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I P R A S P A S T M A J O R E V E N T S What a moment Thomas M. Biggs “What a great moment” were the first words said by Secretary General Marita Eisenmann-Klein when she opened the General Assembly of the 15 th World Congress of International Confederation for Plastic, reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery in New Delhi, India, in the Ashok Hotel on 1 December, 2009. And what a moment it was. It was the flowering of a reorganized, rebuilt, and newly inspired IPRAS. Under the leadership of Marita and with the support of the new Executive Committee including Bruce Cunningham as Treasurer, Brian Kinney as Parliamentarian, and Manuel Garcia-Velasco, Fu Chan Wei, and Daniel Marchac as Deputy Secretary Generals, and the management skills of Zacharias Kaplanidis and his Zita Congress S.A., IPRAS has a new face, the proper offspring of the Founding Meeting which was held in Uppsala, Sweden ,in 1955 under the leadership of Tord Skoog. The meeting in Delhi was preceded however by two outstanding meetings in the months prior. The first of these was the ESPRAS meeting, the European Section of IPRAS, held in Rhodes, Greece, 20-26 September under the guidance of Andreas Yiacoumettis who was elected the new President of ESPRAS. This outstanding conference brought more than 1,000 plastic surgeons and 300 accompanying people to this beautiful island and in addition to a scintillating social program included 700 free papers, 24 round tables, 35 Master Classes, and 24 Keynote Lectures. Epitomizing the broad range of excellence were many items including an outstanding lecture by Maria Siemenow on Face Transplant which brought together the union of finite facial anatomy, the science of the immune mechanism, exquisite surgical skills, and the orchestration of effective teamwork, all designed around the benefit to the patient…or…an excellent expression of plastic surgery in the 21 st 26 IPRAS Journal www.ipras.org Issue 1
Century. Added to that and the many other presentations was a “debate” between Roger Khouri and David Ross on breast reconstruction employing traditional approaches versus the newer fat grafting methods. In addition to all these the organizers set apart an entire day and created a cruise to the ancient Island of Kos, the site of the Asclepieron and the birthplace of the Hippocratic Oath. This outing included 950 participants with all the physicians renewing their oath in a dramatic ceremony. After Rhodes the Asian Pacific Section of IPRAS held their 10 th International Conference in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tokyo from October 8-10. Under the guidance of Motohiro Nozaki, President of the Japan Society Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons a similar sensation was created with many free papers and panels along with Invited Lectures by Ted Huang, Kiyonori Harii, Kwan-Chul Tark,Marita Eisenmann-Klein, Yu Ray Chen, and Andrew Burd. In addition there were 19 keynote Lectures. The Special Dinner included a show of fabulous classical Japanese performers who graced the audience by their presence after the show. When it came time for the Main Event in Delhi all members were ready. The Opening Ceremony was held in a beautiful, spacious auditorium, filled with the 1,000 physicians and their guests. Welcoming speeches were made by significant dignitaries including Prof. Kiran Walia, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Suresh Gupta, President of the World Congress of IPRAS, Bahman Daver, Co-President of IPRAS 2009, G. Balakrishnan, President, Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, and of course by our Secretary General, Marita Eisenmann-Klein. A welcoming speech that cannot be forgotten was made by Rajeev Ahuga who . by the force of his conviction, and the assurance of his personal estate, made it all happen. Without doubt one person cannot do it all alone and he was aided by a collection of hard working and dedicated colleagues, but when the years have passed and much is lost in our memories the one thing that will remain will be the magnitude of the contribution made by Rajeev Ahuja. The faculty came from around the world, presenting 669 papers and 21 Master Classes. Attendees came from 73 countries. The General assembly included the report of the outstanding Women for Women project, a unique thrust of humanitarianism, originated by Marita and Constance Neuhann-Lorenz and others. The Hinderer Lecture, given by Ian Taylor, kept us all expectant with the title: Keeping Abreast, and we were not disappointed. A touching report of work being done in Bangladesh and Afghanistan was made by Christian Echinard. Realization of the magnitude of IPRAS on the world scene was made by Marita Eisenmann-Klein, our 10 th Secretary-General when she looked out at the General Assembly on that Tuesday, the 1 st of December, 2009, and said,”What a great moment”. This GREAT MOMENT was the rebirth of a powerful IPRAS, and its claiming of its place as the world’s leading plastic surgery organization. Thomas Biggs 1315 St. Joseph Pkwy, Hïuston, Texas, 77002 e-mail: tbiggsmd@aol.com Issue 1 www.ipras.org IPRAS Journal 27
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