Surgery Course 2021 Faculty

Natalya Manturova
(Russia)

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cosmetology and Cellular Technologies Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, chief freelance plastic surgeon of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Department of Health of Moscow.

Prof. Manturova is an honored member of The Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, member of The International Confederation of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS), Society of Aesthetic Medicine, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS).

Prof. Manturova is a scientific editor of the «Aesthetic Medicine» magazine, a member of the editorial board of the «Plastic surgery and cosmetology» magazine, a member of scientific committees and the scientific director of a number of Russian, European and other international congresses.

Prof. Manturova made a great contribution to the establishment and development of Plastic Surgery in Russia as a separate discipline. She is also a coordinator of a number of Russian and international conferences. Author of numerous publications medical magazines. Regular speaker at forums, conferences of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.

Was awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

Timo Bartels
(Germany)

He is a board certified plastic surgeon. Assistant Medical Director, Dep. of Plastic-, Reconstructive- and Aesthetic Surgery, Handsurgery, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg.

Private Practice for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.

Javier Beut
(Spain)

Chiara Botti
(Italy)

Dr. Chiara Botti, Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeon, completed her studies at the University of Brescia. She is member of AICPE (Italian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), and an honorary member of the Paraguayan Society of Plastic Surgery.

Since the first year of enrollment in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery she has supported her father (Dr. Giovanni Botti) in daily practice of cosmetic surgery. Therefore, as a result, at age 38 she already has 20 years of experience in the field.

In the training of Dr. Chiara Botti many and varied were the prolonged periods of training at other colleagues and clinics around the world.

She studied one semester at the Newcastle University in Australia, working at the same time as researcher in endocrinology, which yielded publications in leading international journals.

She participated for protracted periods to surgical activities in the University Hospitals of Lübeck (Germany), Natal (Brazil), Chiba (Japan) and in the departments of prof. Hexner (Frankfurt), Mottura (Cordoba, Argentina), Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Gonzalez (Ribeirao Preto, Brazil), Bratu (Timisoara, Romania), Marten and Bowers (San Francisco, California). In recent years she has taken part in many of the most important courses and conferences in Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, in Italy as well as abroad (Vienna, Brussels, Stuttgart, Helsinki, Hamburg, Barcelona, ​​Vittorio Veneto, Asuncion, Munich, Ferrara, Bergamo, Padua, Tenerife, Reggio Emilia, Udine, Florence, Ravenna, Tehran, Bern, Berlin just to mention the goals of recent times), both as speaker and operator in live surgery sessions.

She deepened her knowledge in the field of anti-aging medicine by participating to the master organized by the European Society of Anti-Aging Medicine.

She works at Villa Bella Clinic as surgeon.

Her main passion is surgery of the face, with particular interest in the aging process.

For years she has devoted herself with great satisfaction to the development of fat grafting techniques.

Francisco Bravo
(Spain)

MD, PhD. Dr. Bravo became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Madrid in 1996, undertaking his plastic surgery training both in across Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London, New York and Rome.

After completing a Clinical Microsurgery Fellowship at the renowned New York University Medical Center´s Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, Dr. Bravo returned to Europe as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.

He later settled in Madrid to become Program Director of Plastic Surgery at one of the largest surgical centers in Spain, the Doce de Octubre University Hospital, where he also served as Associate Professor of Surgery at the Complutense University Medical School.  He now has shifted focus to his private practice after recently opening his clinic with an integrated operating suite in central Madrid.

Dr. Bravo is an active member of both the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons; and has served in the Executive Committee of both the Spanish Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Mario Pelle Ceravolo
(Italy)

Board certified in General Surgery at the University of Rome and in Plastic Surgery at the University of Rio de Janeiro and Rome.

Former President of the Italian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (AICPE). Chairman of AICPE International President of the International Medical Academy. Member of several international societies (ISAPS, ASAPS, ASPS etc).  Travelling Professor for the ISAPS. Has published over 70 papers in international reviews mainly on aesthetic surgery. Author of a two volumes book on “Aesthetic surgery of midface and neck”, a 2011 publication.

He is Professor of plastic  surgery at the University of Padova, Italy. Director of Dissection Course Program at the University of Vienna. Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Hesperia Hospital, Modena and Villa Margherita, Rome. Official reviewer of Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal Global Open. Appointed with the Hinderer Prize by EASAPS in 2012 and in 2016 and by the Raymond Vilain Award by the ASAPS in 2014.

He is deeply dedicated to teaching in surgical dissections courses on cadavers and international congresses. He teaches in two University Master Courses and lectures in several worldwide courses of aesthetic surgery. He has been in practice in plastic surgery for the last 30 years and has performed over 20.000 operations in this field.

Martin Devoto
(Argentina)

Abdulkadir Goksel
(Turkiye)

Dr. Abdülkadir Göksel is board certified by the European Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is the international member of American Academy of the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,  European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, European Rhinoplasty Society, Turkish Facial Plastic Surgery Foundation.

Dr. Göksel was an International Invited Speaker in many International Congresses in Europe, Russia, Asia, Turkiye.

In 2001 he founded Rino Istanbul Rhinoplasty Center  in Istanbul. Mainly focused on rhinoplasty in the last 15 years. Although he is in private practice, Dr. Goksel is active in the teaching of rhinoplastic surgery at the national and international levels. During last nearly 10 years he personally trained young surgeons in the art and science of rhinoplasty surgery.

Since 2005 Dr. Goksel took part as a guest speaker, moderator more than in 40 professional events.

Dr. Goksel is a permanent chairman of the Istanbul Rhinoplasty Workshop.

Per Heden
(Sweden)

Associate Professor, Plastic Surgeon, Co-Founder of Akademikliniken, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr Per Hedén began his medical training at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and entered plastic surgery training in 1978. He early developed interest in the then emerging field of microsurgery and subsequently became a driving force in establishing microsurgery practice in the region. In 1981 this lead to the first microsurgical operation performed in Stockholm.

In 1982, he was offered a position in Australia. This was followed by plastic surgery research in the U.S. under Professor Elof Eriksson in Illinois, and at Harvard University in Boston. In 1990 Dr Per Hedén attained associate professorship at Karolinska Institute, and became Head of the microsurgery unit at Sabbatsberg Hospital.

Dr Per Hedén founded Akademikliniken in 1991, which now is one of Europes largest private hospital that specializes in plastic surgery. He has published more than 50 scientific articles, and is a member of many national and international plastic surgical societies.

Professor Hedén has developed several new techniques applying to the use of form stable anatomical breast implants. He has written several textbook chapters on breast augmentation and he has been invited to many countries where he has performed operations to demonstrate his techniques.

Being a very early user of Botulinum toxin and Hyaluronic acid fillers Dr Hedén is also well known for his non-surgical facial rejuvenation techniques and has held numerous international workshops demonstrating his techniques.

John B. Holds
(USA)

Naresh Joshi
(UK)

Naresh Joshi is Consultant Oculoplastic surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust London and Honorary Consultant to the Royal Marsden. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

He is a founder member, and ex-president of the British Ophthalmic Plastic Surgical Society (BOPSS). He heads the BOPSS aesthetics subcommittee.

He has an interest in reconstructive ophthalmic plastic surgery in craniofacial anomalies. He is the co-founder of the Craniofacial Ophthalmic Plastic Service (COPS), at Chelsea and Westminster hospital, widely recognised for its holistic paediatric, and adult facial surgery.

He has lectured throughout the world, on many aspects of reconstructive and aesthetic ophthalmic plastic surgery. He is also known for his practice in aesthetic surgical rejuvenation.

Chia Chi Kao
(USA)

Val Lambros
(USA)

In private practice in Newport Beach, California.

Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of California, Irvine.  An expert in facial aging and facial rejuvenation, Dr. Lambros developed a method of analyzing facial aging by means of highly aligned photographs.  Dr. Lambros has honed and evolved his facelift technique for nearly three decades. He has made significant contributions in volume treatment of the aging face and the understanding of how the face ages in published articles in medical journals as well as presentations nationally and internationally.

Timothy Marten
(USA)

MD, FACS, Diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and Founder and Director of the Marten Clinic of Plastic Surgery in San Francisco, California.  He completed his plastic surgery training at the University of Illinois at Chicago and went on to complete three prestigious fellowships in aesthetic surgery.

Dr Marten is an internationally recognized expert on surgery to improve and rejuvenate the face and has published numerous scientific articles and textbook chapters on facelift surgery and related topics.  Dr Marten is a sought after teacher, speaker, lecturer and instructor in plastic surgery techniques and has received numerous professional, scientific and academic awards for his contributions to aesthetic surgery.

Bryan Mendelson
(Australia)

Thomas Rappl
(Austria)

MD, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, born in Graz, Austria. He graduated in medicine at the Medical University, Graz, Austria. He then did a plastic surgery fellowship at the Medical University hospital in Graz. After graduated in Plastic Surgery, he spent one year at the Clinique Bizet in Paris working with Dr. Francoise Firmin. He is member of ÖGPÄRC, ISAPS, SOFCPRE. He graduated also in Sports Medicine and Genaral Medicine. He is a WAKO medical board member. He is now working in the Medical University hospital Graz as a Reconstructive and Aesthetic surgeon, focusing on research and education in the field of Aesthetic surgery-and medicine. He is the medical director of MARA (medical aesthetic research academy). Having held a lot of international lectures and workshops and having received different awards in Aesthetic Medicine he is a key opinion leader for different international companies.

Rod J. Rohrich
(USA)

M.D., F.A.C.S. He is an internationally known surgeon, innovative leader and educator in Plastic Surgery.
He is Professor and Founding Chairman of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Distinguished Teaching Professor and recipient of the Rod J. Rohrich, M.D. Distinguished Professorship in Wound Healing and Plastic Surgery. He served as chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery for 23 years. Dr. Rohrich is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has a clinical practice at University Hospitals/UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.

His interests span the entire spectrum of plastic surgery, from craniomaxillofacial surgery to aesthetic surgery, and have resulted in over 800 peer reviewed scientific articles. He has been a Visiting Professor to over 150 organizations and chaired over 100 national and international plastic surgery educational symposia.
He served as President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Chair of the Residency Review Committee in Plastic Surgery, a Director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and President of The Rhinoplasty Society, the Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons as well as a Founding Director of the National Endowment for Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Rohrich has received top prestigious national research, teaching and distinguished service awards from the leading plastic surgery societies during his academic career. He is Editor-in-Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the leading and most prestigious journal in the world for plastic surgeons.

Yves Saban
(France)

MD, PHD, ENT, Facial Plastic, Maxillo-Facial Surgery. He is a Vice-President of French Facial Plastic Surgery Society, French Delegate to European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, International Advisory Board Member of Asian Facial Plastic Surgery Society. Member of European Academies: EAFPS, ESGS.

He has an Honorary Gold Medal of Milano Plastic Surgery Institute.

Founder and Director of International Symposium “4M Head and Neck” (Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2007); International Symposium “The Nose: Aesthetics and Function” (Nice, France, 2003); Advanced Course on Surgical Anatomy of Rhinoplasty (Nice, France,1990-1994); Advanced Course on Surgical Anatomy of the Face and Neck (Nice, France,1990- 1994); Assises Nationales d’ORL (France, 1991-2013).

Editor of Atlas of Surgical Anatomy of the Face and Neck (SEE – Firenze Ed – 2009); Atlas of Surgical Anatomy of the Face and Neck (Masson Ed – 1994); Rhinoplasty and Additive Mentoplasty (OEMF Ed. – 1996); Rhinoplasty (Monography, Amplifon n° 32 – 2002); Questions about Rhinoplasty (Monography – 2004); He is an author of 8 chapters in books (Oculoplastic Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, Rhinoplasties).

He is an organizer of more than 40 scientific international courses (Salivary glands (ESTC Geneva CH); Facial Plastic Surgery; Rhinoplasty).

Yves Saban was an International Invited Speaker in many International Congresses in Europe, Russia, Asia, Brasil, Algeria. He was an International President of 4th International Course of Functional and Aesthetic Surgery of the Nose (Bologna, Italy, 2012).

He is an author of many scientific articles in international journals.

Tevfik Sozen
(Turkiye)

Dr Sozen attended Hacettepe University Medical school in Ankara and completed a five-year residency training program in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Hacettepe University Medical School in 2011.

Dr. Sozen also completed one year fellowship training programs - in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as an official Fellow of The European Academy For Facial Plastics Surgery.

During his fellowship he worked with Andrew Jacono, Mehmet Manisali, Fazil Apaydın, Ozcan Cakmak, Holger Gassner.

Dr Sozen joined the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Hacettepe in 2013 and since then he is working in that department as academic member.

He is an executive Board Member of The Turkisch Facial Plastic Surgery Academy.

He is a member of Turkish Association of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery.

He lectures on rhinoplasty, and facial rejuvenation nationally and internationally.

Jonathan Sykes
(USA)

MD. Professor/Director of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery UCDAVIS Health System.

Dr. Sykes is a board certified facial plastic surgeon offering the latest advances in traditional facial plastic surgery and minimally invasive procedures, including endoscopic forehead lifts, mini facelifts and microfollicular hair transplants. Through practices in Sacramento and Roseville, he also provides Botox®, injectable fillers such as Restylane™, laser skin rejuvenation, and other minimally invasive procedures and noninvasive treatments. Since 1983, he’s helped thousands of men and women achieve their personal appearance goals.

Since beginning practice in 1983, Dr. Sykes has performed more than 13,500 aesthetic, functional and reconstruction surgeries on patients ranging from infants to the elderly. Dr. Sykes is certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology (ears, nose and throat).

S. Anthony Wolfe
(USA)

M.D. Director of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital, Director of an ACGME accredited Craniofacial Fellowship.

Dr. Wolfe is certified by The American Board of Surgery and The American Board of Plastic Surgery, and serves as a Senior Examiner for the latter. He is a Founding Member of The International Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, and Past President of The American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and The Rhinoplasty Society. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and The Annals of Plastic Surgery. He is a member of numerous organizations, including The American Association of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery,The American College of Surgeons, and The American Cleft Palate Association.

He is an Honorary Member of the Plastic Surgery Societies of Ecuador, France, Columbia, Argentina, Cuba, and Finland.He has been invited to operate in a number of American Centers (University of Texas, Galveston; University of Florida; Walter Reed Medical Center) and Centers abroad (Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, China.

Alexey Borovikov
(Russia)

Professor Alexey M. Borovikov (Moscow, Russia) is in surgery since 1975. Has publications on general abdominal surgery, angio- and neurosurgery, reconstructive hand and breast microsurgery, orthopedics and traumatology.

Author of the books on postmastectomy breast reconstruction and aesthetic breast surgery. Alexey is in private practice for the last 20 years, and is active in postgraduate education of plastic surgeons. A member of several national and international societies.

Irina Khrustaleva
(Russia)

Doctor of Medicine, plastic surgeon, head of plastic surgery at the Department of Post-graduate Education of the St.Petersburg State I.P. Pavlov Medical University, medical director of the plastic surgery clinic, Academia, Russian national secretary of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS), full member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), full member of the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons.

Alla Poberezhnaya
(Russia)

Plastic surgeon at the aesthetic surgery A3BEAUTE Clinique (St. Petersburg).

Active member of the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons (SPRAS). Member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS). Master's degree in Pediatrics from the St.Petersburg State Medical Academy of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. Surgical residency at the Department of General Surgery residency at Pskov Regional Hospital, Russia. Plastic surgery residency at the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic, and Reconstructive Surgery, St.Petersburg Postgraduate Academy of Medicine. From 2000 to 2003 worked as a surgeon and was head of the surgical department Novorzhevsky Regional Hospital. Since 2006 plastic surgeon. in private clinic.
Author of publications on aesthetic surgery. Regular participant and speaker at Russian and international plastic surgery conferences.
Main interests in: Endoscopic techniques, Facial rejuvenation , Aesthetic Breast Surgery, Body contouring, Fat grafting.

Sergei Vasilyev
(Russia)

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetology of the South Ural State Medical University, Honorary Member of the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (RSPRAS), International Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).