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Future ChallengesPlastic Surgeons were able to get Congress tosupport mandatory insurance coverage for breastreconstruction patients in the ‘90s and are currentlyworking to ensure that reconstructive surgery fortreatment of children’s deformities will also becovered by insurance plans.Meanwhile, Plastic Surgery – always a specialty thathas thrived on innovation – continues to push aheadwith new clinical breakthroughs, refining currenttechniques and discovering new ones.Plastic Surgeons are researching methods to reducesurgical scarring and patient recovery time. Theyare devising new outcomes studies to prove withcomprehensive data the quality of life improvementsthat Plastic Surgery provides via its vast array ofprocedures.And some researchers are now trying to unlock thesecrets of the growth-factor environment of thewomb, where scarless healing takes place, so thatthis knowledge can be applied to wounds in childrenand adults.The future of Plastic Surgery continues to unfold,with the promise of amazing new things to come, inthe humanitarian pursuit to help patients look andfeel their best!ASPS PAST PRESIDENTS LISTJacques W. Maliniac, MD* ..............................1932Jacques W. Maliniac, MD* ..............................1933John W. Wheeler, MD* ....................................1934John W. Wheeler, MD* ....................................1935Warren B. Davis, MD* ....................................1936Warren B. Davis, MD* ....................................1937Clarence R. Straatsma, MD* ...........................1938Clarence R. Straatsma, MD* ...........................1939Arthur Palmer, MD* ........................................1940Arthur Palmer, MD* ........................................1941Lyndon A. Peer, MD* ......................................1942Lyndon A. Peer, MD* ......................................1943Gustave Aufricht, MD* ....................................1944Gustave Aufricht, MD* ....................................1945Edward Kitlowski, MD* ..................................1946Edward Kitlowski, MD* ..................................1947Neal Owens, MD* ...........................................1948Neal Owens, MD* ...........................................1949Leon E. Sutton, MD* .......................................1950Paul W. Greeley, MD* .....................................1951Albert D. Davis, MD* ......................................1952James T. Mills, MD* ........................................1953William Milton Adams, MD* ..........................1954William G. Hamm, MD* .................................1955Fredrick A. Figi, MD* .....................................1956S. Milton Dupertius, MD* ...............................1957Wallace H. Steffenson, MD* ...........................1958Louis T. Byars, MD* ........................................1959Kenneth L. Pickrell, MD* ................................1960James B. Johnson, MD* ..................................1961Charles W. Tennison, MD* ..............................1962William L. White, MD* ...................................1963Reed O. Dingman, MD* ..................................1964George V. Webster, MD* .................................1965E. Horace Klabunde, MD* ...............................1966Richard B. Stark, MD* ....................................1966David W. Robinson, MD* ................................1967Francis X. Paletta, MD* ...................................1968T. Ray Broadbent, MD* ...................................1969Paul P. Pickering, MD* ....................................1970Stephan R. Lewis, MD* ...................................1971George F. Crikelair, MD* ................................1972Michael M. Gurdin, MD* ................................1973James H. Hendrix, Jr., MD* .............................1974Ross H. Musgrave, MD ...................................1975Frederick J. McCoy, MD* ...............................1976Rex A. Peterson, MD .......................................1977Peter Randall, MD ...........................................1978Verner V. Lindgren, MD* ................................1979Frank W. Masters, MD* ...................................1980Jerome E. Adamson, MD .................................1981H. William Porterfield, MD .............................1982Mark Gorney, MD ............................................1983John B. Lynch, MD ..........................................1984John M. Goin, MD* .........................................1985William E. Huger, Jr., MD* .............................1986Robert C. Reeder, MD* ...................................1987Norman E. Hugo, MD ......................................1988Issue 6 www.ipras.org IPRAS Journal 57