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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ) Accepted for Indexing by the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ), an official peer-reviewed advertisement of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), has been acclimatized for indexing by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in MEDLINE/PubMed (www.pubmed.gov), the world's a lot of broadly accessed medical database.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 6, 2009 -- Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ), an official peer-reviewed advertisement of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), has been acclimatized for indexing by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in MEDLINE/PubMed (www.pubmed.gov), the world's a lot of broadly accessed medical database. MEDLINE is the NLM's arch bibliographic database absolute references to account online autograph from 1950 to the present in the activity sciences with a absorption on biomedicine. PubMed is a searchable database that includes over 18 actor citations and abstracts from MEDLINE and added activity science journals. It includes links to abounding argument online autograph and added accompanying resources.

"Only a baby allotment of journals that administer for indexing anniversary year are accustomed by the NLM, and a lot of are analysis journals. This accomplishment reflects common acceptance of the analytic and accurate accent of adept artificial anaplasty as able-bodied as the above of the Journal's content," says Editor in Chief Foad Nahai, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine.

The NLM account alternative action includes abutting assay of all aspects of submitted journals including the importance, above and ambit of content; ability and abilities of the Editorial Board; acquiescence of the beat action with currently acclimatized standards for bookish journals; and assembly quality. (For added information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html)

Only a baby allotment of journals that administer for indexing anniversary year are accustomed by the NLM, and a lot of are analysis journals. This accomplishment reflects common acceptance of the analytic and accurate accent of adept artificial anaplasty as able-bodied as the above of the Journal's content Our indexed cachet can absolutely be beheld as a advance in authoritative important advice about adept anaplasty calmly accessible to clinicians and advisers about the world. Already the a lot of broadly apprehend account in the acreage of corrective surgery, ASJ will now be even added broadly accessible to clinicians and advisers about the world Greater accessibility of the Journal's accurate and time-sensitive advice to physicians common agency bigger and safer affliction for patients. Indexing comes at a cardinal time in the journal's history - the retirement of Stanley A. Klatsky, MD afterwards 11 years as editor in chief. This accomplishment reflects his action to accomplish the all-important changes over the years to ensure that ASJ became indexed by NLM. In his adieu beat in the November/December 2008 affair of ASJ, he states, "Our indexed cachet can absolutely be beheld as a advance in authoritative important advice about adept anaplasty calmly accessible to clinicians and advisers about the world." He goes on to acknowledge anybody who contributed to the journal's success over the years and to canyon on the bequest to Dr. Foad Nahai, the new editor in arch starting in January 2009.

"Already the a lot of broadly apprehend account in the acreage of corrective surgery, ASJ will now be even added broadly accessible to clinicians and advisers about the world," says Dr. Nahai. "Greater accessibility of the Journal's accurate and time-sensitive advice to physicians common agency bigger and safer affliction for patients."

About ASJ
Aesthetic Surgery Journal, endemic by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and appear by Elsevier Science, is a peer-reviewed all-embracing account absorption on analytic and accurate developments in corrective anaplasty and corrective medicine. The Journal has subscribers in added than 80 countries. Besides its amalgamation with ASAPS, the arch alignment of board-certified artificial surgeons who specialize in adept surgery, ASJ is aswell the official English-language account of artificial anaplasty societies in Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica, Colombia, India and The Netherlands, and it is the official account of the Rhinoplasty Society. ASJ's Editorial Board includes artificial surgeons and Interspecialty Editors apery anesthesiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology and analytic psychology. For advice on the Journal, as able-bodied as subscriber and pay-per-view acceptance to the Journal's abounding argument and graphics, go to www.aestheticsurgeryjournal.com.

About ASAPS
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, i the arch alignment of board-certified artificial surgeons specializing in corrective artificial surgery, includes Active-Member artificial surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as able-bodied as International Active Members who authority agnate accreditation in their own countries. For information, appointment www.surgery.org.

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World-Renowned Plastic Surgeons Share Knowledge and Experience

The aboriginal American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting to crop abode in Park City, Utah February 20 to 23

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 19, 2009 -- For the aboriginal time, anticipation and assessment leaders from two of the world's arch centers of adept surgery, Brazil and the United States, will be affair to allotment accurate updates, procedural ability and analytic advice at the countdown American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting. The aboriginal American -Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting to crop abode in Park City, Utah February 20 to 23

Faculty for the affair includes some of the a lot of accustomed names in organized artificial anaplasty from two continents, including:

 

    Ricardo Riberio, MD, Brazil, Meeting Co-Chair, Plastic Surgeon from Rio de Janiero, Brazil Renato Saltz, MD, Meeting Co-Chair and President-Elect, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeon from Park City, UT Jose Carlos Sampaio Goes, MD, Past-President, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeon from Sao Paulo, Brazil Alan Gold, MD, President, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeon from Great Neck, NY Foad Nahai, MD, President, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Past-President, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeon from Atlanta, GA Mark Jewell, MD, Past-President, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeon from Eugene, ORThe attendees for the affair includes residents, fellows, nurses, aestheticians and physicians from the US, South America, Europe and Asia. The capacity cover adept surgery, corrective medicine, accommodating assurance (a abounding morning), breast and derma blight about-face -- all accompanying to adept artificial surgery. The affair is endorsed/sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (www.surgery.org) and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (www.isaps.org).

    Although the affair is not set up to axle columnist representatives, a abounding appointment address will be accessible at www.surgery.org/media at the meeting's conclusion.

    About ASAPS
    The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the arch alignment of board-certified artificial surgeons specializing in corrective artificial surgery, includes Active-Member artificial surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as able-bodied as International Active Members who authority agnate accreditation in their own countries. For information, appointment www.surgery.org.

    About ISAPS
    The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) is the world's arch able anatomy for axle certified adept artificial surgeons. ISAPS represents over 1,600 of the world's arch axle certified adept artificial surgeons in 84 countries. For information, appointment www.isaps.org.


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Northshore Chicago Plastic Surgeon is the First Female President of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF)

Northshore Chicago artificial surgeon Laurie Casas, MD is the new President of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF).

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 5, 2009 -- Northshore Chicago artificial surgeon Laurie Casas, MD is the new President of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF). ASERF analysis helps to ensure the assurance and capability of new adept (cosmetic) artificial surgical techniques and technologies by allotment accurate analysis and analytic studies. ASERF associates is accessible to all individuals and organizations absorbed in acknowledging the Foundation's mission.

Dr. Casas was complete in Puerto Rico and was aloft in the Northshore of Chicago. Her convenance is amid in Glenview IL, and she has an absolute medical spa in Highland Park, IL. Dr. Casas has been a abounding time adroitness affiliate at Northwestern University for 19 years and will end her amalgamation June 19, 2009, and she will be a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center Pritzker School of Medicine, Section of Plastic Surgery. She has been an Aesthetic Society Member back 1997, and has served on the ASAPS Board back 2004. Dr. Casas is a affiliate of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal's Editorial Board and serves as the Journal's Breast Surgery Section Editor. She is a accomplished Commissioner of the Aesthetic Society's Communication's Commission and currently serves as the Chair of the Society's NonSurgical Procedures Committee.

As artificial surgeons anxious about accommodating safety, we ambition to be abiding that the treatments we acclaim are backed by acceptable science and acceptable analytic experience The analysis sponsored by the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation ensures that there is connected addition backed by complete research. Dr. Casas has been in clandestine convenance for 19 years while advancement her abounding time bookish status. She accustomed her medical amount and served both her accepted anaplasty and artificial anaplasty residencies at Northwestern University. Additionally, she completed a microsurgery analysis acquaintance at Southern Illinois University, an adept artificial anaplasty acquaintance at New York University, and a breast about-face acquaintance at St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, GA. She was certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) in 1992 and she has been a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) back 1995.

"As artificial surgeons anxious about accommodating safety, we ambition to be abiding that the treatments we acclaim are backed by acceptable science and acceptable analytic experience," says Dr. Casas. "The analysis sponsored by the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation ensures that there is connected addition backed by complete research."

President-Elect: Geoffrey Keyes, MD of Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Keyes is the President-Elect of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Secretary/Treasurer for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF). Dr. Keyes has been complex in technology and the architecture of an Internet based above affirmation and associate analysis for AAAASF. He is a affiliate of the Aesthetic Society's Finance, Patient Safety, and Distance Learning Committees.

Vice President: William P. Adams, Jr. of Dallas, TX. Dr. Adams maintains a clandestine convenance in artificial anaplasty in Dallas, TX. In addition, he aswell serves as an Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Dr. Adams co-chairs the Hot Topics Seminars, co-sponsored by ASERF and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF).

Treasurer: James C. Grotting, MD of Birmingham, AL. Dr. Grotting has been in convenance in Birmingham, Alabama for 24 years. He has a clandestine convenance there and is Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the editor of Reoperative Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, a two-volume arbiter now in its additional edition. He has been an arrive assistant for dozens of Universities and societies worldwide. He has accounting several added textbooks and assorted capacity and accurate affidavit decidedly in artificial anaplasty of the face and breast. He has donated abounding weeks of advance anaplasty back 1987 with Operation Smile for the chargeless affliction of accouchement with facial deformities worldwide.

Secretary: Vernon Leroy Young, MD of St. Louis, MO. Dr. Young is currently in clandestine adept anaplasty practice, he is a accomplished William G. Hamm Professor of Plastic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Young co-chairs the Hot Topics Seminars, co-sponsored by ASERF and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF). He chairs the PSEF's Directed Research Committee, and chairs ASAPS Breast Surgery and Non-Surgical Procedures Committees. He aswell chairs the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Plastic Surgery Device Subcommittee and is an examiner for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

Contact:
Adeena Babbitt or Dina Khiry
(212) 921-0500
Annual Meeting Press Office accessible May 3-7: (702) 322-5625

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Salt Lake City Plastic Surgeon is New President of American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Aesthetic Society elects top admiral at 2009 anniversary affair in Las Vegas, NV.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 5, 2009 -- Utah artificial surgeon Renato Saltz, MD, is the new President of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). The Aesthetic Society, with about 2,400 members, is the arch civic alignment of board-certified artificial surgeons specializing in corrective anaplasty of the face and body. The acclamation of new admiral was captivated on May 5, during the ASAPS 2009 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV which was abounding by artificial surgeons from about the world.

The Aesthetic Society is at the beginning of change aural the acreage of corrective artificial surgery Our primary mission is to enhance accommodating affliction through accouterment continuing medical apprenticeship to able adept artificial surgeons. We aswell accept a albatross to brainwash the accessible about the assurance and allowances of Aesthetic anaplasty and Cosmetic Medicine, and to advice humans accomplish better-informed choices. Dr. Saltz is a built-in of Brazil. He lives and practices in Salt Lake City and Park City, UT. He has been an Aesthetic Society Member back 1995. He is in clandestine convenance in Salt Lake City, UT and is the Former Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Utah. Dr. Saltz is the above Chair of the Symposium and Candidate Liaison Committees, Residents' Forum, and the International Symposium and serves on the Aesthetic Surgery Journal Task Force. He is a Co-Chair of the Cosmetic Medicine Task Force and a Former Clinical Editor of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal. He is the Education Council Chair and Immediate Past-General Secretary of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). Dr. Saltz has been a visiting assistant at 13 bookish centers in the United States and Abroad and has accustomed over 350 presentations nationally and internationally. He has appear over 100 papers, 31 capacity and edited 6 books in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Saltz is aswell the Founder and President of the Image Reborn Foundation of Utah, a retreat centermost for women convalescent from breast cancer, now in its 10th year.

Dr. Saltz has been in convenance for 19 years. He accustomed his medical amount from Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul School of Medicine in Brazil and served his accepted anaplasty address at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami. Dr. Saltz served a artificial anaplasty address and acquaintance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham He was certified by The American Board of Surgery in 1989 and by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) in 1992.

"The Aesthetic Society is at the beginning of change aural the acreage of corrective artificial surgery," says Dr. Saltz. "Our primary mission is to enhance accommodating affliction through accouterment continuing medical apprenticeship to able adept artificial surgeons. We aswell accept a albatross to brainwash the accessible about the assurance and allowances of Aesthetic anaplasty and Cosmetic Medicine, and to advice humans accomplish better-informed choices."

Other new Aesthetic Society admiral on the Executive Committee are:

President-Elect: Felmont F. Eaves, III, MD of Charlotte, NC. An Aesthetic Society Member back 1999, Dr. Eaves is a accomplice at Charlotte Plastic Surgery and an accessory surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital, Carolinas Medical Center, and Mercy Hospital. Dr. Eaves currently serves as a traveling professor, and a affiliate of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal Task Force. He is the Former Chair of the Finance & Investment and Patient Safety, and Public Education Committees, as able-bodied as the accomplished Administration Commissioner. Dr. Eaves has alert been the almsman of the Aesthetic Society's Simon Frederick's Award for Best Meeting Panelist, additionally he is the accomplished almsman of the Sherrell J. Aston Award for Best Presentation by a Candidate or Resident, and the Ted Lockwood Award for Excellence in Body Contouring.

Vice President: Jeffrey M. Kenkel, MD of Dallas, TX. An Aesthetic Society Member back 2001, Dr. Kenkel is a assistant and Vice Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is Associate Editor of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal and editor of Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Dr. Kenkel currently serves as the Secretary of the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF), and Chair of the Education Commission. He is aswell Chair of abounding of the Aesthetic Society's committees including the Strategic Planning, Time & Place, Program, and ASAPS/ASPS Co-Sponsored Symposium Committees.

Treasurer: James A. Matas, MD of Orlando, FL. An Aesthetic Society Member back 1997, Dr. Matas is in clandestine convenance and is the above Chief-of-Staff of Dr. P. Phillips Hospital in Orlando. Dr. Matas currently serves as the Chair of the Continuing Medical Education Committee. He is the Former Vice-Chair of the Communications Commission.

Secretary: Leo R. McCafferty, MD of Pittsburgh PA. An Aesthetic Society Member back 1993, Dr. McCafferty is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. He is in clandestine convenance and is a artificial anaplasty adviser to The Pittsburgh Steelers. Dr. McCafferty currently serves as Chair of the Administrative Commission, and is the Former Chair of the Bylaws and Public Education Committees. He aswell is the almsman of the Aesthetic Society's Tiffany Award for Best Scientific Presentation.

About ASAPS
The 2400-member American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), founded in 1967, is the arch alignment of ABMS-certified artificial surgeons who specialize in corrective artificial surgery. With ASAPS breath associates certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Canadian breath associates certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and International associates certified in their countries of origin, ASAPS is at the beginning of addition in adept artificial surgery.
Toll-free barometer line: 888.ASAPS.11 (272.7711). Web site: www.surgery.org

Contact:
Adeena Babbitt or Dina Khiry
(212) 921-0500
Annual Meeting Press Office accessible May 3-7: (702) 322-5625

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Re-Envision Your Look: Dr. David Whiteman Suggests Breast Revision Surgery as Solution for Women Dissatisfied with Prior Procedures

A contempo abstraction from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery shows that the a lot of accepted surgical action in the United States is breast augmentation, with added than 355,000 of them performed in 2008 alone. But double-board certified artificial surgeon, David M. Whiteman, MD says not all women end up accepting blessed with their results, and breast afterlight anaplasty can advice patients feel annoyed and enhance their appearance. There is annihilation added alarming for a artificial anaplasty accommodating than accepting black with their after-effects – abnormally afterwards accepting to abide the surgical action and putting in the all-important accretion time At Southern Plastic Surgery, we alarm our antidotal breast procedures breast revisions because we plan calm with anniversary accommodating to actualize a new eyes to added enhance the breasts or to actual any problems apparent with the patient’s accepted augmentation, reduction, or lift accustomed at added practices.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) August 11, 2009 -- Women today are generally allotment to abide a breast afterlight surgery, aswell alleged a “re-do” or in some practices a reconstruction, if they are annoyed with the after-effects of a above-mentioned surgical breast procedure. Outside of removing or “undoing” an absolute breast augmentation, abounding are blind of the advantage to accept their breast action revised to restore or accomplish adapted results. Whether a accommodating has been afflicted by affecting fluctuations in weight or has been black with their after-effects from the beginning, breast afterlight anaplasty can be the solution. For patients who accept had breast implants in Atlanta or elsewhere, Dr. David Whiteman offers breast afterlight anaplasty to those who are annoyed with the outcome.

Dr. Whiteman is the architect of Southern Plastic Surgery, a convenance adherent to adept accessory and corrective plastic anaplasty in Atlanta. “There is annihilation added alarming for a artificial anaplasty accommodating than accepting black with their after-effects – abnormally afterwards accepting to abide the surgical action and putting in the all-important accretion time,” said Dr. David Whiteman, architect of Southern Plastic Surgery in Duluth. “At Southern Plastic Surgery, we alarm our antidotal breast procedures breast revisions because we plan calm with anniversary accommodating to actualize a new eyes to added enhance the breasts or to actual any problems apparent with the patient’s accepted augmentation, reduction, or lift accustomed at added practices.”

The accoutrement of abundance or desperate weight gain/weight accident are a allotment of the a lot of accepted contributors to annoyance with above-mentioned procedures. A breast lift at our Atlanta practice or a new implant may be bare for women to restore their attending afterwards the accoutrement of their anatomy change. Breast afterlight anaplasty can aswell be a band-aid for women who ambition to abatement or access the admeasurement of their implants, change the appearance of their breasts, or about-face implants from acrid to silicone and carnality versa. Others seek a revisionary action afterwards their action with breast blight or added complications. Because every breast afterlight anaplasty is different, a absolute analysis plan needs to be tailored to anniversary alone patient.

Southern Plastic Surgery – Dr. David Whiteman
Southern Plastic Surgery was founded in 1993 by David M. Whiteman, M.D., F.R.C.S.. Dr. Whiteman serves as the Chief of Plastic Surgery for Gwinnett Medical Center and is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. With a appropriate absorption in acceptable women adversity from breast cancer, Dr. Whiteman created a “buddy system” for his breast about-face patients to altercate their journeys to accretion and aswell serves on the axle of admiral for The Sport of Giving, a breast blight affliction and blockage non-profit organization.

Southern Plastic Surgery is an Atlanta-area convenance specializing in corrective and artificial surgical procedures of the breast, body, and face. Patients because procedures such as breast abridgement in Atlanta and added adept and anatomy contouring options can acquisition added advice about Southern Plastic Surgery and Dr. Whiteman from their website at www.southernplasticsurgery.com.

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