if the speaker perceives the audience as hostile, it will almost certainly have a devastating effect on his or her ability to deliver an effective speech. It is good practice to smile, make eye contact, and sometimes address individuals by name; for example with a rhetorical question that demands confirmation, like “Don’t you agree Tom?” Many professional speakers try to break the ice with humor, sometimes as part of their introduction to the speech. After all, humor unites all cultures and coaxing a smile from an audience is half the sympathy-battle. The ideal public speaker will dress slightly up or better than her or his audience. The presenter should signify honor and respect for the audience and the audience will be more likely to reciprocate respect for the speaker and the presentation. Appearing underdressed will communicate a lack of regard and being way overdressed a lack of sensitivity to the occasion. An experienced speaker should keep in mind that the outer appearance is the first impression and the initial chance to set the tone for communication.Many skilled speakers eliminate physical barriers and do not allow objects like a podium to separate them from their audience. Although it might feel safer to hide behind an object, physical barriers create a psychological impression of separation. When experienced speakers are given a choice, they generally use a wireless microphone. Why be on a leash when one can move freely? Skilled orators like Steve Jobs deliberately eliminate both physical barriers and leashes. As a result, these speakers can communicate with their entire bodies. This allows the communicator to tie gestures into the presentation and highlight important points with

S U R V E Y S

Mr. Julian Klein

Considerations for Presentations: How to Become a More Effective

Public Speaker


powerful impressions. These energetic gestures become more memorable when contrasted with calm movement; so the speaker has to be cautious not to overuse gestures as an outlet for nervousness. On a strategic level, moving from place to place can be used as a stylistic device to help physically separate one point or concept from another; a subtle but powerful tool. For example, the speaker may present the pros of an argument standing left of the center, the cons on the right, and then move to the middle for a conclusion. Of course this assumes that the speaker is not blocking a PowerPoint slide show or other visual aid. It is important to remember that the audience expects to see and hear a live performance and not just read PowerPoint slides.A monotone speaker is a great sleep aid and some variance in pitch is the best antidote. A skilled communicator not only varies the cadence and pitch within a talk to engage the audience, but also adjusts voice and tempo to emphasize the important points. On this note, great speakers pronounce every syllable. What sounds like slightly exaggerated pronunciation to a novice orator, will come across just right when presented to an audience.Unless a teleprompter is used, experienced communicators generally avoid reading, especially if it is directly from their own slides. While it is acceptable to occasionally glance at the screen to check the presentation’s progress, good orators keep in mind not to turn their backs to the audience. Public speakers who read a script to their audience usually assume a posture that appears hunched-over and this will likely communicate a sense of diffidence and insecurity. Moreover, a hunched-over pose often has a negative impact on the orator’s speech, cadence, and pitch. Similar to over-pronouncing very syllable in a speech, the upright posture, including chin up and chest out, should feel slightly exaggerated to the novice speaker.One of the speaker’s objectives is to project voice when working without microphones. The orator should be loud enough to be clearly audible to all audience members. To ensure good audio projection, experienced speakers often imagine that they are talking to a person in the last row. Another objective is to give an audience the impression that everyone in the room is being addressed directly. Trained communicators commonly select four faces in different areas of the room with whom to connect.

The idea is to select people at the left, right, front, and back with whom they can sporadically but systematically make eye contact with throughout the presentation.A good speaker prepares for an audience, knows who the constituents are, and why they have come to the venue. Great communicators try to understand their audience’s level of sophistication and its limitations. For example, is everyone in the audience specialized in the same field as the speaker or are most of them laymen? Does the audience care more about the process or the results? An experienced communicator will strategically use social events, like coffee breaks, to get to know individuals in an audience. Making friends among listeners early will aid communication on several levels. For example, the speaker might get a chance to find out why the constituents have come and what they hope to get out of being there. Obviously this opportunity lends itself to identifying proponents and supporters. As mentioned earlier, one of the speaker’s initial goals is to get to know an audience and find common ground.It has been shown that a speaker will be most memorable when presenting either first or last in a series of talks. The first presentation generally sets the bar and is perceived with the least amount of prejudice. Moreover, presenting first circumvents the possibility that someone else may touch on the same subject and beat the speaker to the punch. On the other hand, being the last speaker will have the advantage that one can address the ideas of foregoing presentations. According to the serial position effect, both the first and the last speaker will be most memorable for different reasons. In many cases the first-versus-last preference comes down to how confident the speaker is in her or his own knowledge and skill. If the communicator feels very much in charge of the subject matter, presenting last is probably most desirable.When experienced communicators provide handouts, they generally do so after they have ended their talk. It is a good idea to let the audiences know before the presentation that there will be handout-notes or brochures, but the material should not be distributed until the presentation is over. Providing the handout too early will likely result in a room full of lowered heads, as the audience will be reading while the speaker presents.


Great communicators will understand the values of the culture they are speaking to. Although it may be impossible to truly know each audience member’s culture in detail, it is important to understand the basic philosophies behind cultural differences. For example, collectivist cultures – commonly represented in Asian countries – value teamwork over individual achievements. Subsequently, announcing individual accomplishments is generally perceived as arrogant and egocentric within collectivist societies. Conversely, individualistic cultures value personal accomplishments and prefer to know what someone achieved individually as opposed to what a team undertook collectively. Speakers who are culturally sensitive will keep this in mind when phrasing who accomplished something. Another basic example of cultural sensitivity involves the expression of emotions. While emotional expression may be endearing in Latin-American countries, many Asian cultures may perceive such expressions as a sign of lacking discipline and self-control. As with many of these tips, these are not rules set in stone, but considerations a speaker should keep in mind when evaluating cultural values.A final example of cultural adaptation relates to the way an audience or its subculture thinks. Great communicators keep in mind how technically oriented or pragmatic an audience’s subculture may be. For example, when speaking to software engineers the balance should appeal to the audience’s logic instead of their emotions or, in Greek terms, emphasize logos instead of pathos. In this situation, the speaker should communicate from knowledge and reason, not from emotion or simply a desire to entertain.It should go without saying that the speaker must know the subject matter. However, it never hurts to probe the most common public resources and find out what additional information is readily available to your audience. In the age of mobile smart-devices, anyone and everyone in a given audience might access Wikipedia or google the subject at hand. An experienced speaker will understand the problem she or he plans to discuss, know how to define it clearly, and anticipate the audience’s informational resources. Identifying, sharing, and correcting definitions or conceptualizations are key to establishing a common language and rapport with an audience.

Experienced communicators commonly identify a suitable theme for their talk; a simple message they can open with and repeat or revisit several times. For example, if the theme is awareness, they might repeat the sentence: “Be aware!” several times throughout the presentation. A hallmark of great orators is to “take it home” and return to the theme at the end of the speech. When preparing a talk, one should try to think of no more than three things that the audience must remember after the presentation. It is acceptable for speakers to tell their audience when something is important and, given that the message is concise enough, an orator should take the liberty to ask that listeners write something down when it seems appropriate.Great orators structure their presentation carefully and meticulously consider each structural element within a presentation, like the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. The body is commonly divided into at least three points, but ideally no more than seven. Experienced speakers make sure that each of these points follows a similar algorithm. For instance, they make a statement, explain the statement, provide an argument to support it, and finally they give at least one example that sustains their point. This process is then repeated and applied to the presentation as a whole. Structure will make it easier to establish a reasonable algorithm or process. In great presentations the arguments evolve through a dramatic progression and arrive at a knockout point; the conclusion. This structure facilitates the audience’s ability to follow the logic and understand the progression. When everything is structured well, it should be very clear how the speaker arrived at her or his conclusion. Great communicators also keep in mind that the conclusion should consist of no more than three points and that an ideal presentation ends with a conclusion that supports the theme.Similar to focusing each argument, a good communicator will ensure that each and every example supports the concept. An experienced speaker uses as many relevant examples as necessary and it is common practice to put the strongest example last. Sometimes orators even use negative examples as long as the instance supports the concept. Any example that does not relate to the theme or concept is irrelevant. The most common mistake laymen make in


PowerPoint design is inconsistency. A well-designed presentation does not introduce new fonts or colors mid-presentation without an important and clear reason to do so. The variety of choices makes it tempting to change the font, the background and the colors from slide to slide, but consistency is a commonly overlooked factor in the design of PowerPoints. The background of a presentation should be homogenous and plain to permit consistent contrast between fonts and background color across all slides. Some presentations use dark font on light background and others reverse the contrast by using light font on dark background. In any case, a sharp contrast between font and background is crucial.Experienced presentation designers keep the psychological effects of colors in mind when they create a presentation. When making design choices, the designer should understand how a particular color might affect an audience. It has long been known that an exciting color like red will help get attention and blue or green tones will tend to have a soothing effect ïn an average audience. Experienced communicators select the right color depending on what kind of idea and emotion they are trying convey. For example, a car commercial will incorporate soothing colors, whereas a pen or a notepad will sell much faster if the colors are exciting. Well-designed presentations also make it easy to find relevant information at a glance. If a presentation contains slides that are too busy, it makes more sense to create an additional page or slide to divide the content. The number of slides is not going to determine the length of a talk. In fact, the speaker will be more likely to keep to the time limit by saying less per slide and having more slides to help keep track of time. While adding media can help spice up a PowerPoint, experienced communicators avoid overusing audio and visual effects. Especially sound effects can become annoying to an audience very quickly and can take up valuable time.The font should adhere to both the subject matter and the feel of the presentation. Sans-serif fonts like Arial are easier to read on slides than serif fonts like Times New Roman. The latter generally lend themselves for longer printed texts like newspaper articles. Good presentations use cursive fonts, italics, bold letters, and uppercase spelling sparingly. Each of these stylistic devices highlights or emphasizes text, but its overuse only makes it more difficult to

find the important points.Admen know that the most memorable sentences consist of short words. If a speaker must use long words, they generally try to use fewer words in the same sentence. Similarly, if experienced orators decide to incorporate a quote, they focus on the most relevant words and avoid pasting large paragraphs onto the slides.The key to a good PowerPoint or slide-presentation is consistency and balance. The trick to becoming an effective communicator is to imagine that one is talking to an individual, regardless of how large an audience might be. I hope that this article is informative and helps communicators feel more comfortable when they speak to their audiences. The elements discussed above are a few tips to help make presentations a little more effective and they will hopefully lead to better experiences for both audiences and speakers. I also hope to learn from you and if you have tips to share, please email me at: [email protected].

Julian KleinGraduated from the University of Southern California Annenberg School with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a Master of Arts in Communication Management. During his time there he received two student achievement awards, a student leadership award, and the opportunity to design a study that would later be published in an academic journal. After graduating, Mr. Klein went on to work with companies like Google and eventually launched Ella Endeavors – a small business that specializes in communication and media services.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The comments by the author are parts of some conversations he and I have had over the past year. Although neither a physician nor a plastic surgeon he has deep roots in the fields and a sound grip on the subject, and I have many years’ experience listening to excellent surgeons demean their persona by assaulting some common sense in relating to an otherwise dedicated and eager audience.The entire concept of the relationship between speaker and audience should be one uppermost in the former’s mind and be the pivotal factor between a large body of information and a waiting audiencePowerPoint and Keynote are powerful tools, but like all machinery can be used in a faulty manner. I shall encourage the author to return to our pages with some more prescient thoughts regarding their use, and reminding us that “one can’t read and listen at the same time” and “the image is your background music…you are the singer. Don’t let yourself be drowned out”.


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Response to the “Lunch Time” Suture Suspension Lifting

of Drs. Atiyeh, Costagliola, Dibo and Hayek

Congratulations to Drs. Atiyeh, Costagliola, Dibo and Hayek for their prescient condemnation of the so-called “Lunch time face lift”. Theirs has been the experience of many others, as well as our own, but it has also prompted me to respond with our thoughts about the topic, as well as a few words regarding the continuing evolution of a satisfactory way to accomplish what has eluded us, as described by those authors.In the world of medicine, Plastic Surgery is the specialty that is evolving the most, along with the changes that are taking place in society over time.Accordingly, the modern philosophy of life - possibly driven by new technologies, such as the Internet, the mobile phones and so forth, in which everything should be achieved in the shortest possible time - has influenced the development of procedures and techniques, which can adapt to these changing patients’ needs.The most recent of these trends has been the demand for facial rejuvenation with minimal recovery time, in order to protect one’s professional and social lives. The challenging economic times we are facing require everyone to look his (or her) best, without withdrawing from the world for several weeks.These minimally and non-invasive techniques include the use of suspension sutures, which can tighten the skin of the face with hardly any scar or undermining, unlike in a traditional face lift. Initially, these threads enjoyed a huge success, as they attracted a vast demand from patients. Unfortunately, the success was short lived, as the results often proved very disappointing. The threads did tighten the skin momentarily but the results did not last more than 6 to 9 months.Besides, as, in many cases, the threads extruded through the epidermis, they needed to be removed.However, a lot of important data was gathered through this experience. In the first place, the technique raised expectations among patients and medical doctors.It also demonstrated that a proper system was required, one which would not only tighten the skin but also the deep tissue and not carry the deficits attached to the barbs.Five years ago, sutures with knots and bio-absorbable cones came to the market. The Silhouette Sutures enable elevation of the malar fat pad and the jaw line, along with lifting and reducing the jowls.In addition, the passage of time offers the opportunity to use the fibrotic tissue formed inside the cones and around the knots to retighten sutures in order to increase the longevity of the lift for many years.The sutures are made of polypropylene; the cones are hollow and made with an L-lactic acid and glycolide copolymer.

Each of the six cones is located between two knots. They are the only suspension sutures that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and obtained the CE mark.The sutures are placed in the subcutaneous tissue, above the SMAS and are anchored in the temporal area to the muscle and the deep temporal fascia by means of a small polypropylene mesh.Our experience is based on five years of using these sutures for the midface, as published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery- ISSN 0148-7043/09/6205-0001, Volume 62, Number 5, Date: May 2009, Start page: 478, # of pages : 3 - and in Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Journal - ISSN: 0364-216X, Vol: 35, Issue: 2, Date: 2011-03-01, Start page: 248, # of pages: 6.To date these sutures have been used in over 16,000 cases in fifty three countries and over 1,000 surgeons have been trained. The simple concept of using absorbable cones instead of barbs has made the technique successfulWe performed a retightening in 27 % of the cases, more than two years after the initial procedure. This procedure can be carried out on its own in one hour, under local anesthesia or in adjunction with other rejuvenation protocols such as an endoscopic brow lift, an eye lid correction or a neck lift.Also, the “Global Face Lift Pack” is the only non-invasive rejuvenation system that consists of applying the sutures, combining them with botulinum toxin in the area between the eyes and the crow’s feet and, if required, to lift the edge of the eyebrow, as well as remodeling with hyaluronic acid in patients who need greater volume in their facial tissue.This procedure is not indicated for patients with atrophic or very thin skin, neither for patients with abundant facial flaccidity who would require skin resection. The presence of permanent fillers in the areas where the sutures are placed is also a contraindication.Post operatively, a soft food diet is recommended for three to five days. During this period of time, it is also important to avoid dynamic movements of the jaw and to sleep on the back. This will prevent the cones from moving away from their anchoring position.Surgery is in a state of evolution. We feel the sutures with absorbable cones will be a step forward in the armamentarium of Plastic Surgeons in pursuit of facial rejuvenation in specific cases.

Javier de Benito M.D. Director of Institute de Benito USP

Dexeus Barcelona

Dr. Javier de Benito M.D.


The importance of change and evolution with the passage of time in a plastic surgeon’s thinking, concepts and techniques is Darwinian. Those who are amenable to change and adaption will not only survive but also thrive. Those who continue to practice what they were taught in their residency, or cling to techniques and procedures just because they have done it that way for a number of years will become obsolete at best. The only way a practicing plastic surgeon can avoid making changes is to die or to cease being relevant in our great specialty.As the years pass, a surgeon has the opportunity to learn from the experience of his own practice, and he or she has the opportunity for shared wisdom from direct contact with colleagues, symposia, books, journals, videos etc. Every surgeon learns a great deal from his patients, who voice their experiences while under his care. A plastic surgeon must accommodate the requests and desires of patients, and be adaptable to the influence of trends. In many instances, patients request smaller procedures with faster healing times, even when they are informed that it is not possible to get the same result that can be achieved with a more extensive procedure. The experience I have gained from colleagues and patients has helped me evaluate my own surgical techniques and results. Over the years, I have spent a great deal of time in the late evening hours studying pre and post operative photographs of my patients, critically evaluating the results I have achieved and trying to figure out how to make them better. In doing so I have been able to formulate modifications in my thinking and procedures, which have helped bring about a variety of changes. For instance, I perform more short incision facelifts today than earlier years. Also, I perform more imbrication of the underlying foundation than years ago. I still perform SMAS flaps and extended SMAS

flaps in patients whose anatomy, I feel, warrants such. I am more conservative in fat removal during both upper and lower lid blepharoplasty; while, in my practice, coronal forehead browlifts are rare nowadays. Endoscopic browlifts are more frequent and, in some patients, I use a trampoline browlift with only 4 incisions of approximately 5 milliliters each in length. Essentially all of my rhinoplasties are performed closed, but I have modified my techniques to where spreader grafts, strut grafts, and suture contouring of the alar cartilages are routine, just as in open rhinoplasties performed by others.Although somewhat resistant years ago, I have embraced fillers and neurotoxins and I use them to compliment surgical procedures, or to treat patients who do not need a surgical procedure. I could list all the operations I perform, and note modifications I have made, but that is not the purpose of this editorial. The real purpose is to remind us that a surgeon’s evolution is never finished. He or she can never rest on their laurels or their recent great results. We need to constantly evaluate new information, new ideas, and new technology. While some of it will wind up in the pile labeled, “bad ideas”, a portion will become time proven for delivering benefits for surgeons and their patients. There is little question about the fact that, the science of stem cell biology and autologous fat grafting is producing a paradigm shift in both aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery in all areas of the body. In addition, some of the new non-invasive and minimally invasive procedures for facial rejuvenation and body contouring are showing promising results. Sculpting individual anatomic regions, including the buttocks and genitalia are areas that patients are now requesting to have improved. A practicing plastic surgeon must have extensive knowledge in treating these sites.

A Plastic Surgeon’s Evolution

Dr. Sherrell J. Aston, MD FACS


EDITOR’S NOTE: This small essay by Dr. Aston is one that should be read by all plastic surgeons, especially those in charge of teaching programs. Residents should be encouraged, through the curiosity of their mentors, to be free to challenge the traditional and open new doors in all that they do. I’ve said many times that if a resident ten years away from our teaching program comes to me and says, “I did that operation just like you taught me” I would be pleased by his respect but saddened that he had not taken what he had learned with me and made it better. All surgical techniques can be improved. I’ve also said, “the highest incidence of complications occur the first week after a major meeting” so a prudent surgeon will not rush into something because it’s new but give it strong consideration, allowing his scepticism to monitor his enthusiasm to change….but after suitable study take the bold step…and CHANGE.As Patrick Maxwell once told me, “all things new are not good, but all things good were once new”. The Cutting Edge Symposium in New York (1-3 December) will be one with the largest and most respected faculty of any non Society meeting in my memory and each of the members are surgeons who have embraced the concept of change.

With this in mind, my colleague Dr. Daniel C. Baker and I have organized our 31st Cutting Edge Aesthetic Surgery Symposium which covers, in a comprehensive fashion, autologous fat grafting and minimally invasive and non-invasive procedures for sculpting the entire body. Equally important for the practicing surgeon is to have complete knowledge of the spectrum of fillers and neuromodulators, new and old, including choice, safety, longevity and complications. It is necessary to critically examine the most up to date science and clinical applications of all of these “need to know” frontiers. I think it is appropriate to say that most colleagues regard

Dr. Baker and me as “operating surgeons”. I doubt that even five years ago we would have organized a symposium, which emphasizes the content stressed in the upcoming December 2011 meeting. Change is good and necessary. A surgeon’s evolution can never be finished. And to quote Dr. Thomas Biggs, “Youth is the capacity to adapt to change”. I like getting younger!

Sherrell J. Aston, MD FACS

Course Co-Chairman

The Cutting Edge Aesthetic Surgery Symposium 2011

December 1-3, 2011 “Waldorf Astoria, Grand Ballroom”

New York, New York

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & PLASTIC SURGERY ORGANIZATIONS’ NEWS

John D. Constable Traveling Fellowship Award

For the fifth consecutive year, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons is pleased to announce the John D. Constable International Traveling Fellowship in Plastic Surgery. True to its original mission, the award provides a unique opportunity for an international plastic surgeon to study and train with AAPS members and leaders in American plastic surgery.

Over the past four years, plastic surgeons from Iraq, China, Egypt and Malaysia have been selected as recipients and have benefited from this exceptional experience. In their final reports, they have all expressed a profound gratitude for the knowledge and experience gained and the sense that the experience has indeed, changed the course of their lives and careers. They have returned to their respective countries with an enhanced ability to treat patients and train their colleagues.

The fellowship invites an international plastic surgeon to America under the auspices of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. The goal is to improve the fellow’s understanding of American plastic surgery and to promote good will and academic interchange among the international and American surgical communities. The chosen fellow will be in the United States as an observer for a period of 6-12 weeks under the sponsorship of members of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.

The Association is proud to have established an endowment supporting an international plastic surgery fellowship in honor of Dr. Constable, who has made significant contributions to plastic surgery education in India, Egypt, Vietnam and Newfoundland.

ELIGIBILITYCandidates must be fully trained in their respective country in plastic surgery, a member in good standing of their national society, and have been in practice in their country for a minimum of 5 years. They must be able to communicate well in both written and spoken English and must be sponsored by two members of their national society where appropriate.

CANDIDATE APPLICATIONAll candidates will be required to submit:

1. A letter from the candidate describing their proposed program and academic/educational interests

2. A Current Curriculum Vitae 3. Two letters of recommendation from surgeons in the candidate’s national society

APPLICATION FROM HOST INSTITUTIONSInstitutions interested in hosting a Constable International Traveling Fellow will be required to submit: A planned curriculum for the visiting fellow Availability of personal support

For the fifth consecutive year, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons is pleased to announce the John D. Constable International Traveling Fellowship in Plastic Surgery. True to its original mission, the award provides a unique opportunity for an international plastic surgeon to study and train with AAPS members and leaders in American plastic surgery. Over the past four years, plastic surgeons from Iraq, China, Egypt and Malaysia have been selected as recipients and have benefited from this exceptional experience. In their final reports, they have all expressed a profound gratitude for the knowledge and experience gained and the sense that the experience has indeed, changed the course of their lives and careers. They have returned to their respective countries with an enhanced ability to treat patients and train their colleagues. The fellowship invites an international plastic surgeon to America under the auspices of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. The goal is to improve the fellow’s understanding of American plastic surgery and to promote good will and academic interchange among the international and American surgical communities. The chosen fellow will be in the United States as an observer for a period of 6-12 weeks under the sponsorship of members of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. The Association is proud to have established an endowment supporting an international plastic surgery fellowship in honor of Dr. Constable, who has made significant contributions to plastic surgery education in India, Egypt, Vietnam and Newfoundland.

ELIGIBILITYCandidates must be fully trained in their respective country in plastic surgery, a member in good standing of their national society, and have been in practice in their country for a minimum of 5 years. They must be able to communicate well in both written and spoken English and must be sponsored by two members of their national society where appropriate.

CANDIDATE APPLICATIONAll candidates will be required to submit: 1. A letter from the candidate describing their proposed

program and academic/educational interests 2. A Current Curriculum Vitae 3. Two letters of recommendation from surgeons in the

candidate’s national society

APPLICATION FROM HOST INSTITUTIONSInstitutions interested in hosting a Constable International Traveling Fellow will be required to submit: A planned curriculum for the visiting fellow Availability of personal support (housing/food) during the visit One fellowship in the amount of $7,500 per year will be awarded. The funds provided are intended to cover the international and national transportation obligations for a successful fellowship. The Chair of the Constable Committee will make notification of acceptance of the fellowship to the applicant and to the host institutions. Applications should be submitted no later than January 27, 2012. The recipient will be required to provide a written report at the conclusion of the fellowship that will be submitted to the Board of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. The content of this report will not only outline the details of the learning process and content but also suggestions to the committee as to how to better the educational and social opportunity for the future fellows.

JOHN D. CONSTABLE FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEEMichael Moses, MD, Chair John D. Constable, MDScott Bartlett, MD James W. May, Jr., MDRiccardo Mazzola, MD David Chiu, MD

Candidate and Institution required documentation should be submitted to:American Association of Plastic Surgeons500 Cummings Center, Suite 4550Beverly, MA 01915 USAwww.aaps1921.org

John D. Constable Traveling Fellowship Award


The 7th Congress of BAPRAS (the Balkans Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons) was held from 14th to 17th of September 2011 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Congress consisted of four main events:1) The first event was the Live Surgery, held on September 14th, during which eminent experts in the field of Plastic Surgery performed two surgeries.2) The second event was the ISAPS Symposium, held on September 14th. The Symposium was of great importance to this Congress, because it was organized under the auspices of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and was attended by some of the greatest authorities of Plastic Surgery today, headed by the President of IPRAS, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, who made oral presentations. The Organizing Committee was deeply honored by their presence. I owe special thanks to Professor Miodrag Colic for his considerable assistance in the organization of the Symposium (Program available at www.bapras2011.com)

3) The third event was the BAPRAS Congress, which lasted for three days, with a program covering various scientific topics, including more than 190 presentations. It is important to underline that two congress halls were used simultaneously. (All information available at: www.bapras2011.com)4) Work shopsThe Balkans have become a unified space in terms of medicine, thanks to Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, who have the vision of togetherness and mutual cooperation for the benefit of our patients. Thus, we may well refer to our Congress as “the Balkans Congress with global participation”, held in Sarajevo from 14th to 17th September, 2011.This was the 7th BAPRAS Congress, during which we wished to do something new, attractive and more interesting, compared to the previous six congresses. We decided to do a highly demanding transmission of image via video-link, from the operating rooms of the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo to a hotel 7 km away, where the Congress was taking

BAPRAS 20117th Congress of the Balkans Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons

Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein during the Opening ceremony at the National Theatre

From the Opening ceremony at the National Theatre from the left: Dr. Reuf Karabeg, Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Prof. Alija Behmen


place. It was a complete success. Attendees of the Congress were able to enjoy following two live surgical procedures. One patient underwent a breast augmentation procedure and another an augmentation with a breast lift. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons from 5 continents and 18 countries got together in Sarajevo. Each session was attended by at least three world famous authorities in specific subfields of Plastic Surgery, which added an international dimension to the Congress, for which it will be remembered.The Congress garnered a response of 90% of the lecturers initially invited. We are more than happy to have been given the opportunity to host such authorities as Prof. Dr. Marita Eismann-Klein from Germany, President of IPRAS, Prof. Dr. Nazim Čerkez from Turkey, President of ISAPS Education Board, ISAPS Secretary Prof. Dr. Miodrag Colić from Serbia, Prof. Ruth Graf from Brazil, Prof. Roger Wixtrom form the USA, Prof. Neven Olivari from Germany, Prof. Ive Illouz from France, Prof. Marijan Novaković from Serbia, Prof. Dr Uroš Ahčan from Slovenia, Prof. Dr Zdenko Stanec from Croatia, Dr. Mandrekas Apostolos from Greece and many others, whose presence enhanced our gathering. It is needless to say that we are particularly pleased to have had the opportunity to meet them in Sarajevo and to attend their presentations. During the three-day Congress, simultaneous presentations took place in two congress halls, covering 195 topics in various fields of Plastic Surgery, such as burns, tumors, hand injuries, microsurgery etc.We were greatly honored to have Mr. Željko Komšić, President of the Presidency of BiH as a patron of

Among other members of the Org.Committee and ISAPS lecturers: Dr. Reuf Karabeg, Dr. Nazim Cerkez, Dr. Vakis Kontoes, Dr. Ruth Graf, Dr. Apostolos Mandrekas, Dr. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Dr. Rado Zic, Dr. I.Illouz, Dr. Miodrag Colic

Opening ceremony at the National Theatre

the Congress. Prof. Miodrag Colić lent his generous support to the organization of a part of the Congress, the ISAPS Symposium. We have been fellow workers and friends for long, but this Congress has strengthened our cooperation and friendship.More information available at www.bapras2011.com

Reuf KarabegPresident of BAPRAS

Chairman of Organizing Committee and President of the Congress


Another CEN meeting of the TC403 took place, this time in Rimini Italy on Sept. 23 -24, 2011. The process for Standardization of Aesthetic Surgery Services in the European Union Countries was further discussed in these two laborious days. More refinements have been made in the document which will be released soon for public consideration. The chairman of these proceedings is Dr Johann Umschaden (Austria) and the Secretary is Mr Karl Gruen (CEN Brussels). IPRAS and ESPRAS as well as UEMS Sections of PRS were represented by President Prof Andreas Yiacoumettis. The Secretary of EBOPRAS Prof Outi Kaarela and the UEMS Group II chair Prof Guido Molea (Italy) were also present. IPRAS members of the ExCo and subcommittees included Prof Pallua (Parliamentarian), Prof Gursu (IPRAS Trustee),the Chairman of the IPRAS Quality Management Sub Committee Dr Ivar van Heijningen (Belgium), the President of IQUAM Prof Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (Germany), the president of ISAPS Prof Jan Poell (Switzerland), the chairman of the IPRAS Specialty Protection Sub Committee Dr Claude Le Louarn (France), the Deputy Chair of the Nominating Sub Committee Prof Dimitri Evtatiev (Bulgaria), the Secretary of EASAPS Prof Toma Mugea (Romania) and others.

Prof Andreas Yiacoumettis Dep General Secretary IPRAS

CEN MeetingRimini, Italy, September 23 -24, 2011


The ISAPS Symposium was held on August 18th, 2011, in Wu Lu Mu Qi (Urumqi), China.The Symposium was held on the first day of the National Congress of the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgery and was organized by Susumu Takayanagi, the Course Director of the ISAPS Symposium, and Zuoliang Qi, the President of the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgery.The invited faculty members were Marita Eisenmann-Klein (Germany), Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (Germany), Hiroko Yanaga (Japan), Kenichiro Imagawa (Japan), Miodrag Colic (Serbia), Sanguan Kunaporn (Thailand), Erhan Eryilmaz (Turkey), Reha Yavuzer (Turkey), Brian Kinney (USA) and Susumu Takayanagi (Japan).The Symposium included sessions on facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, mammoplasty, hair transplantation, fat grafting, eyelid surgery and gender reassignment surgery. We had 283 attendants, most of which were Chinese doctors who posed many questions during the discussion sessions.I believe most of the attendants learned many things from the faculty members, as most of the lectures were very informative and educational.The organization of the symposium was also wonderful and I would like to convey my deep appreciation to Yilin Cao, Guo Shuzhong, Li Yu, Zuoliang Qi and all

our Chinese colleagues for their warm hospitality and successful preparation of the Symposium.The invited faculty members enjoyed the tour to Turpan, where we were able to see the Old Palace in the desert, and also our visit to Tianshan Heavenly Lake in the mountains, fittingly dubbed “the Switzerland of China”.

International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)

Symposium, Urumqi, China

Susumu Takayanagi MD1st Vice President, ISAPS

The view was amazing, as we could see the desert and snow in the mountains at the same time.In the welcome reception, the faculty members enjoyed dinner with Chinese doctors enjoying beautiful music and dance. As this part of China is very close to the Arabic world, food and music were very different from other areas of China.I think all the faculty members enjoyed staying in Wu Lu Mu Qi.I also hope that the knowledge gained from all the lectures will contribute to our patients’ safety.

Prof Marita Eisenmann-Klein (IPRAS President), Dr. Susumu Takayanagi (1st Vice President ISAPS)

Among Others: Dr. Reha Yavuzer (National Delegate of Turkey), Dr. Brian Kinney (IPRAS Deputy General Secretary), Dr. Miodrag Colic (ISAPS Secretary General, IPRAS Member of the Cooperation with other Societies Committee) Dr. Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (President WomenforWomen, President IQUAM), Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein (IPRAS President),

Dr. Susumu Takayanagi (1st Vice President ISAPS)


For more information you may visit:http://www.plastie-aphm.fr/Evenements/European-Course

Dear participants,

The 20th European Board in Plastic Surgery is taking place in Marseilles at the Université de la Méditerranée in the gardens of the Palais du Pharo.

The Course are scheduled:

- from Wednesday, November 2nd to Friday, November 4th, 2011at Université de la Méditerranée in the gardens of the Palais du Pharo, 58 Boulevard Charles Livon, 13007 Marseille.

As for the Examination:

- on Saturday 5th November, 2011at the Sofitel Hotel, on the Vieux-Port in Marseilles: 36, boulevard Charles Livon - 13007 MARSEILLE

Room of examination: room Pinque in the 7th floor.

All information about examination on the website:www.ebopras.org

For more information do not hesitate to call or email us.

Best regardsProfessor Guy MAGALON


The 9th Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (HESPRAS), under the chairmanship of Dr. Demosthenes Tsoutsos, comprised of several round tables, composed of distinguished Greek Plastic Surgeons, and covered most aspects of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery. The chairman of the scientific committee, Dr. Petros Palmos, along with a distinguished panel of Plastic Surgeons coming from hospital and professorial units around the country and many privately practicing colleagues, mostly from the aesthetic world, arranged for a number of distinguished colleagues from around the world to present their experiences. Dr. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, President of IPRAS, Nelson Piccolo, General Secretary of IPRAS, along with Julia Terzis, Mimis Cohen, Phillip Blondeel, Jan Poell, Patrick Tonnard, Milomir Ninkovic, Peter Neligan and Julian Pribaz presented the latest developments on all aspects of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic surgery. The

program was complimented by a large number of oral presentations and posters, in which mainly the younger members of the Plastic Surgery family

9th Annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (29-31 August 2011)

and 2nd International Meeting on Aesthetic and Reconstructive

Facial Surgery (1-3 September 2011)Venue: Iberostar Kypriotis Panorama Hotel and Suites, Island of Kos, Greece

Representation of the Hippocratic Oath on 31st of August (9th Panhellenic Congress)

Press Conference of 9th HESPRAS Congress. From the left: Dr. Theodora Petrakopoulou (HESPRAS Secretary General), Dr. Dimosthenis Tsoutsos (Council of Burns of HESPRAS),

Dr. Andreas Foustanos (HESPRAS Past President)

presented interesting clinical and research papers from the Hellenic Plastic Surgery Departments. It


was very interesting to note that most of the current residents working in the Greek Hospitals took an active part in the scientific program. The Organizing Committee, along with the congress organizers, under the Executive Director of IPRAS and President of Zita Congress Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis, had prepared an exciting social program, which was duly appreciated by all participants. The scientific exhibition included many national and international companies. The Congress participants had the opportunity to visit their booths and be updated on the latest developments of

covered all aspects of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Facial Surgery, from Fillers and Botulin Toxin A to the most sophisticated approaches for facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, facial implants, fat transfer and endoscopy, as well as microsurgery, aesthetic facial reconstruction, head and neck cancer and facial allotransplantation. The main scientific program of the congress included six keynote addresses, presented by world leaders in their respective fields and these included Facial Allotransplantation by Julian Pribaz, USA, The Science Behind The Technique Of Structural Fat Grafting by Sydney Coleman, USA, Facial Paralysis Reanimation by Julia Terzis, USA, Endomidface: Nuisances And Refinements by Oscar Ramirez, USA, History & Evolution of Rhytidectomy from the 20th to 21st Century by Daniel Baker, USA, and Volumetric Rejuvenation of the Orbit, with Orbicularis Hitch and Lowering of the Nasal Brow by William Little, USA.Two equivocal and contradictory subjects were discussed in two sessions of grand debates. The first Grand Debate was focused on Short Scar Facelift vs. Deep Plane facelift, where Patrick Tonnard and Gerald H. Pitman presented their clinical experience and defended their techniques. Daniel Baker moderated the session and, with his comments, helped the audience to understand the hidden details of both techniques. The second Debate was targeted at Mandibular reconstruction – fibula vs. other osseous flaps – where Peter Cordeiro and Peter Neligan presented the latest developments in the use of osseous free flaps. During the closing of the meeting, Apostolos Mandrekas asked Daniel Baker, William Little, Oscar Ramirez, and Giovanni Botti to present some of the Aesthetic Nightmares and

the industry. The Congress ended with visit of the participants of the 9th HESPRAS and those of the 2nd IMAFR to the Kos Asclepieion, where Hippocrates practiced medicine in the first ever organized ancient hospital. The visit was accompanied by the representation of the Hippocratic Oath given from members of the Hippocrates Foundation.The 2nd International Meeting on Aesthetic and Reconstructive Facial Surgery (IMAFR) followed the 9th HESPRAS from 1-3 September 2011 under the co-chairmanship of Apostolos D. Mandrekas and Alexander D. Rapidis. Almost 300 participants from around the world attended the meeting, who had as Honorary President the President of IPRAS Dr. Marita Eisenmann-Klein. An exciting international faculty of over 30 distinguished and renowned colleagues from around the world took part in a carefully prepared and balanced scientific program, which included the latest developments in both Aesthetic and Reconstructive Facial Surgery. Binding aesthetics with reconstruction was again the theme of the congress as with the 1st IMAFR which took place in 2009 on the island of Mykonos. The faculty included many members of the first faculty and several new ones, so we were able to meet old friends and make many new ones. The lessons learned from the organization of the 1st IMAFR in Mykonos in 2009, certainly helped us to provide an even better academic program, that

2nd IMAFR Congress. From the left: Dr. Daniel C. Baker, Dr. Gerald H. Pitman, Dr. Patrick Tonnard, Dr. Zissis Boukouvalas

Dr. Jan Poell (ISAPS President)


they all responded wonderfully. The meeting was complemented with 9 Panel Discussions, 5 Symposia and 7 sessions of Oral Presentations, whereas for the residents and not only, Daniel Baker, Wolfgang Gubisch, Sydney Coleman, Giovanni Botti, William Little and Patrick Tonnard gave Masterclasses on many interesting aesthetic topics, in which personal experience counts immensely for the provision of improved results. The social program was carefully selected by the congress organizers and especially by the IPRAS Executive Director Zacharias Kaplanides and was enjoyed by both faculty and participants.The Congress Venue, Iberostar Kypriotis Panorama Hotel and Suites, proved excellent in covering all

requirements for an international meeting of the highest standards and the personal attention of the proprietors Kostas and Maria Kypriotis added a special touch to the entire endeavour.In the two and a half days of the Congress, apart from the concentrated scientific knowledge, old friendships were strengthened and new ones were made. The scientific importance of the meeting was also reflected on the high standards of the submitted papers, and the Awards Committee had a difficult task in deciding the winners of the oral and poster awards. We all left beautiful Kos with the promise to meet each other again in two years in another beautiful and enchanting Greek island for the 3rd IMAFR.

Dr. Apostolos MandrekasHESPRAS President

Artion Plastic Surgery CenterAthens, Greece

Dr. Alexander Rapidis Agios Savvas

Anti-Cancer HospitalAthens, Greece

IMAFR Main Conference Hall


IPRAS Newsletter report from ISAPS

Patient Safety, Quality, Education, Control

Patient Safety is of concern to all of us. The question is, how can we improve it? Through improved quality of our work! This is where IPRAS and ISAPS come in.

Quality is reached through education. We are doing a lot to improve the quality of the work of our members. In ISAPS they are all handpicked only on the recommendation of two of our members and of the NS of their country. In IPRAS they have to be members of their National Society, which means that they must have a Board Certificate in Plastic Surgery. But this is not enough. Continuous education is necessary.

Quality also means that we all need to be aware of the possible negative influence that our treatment could have on our patients. Fat injections to the breast for reconstruction or augmentation are very popular now. But do we know enough about what the stem cells are doing to the breast? There are many unanswered questions that should find an answer before the method is recommended widely. Colleagues that work in this field should exchange their knowledge, in order to be able to give answers to these questions as soon as possible.

Other problems might be new machines and applications recommended to us by the industry. Some can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Every method is as good as the Surgeon behind it. To do things right, you need training. Don’t use them until they are proven to be safe and all risks and possible complications are known.

Together with other societies, we should try to influence the industry on what to do for us, instead of letting them implement on us what they think is right. We need a close collaboration between the industry and us physicians. Without the industry, it would be impossible for us to finance our great meetings. I would like to thank them for their highly appreciated contribution.

Another way to improve quality is EBM (evidence based medicine), a word well known to all of us, but rarely implemented in our work. Although it might not be so suitable for our kind of Surgery, as every Surgeon

has his own methods, it is at least of importance in all that surrounds our Surgery like medications, facilities, anesthesia and so on.

Education is of great importance and that is where our EC’s come in. We have members all over the world that would welcome whoever is interested to come and visit them. This makes our societies so unique.

One big educational event is our biennial Meeting. The next one, organized by ISAPS, will be held in Geneva, from September 4th to September 8th, 2012. There, all the mentioned problems will be discussed and I am sure we will know much more about fat transplants after that. You are all welcome to present free papers. A fantastic faculty has been put together. You can see it on our website (www.isaps.org).

To complement a scientifically supreme program with an unforgettable stay in Geneva and its surroundings for all participants, we will have an extraordinary social program.

We need members that are interested in being the best Plastic Surgeons but this doesn’t come by itself. This needs continuous education that involves all of us. We are glad for every contribution. Don’t do operations that you don’t feel well with. There are always other members that you can ask or even send your patient to if you don’t feel safe about an operation.

I hope to see many of you in Geneva September 2012

Dr. Jan G. PoëllISAPS president


The 33rd National Congress of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons took place at the Sheraton Hotel, Çeşme, İzmir on September 14-18, 2011, under the auspices of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (TSPRAS), and the European Society of Plastic Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgery (ESPRAS). This year’s congress was organized as a European appointed event and hosted many invaluable local and international speakers meticulously selected by the Scientific committee following the suggestions of our Society Task Groups. The congress provided a mutual discussion platform among speakers with a vast experience and knowledge on both the practices in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and the teaching and research activities with a view to updated and diverse approaches and ideas. General Assemblies of the National Board and the Task Groups Board was also convened during the Congress.As a special occasion for the 50th anniversary of the Society, a dedicated “50th Anniversary Session” was held with attendance of our founding members for a review of the last 50 years. During this session, a short film was shown, which included short interviews with founding members, the stories behind the foundation of the society and the design of the logo. After the presentation by Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Yıldırım about the history of the plastic surgery in Turkey, this session ended with the ceremony of gratitude to the senior members of the society.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEESCongress Chair: Ramazan Kahveci, M.D.Vice-Chair: İsmail Kuran, M.D.Congress Secretary: Derya Özçelik, M.D.Scientific Committee Chair: Sühan Ayhan, M.D.Treasurer: Hüseyin Borman, M.D.Sponsors: Reha Yavuzer, M.D.Member relations and registration: Eksal Kargı, M.D.Social Events: Murat Topalan, M.D.

Congress Web Page and Local Relations: Mustafa Yılmaz, M.D.The organizational service, including financial issues, relations with sponsors, stage, technical issues, printed material and travel organizations were provided by Ms. Nur Bilen, Ms. Deniz Yıldırım and Ms. Eda Bektöre from Figur Congress Agency.

INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL FACULTYThe International Faculty included Dr. Julius Few and Dr. Michel Saint-Cyr from USA, Dr. Charles Malata and Dr. Patrick Malucci (invited by Allergan) from UK, Dr. Andreas Yiacoummetis and Dr. Othon Papadopoulos from Greece, Dr. Jaume Masia from Spain, Dr. Maija Kolehmainen From Finland, Dr. Mark Moore from Australia, Dr. Musa Mateev from Kyrgizstan, Dr. Aref Alsoufi (invited by Adoderm) from Germany, Dr. Roy de Vita (invited by Mentor) from Italy.The Scientific Committee was composed of the chairs and the secretaries of the task groups, and was led by Dr. Sühan Ayhan, Ex-Co member for Scientific Tasks. Task groups were asked to determine the topics of panels and conferences, names of the international and national speakers, and the referees for abstract evaluation.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM We received 432 abstracts for oral and poster presentations until the deadline of July 15, 2011. The abstracts were sent to the members of the scientific committee and at the end of their evaluation, 124 papers were selected for 6-minute oral presentation, 41 papers were selected for 4-minute oral presentation, and 231 papers were selected as poster presentation. 24 papers were refused. On Wednesday, there were pre-congress courses in the morning session and industry-based courses in the afternoon. In the morning session there were six 3-hour long scientific courses, which were planned

ESPRAS Appointed 33rd annual congress of the Turkish Society of Plastic Reconstructive

and Aesthetic Surgeons


and run by the Task groups. In the afternon session, there were six elective industry-based courses, running four times, 45 minutes each, that enabled the participants to select more than one course in a period of 3 hours.From Thursday till Sunday morning, 18 instructional courses, 24 conferences, 7 panels, 12 free paper sessions, 1 Specialists Best Paper session, 1 Residents Best Presentation session was held. On the other hand, the 6th National Congress of Plastic Surgery Nurses were held simultaneously on Wednesday and Thursday, with the participation of approximately 30 nurses.

AWARDSDuring the Congress, awards were given in two major categories. Plastic Surgery Specalists Best Paper and Residents Best Presentation. In both categories the awards were given both in clinical and experimental subcategories.

SPECIALISTS BEST PAPER - EXPERIMENTAL1. Effect of adipose derived adult stem cells on primary wound healing in radiotherapy applied skin. Koray Urgu, Can Karaca, Mustafa Yılmaz, Cenk Demirdöver, Haluk Vayvada, Adnan Menderes, Neşe Atabey, İmge Kunter, Rıza Çetingöz, Zümre Arıcan, Zafer Karagüler, Bekir Uğur Ergür, Serap Çilakar Mıcılı, Bora Uzun. Dokuzeylül University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic,

Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Izmir2. Nerve graft prefabrication with vascular endothelial growth factor loaded PLGA microspheres. Hüseyin Karagöz, Ersin Ülkür, Oya Sipahigil, Emine Alarçin, Cihan Şahin, Dilek Bangır, Murat Türkoğlu, Betül Dortunç. Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine, Haydarpaşa Teaching Hospital, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Istanbul

SPECIALISTS BEST PAPER - CLINICAL1. The impact of breast reduction surgery on vertebral column.Kemal Fındıkçıoğlu, Fulya Fındıkçıoğlu, Hakan Bulam, Selahattin Özmen. Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ankara2. Use of combined demineralized bone matrix and bone graft in the management of alveolar clefts: A volumetric analysis.Umut Sinan Ersoy, Figen Özgür. Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ankara

RESIDENTS BEST PRESENTATION - EXPERIMENTAL1. Xenopreservation of the composite tissue transplant: A New in-vivo Tissue Bank.Rezarta Kapaj, Fatih Zor, Yıldırım Karslıoğlu, Selçuk Işık. Gülhane Military Academy of

Photo from the Opening Ceremony


Teaching Hospital, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Istanbul

RESIDENTS BEST PRESENTATION - CLINICAL1. Experience with Functional Gracilis Muscle Flap In Lower Lip Reconstruction.

Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ankara2. The effect of perineurotomy on nerve repair after nerve injuries in diabetic rats.Cihan Şahin, Hüseyin Karagöz, Fuat Yüksel, Dilek Akakın, Nükhet Dağbaşı, Ersin Ülkür. Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine, Haydarpaşa

From the awards of Plastic Surgery Specalists Best Paper and Residents Best Presentation


Gamze Bektaş, Koray Coşkunfırat, Anı Çinpolat, Kerim Ünal. Akdeniz University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Antalya2. Percutaneous Needle Aponeurotomy and Fat Injection for treatment of Dupuytren’s Contracture: A New Era in Dupuytren SurgeryAli Rıza Öreroğlu, İlker Üsçetin, Tolga Aksan, Suzan Deniz Önol, Mithat Akan, Necmettin Kutlu. Okmeydanı Teaching and Research Hospital, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Istanbul

SOCIAL PROGRAM On Tuesday evening, we had an official dinner with the participation of IPRAS Executive Director Mr. Zacharias Kaplanidis, President of ESPRAS

Dr. Andreas Yiacoummetis, Dr. Güler Gürsu and members from the Board of Directors of the Turkish Society, Dr. Ramazan Kahveci, Dr. Murat Topalan, Dr. Derya Özçelik and Dr. Hüseyin Borman, Dr. Reha Yavuzer, Dr. Sühan Ayhan.On Wednesday evening, after the special program for the 50th anniversary of TSPRAS, we had a welcome cocktail at the Sheraton Hotel. On Thursday evening, we had a dinner for the faculty members at Canbaba Fish Restaurant. Friday evening was reserved free for the participants to spare some time to explore Çeşme evenings. Our gala dinner on Saturday evening was at the Sheraton Hotel.

ATTENDANCE OF THE CONGRESSWe had 225 specialist, 120 residents, 30 nurses, 110 company representatives registered to the congress. 225 of the participants had registered before the congress and 150 participants have registered on-site. The total number of participants including the faculty members was about 400.

CONCLUSIONGenerally speaking, it was a succesful meeting. The scientific level was high, social program was enjoyable and financial status was sound. On behalf of the organizing committee, I thank all the faculty members, sponsors, participants and all contributors for making this congress possible.

Sincerely,Dr. Sühan Ayhan

Scientific Chair33rd Annual Congress of TSPRAS

Dr. Ramazan Kahveci, M.D (Congress Chair) and Prof. Andreas Yiacoumettis (President ESPRAS, IPRAS Deputy General Secretary)


IPRAS is happy to announce a new section in the ever-developing

IPRAS Journal.

Starting from this issue

and in each forthcoming issue,

you will be able to read very interesting historical accounts

of our Member National or Regional Associations.

Watch this space for a section worth reading and

keeping in your archives!

Each new IPRAS Journal will open a window

to the past, current and future work of our Colleagues globally,

allowing the family of Plastic Surgery to strengthen its ties even more

and allow each surgeon to map the world presence of our specialties.

For each National or Regional Association Member of IPRAS

you will be able to follow:

“IPRAS Member Association Profiles”

important milestone events

distinct scientific achievements

inspired and gifted colleagues

endeavors for the profession's development

past and future events

efforts to promote education

humanitarian initiatives

and much more, accompanied by rare photographic material…

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ASPRSDespite the great leaps forward in Plastic Surgery after World War I, the profession was still rather ill-defined in the American medical establishment in the 1920s.Physicians specializing in this area had no formal means to share their new knowledge and innovations with like-minded physicians across the country. What was needed was a professional organization.

Two Founding FathersLike most great American institutions, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) – known until 1999 as the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) – developed mainly through the sweat and toil of immigrants. In this case, it was two surgeons from Europe who came to the United States after World War I, Jacques Maliniac and Gustave Aufricht.

The two doctors were as unalike as any two men could be, except for their dedication to their craft. Despite his French-sounding name, Dr. Maliniac was born in 1889 in Warsaw, Poland. After studying with the leading Plastic Surgeons on the continent before the war, he was called into the Russian Army at the outbreak of hostilities. A small, intense man, Dr. Maliniac, who was Jewish, came to the United States in 1923 and decided to stay, as anti-Semitism was on the rise in Europe in the 1920s. Settling in New York City in 1925, he opened a thriving private practice and convinced the administrators of the City Hospital system to establish the first division of Plastic Surgery at a public hospital.Dr. Aufricht, born in 1894, was a native of Budapest, Hungary. Like Dr. Maliniac, he treated wounded soldiers during the war, studied with the leading practitioners in Europe and arrived in New York in 1923. And like Dr. Maliniac, he

American Society of Plastic Surgeon (ASPS)

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was Jewish and decided to stay here when things became inhospitable in the Old World. However, the similarities ended there.Where Dr. Maliniac was considered bombastic and dictatorial with his students and residents, Dr. Aufricht, who went by the nickname “Gusti,” was genial and outgoing, but no less a commanding figure, loved and revered by his charges.

ASPS is BornThe seeds of ASPS could be found in the establishment of another Plastic Surgery organization, the American Association of Oral Surgeons in 1921, which only accepted physicians with both medical and dental degrees and severely limited the number of members. Despite their reputations, Drs. Maliniac and Aufricht were not invited to join.This rebuff was answered by informal meetings of Dr. Aufricht and his colleagues, including Clarence Straatsma and Lyon Peer, who plotted the formation of their own organization. Meanwhile, the decisive Dr. Maliniac acted, while his colleagues talked. Dr. Maliniac met with physicians in many fields touched by Plastic Surgery, including Dr. Straatsma, in October 1931, and invited them to join him in founding a new organization. With 10 charter members, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons was launched, with Dr. Aufricht and others joining soon after.

Board CertificationInitial ASPS meetings were held in New York, usually in Dr. Maliniac’s office, and consisted of the presentation of a handful of scientific papers, often by the founder himself. An early concern of Plastic Surgeons was the fact that the specialty, while growing

rapidly, was not recognized by the American Board of Surgeons, the medical certifying organization of the time. ASPS members were board-certified in other related specialties, such as otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat - ENT - specialists). A group of ASPS members, led by Dr. Blair of St. Louis, convinced the American Board of Surgery to establish an American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) in the late 1930s. The board conducted an exam for physicians to qualify as Plastic Surgeons. In 1941, the ABPS came under the jurisdiction of the American Board of Medical Specialties.

The 1940’sIn the 1940s, many Plastic Surgeons served their country during the Second World War, and expanded Plastic Surgery procedures through the unique circumstances of treating wounded soldiers, sailors and airmen.

The Plastic Surgery FoundationAs the 1940s moved to a close, ASPS steadily grew in membership and by 1949 had more than 150 surgeons. These new members had been trained by surgeons other than Dr. Maliniac, who concentrated on his private practice, rather than teaching. With all the new blood in the organization, Dr. Maliniac gradually lost control of his own creation. However, rather than sulking at losing his power, Dr. Maliniac moved quickly and decisively as he had done 20 years earlier in founding ASPS: in 1948, he formed the Educational Foundation of ASPS, now known as the Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF) and served as its President until 1955.The Foundation’s mission was to support research pertaining to congenital and acquired deformities,


promote high standards of training, practice and research in Plastic Surgery; confer scholarships and prizes; and promote lectures, seminars and medical and public meetings to educate the public in Plastic Surgery matters.The Foundation also took American Plastic Surgery to the rest of the world by establishing exchange and fellowship programs with physicians in other nations. The PSF has been especially active since its inception in sending American surgeons to Third World nations, to help train physicians in Plastic Surgery techniques and treat citizens of those countries, who would otherwise not have access to advanced surgical techniques. The Foundation also sponsors educational symposia, to allow surgeons to demonstrate their innovations to colleagues.

The JournalWhile Dr. Maliniac was launching the PSF, Dr. Aufricht was initiating another important educational tool as well – a scientific journal targeted specifically for Plastic Surgeons. With the help of Williams & Wilkins, a publishing house specializing in medical periodicals, the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official organ of ASPS, debuted in July 1946. The journal has served continuously as a forum for Plastic Surgeons to disseminate their knowledge and discoveries to medical colleagues for the benefit of Plastic Surgery patients.

The 1950’sWith board certification and its own scientific journal, Plastic Surgery was fully integrated into the medical establishment by 1950. It next moved into the public consciousness.

Improving Communications with the PublicIn a foreshadowing of a concern that would re-emerge 44 years later, ASPS President Leon Sutton, MD, called for better communication with the public, during the 1950 Annual Meeting, as President Harry Truman was pushing a national health care plan. Answering the call of Dr. Sutton, Plastic Surgeons began to appear on a new medium, television.

New InnovationsThere was much good news to report to the American people in those post-war days. As with other areas of science and medicine, Plastic Surgery discoveries were happening at a break-neck pace, often derived from innovations tested in the rear-area hospitals of Korea. Internal wiring for facial fractures, rotation flaps for skin deformities and a bevy of other new techniques were developed by

plastic surgeons in the 1950s.

The 1960’sAs the 1960s began, Plastic Surgery became even more prominent in the minds of the American public, as the scope of procedures performed by surgeons increased.

DiscoveriesThere were many scientific developments in the 1960s. A new substance, silicone, began to emerge as a tool for Plastic Surgeons. Silicone was initially used to treat skin imperfections, then Thomas Cronin, MD, of Houston, utilized it in a breast implant device, which he unveiled in 1962.

A Big Year for Plastic SurgeryDespite the wars on both the home front and in Vietnam, 1969 was a big year for plastic surgery. ASPS member Hal B. Jennings, MD, of San Antonio, Texas, was appointed Surgeon General of the United States by President Nixon, the first and only Plastic Surgeon to date to achieve this public service honor

The 1970’sThe 1970s began with plastic surgeons moving to the forefront of the medical profession. All parts of the human body, it seemed, could benefit from the skill of a plastic surgeon and ASPS members made landmark contributions in areas not previously considered within their sphere.

A Nobel LaureateIn the early 1970s, ASPS member Joseph Murray, MD, of Boston, performed the first successful kidney transplant, an achievement that would earn him the Nobel Prize. Another ASPS member, George Crikelair, MD, of Florida, developed flame-retardant children’s clothing, saving thousands of lives, and thousands more from agonizing pain and disfigurement.

The Passing of a Founding FatherIn 1976, ASPS founder Jacques Maliniac passed away. In the 45 years since he founded the Society, he had seen it grow from a handful of his east coast New York colleagues to nearly 2,000 members spread across the country.

Conflict with Uncle SamThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave ASPS a different sort of bad news a few months later. The FTC informed the Society that it had to surrender certain records to the government.


The Commission was on an anti-medicine kick. It had already strong-armed the AMA into allowing doctors to advertise and had now turned its attention to Plastic Surgery, which was a relatively small specialty, but prominent in the public eye.FTC Commissioner Michael Pertschek considered medical boards and board certification self-serving and anti-competitive, although they generally assured patients of the best quality physicians. He hoped to sweep out the system and initiate advertising and price-wars among medical professionals. However, after a long battle with the Society, the FTC eventually backed down.

The 1980’sAlthough the FTC lost the battle, Plastic Surgery got the message: Operate more like a regular business for the good of the patient.

Keeping the Patient InformedThe 1980s saw Plastic Surgery expand its efforts to bring knowledge and information to the public. Studies indicated that patients wanted information to take home and read, so ASPS began producing a host of brochures on the specialty and individual Plastic Surgery procedures.

Another Pillar FallsThe other founding pillar of the ASPS, Gustave Aufricht, passed away in April 1980, one year short of the organization’s 50th anniversary.

The 1990’sThe 1990s began on a high note of growth, cooperation and continued innovations in the field of Plastic Surgery. More than 5,000 board-certified Plastic Surgeons were active in the United States. Many were engaged in research or volunteered in their communities or overseas.

The InternetIn 1995, ASPRS unveiled “Plastic Surgeons Online,” a subscription-Web service where Plastic Surgeons were able to post questions about difficult cases and receive responses from their peers around the world. It also hosted its first cyberspace surgical conference (on rhinoplasty). These tools were nothing short of revolutionary at the time, but merely the tip of the iceberg of what was to come.In 1996, the Society launched its first public Web site www.plasticsurgery.org, while the World Wide Web was still in its infancy. The Society offered the largest library of Plastic Surgery procedural information on the Internet, and included listings of

its members in the ASPS “Find a Plastic Surgeon” online referral service.

Public Perceptions Need ImprovementDespite the contributions Plastic Surgeons make, both in their own communities and the world community, the profession suffered from an identity problem, as consumers didn’t recognize the broad spectrum of work Plastic Surgeons perform. A survey conducted by ASPS in the early ‘90s indicated that the American people did not realize Plastic Surgeons perform reconstructive work, instead equating “Plastic Surgeon” with “Cosmetic Surgeon.”In 1994, ASPS President Elvin G. Zook, MD, of Springfield, IL, made changing this perception one of the top priorities of his tenure. He promoted changing the name of the Society from American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) to American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in an effort to convince people that Plastic Surgeons and Reconstructive Surgeons are one and the same, not two different types of Surgeon, as the old name of the society seemed to imply.His initiative took five years to win enough support to pass, but in 1999, the society officially became the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Silicone Implants Come to Crisis in the ‘90sIn 1976 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was given the authority by Congress to regulate medical devices. That same year, the FDA’s General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel recommended that breast implants be classified as class II medical devices, requiring general controls and performance standards.Throughout the 1980s, the issue went largely unnoticed by the public. However, in 1988, the FDA announced classification of breast implants as class III devices and indicated that the agency could require manufacturers to submit studies on implant safety and effectiveness.In early 1989, an unpublished study on polyurethane foam-covered implants raised FDA concern about the product’s safety, and the manufacturer removed the device from the market.In December 1990, the questions of implant safety exploded nationally when “Face-to-Face with Connie Chung” detailed the “horrors” of breast implants. Her report sparked a wave of concern among women with breast implants and increased pressure on government officials to act.Plastic Surgeons sought to reassure breast implant


patients and the public. ASPS and PSF provided the FDA with much information on the positive clinical experience of Plastic Surgeons and their patients, including a survey that indicated more than 90 percent of implant patients were satisfied with their devices. ASPS set up a toll-free hotline for physicians and patients with questions about implants.Despite the efforts of the Society and Foundation to address growing fears scientifically, the FDA called for a temporary moratorium on the use of silicone gel breast implants in January 1992. In April of that year, the agency announced that silicone gel implants would only be available to women for reconstruction under clinical studies, in essence removing them from the open market.While ASPS and PSF continued to fund research to provide patients with the answers they deserved on the safety and efficacy of their implants, a $4 billion plus global litigation settlement was unveiled in September 1993. The settlement was created by the manufacturers of silicone breast implants to address a class action suit brought by women plaintiffs who alleged the implants caused them illness.The Federal Court gave approval to the settlement in September 1994. By the fall of 1995, however, the settlement, as originally proposed, had collapsed due to underfunding following the bankruptcy filing of Dow Corning Corp.Despite a growing volume of studies published in the scientific literature, an extensive government-funded study conducted by the prestigious Institute of Medicine on the safety of breast implants released in June 1999, and a late 1998 report from the federal court-appointed National Science Panel, all of which found no connection between the implants and illness in women, a revised settlement was eventually agreed upon.In 2000, the fund began issuing checks to women who had registered for the settlement alleging sickness as a result of their implants.

Health Care ReformThe other great challenge of the 1990s was health care reform. Plastic Surgeons were active in advocating for coverage for reconstructive procedures in any new health plan and ensuring patient choice and access to specialists.In 1998, after an extensive lobbying effort, President Clinton signed a budget bill which included a long sought-after provision requiring insurance companies to cover the cost of reconstructive breast surgery for women who have undergone a mastectomy.

The 2000’sThe 2000s have seen unusually rapid growth and change in Plastic Surgery. This pace reflected the increasing speed of communication, but many innovations were reactions to decisions made by state and federal governments.

Decreasing Insurance Reimbursement Leads to Increasing Focus on Cosmetic ProceduresBy performing more Cosmetic Surgery and becoming less dependent on insurance payments, Plastic Surgery remained uniquely independent. By 2005, the most popular procedure of the specialty was the use of injectable substances to address the effects of aging, as patients sought less invasive, simpler operations to reduce wrinkles.Following the FDA’s approval of Botox® in 2002, ASPS members performed an average of 1.1 million such injections a year through 2006.By the mid-2000s, surgeons were still losing ground on the critical issue of reimbursement. Payment from third-party payers reached such low levels that many established surgeons rejected the premise they could ever again maintain a practice based solely on reimbursement from reconstructive cases.The national news resounded with stories about the flight of many surgical specialists from specific locales due to the combination of exorbitant malpractice premiums coupled with steadily decreasing insurance reimbursement.

Shift to Proactive Involvement in PoliticsIf the prolonged controversy over breast implants was not lesson enough, other pressures taught Plastic Surgeons they could no longer avoid participation in politics. In response to newspaper reports in 1999 on the deaths of 10 patients who underwent cosmetic procedures in the offices of surgeons in Florida, the state’s Board of Medicine declared a 90-day moratorium on office-based surgery.In 2000, the ASPS convened the Task Force on Patient Safety and Office-Based Surgery Facilities to review, among other areas, identification and evaluation of risk factors. The same year the society’s Board of Directors amended its bylaws to require that by July 1, 2002, all members performing surgery under anesthesia do so in only accredited, licensed or Medicare-certified surgical facilities.The ASPS Government Affairs Committee created regional, fly-in meetings to the nation’s capitol in 2001 and the Society opened an office in Washington, D.C., in 2004 to increase Plastic Surgery’s visibility and ability to build coalitions on the Hill.


Through necessity and experience, ASPS developed the ability to respond immediately – in any of the 50 states or the nation’s capital – to new mandates or regulations unfriendly to Plastic Surgery and its patients.During 2002, the Society also began to emphasize participation in advocacy for members, by identifying two or three people in every state who could monitor problems and act as the “front people”, should problems arise. The specialty knew that, if it was going to be able to continue to serve patients in the future, it had to become more aware of what medical discussions were occurring in the legislature.One of the themes of both the ‘90s and 2000s has been the increased need for legislative monitoring of bills that impact the practice of medicine, whether they address scope of practice or physician taxation.In 2004, New Jersey enacted the first-ever tax on cosmetic surgery. For years government had cut reimbursement for reconstructive procedures, and now it sought to reduce payment for elective procedure – the very thing that had allowed many plastic surgeons to stay in practice and pay their bills.Over the following months, ASPS led a coalition that successfully blocked similar bills in six other states. Within two years, New Jersey’s lawmakers realized that their bill had been ill-advised, and began investigating how to repeal their disappointingly low-revenue tax.

Public Perceptions ImproveIn 1996, ASPRS launched the Plastic Surgery Education Campaign – a national public awareness campaign that sought to educate the public on the importance of choosing a Plastic Surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.At the time, the Society’s leaders could not have envisioned the transformation in public image that Plastic Surgery would undergo in the following decade, thanks to an escalating amount of media attention.In 2000, W magazine compiled a list of the specialty’s 41 “surgery superstars.” ASPS members appeared on television, were quoted increasingly in all the major health and beauty magazines, and even provided data for National Geographic.In 2003, ABC-TV asked ASPS to allow its members to participate in the reality series “Extreme Makeover.”The request raised a substantial ethical debate among Plastic Surgeons, but ultimately, after reviewing the patient selection process of the show, the Society’s Executive Committee agreed to cooperate with the

producer and network, so long as the importance of the doctor-patient relationship was not lost and that the show’s patient selection process did not devolve into a contest.The series’ instant popularity opened the floodgates to a flurry of TV shows about Plastic Surgery, most of which did not live up to the high standards or positive Plastic Surgery image of “Extreme Makeover.”Not surprisingly, thanks to the combination of magazine coverage, the ASPS public education campaign and the television saturation of shows revolving around Plastic Surgery, interest in the specialty and what it offered the general public grew exponentially.In 2003, more than 8.7 million cosmetic procedures were performed, 32 percent more than in 2002. Over the same time period, ASPS members performed 64 percent more procedures involving injectables.By 2004, 14.8 million plastic surgery procedures were performed in the U.S. And by 2006, that number had risen to 16.2 million.

FDA Approves Reintroduction of Silicone Breast ImplantsOn Nov. 17, 2006, some 14 years after the start of the moratorium on silicone gel-filled breast implants, the FDA approved the return of silicone implants to the market for general patient use. This was the culmination of an ongoing study and review process that began in the early ‘90s.During this period, the FDA also reviewed saline implants, which remained on the market during the moratorium on silicone. In 1999, following the regulatory process laid out years earlier, the FDA called for a review of safety and effectiveness data on saline-filled breast implants.In 2000, following hearings and clinical study review, the FDA approved the study data submitted by two saline implant manufacturers, recognizing that saline-filled breast implants earned high satisfaction ratings by implant recipients, despite local complications.Hearings and discussions on the safety of silicone gel-filled breast implants were held throughout the first half of the decade, and in 2005, the FDA granted silicone implants the status of “approvable with conditions.”It would take another year, but finally, at the end of 2006, silicone implants were returned to the market. More than a decade of inquiry, testimony and an expansive body of science all supported the safety of the implants, which will continue to be monitored by clinical studies in the years ahead.


Jacques W. Maliniac, MD* ..............................1932Jacques W. Maliniac, MD* ..............................1933John W. Wheeler, MD* ....................................1934John W. Wheeler, MD* ....................................1935Warren B. Davis, MD* ....................................1936Warren B. Davis, MD* ....................................1937Clarence R. Straatsma, MD* ...........................1938Clarence R. Straatsma, MD* ...........................1939Arthur Palmer, MD* ........................................1940Arthur Palmer, MD* ........................................1941Lyndon A. Peer, MD* ......................................1942Lyndon A. Peer, MD* ......................................1943Gustave Aufricht, MD* ....................................1944Gustave Aufricht, MD* ....................................1945Edward Kitlowski, MD* ..................................1946Edward Kitlowski, MD* ..................................1947Neal Owens, MD* ...........................................1948Neal Owens, MD* ...........................................1949Leon E. Sutton, MD* .......................................1950Paul W. Greeley, MD* .....................................1951Albert D. Davis, MD* ......................................1952James T. Mills, MD* ........................................1953William Milton Adams, MD* ..........................1954William G. Hamm, MD* .................................1955Fredrick A. Figi, MD* .....................................1956S. Milton Dupertius, MD* ...............................1957Wallace H. Steffenson, MD* ...........................1958Louis T. Byars, MD* ........................................1959Kenneth L. Pickrell, MD* ................................1960

ASPS PAST PRESIDENTS LIST

James B. Johnson, MD* ..................................1961Charles W. Tennison, MD* ..............................1962William L. White, MD* ...................................1963Reed O. Dingman, MD* ..................................1964George V. Webster, MD* .................................1965E. Horace Klabunde, MD* ...............................1966Richard B. Stark, MD* ....................................1966David W. Robinson, MD* ................................1967Francis X. Paletta, MD* ...................................1968T. Ray Broadbent, MD* ...................................1969Paul P. Pickering, MD* ....................................1970Stephan R. Lewis, MD* ...................................1971George F. Crikelair, MD* ................................1972Michael M. Gurdin, MD* ................................1973James H. Hendrix, Jr., MD* .............................1974Ross H. Musgrave, MD ...................................1975Frederick J. McCoy, MD* ...............................1976Rex A. Peterson, MD .......................................1977Peter Randall, MD ...........................................1978Verner V. Lindgren, MD* ................................1979Frank W. Masters, MD* ...................................1980Jerome E. Adamson, MD .................................1981H. William Porterfield, MD .............................1982Mark Gorney, MD ............................................1983John B. Lynch, MD ..........................................1984John M. Goin, MD* .........................................1985William E. Huger, Jr., MD* .............................1986Robert C. Reeder, MD* ...................................1987Norman E. Hugo, MD ......................................1988

Future ChallengesPlastic Surgeons were able to get Congress to support mandatory insurance coverage for breast reconstruction patients in the ‘90s and are currently working to ensure that reconstructive surgery for treatment of children’s deformities will also be covered by insurance plans.Meanwhile, Plastic Surgery – always a specialty that has thrived on innovation – continues to push ahead with new clinical breakthroughs, refining current techniques and discovering new ones.Plastic Surgeons are researching methods to reduce surgical scarring and patient recovery time. They

are devising new outcomes studies to prove with comprehensive data the quality of life improvements that Plastic Surgery provides via its vast array of procedures.And some researchers are now trying to unlock the secrets of the growth-factor environment of the womb, where scarless healing takes place, so that this knowledge can be applied to wounds in children and adults.The future of Plastic Surgery continues to unfold, with the promise of amazing new things to come, in the humanitarian pursuit to help patients look and feel their best!


Jacques Maliniac, MD* ......................... 1948-1955Clarence R. Straatsma, MD* ................. 1955-1960Herbert Conway, MD* ........................... 1960-1961Richard B. Stark, MD* .......................... 1961-1965Reed O. Dingman, MD* ........................ 1965-1966Clifford L. Kiehn, MD* ......................... 1966-1968Charles E. Horton, MD* ........................ 1968-1970D. Ralph Millard, Jr., MD* .................... 1970-1972Peter Randall, MD ...........................................1973James W. Smith, MD* .....................................1974William C. Grabb, MD* ..................................1975Lester M. Cramer, MD .....................................1976H. Bruce Williams, MD ...................................1977Robert Pool, MD ..............................................1978George W. Hoffman, MD* ...............................1979Donald Laub, MD ............................................1980Simon Fredricks, MD*.....................................1981Hale Tolleth, MD .............................................1982Ruedi P. Gingrass, MD ....................................1983Garry S. Brody, MD .........................................1984John E. Woods, MD .........................................1985Frederic Rueckert, MD ....................................1986Ronald B. Berggren, MD .................................1987Stephen H. Miller, MD ....................................1988

PSEF PAST PRESIDENTS

Frank L. Thorne, MD .......................................1989R. Barrett Noone, MD ......................................1990William D. Morain, MD ..................................1991Malcolm A. Lesavoy, MD ................................1992Fritz E. Barton, Jr., MD ....................................1993Edward A. Luce, MD .......................................1994Mary H. McGrath, MD ....................................1995J. William Little, MD .......................................1996David J. Smith Jr., MD ....................................1997Robert C. Russell, MD .....................................1998Kenna S. Given, MD ........................................1999Bruce M. Achauer, MD* ..................................2000Robert L. Ruberg, MD .....................................2001David L. Larson, MD .......................................2002Stephen J. Mathes, MD* ..................................2003Allen L. Van Beek, MD ..................................2004Thomas R. Stevenson, MD ..............................2005Brian M. Kinney, MD ......................................2006Carolyn L. Kerrigan, MD .................................2007Linda G. Phillips, MD ......................................2008Peter C. Neligan, MB .......................................2009William M. Kuzon, Jr., MD .............................2010John Persing, MD ............................................2011

* Deceased

George Reading, MD .......................................1989John R. Jarrett, MD* ........................................1990H. Bruce Williams, MD ...................................1991Norman M. Cole, MD ......................................1992James G. Hoehn, MD .......................................1993Elvin G. Zook, MD ..........................................1994William B. Riley, MD ......................................1995Garry S. Brody, MD .........................................1996Ronald E. Iverson, MD ....................................1997Dennis J. Lynch, MD .......................................1998Paul L. Schnur, MD .........................................1999C. Lin Puckett, MD ..........................................2000

Walter L. Erhardt, Jr., MD ...............................2001Edward A. Luce, MD .......................................2002James H. Wells, MD ........................................2003Rod J. Rohrich, MD ........................................2004Scott L. Spear, MD ..........................................2005Bruce L. Cunningham, MD .............................2006Roxanne J. Guy, MD ........................................2007Richard A. D’Amico, MD ................................2008John W. Canady, MD .......................................2009Michael F. McGuire, MD .................................2010Phillip C. Haeck, MD .......................................2011


The year the association was created. The Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plastica (SBCP) was founded in 1948 by a group of Brazilian Plastic Surgeons led by Dr. Jose Rebello Neto

The location where it was createdSao Paulo, in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Who were the founding Members? The proceedings of the Society`s first meeting are dated December 7, 1948 and were signed by the following Brazilian doctors: José Rebello Netto, Antonio Prudente, Souza Cunha, Lauro Barros de Abreu, Alípio Pernet, Antonio Duarte Cardoso, Victor Spina, Georges Arié, Roberto Farina, Carlos Caldas Cortes and Paulo de Castro Correa, the latter being the only one still living.

This is considered to be the initial event of the specialty in Brazil, as it marked the beginning of training of new Plastic Surgery specialists in Brazil.By the end of the 1930s, the Brazilian Plastic Surgery had already gained recognition and respectability in other countries.In the beginning, emphasis was put on Reconstructive Surgery, with Aesthetic Surgery being considered secondary, as it did not bring great benefit to patients and treated exclusively the area of vanity.In 1939, Ernest Malbec, from Argentina, met with the Brazilian doctor Antonio Prudente, suggesting the creation of a Society with the object of congregating specialists in Plastic Surgery from all of Latin America.On the 6th of July, 1940, a meeting was held, bringing together 11 Latin American specialists, including 4 Brazilians.The same month, July, 1940, the Latin American Society of Plastic Surgery (SLACP) held its first meeting, with 11 Latin American participants, all 11 from Brazil.In 1948, Jose Rebello Neto, together with a group of Plastic Surgeons, had the idea of creating the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Its first meeting was held on the 7th of December, 1948. It was at that meeting that Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery were united.The Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons was officially founded on that date, with Rebello Neto as its first President, for the 1948 to 1950 term. The second President of SLACP was Antonio Prudente, from 1950 to1952.

First Meeting of the Brazilian Society of PLASTIC Surgery.The board of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery had its first meeting in January 1961, 50 years ago.It is composed of ex-presidents and the national presidents of our current regional of each Brazilian state.

Important milestone events have occurred in the Society`s long and short historyThe history of Brazilian Plastic Surgery is marked by numerous important victories. Many contributions in the development and advancement of surgical techniques and scientific works have been made by its associates, who received international recognition.

Was there any special event that triggered its creation?As a medical field explored by surgeons of different specialties, during the first three decades of the Twentieth Century, Plastic Surgery was called by some “no man`s land”.In the 1930s, the first Plastic Surgery Clinic in Brazil was opened in the City of Sao Paulo, founded by Dr. Jose Rebello Neto, as part of the Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital.

Society´s National Board of Brazilian Society Plastic Surgery, from left to right, José Teixeira Gama, Sebastião Nelsom Edy Guerra

and Fernando de Almeida Prado.


A rough account of the number of your membersAt present, the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery has 5014 active members, including the corresponding members, Plastic Surgeons from various countries around the world.

Educational Programs supported by your National Association For the training of young Plastic Surgeons, the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery supervises 84 accredited departments of Plastic Surgery within important hospitals and clinics throughout the nation.The Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery is responsible for the Final Examination of the trainees and dispensation of the title of Specialization in Plastic Surgery to the future professionals.The Society continually helps in the advancement of the specialty of Plastic Surgery through its Program of Continued Education, presented by and overseen by well known professionals.

Humanitarian Activities In the past, programs in the social arena were undertaken by members of the Society, such as attending the victims of serious accidents and, when necessary, working in unison with Surgeons of other specialties to provide the best care to those patients.During the last administration, with the collaboration with the various Plastic Surgery departments of the Society, the Social Action Department (DAS) was created. Before even beginning its official activities, DAS organized the Humanitarian Action “Multirão of Plastic Surgery”. In that event, a group of Plastic Surgeons acted together with volunteers to attend to a large number of poor people.Until now, 13 such events have been held, with three more already planned.

Innovations and New techniques Brazilian Plastic Surgery boasts a vast compilation of scientific literature, with the invention and development of various techniques in several areas of Plastic Surgery. This scientific content is what has favored the publication of the Scientific Magazine of the SBCP, presently printed in two languages (Portuguese/English) and the organization of 8 annual Scientific Events, especially the sponsorship of the annual Brazilian Congress of Plastic Surgery, an event with national and international repercussions.

Upcoming eventsStill to come on this year`s SBCP scientific events calendar: the 26th North-Northeast Jornada of Plastic Surgery, in the city of Belem, state of Parà (September 2011), the 15th Minas Jornada de Plastic Surgery, in the city of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais (October 2011), the 48th Brazilian Congress of Plastic Surgery, in the city of Goiania, state of Goias (November 2011) and the II Congresso do Cone Sul in the city of Florianopolis, state of Santa Catarina (December 2011).

The Current National Board of DirectorsThe Current National Board of Directors for the 2 year term 2010 – 2011, is composed of the following doctors: Sebastião Nelson Edy Guerra – President, José Teixeira Gama – General Secretary and Fernando de Almeida Prado – General Treasurer.

Sebastian Nelson Edy GuerraPresident of the Brazilian Society

of Plastic Surgeryand

Raul KuryJournalist of the Brazilian Society

Of Plastic SurgerySebastião Nelson Edy Guerra-President of Brazilian Society Plastic Surgery e Prof. Ivo Pitanguy-Patron of Brazilian Plastic Surgery

From left: Drs. Carlos Alberto Komatsu, Antonio carlos Vieira, Benjamim de Souza Gomes, Prof. Ivo Pitanguy, Sebastião Nelson Edy Guerra-President of Brazilian Society Of Plastic Surgery e Carlos Oscar Uebel, in Rio de Janeiro on the last day 05 August.


Brief HistoryThe history of Dutch Plastic Surgery actually starts long before the Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery was founded. Johannes F.S. Esser (1877-1946), a general practitioner in Amsterdam, got interested in Reconstructive Surgery after being a mentor in dentistry for his sister’s studies in Utrecht. After his training in General Surgery in Utrecht, Rotterdam, and Paris, he started to work as a Reconstructive Surgeon in 1915, during World

was appointed as Honorary President of the first European Congress for Reconstructive Surgery in Brussels, which was attended by almost all the pioneering Plastic Surgeons from Europe and the United States of America. This important international meeting was supposed to be held every year in a different European city, beginning in London in 1937. Unfortunately, the threat of the Second World War violently interrupted this schedule and Esser fled to the USA, where he did not play an important role anymore in Plastic Surgery. He died in 1946 in Chicago and was buried there. He and his contributions to modern Plastic Surgery were long forgotten and were only recently rediscovered.The Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery was founded on January 1st, 1950 by C.F. Koch, J.C. Raadsveld, and C.A. Honig. The first scientific meeting was held on October 7th, 1950 in Amsterdam. Sir Archibald McIndoe and Rainsford Mowlem, who were invited to attend this meeting, received

Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery

War I. Because his medical services were turned down by the allied forces, he decided to work for the Austrian-Hungarian governments, as he wanted to treat the many mutilated casualties of war. He and his team first worked at a large 3600-bed military hospital in Brünn, but later moved to Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin.During these war years, Esser proved to be an original thinker and was one of the first to realise that you need a pedicle with an intact blood supply for a transposition flap to survive. Apart from these “arterial” or “biological” flaps, as he called them, he also introduced the cheek rotation flap, the bi-lobed flap, island flaps, and intraoral inlay skin grafts, which are still known today as Esser-inlays.In 1934, Esser joined the editorial board of the first European Journal for Plastic Surgery - “Revue de Chirurgie Plastique” - together with the Belgian Plastic Surgeon Coelst, as editor-in-chief. At the request of Esser, the journal was later renamed “Revue de Chirurgie Structive” and in 1936 he

Koch in USA WWIIKoch-Raadsveld-McIndoe


an honorary membership.One could say that the foundation of the Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery was actually the result of a coincidental encounter of Koch, a General Surgeon and Gynaecologist, with McIndoe in London in 1940, at the beginning of World War II. Koch was afterwards trained by McIndoe to become a Plastic Surgeon in 1943. When Koch returned to The Netherlands - he was an honorary member of McIndoe’s famous “Guinea Pig Club” by then – he managed to convince the established General Surgeons of the necessity of this novel specialty. Raadsveld and Honig supported him and the former subsequently joined him in 1945 for another trip to the United Kingdom, where they were again trained by McIndoe. Honig travelled to the UK in 1948, where he was trained by Mowlem to become Plastic Surgeon. After their return to the Netherlands, they practiced independently as Plastic Surgeons; Koch in Amsterdam, Raadsveld in Rotterdam, and Honig in Utrecht. These early years of Plastic Surgery were tough, as they had to fight for their rights and independence as Plastic Surgeons against the established order of General Surgeons and other surgical specialties. Eventually, after successful lobbying, they managed to become an officially recognised surgical speciality in the Netherlands. Together, they formed the Board of Directors of the Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery during the first 12 years of its existence.In 1954, Honig in Utrecht and Raadsveld in Rotterdam were officially allowed by the Dutch Medical Specialist Registration Committee to start a training centre for Plastic Surgery. In 1960, Plastic Surgery training centres were also started in Groningen, led by Huffstadt, who became the first official Dutch professor of Plastic Surgery in 1970, and by Piers in Amsterdam. In 1974 Raadsveld was succeeded by JC van der Meulen, who became a professor of Plastic Surgery in 1979.

ReferencesHaeseker B. The History of Plastic Surgery in The Netherlands 1950-2000. In: 50 Years Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery, Ed. A.B. Mink van der Molen, pp. 45-55, 2000.Haeseker B. Dr. J.F.S. Esser and his Contributions to Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1983.

Present SituationCurrently, in the Netherlands there are 10 chairs in Plastic Surgery, in Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In addition, there are Plastic Surgery training centres in Eindhoven, Leeuwarden, and Zwolle. The training in Plastic Surgery consists of two years of General Surgery and four years of Plastic Surgery. During these four years residents have to attend a course in Microsurgery, a flap dissection course, and the basic AO courses on the treatment of fractures, as well as hand and wrist fractures. Additionally, to become officially registered as Plastic Surgeons, they have to pass six out of eight examinations which are held twice a year, they have to give at

Raadsveld at Coolsingel hospital Rotterdam

JFS Esser and wife 1916


least one oral presentation at a scientific meeting, they have to write at least one paper in a peer reviewed journal, and they have to pass the Dutch oral examination in Plastic Surgery during the final year of their training. Alternatively, Dutch residents are encouraged to sit the EBOPRAS examination, the successful outcome of which releases them from the Dutch examination.

Fellowships and Sister SocietiesThere is an International Facial Plastic Surgery Fellowship and a Dutch Fellowship in Hand and Wrist Surgery. The Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery has two sister societies: the Netherlands Society for Aesthetic Surgery and the Netherlands Society for Hand Surgery.

Historical Milestones for the Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery

January 1st, 1950: Foundation of the Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery.

Groningen, 1970: A.J.C. Huffstadt is appointed as the first Dutch professor in plastic surgery.

Amsterdam, May 26th-27th, 2000: 50th Anniversary NSPC.

November 18th, 2010: Official collaboration with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

November 25th, 2011: National Day of Plastic Surgery.

Current Board of DirectorsMs. I.M.J. Mathijssen, MD, PhD, PresidentM. Kreulen, MD, PhD, Vice-PresidentH.A. Rakorst, MD, PhD, Secretary-GeneralR. Feitz, MD, SecretaryMs. M.A.J. Meesters-Caberg, MD, TreasurerH.A.H. Winters, MD, PhD, Member

Number of MembersThe Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery has 255 members and 78 aspirant members.

Humanitarian ActivitiesThe Netherlands Society for Plastic Surgery has joined forces with ESPRAS SHARE, which coordinates the dispatch of European Plastic Surgeons to third world countries, according to their needs.

Contact InformationSecretary Netherlands Society for Plastic SurgeryMercatorlaan 12003528 BL UtrechtTelephone: +31-30-2823900E-mail: [email protected]: www.nvpc.nl

AcknowledgementsB Haeseker, MD, PhD and Ms. I.M.J. Mathijssen, MD, PhD are kindly thanked for their helpful comments on this manuscript.

All photographs are courtesy of Dr. B. Haeseker.


The year the association was created. The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand (TSPRS) was founded on 1976 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Who were the founding Members? Professor Lim Kunvisal was the founding member of the association.

Was there any special event that triggered its creation?The TSPRS has been founded based on the will of the local medical community. No other special event urged its creation.

Important milestone events in its long or short history. Since 1989, the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand takes place in order for members to exchange ideas and promote humanitarian work. On 2004, the 9th Conference of the Oriental Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (OSAPS), took place in Bangkok, Thailand, between 6 and 10 December, 2004. Two years later, the 13th ASEAN Congress of Plastic Surgery was held at the Sheraton Chaing Mai Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand, on October 16 - 18, 2006. On 2010, the Annual scientific meeting of Thai Plastic Surgeons combines with TST (Thailand-Singapore-Taiwan).

A rough account of the number of your members. Over 50 Thailand plastic surgeons are already members of TSPRS. Our membership is dynamically increasing.

Educational Programs supported by your National Association No educational programs are yet supported by the TSPRS.

Humanitarian Activities The TSPRS supports “Cleft Lip-Palate for Children Project”. This project provides essential reconstructive surgery to children worldwide.

Innovations and New techniques Innovations and new techniques are currently studied by the members of the TSPRS.

Upcoming events The TSPRS will be the host of The Conference of the Oriental Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

The Current Board of Directors Prof. Apirag ChuangsuwanichPresident Dr. Sukit MekruksawanichVice PresidentDr. Kamol WattankraiSecretary GeneralDr. Sirichai KamnerdnaktaAssistant Secretary GeneralDr. Yingyos SantidhananonTreasureDr. Lek KanjanakomutAssistant TreasureDr. Vichai SrimuninnimitScientific ChairmanDr. Apichai AngspattScientific CommitteeDr. Chalermpong ChatdokmaipraiPublicationDr. Sakuna SajjaissariyawutAssistant of Publication Prof. Sriprasit BoonvisutInternational RelationshipDr. Prayuth ChokrungvaranontMember RelationDr. Nond RojvachiranontRegistrationDr. Somboon ChaisrisawadisukRepresentative of NorthernProf. Bawornsilp ChowchuenRepresentative of North-EasternDr. Kriengsak SirirukRepresentative of EasternDr. Sanguan KunapornRepresentative of SouthernDr. Sukit VorathumrongRepresentative of Private Hospital

Contact information for the Association The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of ThailandOffice: Royal Golden Jubilee Building (9th Floor), Soi Soonvijai, New Petchburi Road, Bangkok 10310, Thailand.Tel: 662 7166214 Fax 662 7166966 Website: www.plasticsurgery.or.th E-mail: [email protected]

The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand


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Dear friends

As the first president of the International society of plastic and regenerativesurgery, I send you my greetings and best wishes. As you know, this newly formed society is a fledgling of the mighty parent the IPRAS. This society was founded at the last IPRAS congress in Vancouver with the aim of having an exclusive society dedicated to the regenerative aspect of plasticsurgery.

Since eons, we plastic surgeons have dedicated our minds and our skills in developing methods and techniques to replicate and substitute tissue loss. It has always been our endeavour to correct, modify and improve both function

as well as form as the situation demanded. However, now the aims and objectives for eachone of usistaking a new dimension which had never seemed possible earlier. From an era of replication we are now getting geared to recreate the tissue lost due to disease, deformity or ageing.

Untill now, the source of stem cells for tissue regeneration, in conditions involving damaged and degenerated nerve tissue, bone or the cardiac muscle had been restricted to the embryonic tissues and the marrow. However, with the recent knowledge of adipose tissue being the biggest and the most easily accessible source of stemcells, regenerating tissue is now literally a tour fingertips.Thus, we are now in the process of becoming treatment providers to a huge spectrum of conditions that were beyond our premise as well as imaginaton. The opportunity is waiting for all of us so that in future we shall be able to redefine treatment options.

The membership to this society is free to all board certified plastic surgeons practising anywhere in the world. I therefore urge all of you to join hands with me as members of ISPRES in orders to discover newer frontiers and horizons in the field of tissue regeneration.

The documents necessary for a membership submission are:- Application Form- CV (Not More than one page)- Copy of board certification

You may download the application form though www.ispres-ipras.org on “How to become a member” section.

Cordially,

Gino RigottiISPRES President

ISPRES Management OfficeContact Person: Maria PetsaEmail Address: [email protected] Telephone: +30 211 100 1787


Article 1. NameThe name of the organization shall be the International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgery (ISPRES). The Logo is a round emblem with a sketch of an amputated starfish in the centre and the full title of the Society at the periphery of the circle.

Article 2. Mission and Purpose The purpose of ISPRES shall be: a) to promote the art and science of Regenerative Plastic Surgery; b) to further programs, knowledge, education, research and development; c) to evaluate medical techniques related to Regenerative Plastic Surgery and d) to promote and encourage the highest ethical standards of personal and professional conduct among Plastic Surgeons and other scientists with an interest in this field;

Article 3. MembershipMembership in the Society shall be at the discretion of the Society. Election of Members is effected by the Executive Committee following application and a CV. The types of Membership are: 1) Active Members 2) Founding Members 3) Associate Members 4) Candidate Members and 5) Honorary Members 1. Active Members – Shall be Plastic Surgeons

Members of National Societies affiliated to the International Confederation of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS) who must provide evidence of special interest in Regenerative Plastic Surgery.

2. Founding Members – Are members who founded this Society and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of active membership for life.

3. Associate Members – Shall be Scientists holding a University Degree, non Plastic Surgeons, who must provide evidence of special interest in Regenerative Plastic Surgery.

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4. Candidate Members – Shall be Plastic Surgeons or other Scientists who have demonstrated interest in Regenerative Plastic Surgery.

5. Honorary Members - Honorary Membership may be conferred upon eminent physicians or other individuals whom the Society desires to honor because of their achievements and contributions. Non-members elected to Honorary Membership by the Society may not hold office, vote, serve on Committees, or attend Business Meetings of the society. Honorary Members attending Scientific Meetings subsequent to the one at which they are honored shall be charged a reduced fee.

Applications for membership shall not be rejected on the basis of religious beliefs or political ideals. The ExCo however is not under obligation to give explanation of the reasons for which an application is rejected and there is no appeal procedure.

Article 4. Organization and Goverment The Society is governed by 1) The Executive Committee and 2) The General Assembly

1. The Executive Committee (ExCo)The General Assembly elects among their Members at the recommendation of the President the officers of the ExCo who shall be as follows:

a) President – Elected for a two (2) year tenure renewable only once.

b) Vice President - Elected for a two (2) year tenure renewable only once

c) Secretary General - Elected for a three (3) year tenure non renewable.

d) Assistant General Secretary - Elected for a three (3) year tenure non renewable

e) Treasurer - Elected for a three (3) year tenure renewable once

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f) Parliamentarian – Appointed by the President and approved by the General Assembly – reappointment at the discretion of the President

g) Two Members - Elected for a two (2) year tenure non renewable.

The ExCo appoints an Executive Manager who participate in all functions of the Society as a non-voting ex officio member.

2. The General Assembly

a) Members of the General Assembly with the right to vote are all the Active and Founding Members of the Society provided that they are not in arrears of their annual membership dues to the Society.

b) The General Assembly convenes at least once a year.

c) Elects the officers of the ExCo by simple majority of the members present and eligible to vote

d) Approves revision of the Bylaws by simple majority at the recommendation of the ExCo by simple majority of the members present and eligible to vote

e) Electronic vote at the discretion of the President is allowable for urgent and important matters

Article 5. TREASURYThe Society is a “non profit” organization – The financial situation (balance) is audited annually by two non ExCo members elected by the General Assembly for a particular year. The annual financial report is subject to approval by the General Assembly. The Societies assets come from:

a) The annual membership dues which are determined by the General Assembly

b) Donations from various sources approved by the ExCo

c) Income from scientific events.

Article 6 COMMITTEES Ad-hoc committees can be formed for any matter at the recommendation of the President and approved by the ExCo.

Article 7 DISSOLUTION AND LIQUIDATIONA decision to dissolve the Society requires a resolution by the General Assembly adopted by a two thirds majority of the members in a meeting in which more than half of the members are present.The Society will continue to exist after its dissolution insofar as this is necessary for the liquidation of its capital.Liquidation will be effected by the Executive Committee.For the time of the liquidation these Articles of Association apply as much as possible.Any credit balance of the dissolved Foundation will be spent as much as possible in accordance with the Foundation’s objectives.After the liquidation the Foundation’s accounts and documents will rest for thirty years with he who was the Foundation’s Secretary at the time of the dissolution.

Article 8. Temporary administrationUntil these Bylaws become a legal document and the first election of ExCo Officers takes place, the temporary administration of this Society will be with Prof Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Prof Gino Rigotti, Prof Sydney Coleman and Prof Andreas Yiacoumettis


Despite belonging in an ever expanding front of themedical world that always advances to new achievementsand exciting challenges, we do not get the chance towitness many “first time” events as often as the sum ofour personal scientific contributions actually deserves.

We are proud to announce that,European Plastic Surgeons join their Chinese Colleaguesin organizing a major Congress, the

taking place in Beijing, China,from October 27th to 30th, 2011. We invite you to be

present in the first of many Congresses to link the world of plastic surgery with a view of thecombined Chino-European Perspective. A combination that already captured theimagination and gained the support of the most esteemed international plastic surgery andanti-ageing organizations globally.

“for the first time”

1st ChineseEuropean Congress of Plastic, ReconstructiveandAesthetic Surgery

BesidesThe European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery ( -the European Section) and the Chinese Society of Plastic Surgeons ( ) this event is co-organized by the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and AestheticSurgery ( - the Global Organization of our Specialty), the International Society ofAesthetic Plastic Surgery ( ), the European Society of Preventive, Regenerative andAnti-Aging Medicine the American Society of Plastic Surgeons ( ) and theBrazilian Society of Plastic Surgery ( ).

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'This has never happened before’'This has never happened before’Contact details: Tel: +30 211 100 17 83 Fax: +30 210 664 21 16 Email:Chrysa Kontololi [email protected]

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Biotechnology and Human Aging

Biology and Genetics of Age Related Skin Disorders

Glycation and Aging of the Cardiovascular System

Human Myoblasts in Regeneration of Post - Infarctionheart

Common Ageing

Associated Bone & Joint Diseases and their Treatment

Brains & Skin Aging: A Common Molecular approach?

Ageing of Immune System

Macula Degeneration - a Progressive, Ageing AssociatedOcular Disease

New Frontiers in the Management of Chronic Disease

Prevention and Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Prevention and Treatment of Kidney Stones

Testosterone and PDE5 Inhibitors in the Aging Male

The Dialectic Role of Hormones in the Prevention andFemale Health

New Cosmetic Approaches for the Ageing Skin

Elastic Fibres, Skin Scarring and Phytocosmetology

Can Aging be delayed?

Lessons from Centenarians

IPRAS / ESAAM cooperation: A Futuristic picture ofPreventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging MedicineHolistic Medicine.

Bioengineering

Stem Cell Research

Composite Tissue Transplantation

Innovations - Materials & Devices

Wound Healing & Wound Management

Congenital Anomalies

Hand Surgery

Burns

Pediatric Plastic Surgery

Innovations in Microsurgery

Management of Malignant tumors and postOncologic Reconstruction

Trauma Management & Reconstruction

Breast Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery

Liability Issues and Malpractice

Fat Graft Workshop

Aesthetic Surgery

Body Contouring

Set up of a Successful Plastic Surgery Practice

Optimizing Internet Representation

Preliminary Program Topics

beijing, china

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Open new channels of communication

in the country of 1.340.000.000 people,

China... the fastest growing country

worldwide!

Participate in the biggest Scientific

Event of the year!

Get the opportunity to visit the

unique Beijing in the most beautiful

season!Preventive, Regenerativeand Anti-Aging Medicine

Non-Invasive facialRejuvenation

· Open new Horizons!

· Don't miss this chance!

BETHERE FORTHE LATEST NEWS &DEVELOPMENTS ON

· PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE &AESTHETIC Surgery

· ANTIAGING & LASER Techniques

· FOOD SUPPLEMENT Prospects


Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

INVITED FACULTY

We are happy to announce an

under the chairmanship of and willcover the whole spectrum of the Plastic,Reconstructive andAesthetic Surgery.

Invited outstanding faculty from all over the world,comprised oftop specialists and researchers and an impressive International and Scientific Committee

Professor Daniel Marchac (France) Professor LanMu (China)

Fan Jincai, Fan Xianqun , Guo Shuzhong , Huang Luping, Ju Qiang , Lan Mu , Lan Xiao , Lin Xiaoxi , LiuWei , LiuYuanbo , Luan Jie, MuXiongzheng , Peng Luying , RongyaYang , ShenGuofan, ShenZunLi , XinXing, Yi LinCao, YinNimbei , Zhang Jufang , ZhangRuhong , ZhangYixin, ZhangZhiyong

Chinese Invited Faculty

International Invited Faculty

Al Hoqail Rola, Ali Al Numairy, Auclair Eric , Berrocal Manuela, BiggsTom, Blondeel Phillip, Borsche Andre, Boukouvalas Zisis, Bundugji Nadiah,Calderhead RGlen, ChonaThomas*, Chung Kevin C., Cunha Leonardo , CunninghamBruce,Daeh-WanParkDavid, Daher JoseCarlos , Dahmen-ZimmerKatharina , DeAssisCarvalho Francisco,

De Benito Javier, De Mey Albert, Del Pino Roxo Carlos, Delay Emmanuel, DornelasMarilho, Dornelas Marilia, Echinard Christian, Eed Mohamed, Eisenmann-Klein Marita,

Enescu Dan, Evans Gregory , Fantozzi Fabio, Fedeles Josef, FilhoAlfredo Gragnani,Filho Pericles, FoustanosAndreas, FrotaAntonio, Frota Priscila, GanssChristoph,

GarciaVelascoManuel, Gigliofiorito Pierluigi, GursuGuler, Heijningen IvarVan, HeineNorbert,Holle Jürgen, Horch Raymund, Jianu Dana, Jianu Stefan, Kim JeongTae,

Kahoro Loise, Kinney Brian, Klentze Michael, Klinger Marco, Knobloch Karsten, KottiBouraoui, Lamblet Herbert, Lascar Ioan, Lee Pu, Lipski Konstantin B., Lokesh Kumar,

Lucero Florencio, Malcolm Roth, Marchac Daniel, Massako Ferreira Lydia, MazzolaRiccardo, Mercer Nigel , Miodrag Colic, Mugea T. Thoma, Murod Jafarov,Neuhann-LorenzConstance, NeumeisterMichaelM., NinkovicMilomir, NiveoSteffen, PalluaNorbert, Noreldin Ahmed, Palmos Petros, Passos Piassi Alexandre, Perez Jorge A.,Persichetti Paolo, Pessoa Salustiano, Piccolo Monica, Piccolo Nelson, Piccolo Thereza,Pitanguy Ivo, Pittet Brigitte, PortincasaAurelio, PrasetyonoTheddeus O.H. , PshenisnovKirill, Roncevic Radmilo, Schaefer Johannes Dirk, Schantz Jan-Thorsten, Sharnagl Erwin,

StasievichAleh, Sucupira Eduardo, Sukwha Kim, Tai Paul Ling, Takayanagi Susumu,Toyosi Nishimura Paulo, Triana Lina, Tsoutsos Demosthenis, ViníciusAlves Ribeiro Carlos ,Vinzenz Kurt, Viterbo Fausto, VoukidisTheodoros, Wanda Correa Elizabeth, Winters Henri,

Yavuzer Reha , YiacoumettisAndreas, Yoshimura Kotaro, Zaki Mohammed SobhiAhmed,ZicRado, ZouboulisChristos, ZulmiraBadinAna,

Saudi Arabia - United Arab Emirates - France - Columbia -USA - Belgium - Germany - Greece - Saudi Arabia -

Korea - Oman - USA - Brazil - USA -Korea - Brazil - Germany -

Brazil - Spain - Belgium - Brazil - France -Brazil - Brazil - France - Saudi Arabia -

Germany - Romania - USA - Italy - Slovakia -Brazil - Brazil - Greece - Brazil - Brazil - Germany -

Mexico - Italy - Turkey - Belgium -Germany - Austria - Germany - Romania - Romania - Korea -

Kenya - USA - Thailand - Italy - Germany -Tunisia - Brazil - Romania - USA - Russia -

India - Philippines - USA - France - Brazil -Italy - United Kingdom - Serbia - Romania - Uzbekistan -

Germany - USA - Germany - Brazil -Germany - Egypt - Greece - Brazil - USA -

Italy - Brazil - Brazil - Brazil - Brazil -Brazil - Switzerland - Italy - Indonesia -

Russia - Serbia - Switzerland - Germany -Austria - Belarus - Brazil - Korea - USA - Japan -

Brazil - Colombia - Greece - Brazil -Austria - Brazil - Greece - Brazil -

Netherlands - Turkey - Greece - Japan -Egypt - Croatia - Germany - Brazil

Speakers

AbboudMarwan, Alves Saulo, AmoreRoberto, Annacontini L., ArmandParanque, ArranzJose L, Arrunategui-Carvallo Cesar, AthaydeManuel, BiteUldis, Borsky Jiri,Chang Chia Ning, Cihantimur Bulent, Correa Livia D., DebskiTomasz, Del Frari Barbara,

DemirYavuz, D'onofrio Crescenzo, Enescu Mihaela, Eng John, FelicioYhelda,Ferreira Da Silva Luis Gustavo, Forster Natasha, Goisis Mario, Hadzhiyski Ognyan,Hatamipour Ebrahim, Ho Quoc Christophe, Hong Sung Bum, HoyosAlfredo, Huemer Georg,

Jacques Alexandre Zufferey, Jaeger Marcos Ricardo de Oliveira, Jomah Jamal,Jovanovic Milan, Kamble Krishnamurti, KimYoung Soo, Koay Jack, Koay Mary Ellen,KremerMichaelAndreas, Larcher Lorenz, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Lauritzen Lucena Evando,LeeAnna, Lee Charles Sung-Chull, Lee Hong Ki, LiesbethVandermeeren, LinXiaoxi , LohYuenYung Charles, Lumenta David B, Mandour Elsyed MandourEldib, Marcon GuilhermeM., Meza Britez, Miachkovsky Sergey, MoklineA., Moreira Dini Gal, Mu David, Nassimizadeh Mohammad,OmranifardMahmood, PadhaiskiVladzimir, PallaraTiziano, Park DongMan,

Park JaeWoo, QaderAri Raheem, Qaryoute Salah, RaheemQader Ari, Rauso Raffaele, Reshetov Igor, RichtrPatrik, Roddi Roberto, Rubinstein Leonard, SaadallahM.Al-Zako, Saedi Farid, Segreto Francesco, Senna-FernandesVasco, SharobaroValentin, Siddiky SayeedAhmed, Song Ping, Spirito Daniele, Stasevich Aleh,

Stepankin Sergey, Sun Jeremy,Szemerey Istvan, Tatineni Lakshmi Saleem, Treskova Inka,

Tutino Matteo, Verega Grigore, VindigniVincenzo, Viterbo Fausto, Wieslander Jan B,Wong Michael S, Wu Chao-I, WuYan, XiangLeihong Flora, Yadav Prabha, Yang Yu-Li,YonghoShin, ZhangXuejing, ZhangZiyang,Ziccardi Pasquale, Zufferey JacquesAlexandre,

Belgium - Brazil - Italy - Italy - France -Spain - Brazil - Arab Emirates - USA - Czech Republic -

Taiwan - Turkey - Brazil - Poland -Austria - Turkey - Italy - Romania - USA - Brazil -

Angola - Switzerland - Italy - Bulgaria -Iran - France - Korea - Spain -

Austria - Switzerland - Brazil - Saudi Arabia -Serbia - India - South Korea - USA - USA -

Germany - Austria - Austria - Brazil -South Korea - USA - Korea - Belgium -

China - United Kingdom - Austria -Egypt - Brazil - Paraguay - Belarus -

Tunisia - Brazil - China - United Kingdom -Iran - Belarus - Italy -

Korea - South Korea - Iraq - Jordan -Iraq - Italy - Russian Federation -

Czech Republic - Belgium - USA -Iraq - United Kingdom - Italy -

Brazil - Russian Federation -Bangladesh - China - Italy -

Belarus - Russian Federation - Singapore -Hungary - India -

Czech Republic - Italy - Moldova -Italy - Brazil - Sweden -

USA - Taiwan - China -China - India - Taiwan -

Korea - China - Germany- Italy - Switzerland


Dear friends,

IThis year the International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgery, ISPRES, was founded as a co-opted society of IPRAS. We felt that

there was an urgent need for the promotion of science, treatment options and safety issues of this exciting new field.

The near future will see tremendous progress in the versatility of lipoaspirate to solve many problems, from the simple to the most

complex, and we will be fortunate to be a part of this exciting journey.

We therefore appeal to all of you to join the society and empower it with all of your experience, knowledge and skill. Legends in this

field have already laid the path for all who wish to participate in, contribute to and enrich these pages of history.

For all these reasons we also encourage all of you to participate to the

The 1st ISPRES Meeting will cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the benefits and versatility of and its

innumerable applications both in aesthetic as well as reconstructive surgery, and its possible applications to

various chronic and practically untreatable conditions, the ability of becoming not merely s volume filler but the

faithful aand reliable workhorse in most difficult situations where treatment options are seldom present and of course the in

imparting these treatments without causing aany change in the patient condition for the worse.

Rome for many people one of the most beautiful cities in Europe is ready to welcome us. The sight is spectacular, enchanting and

breathtaking, transforming the Roman nights to unforgettable memories of a life time.

Art and culture remain intact, an endless chain in time, connecting past with future, Roman ruins with Michelangelo's sculptures,

Bernini Baroque with Christian Catacombs, Fontana di Trevi with the Colosseum, and the street painters of Piazza Navona with the

Sistine Chapel.

With the kind support of the German Speaking Pilgrims Office we were able to prepare for you visits to the Vatican Gardens, St.

Peter's grave in the Scavi Vaticani and your participation in an audience with Pope Benedikt XVI.

Due to limited availability of rooms, venue space and social program capacities we advise you to register very soon!

We are going to enjoy an unforgettable event in 'Rome!

Cordially yours

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All those interested in this particular field of science, plastic surgeons andcollaborating scientists, will find a forum and a group of colleagues with whom they will shareknowledge and interests in this type of Surgery.

Plastic Surgeons have been practicing fat injections for over a century but it was only recently that werealized that this procedure involved more than augmenting soft tissue in the various parts of the body.“StemCells”, “Pre-adipocyte cells” and other related terms are entering not only our vocabulary but alsoare influencing our everyday practice.

A golden future is ahead of us and this topic needs to be studied in depth. In our perpetual efforts forimproving our results, new applications will be evolved and it is expected that ourmethods and techniqueswill be significantly enriched.

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Experience a walk through the Vatican Gardens with us!

Be with us in the Necropolis under the Cathedral where St. Peter's grave was detected!

Come along for an audience with Pope Benedikt XVI or

join us for the Angelus Prayer with the Pope!

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Roger KhouriISPRES Vice President

Gino RigottiISPRES President

Sydney ColemanISPRES Secretary General


Congress President


Registration fees

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Participation in the scientific program

Congress material (bag, final program, abstract )

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Participation to Opening Ceremony and Cocktail

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Rome (Roma) means history. And amidst all this history, a modern city lives, breathes, and buzzes with life.It's hard to say what you will find most breathtaking about the eternal citythe opulence of the Vatican, thetimelessness of the Forum, the top speed of a Fiat Bambino, or the millions of cats in the Colosseum.Whatever your interests are, Rome (Roma) has something special for you.

Visit the Piazza Navona, the most beautiful square in the capital, and the Capitoline Museums, home tosome of Roma's best ancient art and sculpture. Renaissance buildings cluster around the historic centerbetween the Via del Corso and the River Tiber. And, of course, you'll want to visit the Trevi Fountain (where acoin andawishwill ensure your eventual return to thecity) and the Spanish Steps.

Since1950, the PalazzoDella Rovere houses theHotel Columbus.

At the ground floor level, on both sides of the portal are found two small 17th century fountains; the right-hand side one is decorated with an eagle and the Borghese family emblem, the dragon, whereas the left-hand side one only features a dragon pouring water in the underlying basing; all is encased in a heavilyrestored small aedicula. The wing of the palace housing the headquarters of the Order of the HolySepulchre, on the piano nobile still features some of the most impressive and magnificent rooms in thewholebuilding: five large roomsdecoratedby Pinturicchio andhis school.

The latter is probably themost beautiful and best preserved one in the whole Palazzo, and features a gold-paintedwoodpanelled ceiling coveredwith amock-mosaic painting by Pinturicchio and his school,madein 1490. Figures were distempered on sheets of paper glued to supports which were then nailed into thepanels, resorting toa techniqueclose to illuminating.

Last but not least comes Cardinal Francesco Alidosi's small chapel, with a magnificent lacunar ceilingdecorated with figures from the cardinal's coat of arms: eagles, oaks, and the motto “Agite mortales ociaquos cibus et umbra quercus alit” (Enjoy, thou mortals, leisure time, made sweeter by food and the oak'sshade) on the two lunettes on the furthest walls.

The second floor of the Palazzo features two rooms with ceilings frescoed by Francesco Salviati around thefirst half of the 16th century for cardinal Giovanni Salviati. The first room, whose entrance is encased in abeautiful 15th century marble frame, is today used as the dining room; it still features a magnificent mirrorceiling wholly covered with fresco and stucco decorations reaching the trabeation, with four masks on thecorners of the ceiling, candelabra, and the Salviati's coat of arms. In the middle, Apollo leads the Sun'shorses.

The hotel is situated not far from the Rome historical center, nearby the Vatican City and the Tevere river.From our hotel, walking along "Via della Conciliazione" you may reach eastwards St.Peter's Dom orwestwards St. Angel Castle. You get to the rest of the city center if you go through the bridge "VittorioEmanuele II" on the Tiber river"

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Youmayalso visit theNEW ISPRESwebsite

Maria [email protected] +30 211 100 1787

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Experience a walk through the Vatican Gardens with us!Be with us in the Necropolis under the Cathedral where St. Peter's grave was detected!Come along for an audience with Pope Benedikt XVI or join us for the Angelus Prayer with the Pope!

Members

Salzberg C. Andrew,

Wanda Elizabeth Corr a,

Pestalardo Carlos,

Rigotti Gino,

K ouri Roger,

Coleman Sydney,

Marchi Alessandra,

Evans Gregory,

Yiacoumettis Andreas,

Kinney Brian,

Pu Lee,

Kaplanidis Zacharias,

USA

Brazil

Argentina

Italy

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ChairmanPiccolo Nelson, Brazil

Horizon in fat usage

Current legislation

Chronic wounds

Biomaterial

Research

Regenerative apart from plastic surgery

Banking

Anatomical region

Due to limited availability please register if you are interested in these 3 programs as early as possible

Organizing Committee

Topics

Social Program

Prof. Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Germany

Chairman

Members

Sydney Coleman,

Baker Tom,Biggs Tom,Bolivar de Souza Pinto Ewaldo,Corr a Wanda Elizabeth ,Chajchir Abel,Christos Zouboulis,Corr a Wanda Elizabeth,Del Vecchio Dan,Delay Emanuel,Eisenmann Klein Marita,Grisotti Andrea,Guerrerosantos Jos ,Magalon Guy,Markowicz Marta,Marten Tim,Mazzola Riccardo,Michael Klentze,Nava Maurizio,Pallua Norbert,Patel Neeta,Piccolo Nelson,Poell Jan,Rohrich Rod,Rubin Peter,Schneider Michael,Voukidis Theodoros,Yoshimura Kotaro,

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Brazil

Brazil

Argentina

Germany

Brazil

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France

Germany

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Mexico

France

Germany

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Italy

Thailand

Italy

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India

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Dear Professors, Colleagues and Guests,

It is our sincere pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd Central AsianPlastic Surgery Conference (CAPSC) to be held in Tashkent fromthe

The CAPSC is under-going a renaissance, with an infusion ofenergy and excitement from all areas of our specialty. 2008 yearwas the first time that the program was expanded to include adedicated section on clinical outcomes, and this change wasgreeted with a record attendance at the 1st Central Asian PlasticSurgery Conference. The expanded program continues, providinga forum for all best research in plastic surgery across the fullbreadth of topics.

CAPRS is young meeting in Central Asian region. And all possibleimprovements in Plastic Surgery in this region will depend on yourcontributions.

Wehope to show you the legendary Uzbek hospitality you hear somuch about. You will have chance to visit old cities Samarqand,Bukhara andKhiva. Each has a historymore than 2000 years.Also2009 years dedicated to 2200 yearsTashkent.

Taking this chance, we thank you in advance for participation in theconference that will not be a success without your presence. Wehope that youwill never forget hospitality of Uzbek people.

Finally, we look forward towelcome you

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Moreover, many other Uzbek subspecialty societiesas ENT, general and pediatric surgery, orthopedic surgery andothers will contribute to the scientific program. As a consequence,this Conferencewill provide top-level education and state of the artinformation, particularly aimed for pediatric plastic surgery.

Tashkent is the ideal location for this Conference, a beautiful citywithmany tourists' attractions and perfect conference facilities.

The social program with various cultural and artistic events, incombination with the excellent scientific program will offer you andyour partner all possibilities to further and renew friendships,strengthen scientific collaboration and enjoy the splendid beauty ofUzbekistan.

Chairman of 3rd CAPSC President of SPRASU

[email protected]

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Miodrag Colic,ISAPS General Secretary (Serbia)

Honorary Presidentof the Conference

Chairman of the Conference

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Daniel Marchac (France)

Mr. George Koliopoulos

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DEADLINE FOR HOTEL RESERVATION1 OF MARCH 2012ST

NOTIFICATION OF ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE1 OF FEBRUARY 2012ST

HAND SURGERY

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MICROSURGERY

CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY

CLEFT LIP & PALATE

GENITAL SURGERY FOR AESTHETIC

& FUNCTIONAL INDICATION

LASER, TOXINS AND FILLERS

OTOPLASTY

HAIR TRANSPLANTATION

BODY CONTOURING

ETHICS AND PATIENT SAFETY ISSUES

FACIAL REJUVENATION

RHINOPLASTY

BREAST SURGERY

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ASIAN AESTHETIC SURGERY

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Marita Eisenmann-Klein,IPRAS President (Germany)

Chairman:

Members:

Chairman of the Scientific Committee

Members:

A.M. BorovikovAbror ShermatovAlijon T. HisamovAlisher KasimovAndreas YiacoumettisBakyt OmurzakovBarry JonesBrent SeagleBrian M. KinneyBurt BrentCao YilinCarlos Oscar UebelDaniel LabbéEmmanuel DelayEric ArnaudEric AuclairFrancoise FirminGafur Khodjamuratov

Gulnar G. Jumatova

I.B. KraynikIsken K. Kachkinbaev

(Russia)(Uzbekistan)(Uzbekistan)(Uzbekistan)

(Greece)(Kirgizia)

(United Kingdom)(USA)

(USA)(USA)

(China)(Brazil)

(France)(France)

(France)(France)

(France)

(Tajikistan)

(Kazakhstan(Russia)

(Kirgizia)

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(Uzbekistan)(France)

(Uzbekistan)

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(USA)(Spain)

(Uzbekistan)(Turkey)

(Uzbekistan)

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(Uzbekistan)(Uzbekistan)

(France)

James ChangKhamidulla Asadov

Laurent LantieriMamur Yunusov

Michael F. McGuire

Michael J. Yaremchuk

Miguel ChamosaMurod S. Nigmanov

Nazim CerkesNodir A. Alimov

Nurlan A. Beysebaev

Peter G. CordeiroPeter NeliganRalph GilbertShakhob Shamsiev

Temur IslamovVladimir Mitz

Murod M. Jafarov,SPRASU President (Uzbekistan)

Be-young Yun Park

Zacharias Kaplanidis,

(Korea)

IPRAS Executive Director(Greece)

Chairman of theLocal Organizing Committee

Abdurashid Kayumkhodjaev, (Uzbekistan)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Registration fees for all PARTICIPANTSinclude the following:

Entry to all scientific conference sessionsAccess to Exhibition AreaConference Bag (including all conferencematerial and final program)Opening Ceremony ParticipationOpening Ceremony Cocktail ParticipationCoffee BreaksBusiness Lunches

Registration Fees

EARLYUP TO 20 JANUARY

AFTER21 JANUARY

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€ 200,00 € 300,00 € 450,00

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Registration fees for ACCOMPANYINGPERSONS include the following:

Access to Exhibition AreaOpening Ceremony ParticipationOpening Ceremony Cocktail ParticipationCity Tour

* The Conference Dinner is not included in theregistration fees there is an additional charge

** Registration fees do not include insurance ofparticipants against cancellation, accidents, theftor property loss. Participants should arrange fortheir own insurance.

Accommodation Fees

Double Room: 135 per room, per night€

Single Room : per room, per night125€

Breakfast included

HOTEL INTERCONTINENTALTASHKENT - CONGRESS VENUE

The InterContinental Tashkent is convenientlylocated in a business park near the National Bankof Uzbekistan, shopping arcades and theTelecommunication Center, a 20 minute drivefrom the airport and 5 minutes from the citycenter. The only five-star hotel in Uzbekistan,

UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan has well preserved its past whenCentral Asia was the centre of Tamerlane’sempire. Cities of today’s Uzbekistan, includingSamarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Tashkent andShakhrisabz are symbols of oriental beauty andmystery.

During ancient times the Silk Road passedthrough these cities and their advantageousgeographical location made them attractive toconquerors.

The territory of modern Uzbekistan wasoccupied many times by various kings andwarlords, including Alexander the Great.Alexander founded at least 8 cities in CentralAsia between 334 - 323 years BC.

From 484 to 1150 AD the region was invaded bythe western tribes: The Huns, the Turks and theArabs.The latter brought a new religion - Islam.Many cities were totally destroyed during theinvasion of Genghis Khan in 1220. Later, thegreat conqueror Timur, known in the West underthe name of Tamerlane, revived the destroyedcities using slaves and builders who had beencaptured during Timir’s successful militarycampaigns. The majority of the architecturalbuildings that are located in Samarkand today,were built by Tamerlane and his grandsonUlugbek.

TASHKENT

Although Tashkent was probably first settledaround the 1st century BC, written records datethe city to its Arab occupation in the 8th centuryAD. The 13th-century defeat to Genghis Khanand his Mongolian forces threw Tashkent into anera of turmoil. The Mongols lost the city in the14th century when the Timurids Empire seizedcontrol. The Timurids Empire ruled Tashkent untilthe late 15th century, when the Sheibanids sweptthrough the region. Today, Tashkent is the capitalof Uzbekistan.


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Dear colleagues and friends of IPRAS,

I have always been certain that the only way forward is to have our eyes looking to the future, confident that plastic surgery will carry on thriving, absorbing new technologies and techniques. I have accompanied our society since its first steps, and I am glad to see visions transformed to reality! It has been my hope that IPRAS and its national societies will continue to be the forums where innovation will be presented, where the inquisitive mind will find others equally curious, so that plastic surgery may evolve within the framework of two principal objectives: to generously pass on knowledge to the next generation, and to assure safety to our patients.

I am particularly happy that the upcoming IPRAS World Congress is to be held in beautiful Chile, in our continent of South America, where plastic surgery has made giant steps of development. I invite you all to add this important event to your plans for 2013 and to take advantage of the opportunity to attend one of the most important scientific gatherings for plastic surgery.

Ivo PITANGUY

Head-Professor of the Plastic Surgery Departments of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Carlos Chagas Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Studies

Member (and patron) of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Brazilian Academy of Letters

Visiting Professor, I.S.A.P.S. FICS, FACS

SUPPORT LETTER FROM BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER


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Dear colleagues,

Santiago de Chile is the destination for our World Congress 2013. Santiago

recently, without even being noticed by the rest of the world, has changed into

a vibrating city with an incredible spirit. It is considered now to be the

Manhattan of South America. And it is surrounded by a breathtaking beautiful

landscape between endless beaches and eternal snow, volcanos and rain

forests, deserts and penguins!

Our colleagues there are eagerly awaiting us with the unique hospitality of

South America. Together we shall prepare an outstanding scientific program,

but also unforgettable social events and unique pre- and post- congress tours.

You all have noticed the dynamic development of our Confederation into a

society that is eager to serve its individual members more efficiently and to

increase the benefits for its members continuously.

Our next world congress in Santiago de Chile will define another turning point.

From now on, IPRAS will organize all world congresses with its own

management staff and PCO. You will have the same familiar pattern of

information and the same familiar persons will accompany you to destinations

all around the world.

Chile is a particularly exciting one. We promise to make this trip an

unforgettable experience for you.

We look forward to meet you there!


President of IPRAS Chairman of the ScientificBoard of IPRAS

Daniel MarchacPatricio Léniz

President of the congressPresident of Chilean

Society of Plastic Surgery

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NATIONAL & CO-OPTED SOCIETIES’ FUTURE EVENTS

07 - 09 October 2011October 2011October

The 3rd Asian Symposium of Breast Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Location: Seoul, Korea - Venue: Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital /The Catholic University of Korea

E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.asbprs2011.or.kr/

14 - 15 October 2011

Symposium on Recent advances and new concepts in Plastic Surgery & Fat Grafting Course

Location: Limassol, Cyprus - Venue: Dt. Raphael Hotel Contact: George Koliopoulos - Telephone: +30 211 100 1781 - Fax: +30 210 6642116

E-mail: [email protected] - URL: www.cyprusfatgraft2011.com

October 14-17, 2011

14th International Course of Perforator FlapsLocation: Seoul, Korea, Venue: Asan Medical Center

Telephone: +82 2 3452 1855E-mail: [email protected] - URL: www.icpf2011.org


APRSSA congress (Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa)

Location: Spier Wine Estate, Cape Town


1st Chinese European Congress of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Location: Beijing, China - Venue: China National Convention Centre

Contact: Chrysa Kontololi - Telephone: +30 211 100 1783 - Fax: +30 210 6642116 E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.china-europe2011.com

02 - 05 November 2011November 2011November

20th European Course in Plastic Surgery Location: Marseille, France - E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.plastie-aphm.fr

04 - 05 November 2011

International Education Symposium: «Esthetic Surgery and Cosmetology for Face and Periorbital Rejuvenescense»

Location: Institute of Surgery n.a. - A.Vyshevsky, B. Serpukhovskaya, 27 E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.plastickafedra.com/


NATIONAL & CO-OPTED SOCIETIES’ FUTURE EVENTS

11 - 13 November 2011November 2011November

69th Annual Conference of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

Location: Seoul, Korea Contact: Dr. Dae Hyun Lew - Telephone: 822 - 2228 - 2217 - E-mail: [email protected]

01 - 03 December 2011December 2011December

31st Aesthetic Surgery Symposium: “The Cutting Edge 2011” Location: New York, USA - Venue: The Waldorf Astoria Hotel

Contact: Lauren Fishman - Telephone: 001 212 355 5702 E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.aestheticsurgeryny.com

14 - 16 December 2011

Third International Conference Regenerative surgeryLocation: Rome, Italy - Rome, Italy - Rome, Italy Venue: Eurostars Roma Aeterna Hotel

Telephone: (+39) 01042064090 - E-mail: [email protected] - URL: www.regenerativesurgery.it

20 - 22 January 2012

ISAPS Course 2012 Location: Goa, India - Venue: Hotel Grand Hyatt

Contact: Dr. Nazim Cerkes - Telephone: 011 29228349 - E-mail: [email protected]

17 - 19 February 2012

17th Annual Pakistan Association Of Plastic Surgeon Meeting Location: Bahawalpur, Pakistan - Venue: Quaid-e-Azam Medical College

Contact: Dr M. Mughese Amin - E-mail: [email protected] - URL: http://www.papscon2012.com

06 - 11 March 2012

XLIII National Congress Of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive SurgeryLocation: Merida, Yucatan. Mexico - Venue: Convention Center Merida.

URL: http://www.cirugiaplastuca.org.mxhttp://www.cirugiaplastuca.org.mxhttp://

09 - 11 March 2012

1st Meeting of the International Society of Plastic Regenerative Surgery (ISPRES) Location: Rome, Italy - Venue: Hotel Columbus

Contact: Chrysa Kontololi - Telephone: +30 2111001783 - E-mail: [email protected]

11 - 14 March 2012

16th ASEAN Congress of Plastic Surgery Location: Boracay Island, Aklan, Philippines

Venue: Boracay Regency Beach Resort & Convention Center - URL: http://www.papras.org/

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To All Plastic Surgeons Members of IPRASDear Colleagues,

We are proud to present the “Certificate of Membership” to all members of IPRAS, which is the only Global Plastic Surgery Organization incorporating all National Societies of the world. Members of National Societies, who are at the same time members of IPRAS, are Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons of good standing and with high ethical principles.

For many years since the founding of IPRAS, many of our members have requested repeatedly a proof of membership and now is the time to fulfill their wish in the best and most official way. This “certificate” can be proudly displayed wherever you wish as a proof of belonging to our largest Organization of the world. It may be hung on the wall of your office or used as an extra document in your Curriculum Vitae.

In order to send your application for the certificate you should get in touch with the Executive Management Office at: Maria Petsa - IPRAS Executive Office ([email protected]) and pay the 100 € fee which covers

C E R T I F I C A T E O F M E M B E R S H I P

With our most sincere regards,

Marita Eisenmann-KleinPresident

Daniel MarchacChair of the Scientific Advisory Board

Nelson PiccoloGeneral Secretary

the cost of design, shipping & management. Once your National Society has verified your active membership, it will be sent to you by post (express). A complementary “lapel pin” bearing the IPRAS logo,

will also be sent to you at no extra charge.

To send your application please visit http://www.ipras.org and click on the IPRAS certificate banner.

It is important to all of us to display our Specialty to the public at large, promoting at the same time the image of Plastic Surgery worldwide.


Now it is very simple to upload your scientific profile and gain the benefits of being under the IPRAS umbrella.Try it…!!Sign up on www.ipras.org and follow the following steps: 1. Create an account by clicking “Member’s

login” on the top right-hand corner and then select the “Create new account” tab.

2. Fill out your “Username”, “Email” and “Password”, as required.

3. Select the option “Doctor” and your country, under the section “If you are a doctor, complete the following”.

4. Once all account details have been added, click on “Create new account” button.

Then you click on “EDIT” and then on “DOCTOR PROFILE”.This is the section where all the information of your scientific profile can be uploaded.You may complete the fields with the information that you prefer such us: Personal Picture, Hospital Position, Affiliation, Special Field of Interest, Contact Details, Memberships, Topics of Special Interest, Publications etc.At the “EDIT” section you may proceed to the appropriate corrections at your account such us to change your password or to update personal information.When you complete the aforementioned steps there will be one last step remaining for your details to be uploaded on the IPRAS website. The application must be approved by the National Association you are a member. The application will

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be sent at the Association of the country that you have declared, ensuring that only IPRAS members of good standing and high ethical principles are able to upload their personal details. As soon as your Association verifies you as a member, your profile will automatically be uploaded at the website’s, “Find a doctor” option in the “Members”section.It is also up to you to decide whether your profile will be classified as “private” or visible to all visitors of the IPRAS webpage. Our aim, besides facilitating communication among colleagues, expands to allowing patients to verify the good standing and high ethical principles of the doctors’ profiles hosted, allowing them to choose qualified IPRAS members for needed procedures.In conclusion, I want to emphasize the usefulness of the IPRAS website FORUM. A section you will gain access to, as soon as your profile has been accepted and uploaded. Only verified plastic surgeons can use it and read its contents. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, news regarding plastic surgery techniques, news from your National Association, alerts and all other information you would like to share with your peers. Don’t miss the opportunity to make the IPRAS website twice as useful to you!If you face any difficulties please do not hesitate to contact me at: [email protected] . Always at your disposal!

Maria PetsaIPRAS Assistant Executive Director


Board of DirectorsPresident: Marita Eisenmann-Klein (Germany) [email protected]

General Secretary: Nelson Piccolo (Brazil) [email protected]

Treasurer: Bruce Cunningham (USA) [email protected]

Dep. General Secretary: Yi Lin Cao (China) [email protected]

Dep. General Secretary: Brian Kinney (USA) [email protected]

Dep. General Secretary: Ahmed Adel Noreldin (Egypt) [email protected]

Dep. General Secretary: Andreas Yiacoumettis (Greece) [email protected]

Parliamentarian: Norbert Pallua (Germany) [email protected]

Exec. Director: Zacharias Kaplanidis - Ex Off (Greece) [email protected]

Board of TrusteesAwarded in Vancouver May 23rd, 2011

Garry Brody (US/Canada) [email protected]

Guler Gursu (Turkey) [email protected]

Daniel Marchac (France) [email protected]

Paulino Morales (Argentina) [email protected]

Awarded in Yerevan June 28th, 2011 Jean-Philippe Nicolai (Netherlands) [email protected]

Mohamed Ahmed Zaki (Egypt) [email protected]

Geographic RepresentativesAfrica & Middle East

Mohamed Kadry (Egypt) [email protected]

Asia-Pacific Saug Tae Ahu (Korea) [email protected]

Murod Jafarov (Uzbekistan) [email protected]

Suk Wah Kim (Korea) [email protected]

Hideki Nakanishi (Japan) [email protected]

Takashi Nakatsuka (Japan) [email protected]

Theddeus O.H. Prasetyono (Indonesia) [email protected]

Zunli Shen (China) [email protected]

Europe

Miodrag Colic (Serbia) [email protected]

Chris Khoo (UK) [email protected]

Daniel Marchac (France) [email protected]

Javier de Salamanca (Spain) [email protected]

North America

Gregory Evans (USA) [email protected]

Bryan Gamble (USA) [email protected]

Mary MacGrath(USA) [email protected]

John Persing (USA) [email protected] [email protected]

Andrea Pusic (USA) [email protected]

Deborah Reilly-Culver (USA) [email protected]

Bryant Toth (USA) [email protected]

South & Central America

Claudio Angrigiani (Argentina) [email protected]

Alejandro Duarte Y Sanchez (Mexico) [email protected]

Sebastiao Nelson Edy Guerra (Brazil) [email protected]

Osvaldo Saldanha (Brazil) [email protected]

Carlos Uebel (Brazil) [email protected]

Representatives of SectionsAfrican Section

Ahmed Adel Noreldin (Egypt) [email protected]

Asian-Pacific Section

Rajeev Ahuja (India) [email protected]

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European Section (ESPRAS)

Andreas Yiacoumettis (Greece) [email protected]

Ibero-Latino American Section

Jos��Tariki (Brazil) [email protected]

Pan-Arab Section

Mohammed Rida Franka (Libya) [email protected]

Representatives of Co-Opted SocietiesInternational Federation of Societies

for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH)

Francisco Del Pinal (Spain) [email protected]

International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)

Jan Poell (Switzerland) [email protected]

International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI)

Nelson Piccolo (Brazil) [email protected]

International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (ISCFS)

Anil Madaree (South Africa) [email protected]

World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgeons (WSRM)

Julia Terzis (USA) [email protected]

Other Elected PositionsChairperson of the Council of National Delegates

Mohamed Ahmed Zaki (Egypt) [email protected]

Deputy Chairperson of the Council of National Delegates

Albert de Mey (Belgium) [email protected]

Ex officio MembersEditor of IPRAS Journal

Thomas M. Biggs (USA) [email protected]

President of IPRAS Congress 2013 (Chile)

Patricio L�niz (Chile) [email protected]

Chairman Organizing Committee of IPRAS congress 2013 (Chile)

Wilfredo Calderon (Chile) [email protected]

HistorianRiccardo Mazzola (Italy) [email protected]

lQUAM(International Committee of Quality Assurance

and Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery) President: Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (Germany) [email protected]

Vice President: Manuel Garcia Velasco (Mexico) [email protected]

Secretary: Daniel Marchac (France) [email protected]

Parliamentarian: Andreas Yiacoumettis (Greece) [email protected]

Members Dimitre Evstatiev (Bulgaria) [email protected]

Josef Fedeles (Slovakia) [email protected]

Sub CommitteesSTANDING SUB-COMMITTEES

By-laws Sub CommitteeChair: Andreas Yiacoumettis (Greece) [email protected]

Deputy Chair: Petros Palmos (Greece) [email protected]

Members:Yi Lin Cao (China) [email protected]

Marta Markowicz (Germany) [email protected]

Motohiro Nozaki (Japan) [email protected]

Nominating Sub CommitteeChair: Nobuyuki Shioya (Japan) [email protected]

Deputy Chair: Dimitre Evtatiev (Bulgaria) [email protected]

Members:Krysztof Drzewiecki (Denmark) [email protected]

Sebastiao Nelson Guerra (Brazil) [email protected]

Ioan Lascar (Romania) [email protected]

Communication Sub CommitteeChair: Thomas Biggs (USA) [email protected]

Deputy Chair: Roxanne Guy (USA) [email protected]


Zacharias Kaplanidis (Greece) [email protected]

Members:

Brian Kinney (USA) [email protected]

Bryan Mendelson (Australia) [email protected]


Maria Simionow (USA) [email protected]

Andreas Yiacoumettis (Greece) [email protected]

IPRAS Foundation - IPRAF

Chair: Christian Echinard (France) [email protected]

Deputy Chair: Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (Germany) [email protected]

Members:


Alexes Hazen (USA) [email protected]

Elsa Maria Meza Britez (Paraguay) [email protected]

Lakshmi Saleem (India) [email protected]

Budget & Finance Sub Committee

Chair: Bruce Cunningham (USA) [email protected]

Deputy Chair: Guillermo Vasquez (Argentina) [email protected]

Members:

Nadiah Bundugji (Saudi Arabia) [email protected]

Peter Kompatscher (Austria) [email protected]

Teddy Prasetyono (Indonesia) [email protected]

APPOINTED SUB-COMMITTEESScientific Advisory Board

Chair: Daniel Marchac (France) [email protected]

Members:

Rajeev Ahuja, (India) [email protected]

Bishara Atiyeh (Lebanon) [email protected]

Andrej Banic (Switzerland) [email protected]

Philippe Blondeel (Belgium) [email protected]

Krzysztof Drzewiecki (Denmark) [email protected]

Greg Evans (USA) [email protected]

Pericles Filho (Brazil) [email protected]

Manuel Garcia Velasco (Mexico) [email protected]

Albert de May (Belgium) [email protected]

Xiongzheng Mu (China) [email protected] [email protected]

Peter Neligan (Canada) [email protected]

Ahmed Noreldin (Egypt) [email protected]

Lydia Masako Ferreira (Brazil) [email protected]

Coordination of Humanitarian Projects Sub Committee

Chair: Chanjiv Singh (India) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Christian Echinard (France) [email protected]

Members:Andre Borsche (Germany) [email protected]

Louis Kahoro (Kenya) [email protected]


Deborah Reilly (USA) [email protected]

Dimitris Synodinos (Greece) [email protected]

IPRAS Emergency Task Force Chair: Christian Echinard (France) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Jan Poell (Switzerland) [email protected]

Members:Bud Alpert (USA) [email protected]

Zacharias Kaplanidis (Greece) [email protected]

Bouraoui Kotti (Tunisia) [email protected]

Sami Otman (Libya-France) [email protected]


Women for Women Sub Committee

Chair: Constance Neuhann-Lorenz (Germany) [email protected]

Co-Chair Deborah Reilly (USA) [email protected]

Members:Vanessa Br�bant (Germany) [email protected]



Nancy Van Laeken (Canada) [email protected]

Guidelines Sub-Committee

Chair: Guenter Germann (Germany) [email protected]

Co-Chair Othon Papadopoulos (Greece) [email protected]

Members:

Pericles Filho (Brazil) [email protected]

Harald Kubiena (Austria) [email protected]

Deuk Oh (Korea) [email protected]

Reha Yavuzer (Turkey) [email protected]

Karsten Knobloch (Germany) [email protected]

Specialty Protection Sub Committee

Chair: Claude Le Louarn (France) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Guido Molea (Italy) [email protected]

Members:

Kirill Pshenisnov (Russia) [email protected]

Eberhard Schaller (Germany) [email protected]

Io Sofianou (Greece) [email protected]

Bryant Toth (USA) [email protected]

Training & Accreditation Sub Committee

Chair: Bishara Atiyeh, (Lebanon) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Jens Elberg (Denmark) [email protected]

Members:

Dimitre Evstatiev (Bulgaria) [email protected]

Raymund Horch (Germany) [email protected]

Zun Li Shen (China) [email protected]


Quality Management Sub Committee

Chair: Ivar van Heijningen (Belgium) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Lee Roy Young (USA) [email protected]

Members:

Mohammed Eed (Saudi Arabia) [email protected]

Lanhu Mu (China) [email protected]

Toma Mugea (Romania) [email protected]

Claude Oppikofer (USA) [email protected]

Board Certification Sub Committee

Chair: John Boorman (UK) [email protected]

Co-Chair John Persing (USA) [email protected]

Members:

Lars Lahoda (Germany) [email protected]

Anil Madaree (South Africa) [email protected], [email protected]

Hilal Nahel (Syria) [email protected], [email protected]

Cooperation with Other Societies Sub Committee

Chair: Manfred Frey (Austria) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Susumu Takayanagi (Japan) [email protected]

Members:

Miodrag Colic (Serbia) [email protected]

Paolo Persichetti (Italy) [email protected]

Peter Vogt (Germany) [email protected]


IPRAS BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

• Immediate information about safety warnings on devices, drugs and procedures

• Information regarding the proper use of all materials, substances and techniques related to Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery through IQUAM (the International Committee of Quality Assurance and Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery) General Consensus statement, with an update every 2 years

• Free electronic receipt of the IPRAS JOURNAL

• Information regarding harmonization of training

• Information regarding accreditation of Plastic Surgery Units

• Promotion of Patient Safety and Quality Management (in cooperation with WHO)

• Protection of the Specialty and Promotion of its image world-wide

• Promotion of Individual Members of National Associations by uploading their scientific profile on the IPRAS website

• Exchange of ideas, views, thoughts and proposals though the IPRAS website and its FORUM section

• Certificate for Individual Members to display their IPRAS Membership

• Regular updates on necessary information and the right to participate in all events organized by National Societies and IPRAS

• Strengthening ties of professional cooperation and friendship with colleagues beyond national borders all over the world

• Information regarding the developments of plastic surgery worldwide

International Confederation for Plastic Reconstuctiveand Aesthetic Surgery

IPRAS BENEFITS FOR NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Association support for educational and research purposes

• Association legal & ethical advice according to international law and practices and assistance with crisis management

• Promotion of local or regional events through the official IPRAS management office

• Promotion of local or regional news and a Historical Account for the Association through the IPRAS Journal

• Free shipment of copies and electronic receipt of the IPRAS Journal

• Immediate information and advice about safety warnings on devices, drugs and procedures

• Information regarding the proper use of all materials, substances and techniques related to Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery through IQUAM(the International Committee of Quality Assurance and Medical Devices in Plastic Surgery) General Consensus statement, with an update every 2 years

• Promotion of Patient Safety and Quality Management (in cooperation with the World Health Organization - WHO)

• Information regarding harmonization of training

• Information regarding accreditation of Plastic Surgery Units

• Protection of the Specialty and Promotion of its image world-wide

• Information and reports about events organized by other National Societies and IPRAS

International Confederation for Plastic Reconstuctiveand Aesthetic Surgery

IPRAS Management OfficeZITA CONGRESS SA

1st km Peanias Markopoulou AveP.O BOX 155, 190 02 Peania Attica, Greece

Tel: (+30) 211 100 1770-1, Fax: (+30) 210 664 2216URL: www.ipras.org • E-mail: [email protected]

Executive Director: Zacharias KaplanidisE-mail: [email protected]

Assistant Executive Director: Maria PetsaE-mail: [email protected]

Accounting Director: George PanagiotouE-mail: [email protected]

Congress Organizer: Yannis LioliosE-mail: [email protected]

Associations Management Director: Dimitris SynodinosE-mail: [email protected]

Commercial Director: Gerasimos KouloumpisE-mail: [email protected]

Next issue: January 2012

DISCLAIMER:

IPRAS journal is published by IPRAS. IPRAS and IPRAS Management Office, its staff, editors authors and contributors do not recommend, endorse or make any representation about the efficacy, appropriateness or suitability of any specific tests, products, procedures, treatments, services, opinions, health care providers or other information that may be contained on or available through this journal. The information provided on the IPRAS JOURNAL is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, contained on this journal is for general information purposes only. IPRAS, IPRAS Management Office and its staff, editors, contributors and authors ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE NOR LIABLE FOR ANY ADVICE, COURSE OF TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS THAT YOU OBTAIN THROUGH THIS JOURNAL. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS JOURNAL.

While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, neither the publisher, IPRAS, IPRAS Management Office and its staff, editors, authors and or contributors shall have any liability for errors and/or omissions. Readers should always consult with their doctors before any course of treatment.

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IPRAS Journal Management Editor: IPRAS Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Biggs, MD Editorial Board: Marita Eisenmann - Klein, MD Andreas Yiacoumettis, MD Christian Echinard, MD Constance Neuhann-Lorenz, MD Zacharias Kaplanidis, Economist Page Layout: “In Tempo” Athens Greece E-mail: [email protected] Post Editing: Athena Spanou, MD

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