Endorsed by
Invitation to Participate
15-17 February 2019, Crown Conference Centre Melbourne
Endorsed by the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, the New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons, and approved by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Mr. Graeme Southwick, Mr. Morris Ritz, Mr. Andrew Greensmith, Mr. Damon Thomas, Mr. Edmund Ek and Mr. Rodrigo Teixeira have great pleasure in inviting you to the 23rd Annual Advanced Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Workshop to be held at the Crown Conference Centre from 15 – 17 February 2019.
The 2019 Workshop’s extensive program will provide an in-depth study of the most up to date Advanced Techniques of Periorbital Rejuvenation and Asian Blepharoplasty. We will incorporate controversial topics including the role of fat grafting and micro/nano fat grafting in this area and new non surgical methods. A team of local experts will join our experienced international guests to help make the 23rd Advanced Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Workshop a successful event once again.
Our aim is to comprehensively explore and educate in the many aspects of refinement of periorbital rejuventation and to raise the standards of management for the betterment of our specialty and hence to improve patient outcomes.
The Workshop will commence on Friday morning, 15 February 2019 and will finish at lunchtime on Sunday 17 February 2019. It will include didactic teaching, video presentations of surgical procedures and panels for discussion. Interaction of all participants with our guests will be encouraged. We encourage you to not only support this meeting, which has become a permanent highlight in our yearly plastic surgery calendar, but also to become involved with all participants to help us make this a great meeting to the mutual benefit of all plastic surgeons, plastic surgery trainees, dedicated plastic surgery nurses and the industry.
The Workshop is being held at the Crown Conference Centre in Southbank. Crown is located in the heart of the action at Melbourne’s vibrant Southbank entertainment precinct. Crown Conference Centre is adjacent to the Crown Entertainment Complex, close to the CBD, the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, and the city’s most famous arts and sporting facilities.
Scientific Program
Important Dates
15 – 17 February 2019
23rd Advanced Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery Workshop
15 – 17 February 2019
AAPSW Cocktail Reception
International Key Note Speakers
Nuri A. Celik completed his plastic surgery training in Istanbul University Hospitals in 1994. He was a plastic surgery fellow at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk from 1994 to 1995. He studied brachial plexus and facial nerve surgery as a microsurgery fellow at Baylor College of Medicine between 1995-1997. He did a one-year craniofacial surgery fellowship at Medical College of Wisconsin before he returned to Istanbul, Turkey to start his private practice.
He lectures on rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, blepharoplasty and canthoplasty internationally. He served as the President of the Turkish Society of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery from June 2016 to June 2018. He is married with two children.
Formal Education and Training:
Diocesan Boys School; Hong Kong.
University of California, Berkeley, A.B.*(Distinction); Honor Program Completed in Biochemistry; with double major in Zoology.
St.Louis University School of Medicine, M.D.
Alpha Omega Alpha, National Medical Honor Society.
LAC-USC Medical Center,Internship in Internal Medicine.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute; Post-Graduate Resident in Ophthalmology, U.C.L.A; Chief Resident in Ophthalmology.
Fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, under Clinton D. McCord,M.D.; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. USA
Awards and Honors:
Wendell H. Griffith Award for Outstanding Achievement and
Research in Biochemistry, St.Louis University School of Medicine.
Inducted to Alpha Omega Alpha;
Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Academic Forum.
University Faculty/Academic Appointments:
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, and Stein Eye Institute.
Senior Attending Surgeon, Eye Plastic Surgery Service, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California.
2004 to Present—Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (VOL), Department of Plastic Surgery, UCI.
Dr. Pacella is the Division Head of Plastic Surgery at Scripps Clinic and Scripps M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in La Jolla, California. His practice includes cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the face, breast and body with a special emphasis on oculoplastic surgery for correction of both aesthetic surgery complications and post-skin cancer reconstruction. Dr. Pacella received his M.D. from the University of Rochester (N.Y.) with high honors. After completing his residency at the University of Michigan, he completed fellowships in aesthetic breast surgery in Marina Del Rey, CA (W.G. Stevens, MD) in addition to facial aesthetic and oculoplastic surgery in Atlanta, GA (F. Nahai, MD; C. McCord, MD and M. Codner, MD). Dr. Pacella has published over 25 peer-reviewed publications in plastic surgery and health care economics and is a regularly invited speaker at numerous regional and national meetings sponsored by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. His recent comprehensive textbook Aesthetic Facial Reconstruction after Mohs Surgerywas awarded a Highly Commended Distinction by the British Medical Association’s Annual Medical Book Awards in 2017. Having earned an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, he routinely serves as a financial consultant for health systems and industry alike. In his spare time, Dr. Pacella experiences an active lifestyle with his wife and two children in Southern California. When not caring for patients, he enjoys surfing, cycling and officiating rugby.
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