Program 2025

36th Hawaii Plastic Surgery Symposium

Day 1 – Saturday, January 18, 2025

7:00-8:00 am
Registration, Continental Breakfast & Visit Exhibits

7:30 am
Breakfast with Doctor Melvin Spira (video recording)

8:00 am
Fereydoun Don Parsa – Welcome Remarks

8:05 am
Paul Faringer and Scott Nishikawa – CME Information and CME Survey

8:15 am
Ernie Manders – The Bright Future of Our Specialty

9:00 am
Maurice Nahabedian – Breast Implant Illness and ALCL: an Update

9:30 am
Maurice Nahabedian – Breast Implants in the USA: a 30-Year Perspective on Adaptation

10:00 am
Frank Lista, (Toronto, Canada) – Subfascial Breast Augmentation

10:30 am
Christopher Costa – Transaxillary Breast Augmentation: Performing the dual-plane through a transaxillary approach

11:00 am
Andrew T. Cohen – Breast Reduction: Inferior Pedicle Refinements and Finesse

11:30 am
Malcolm Paul, Past President ASAPS – The Current Status of Cosmetic Medicine and Cosmetic Surgery / Use of Injectibles and Energy-Based Devices for Tissue Modeling and Lifting

12:00 pm
Lunch Break and Visit Exhibits

1:00 pm
Ash Ghavami – Facial Shaping: Multi-Modality

1:30 pm
Ash Ghavami – Comprehensive Rhinoplasty

2:00 pm
Malcolm Paul – Sub-Soof Vertical Cheek Lift / Contemporary Midface Lifting

2:30 pm
Malcolm Paul – Modified Gliding Browlift / A Subcutaneous Browlift

3:00 pm
Frank Lista – How to Deal with the Unhappy Patient

3:30 pm
John Henry Pang – Gender Affirming Vaginoplasty

4:00 pm
Angela Pratt – Cosmetic Female Rejuvenation

4:15 pm
Adjournment and Cocktails in Exhibit Area

5:30 pm
Ho’okipa Celebration Welcome Dinner in the Ballroom

Day 2 – Sunday, January 19, 2025

7:00-8:00 am
Registration, Continental Breakfast & Visit Exhibits

7:30 am
Breakfast with Melvin Spira (video recording)

8:00 am
Michael B. Gellis – Never Let a Good Deed Go Unpunished and other Short Stories

9:00 am
Frank Lista, (Toronto, Canada) – Optimism Bias – How Surgeons Make Mistakes

9:30 am
Ash Ghavami – S-Curve Buttock Shaping: The Newest State of the Art

10:00 am
Christopher Costa – Management of BBL Complications and How To Avoid Them

10:30 am
Michel Alain Danino, (Montreal, Canada) – Innovative Knowledge Transfer Model: DIEP Technique in Martinique French West Indies

11:00 am
Etienne Briand, (Martinique, France) – My Vertical Technique for Management of Breast Ptosis

11:30 am
Yoshiko Iwahira, (Tokyo, Japan) – Long-Term Follow-Up of Breast Reconstruction: Japan Experience

12:00 pm
Lunch Break and Visit Exhibits

1:00 pm
John Henry Pang – Gender Affirming Facial Surgery

1:30 pm
Milas Pfaff – Facial Feminization Surgery: Techniques and Outcomes

2:00 pm
Peter Deptula – Autologous Fat Grafting: Applications in Hand Surgery

2:30 pm
Andrew T. Cohen – Arm Lift- Posterior Arm Incision-

2:45 pm
Daniel Murariu – Robotics in Plastic Surgery – The Hawaii Experience

3:30 pm
Heather Zimmerman – Facts and Fallacies of Factors that Affect Healing

3:40 pm
Heather Zimmerman and Simon Ivey – Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia after Coolsculpting

3:50 pm
Justin Wong and Yujin Na – Evolving Towards a Non-Opioid Culture

4:00 pm
Justin Wong – Opioid Prescription Trends and Abuse in Hawaii and the US

4:15 pm
Yujin Na – The Paradox of Opioids

4:30 pm
Ana Danko – Factors Impacting Healing

4:40 pm
Dylan Singh, Ana Danko, Yujin Na, F.D. Parsa – Shaping Medical Students Perception of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

5:00 pm
Adjournment