NEWS OFFICIAL NEWS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY 2 14 | Volume Number 2 Number INSIDE New Webinar Series Global Perspectives: Breast Augmentation Historic Plagues BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Dirk Richter, MD, PhD Wesseling, GERMANY [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT Nazim Cerkes, MD, PhD Istanbul, TURKEY [email protected] FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Lina Triana, MD Cali, COLOMBIA [email protected] SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Gianluca Campiglio, MD, PhD Milan, ITALY [email protected] THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Arturo Ramirez-Montanana, MD Monterrey, MEXICO NO. [email protected] VOLUME 14 SECRETARY 2 Ivar van Heijningen, MD Knokke-Heist, BELGIUM [email protected] TREASURER Kai-Uwe Schlaudraff, MD, FEBOPRAS Geneva, SWITZERLAND CONTENTS [email protected] HISTORIAN Peter Scott, MD Message from the Editor 3 Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA [email protected] Message from the President 4 PARLIAMENTARIAN Tim Papadopoulos, MD Education Council Update 7 Sydney, AUSTRALIA [email protected] Visiting Professor Program 8 EDUCATION COUNCIL CHAIR Managing during COVID-19 10 Vakis Kontoes, MD, PhD Athens, GREECE ISAPS Insurance 17 [email protected] Obituaries 18 EDUCATION COUNCIL VICE CHAIR Ozan Sozer, MD El Paso, Texas, US Journal Update 20 [email protected] Global Sponsor Feature 21 NATIONAL SECRETARIES CHAIR Michel Rouif, MD Global Perspectives 23 Tours, FRANCE [email protected] Case Study 69 PAST PRESIDENT Renato Saltz MD, FACS Surgical Marking 75 Salt Lake City, Utah, US [email protected] Member Spotlight 85 TRUSTEES History 87 Fabian Cortinas MD Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Global Alliance 93 [email protected] New Members 94 Nina Naidu, MD, FACS New York, New York, US [email protected] Meetings Calendar 97 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Catherine Foss Hanover, New Hampshire, US [email protected] April – June 2020 | www.isaps.org 2 MESSAGE FROM the Editor Dear Colleagues, often writes historical articles for ISAPS The last three months have been some of the News on various aspects of medical history. most challenging in the history of medicine For this issue, he responded enthusiastically and public health, and have affected all of us to our request for an article about the both personally and professionally. My hope history of pandemics. His work, as always, is is that you, your families and your staff have comprehensive and beautifully illustrated been safe and healthy, and that we will all with images from his own collection. He found be able to return to a degree of normalcy in so much information on this topic, we had to the near future. This issue of the newsletter split his article in two. is different as well. As we welcome new designer, Doris Our next issue will feature otoplasty and I look forward Pfifferling in our marketing office in Munich, we have also to receiving your articles on this challenging procedure. In opted for electronic transmission only as the postal system conjunction with our regular series, we will be celebrating has been delayed or even suspended in many parts of the 50th anniversary of ISAPS, and will be featuring articles the world. about the society’s history. Please send your submissions Online education isn’t available just for our children at to [email protected] . this time; the Education Council of ISAPS has been busily On a final note, I would like to briefly mention the creating outstanding content for you. They presented tremendous level of social unrest present in the United three very timely webinars in March and April focused on States as of this writing. Following closely on the heels how to manage our practices in the midst of the ongoing of the world’s most significant COVID-19 outbreak, these COVID-19 crisis. They have also launched a series of live, events have been simply devastating. The beauty of ISAPS weekly Master Class webinars. These 90-minute sessions lies in its ability to bring surgeons of all backgrounds and are devoted to a single surgical topic. Please see the article countries together with one aim – that of advancing patient by Drs. Kontoes and Sozer for more information about how safety and education in plastic surgery. I hope that you are to join these webinars, and how to view past presentations. able to appreciate the magnitude of that achievement as One silver lining in the quarantine many of us have faced is you read the current issue, which contains articles of skilled time to devote to writing, and as a result we are presenting surgeons from all corners of the world. We are ISAPS. you with fifteen articles on breast augmentation from experts around the world, in addition to four marking articles and two case studies on the same subject. The entire spectrum of breast augmentation has been covered, and I hope that you will enjoy this literary Master Class. As you may know, Dr. Riccardo Mazzola (Italy) is a seasoned Nina S. Naidu, MD, FACS, Editor-in-Chief (United States) historian as well as a plastic surgeon. He organizes and New York City, June 2, 2020 April – June 2020 | www.isaps.org 3 MESSAGE FROM the President Dear Friends, One topic has been dominating us for several weeks them on our website at any time – also in the COVID-19 now: COVID-19. Therefore, my message will deal section. We were pleased that this measure was so mainly with this hot topic. well accepted by nearly 4,000 viewers from all over the world. ISAPS RECOMMENDATIONS ON RESUMING ELECTIVE PROCEDURES At the moment, there are certainly many webinars We have intensively searched the world literature available and as soon as we can travel again, the about COVID-19 to collect evidence-based facts and number will probably decrease. Surely, a certain give you recommendations regarding how you can number will stay - and this makes sense. Given this protect your patients, your team and yourself, but scenario, the Board of Directors has decided to make also how you can start or find your way back to a new many of our scientific activities available digitally in the future so that those who don’t have the time normality safely and in the best possible way. For this to travel, or don’t have the money, can access this purpose, we researched 140 articles in the context important information. of a meta-analysis which can now also be read as the article of the week in our journal. You can find We have begun providing a 90-minute webinar every this information on our website www.isaps.org under Saturday with fantastic speakers: our new Master Class COVID-19 at the top left of the home page. series. On our website, you can check the current schedule under Webinars on the home page, top left, We have compiled the scientific data for you and and mark your calendars. Access is free for ISAPS summarized it in an evidence-based recommendation members and those who have applied for membership. so that you can orientate yourself. This is not easy for For those who are not yet members, we encourage you an international society, because especially in times to join to take advantage of this benefit. of COVID-19, the big differences worldwide become apparent. The situation with supplies of protective BY-LAWS CHANGES equipment, tests, and drugs is so different that it is You have probably noticed by now that we have difficult to draft generally valid recommendations. postponed our congress by one year. It stays in Vienna, Please use them as a source of information and adapt just one year later. This has caused some organizational them to local conditions, legal issues and the supply problems, because we cannot approve a new board situation in your community. due to the missing general assembly. However, since I am convinced after two years in office that a new, WEBINAR SERIES fresh board should be elected, I will end my term as In addition, to support you promptly, we conducted president in September – at the planned handover three very successful webinars on COVID- 19 and date – and not continue for another year. In order to economic aspects in this crisis. If you were not able ensure that Dr. Nazim Cerkes may properly succeed to view these webinars live, no problem, you can view as the next president with a new Board of Directors, April – June 2020 | www.isaps.org 4 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT we would like to have an electronic vote on the slate of the celebrated with you live and with a glass of champagne in new Board of Directors by our membership. According to Vienna. But we’ll make up for that - I promise! our current By-Laws, voting for the board is only possible in WELCOME SARAH JOHNSON person, during a general assembly, at a Congress. Therefore, Last but not least, I would like to introduce you to Sarah we will ask you in the next few days to agree to a change in Johnson. As you may already know, our current Executive the By-Laws that will allow electronic voting. Also, our new Director, Catherine Foss, will be leaving us at the end of board structure will be explained. After that, we will send you the year to begin her well-deserved retirement. After a our proposal for the composition of the new board and ask successful search, we have found Sarah Johnson, who has you to vote. As we need a quorum of 20% of voting members already assumed her position as Director of Transition. (Active and Life members), I would like to ask you to vote in She will become our new Executive Director to succeed order to achieve a result that is as democratic as possible.