Invited Speakers

IVth National Conference on Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

May 3-5, 2019
Admiral Hotel, Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria

 

 

Invited Speakers

Darina Krastinova - Lolov, Bulgaria

Dr. Darina Krastinova – Lolov is considered one of the leading European and world experts in orbital and eyelid surgery, both reconstructive and aesthetic. Her achievements were acknowledged worldwide with prestigious distinctions such as Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Prize from the Franco-American Foundation “FOCH”. Dr. Krastinova in honorary member of BULAPRAS and is awarded the Bulgarian order of “St. Cyril and Methodius” as an acknowledgement of significant contribution to the development of culture, art, education and science.

 

 

Rado Zic, Croatia

Dr. Rado Zic is a Chief of the Unit for Hand and Reconstructive surgery in University Hospital "Dubrava" in Zagreb, Croatia. Based on his proficient expertise he is much on demand speaker and faculty member of many plastic surgery courses and congresses worldwide. He is a Chairman of the Accreditation committee of EBOPRAS (European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery). Recently Dr. Zic was elected President of the ESPRAS (European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery).

 

 

Graeme Perks, United Kingdom

Dr. Graeme Perks is an Australian and UK trained surgeon. He is a Director (European delegate) of ICOPLAST (International Confederation of Plastic Surgery Societies) since its inception in 2016.                 
Head of Service, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham UK, he has enjoyed building close relationships with a wide range of other surgical specialities, in particular Breast, Head and Neck Surgical Oncologists and Orthopedic Surgeons.                     
The inaugural two-year President of the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) 2013 and 2014, and now serves as Chairman of their Professional Standards Committee.                 His current interests are patient safety, particularly international breast registry activities, and surgical education where his greatest satisfaction is seeing his former trainees surpass him.

 

 

Milomir Ninkovich, Germany

Dr. Milomir Ninkovic is an internationally renowned reconstructive and microsurgeon. He was qualified for his PhD in the School of Medicine University in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He became Associated Professor of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery in the University of Innsbruck, Austria and Professor of Plastic Surgery in the Technical University Munich, Germany. His professional achievements are acknowledged with EURAPS Award “Best Paper” Presented at the Eight Annual Meeting of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS)”, Amsterdam, May 1997, and award from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons – Plastic Surgery Education Foundation 1998 PSEF. Currently, Dr. Ninkovic is a Head of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery and Burn Centre at Bogenhausen University Hospital, Munich, Germany.

 

 

Fredric Huss, Sweden

Dr. Fredrik Huss is Associated Professor, Senior consultant in Plastic Surgery and Director of the Tissue Establishment at Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery in Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden. Dr. Huss is a burn expert for the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s Stödstyrkan and for the Swedish National Air Medevac, Director of Uppsala Burn Center and also a Secretary of the European Burns Association (EBA). Dr. Huss is a co-founder and Medical Advisor of the medical Centre for running early clinical trials CTC Clinical Trial Consultants AB, Sweden.

 

 

Nazim Cerkes, Turkey

Dr. Nazim Cerkes completed his plastic surgery training in Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He worked as research and clinical fellow in UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) at the Department of Plastic Surgery between 1990-1991.
Nazim Cerkes served as Associate Professor at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine between 1992-2002 and particularly worked in the field of reconstructive microsurgery.
Dr. Cerkes is a President of “The Rhinoplasty Society of Europe’’, First Vice President of ISAPS, and ISAPS Visiting Professor. He has been serving as Rhinoplasty Section Editor of the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal. During the last 15 years Dr. Cerkes focused on rhinoplasty and has been invited several international meetings as speaker.

 

 

Alexis Verpaele, Belgium

Dr. Alexis Verpaele is a prominent Belgian plastic surgeon. Together with Patrick Tonnard he developed the MACS (the Minimal Access Cranial Suspension) facelift technique. He wrote three scientific books, and many scientific publications concerning aesthetic surgery of the face, eyelids and breasts. In recent research he mainly focuses on regenerative properties of fat transplantation ("nanofat").

 

Phillipe Pellerin, France

Dr. Philippe Pellerin is a French Professor in Plastic Surgery, expert in Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery. He was а Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns at the University Hospital Center in Lille, France. Author of many scientific papers and book chapters in Plastic, Maxillofacial and Pediatric Surgery in France. Dr. Pellerin is a Founding Member, General Secretary and later on President of the Francophone Association for Facial Anomalies, President of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery in 2006. He was granted Doctor Honoris Causa of the Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Honorific Professor at the Academy for Plastic Surgery of Beijing, China.

 

Selahatin Özmen, Turkey

Dr. Selahattin Özmen was born in Kızıltepe Turkey, in 1971. He became a specialist in 2002, Assistant Professor in 2004, Associate Professor in 2007 and Full Professor in 2013 at Gazi University Department of Plastic Surgery. Currently he works as a Professor of Plastic Surgery at Koc University Medical School Department of Plastic Surgery (Since July 2014). Prof. Özmen is an author and co-author of 77 international papers and 84 international presentations, 41 national papers, 220 national presentations, 130 invited panels and conferences and editor of two translated books ("Mastering Rhinoplasty" and "Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research"). He is in the editorial board of two national and two international journals. He led the team performed the third facial transplantation in Turkey between females in March 2012. Prof.  Özmen is a member of Health Ministry Scientific Board of Composite Tissue Transplantation.

 

Niclas Broer, Germany

Dr. Peter Niclas Broer is an expert in Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery, currently attending at Klinikum Bogenhausen, Technical University Teaching Hospital Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Dr. Broer is an author and co-author of 87 publications, 152 scientific meetings presentations and 4 book chapters. He has participated in 37 research projects. In 2018 he won Best Overall Cosmetic Paper Award of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal. Since December 2017 he is a visiting professor at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA.