Key Sessions

• Emerging Technology for Skin Tightening and Lipolysis
• Medico-Legal Precautions to Protect our Patients and Our Practices
• Comprehensive Session on Rhinoplasty
• Rejuvenation of the Lower Face
• Blepharoplasty and Brow Lifting Invasive and Non-Invasive Skin Rejuvenation
• Half Day Skin Care Session - A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
• Fillers and Neurotoxins - Now We Have Choices
• Mid-Face Rejuvenation-Alloplastic Materials, Lipo-filling, or Surgery?
• Comprehensive "How I Do It" Symposium on Autologous Lipo-filling - Is there a Single Best Technique?
• What I no longer do that I once did as well as what I just recently added to my practice
• Moderated "How I do it" Video Session
• Complications of Facial Surgery - What can we learn from them?
• All Day Continuous Video Learning Center

The Business of Plastic Surgery - Strategies for Success in 2010

• Online Marketing Experts Reveal Their Secrets including Web Marketing, Social Networking, and improving Google Rankings.
• Cost effective marketing in today's fragile economy
• Keys to optimal staffing - When is it too much or not enough?
• How to improve staff productivity & passion
• Facial Plastic Surgery Coding Tips
• 50 ways to attract more patients
• Avoiding the dangerous patient
• Marketing - What not to do - Lessons from the experts!
• Accounting - Is your practice really profitable?
• Tips on cutting corners in your practice without affecting patient care
• Marketing on a shoestring budget
• Do I need a PR person?
• Common Characteristics of Successful Practices!
• Third party payer NO-NO's
• The effective patient coordinator
• Establishing a profitable skin care practice
• Relationship marketing can be very important
• Patient financing options
• Developing multiple profit centers
• How do you want your employees to look and dress?
• Improving your printed collateral
• Hiring, keeping, and motivating employees
• Are seminars worth the time and effort?
• Communicating with your existing patient base
• Print, radio, and electronic media: Pros and Cons
• Distinction to the masses: Distinguishing your cosmetic medicine practice from franchise, corporate, non-core, and retail models
• Auditing your practice: Non-financial aspects critical to business and outcomes
• Avoiding office fraud
• Is it time for EMR in your practice?
• Can aggressive marketing lead to unrealistic expectations and lawsuits?
• Office Managers forum

Controversies in Facial Plastic Surgery

• Lower lids - Internal or External
• Blepharoplasty - Fat removal/fat transposition/septal repair?
• Browlifting - Endoscopic vs traditional open vs transblepharoplasty?
• Facelifting - Minimal incision vs Traditional vs Deep Plane?
• Facelifting - Are shorter incisions better? Are trademarked procedures the future?
• Facial rejuvenation - Invasive vs The non invasive approach - Can we come to some consensus? Do dermatologists and surgeons ever agree?
• Is the fixation method significant in predicting the result of browlifting?
• Non-surgical vs surgical treatment of the tear trough deformity?
• Skin Resurfacing - Traditional laser vs Fractional vs Peels?
• Mid-facelifting - To lift or fill?
• Non-Ablative rejuvenation - Are we really achieving anything?
• Facial Implants - Are they being replaced by injectable fillers?
• Can non-physicians perform much of the less invasive procedures as well as physicians?
• Do we follow science or marketing when we make decisions about new technology?
• Will more non-core physicians be driven into aesthetic medicine by the Obama/Pelosi Health Care Measures?

Masters Seminars (One Hour Intensive Workshops)

• Lower Lid Blepharoplasty Alternatives
• Advanced Rhinoplasty-Analysis and Techniques
• Contemporary Hair Replacement Medicine and Surgery
• Transblepharoplasty Browlifting
• Variations in MACS Facelifting Technique
• Finesse in Facial Rejuvenation
• Use of Alloplastic Implants in Facial Surgery
• Lower Lid Blepharoplasty and the Mid-Face Complex
• Volumetric Facial Rejuvenation
• Current Thoughts and Treatment of Cellulite
• Uses for Neurotoxins and Fillers in My Practice
• Combining Facelifting and Filling

Hot Topics

• Key Note Lecture on Current Theories in Human Facial Beauty
• Report from Coalition for Injectable Safety
• Effective and Safe Treatments for Skin of Color
• Updates on Hot Topics at 2010 ASAPS and AAFPRS Meetings
• Chin Augmentation made Simple
• Facial Hyperpigmentation Disorders
• Surgical approaches for the Mid-Face - What works Best?
• Do Alternative Treatments Like Microdermabrasion and Light Peels Really Have a Legitimate Role in our Practices?
• How about the role of IPL vs Mildly Ablative Lasers?
• Browlifting - Lots of experience with different approaches...so which is best and why?
• Most effective alternatives for treatment of acne and acne scarring
• Latest in technology for skin tightening and fat dissolving
• Lower lid blepharoplasty - How to best manage fat prolapse
• Facial Rejuvenation - Invasive vs the non-invasive approach - Can we come to some consensus? Do Dermatologists and surgeons ever agree?
• Is the fixation method significant in predicting the result of browlifting?
• Non-surgical vs surgical treatment of the tear through deformity?
• Have neurotoxins/or non-invasive technology eliminated the need for browlifting?
• Facelifting - Are shorter incisions better? Are trademarked procedures the future?
• Skin Resurfacing - Traditional vs Fractional lasers? Which makes more sense?
• Updates on hot topics from the ASAPS, AAFPRS, and ASCDAS Meetings
• Autologous fat harvesting and grafting - is there a single best technique?
• Nasal Valve disorders - prevention and correction
• The nasal tip - Options for change
• The heavy neck in the slightly overweight patient - Optimizing the results while imparting realistic expectations