Dr Niamtu is well known in international cosmetic facial surgery circles as surgeon, teacher and author and is regarded as a key opinion leader by academics and clinicians worldwide. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. He is board certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His practice is limited to cosmetic facial surgery.
He lectures internationally on cosmetic facial surgery and has taught on six continents around the world. He has written three textbooks as well as 22 chapters on other textbooks. He has authored hundreds of publications on various cosmetic facial topics and a cosmetic facial surgery DVD series.
Dr Niamtu has served on the board of directors of the Cosmetic Surgery Foundation and chaired numerous committees with the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. He appears regularly in newspaper articles, television broadcasts and popular magazines. He is passionate about all aspects of cosmetic facial surgery and loves going to work and making patients look and feel better.
International Plenary Speakers
Dr Werner H. Beekman
Dr Werner H. Beekman studied Medicine at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and completed his Plastic Surgery training at the University Hospital of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 1999 with a thesis entitled: "Current aspects in management of mammary prostheses". He is the current Head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Van Linschotenspecialisten hospital in the Netherlands and has developed innovative techniques in breast augmentation with anatomical prostheses that are widely published. Dr Beekman also has interests in the areas of cosmetic and hand surgery and regularly performs workshop and lectures internationally. He is a member of the Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery, the Dutch Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the Dutch Society for Hand Surgery.
Constance Campion
Constance Campion expertise is rooted in her position as a clinician and one of the foremost international experts in advanced aesthetics. Described as one of Vogue's top beauty secrets, she combines her nursing responsibilities, as a Consultant Nurse Specialist & Partner at Plastic Surgery Associates UK, based at Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London. Her clinical background stems from her position as a Consultant Nurse Specialist in advanced nursing practise. A distinguished career in the private health sector, lead to a career in The City in 1980, which subsequently influenced her continued working practises as both a clinician and analyst within her chosen area of expertise in advanced rejuvenation, and wellness anti-ageing medicine.
From her work in the establishment of the private medical sector in Denmark in the mid-80's, to her ground-breaking analysis of the primary medical care needs for staff at Price Waterhouse Coopers, in the wake of the merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998, she has succeeded to fuse her business and her clinical expertise. This culminated in her nominating her choice of candidates for the position of The Royal Apothecary.
In 1989, she established a non-surgical, medical aesthetic service with her husband and others within a plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery practice in London. In the early 90's, she became the architect and Chairman of the steering group that formed the first specialist nurses' forum in aesthetic nursing at The Royal College of Nursing.
Over a three-year period, she co-authored and wrote with a group of her senior nursing colleagues, the groundbreaking professional nursing competencies, that remain the only published professional bench markers in medical aesthetic practises today. With her keen understanding of the operational and managerial details of the aesthetics arena, she is as well - known for her dynamic, practical, humorous presentation style, as she is for her insightful economic reports to professional groups and private equity clients.
Dr Steve Eubanks
Dr Eubanks is a Dermatologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology working in Denver, Colorado, USA. Dr Eubanks is Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre and brings extensive experience of the uses of lasers and other light based systems in Aesthetic Medicine to Cosmetex 2011.
Dr Eubanks has spoken through-out Asia and is well respected for his open, friendly and down to earth approach to sharing his experiences.
Dr Michele Friscia
Specialist in Rehabilitation @ the St Rafael Hospital - Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Michele Friscia is an Italian medical doctor specialised in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and works in Barcelona, Spain. He has developed his interest in cosmetic medicine, especially in the domain of pulsed electromagnetic fields that stimulates intense drainage processes through the lymphatic pump activation with the rise in basal metabolism.
His first presentation is on "Lymphedemas" which are ordinary, post-surgery disorders. They occur not only as the result of DVT or interventions, but are also related to blood disorders and cellulite. Treating them will help you reduce the after-effects of aesthetic surgeries and also improve your results with cellulite therapy by reducing lymphatic congestion easily using pulsed Electro-medical technology. He will also be presenting "How to manage contour definition with hyaluronic acid with the 2nd Generation Radiofrequency devices". He will be talking about his experience in volumising the facial contours and necks of your clients.
Dr Mark Hamilton
Dr Mark Hamilton has been working in the field of facial aesthetics for the last 7 years and has become a key opinion leader during this time. Qualified as a surgeon from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland he was attracted to the area of non surgical facial aesthetics due to the impressive results and minimal downtime. With a background of maxillofacial surgery, cleft lip and palate from Guys and St.Thomas' Hospital London the face is the area that attracts his primary attention.
He presents at international meetings on the subject of facial aesthetics and has regularly presented on television demonstrating the latest techniques and contributing to cosmetic programming. Over the years Mark has also worked as a consultant to the leading manufactures in the industry . His work is exclusively cosmetic and practices in the UK and Ireland where he has clinics and trains other doctors in this field.
Dr Ian Holten
Dr Ian Holten works in Ballarat, Geelong & Warrnambool. Following his studies at Melbourne University Ian studied plastic surgery in the UK, America & Australia. Ian is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons (Hunterian Professor) and is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and British Association of Plastic Reconstructive, Aesthetic Surgeons.
The Australian Government has recognized Ian's volunteer work with the Centenary Medal for plastic surgery services in Australia & third world countries.
Dr Michael Kane
Dr Michael Kane is a noted plastic surgeon who has lectured internationally at the forefront of non-surgical facial rejuvenation. Dr Kane graduated from the Jefferson Medical College five year Program in Cooperative Medical Education, attaining both his undergraduate degree and medical degree in only five years. He was a member of the Hobart Hare Honor Society in medical school. Dr Kane then completed a general surgery residency at New York Medical College. This residency was based at Lincoln Hospital which was at the epicenter of the urban violence which plagued the South Bronx in the eighties. While this violence was tragic for the residents of that area, it afforded Dr Kane a tremendous amount of surgical experience that he would not have received anywhere else. Dr Kane's plastic surgical training consisted of a residency at Wright State University and the fellowship at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. During this fellowship, Dr Kane studied under several of the nation's pre-eminent cosmetic plastic surgeons and also operated on his own patients. It was during this fellowship in 1991 that Dr Kane developed a strong interest in non-surgical facial rejuvenation by injecting Botox throughout the face.
Dr Kane's work has been published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He is also the author of The Botox Book. He has other varied interests. He is an avid surfer and has studied film at NYU and Graphic Design and Advertising at Parsons School of Design. He is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, and the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Dr Mauricio de Maio
Dr Mauricio de Maio is a member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He graduated from the Medical Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo in 1990. Specialist in Plastic Surgery in 1996, Master of Medicine in 1999 and Doctor of Science in 2006 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo. Dr de Maio was Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, University of São Paulo from 1996 to 2002. He has been a recognized consultant and teacher training experts in the areas of Plastic Surgery, Laser and Aesthetic Medicine since 1997. Recognized nationally and internationally, Dr Mauricio de Maio has published three books on Aesthetic Medicine, Editora Roca - Brazil, 2004; Fillers in Aesthetic Medicine, Publisher Springer-Verlag - Germany, 2006 and Botulinum Toxin in Aesthetic Medicine, Publisher Springer-Verlag - Germany, 2007. Dr de Maio is also a Minister for international courses in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Dr David Matlock
Dr Matlock's practice is national and international and he has treated patients from all 50 states and over 63 countries. His highly refined, state of the art techniques yield the natural results that patients want. Dr Matlock has been contributed with popularizing LVR®, DLV®, Vaser Hi Def Liposculpturing and Brazilian Butt Augmentation over the past six years as a cast member of E! Entertainments hit (national and international) show Dr 90210.
Dr Dianne Quibell
Dr Dianne Quibell, MD is a board certified practicing Internist in Wellesley Hills, MA., the Medical Director of MD TLC, Inc., and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr Quibell has over eight years' experience combining internal medicine with medical aesthetics. She has been a lecturer and luminary for five laser technology companies since 2001 teaching over 35 cases per year. She has privately trained over 450 clinicians nationally in aesthetic laser/light based technologies, BOTOX and fillers.
Dr Paul Rosser
Paul Rosser trained in Ophthalmology in Auckland before travelling to London for fellowship training in Oculoplastics, Lacrimal and Orbital surgery. He returned to a specialist position at Auckland Hospital continuing to work in the public system since 1991 and has held a three year tenure as Chairman of the Ophthalmic Surgeons Committee. He is a clinical Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine. Paul is a founding member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Oculoplastic Surgeons (ANZSOPS) having recently completed a 2 year term as the president of the society.
Paul is an active member in both the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO) regularly presenting at annual meetings in Australia and New Zealand. He has published numerous papers on oculoplastic topics in peer-reviewed journals and is at the forefront of new techniques for his specialty.
Dr Abdo Salomao
Dr. Abdo Salomao is a Brazilian Dermatologist that lectures at UNICAMP in Brazil and is the Chairman of the 'Onodera Medical Aesthetic Clinics' that consists of a network of 56 clinics in South America. He is also the Director of "The Laser medical Group" that have used various Co2 Fractional lasers, for several years, having developed his special interests in the area of treating darker skin types. He is willing to share expertise in the area of skin resurfacing, for treating melasma, photo damage & acne scars in the darker skin types with a Co2 Fractional laser system that has a stable RF CO2 tube that can ablate superficially from 10 to 70 microns or resurface fractionally to a depth of 600 to 2000 microns when needed, by choosing the energy variances between 1-300jcm2 to easily demonstrate this at one of the workshops during the convention.
Dr Giovanni Salti
After his residency in Surgery, Dr Salti achieved his Masters in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Medicine and Phlebology. He currently holds the position of Lecturer in Aesthetic Dermatology at the University of Florence and is in private practice as plastic surgeon in Florence specializing, beyond some surgeries, in non surgical cosmetic procedures, like lasers, chemical peels, fillers and botulinum toxins and treatment of localized adiposities.
Dr Salti has been working with Restylane since the beginning in 1996. He is co-author of one of the very first clinical study on Restylane published in the peer relieved literature. He is also author of several others papers published in the peer relieved literature and book chapters. He has been involved in basic and advanced injection techniques courses for the Restylane products in Italy, Europe, Middle East, Asia and South America.
Dr Salti has held several lectures over the last 15 years in the areas of soft tissue fillers, botulinum toxin, cellulite, lasers and chemical peels in international scientific congresses and meetings.
Dr Michael Stampar
Dr Michael Stampar D.O. is a board certified ENT and Facial Plastic surgeon who started in private practice in 1988 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. He graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic medicine and received awards for outstanding student in medicine in 1983. He completed a rotating internship followed by his residency in ENT and Facial Plastic surgery that included training with nationally recognized experts in his field.
After 9 successful years of private practice in Michigan he moved to Port Charlotte, Florida with his wife Cathy Criss D.O., a board certified family practitioner. He has expanded his practice to include offices in Punta Gorda and Northport and now performs non-surgical cosmetic procedures at Spago Dayspa, Salon, and Medispa, which he purchased in September of 2006.
Although Dr Stampar has hospital privileges for all his cosmetic procedures, all cosmetic surgical procedures previously performed in the office will be done at the spa as well. Prior to all facelift, eyelid, and liposuction procedures patients will be treated to a relaxing massage to reduce the anxiety most people feel just before surgery. Dr Stampar has been doing office based plastic surgical surgeries since 1988 and has had no major complications.
Dr Stampar is a member of the AOA as well as his osteopathic specialty society and has delivered a number of educational lectures to them over the years and trained residents in his specialty for 9 years. Dr Stampar is also a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and his state medical society. He has also been a director of the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce and was the head of the leadership division for four years. Dr Stampar also serves as chief medical officer of SinoFresh Healthcare Inc., maker of SinoFresh Nasal and Sinus Care Spray.
Dr Stein Tveten
Norwegian born Dr Stein Tveten is an expert in facial plastic surgery and anti-ageing medicine, with applied knowledge of the Anteis Injecting System and suite of hyaluronic acid-based injectable products.
Dr Tveten trained in Essen, Germany as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, to become Oslo's leading reconstructive surgeon. Repairing damage from severe accidental injuries led to his interest in cosmetic surgery.
In 1999 he opened his first aesthetic surgery in Oslo, now the foremost provider of cosmetic medical treatments in Scandinavia, with an associated network of more than 80 anti-ageing clinics.
Over the next five years he extended his knowledge of holistic medical skincare and non-surgical aesthetic treatments to ultimately combine his scientific knowledge and experience to establish an advanced clinic in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2003. This provided the model for the Mucherwiesental aesthetic clinic in Kempten, opened in 2006.
In 2003 Dr Tveten demonstrated the use of Restylane in a training film for Q-Med and in 2006 he made a similar film for Anteis showing techniques for injecting the fourth generation dermal filler Esthélis.
Dr Tveten is a member of many Scandinavian, European and North American professional associations for specialists in cranio maxillofacial surgery, aesthetic dermatology and laser medicine, and continues to undertake and publish findings from his ongoing scientific research projects. Since 2008 he has been a contributing editor to the Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in the field of aesthetic and cosmetic surgery.
Dr Helga Van Den Elzen
She is the founder of Elzen Kliniek and she is committed to excellence and quality. Cosmetic procedures require an excellent artistic sense and skillful hands. Dr van den Elzen relies on both when sculpting the shape of a face using aesthetic injectables. "Above all else, we strive for a natural good look." Dr Helga van den Elzen has extensive experience for over 15 years in facial rejuvenation with injectables and she is a specialist in this field. She has performed over 13.000 filler procedures in the past 10 years. She offers the liquid facelift as an alternative to a surgical facelift, using a personalized combination of noninvasive procedures such as fillers, fat injections and Botox to artistically restore a youthful appearance.
Dr van den Elzen is extending her expertise through the doctors she has trained and she lectures at international meetings and seminars. Her recent scientific advances are being published in outstanding peer reviewed journals.
Dr Sabine Zenker
Dr Sabine Zenker, MD, Dermatologist is running her private dermatological practice since 2004 in Munich, Germany.
She received her medical degree in October 1995 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU. She is board certified in Dermatology in April 2003 in Munich. Sabine Zenker is one of the well known and renowned German dermatologists and an international speaker as well as a medical advisor.
Sabine Zenker dedicates her daily work to general dermatology as well as to aesthetic dermatology.
She works on a daily basis in her dermatology surgery clinic in Munich, dedicated to the whole spectrum of general dermatology such as mole surgery, treating skin disorders such as skin cancer and its precursors, allergies, acne, varicosis, infections, hairloss etc.
In aesthetic dermatology her daily work is based on relaxing, filling and volumizing therapies, skinresurfacing, skinremodelling, skinregeneration and –stimulation as well as topical and oral skincare.
Her special know-how especially in medical peelings led to the development of a self-designed anti-melasma-peel, which she successfully implementes since 6 years in her clinic.
Her specialisation and special interest in the aesthetic field as well as her practical and her scientific knowledge leads her to national- and internationalwide activities as an international speaker and trainer for aesthetic interventions such as botulinumtoxine, fillers, medical peelings, Laser- and Intense Pulsed Light Systems, BiAction-Technology, skinregeneration via Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), Carboxytherapy, cosmeceuticals etc.. This global expertise and her special interest in new approaches to aesthetic dermatology finally leads to advisory activities for leading firms in the aesthetic market such as Anteis, AlmaLasers, Floxia, Filorga, Merz Aesthetics, MyCells, Rioblush, L`Oréal, PerfAction, etc.
L`Oréal Paris chose her to work as their consultant dermatologist worldwide.
Dr Zenker contributes regularly to medical journals as well as to public press, print, TV and multimedia.
