About the Toronto Aesthetic Meeting
The Toronto Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Toronto, is celebrating its 42nd annual meeting in 2012.
The object of this meeting has always been to provide a didactic, highly interactive, congenial atmosphere, where registrants are exposed to the top aesthetic plastic surgeons on a global scale. The Toronto Aesthetic meeting is the largest plastic surgery meeting in Canada. Last year, over 200 registrants attended this program. Dr. W.R.N. (Bill) Lindsay originally developed the concept of this symposium back in 1970. Dr. Lindsay is a pioneer in aesthetic surgery, not only at the University of Toronto, but also in Canada. His original meeting was held in a small room in the basement of the Wellesley hospital in Toronto.
Over the next 20 years, Dr. Lindsay and his associate, Dr. Leith Douglas ("the Maple Leaf Plastic Surgeon") organized this meeting annually. Dr. Walter Peters joined them in 1985, taking on the role of conference chair in 1990. The meeting soon outgrew the Wellesley hospital facility and moved through various hotels in Toronto. After 21 years, Dr Peters stepped down as conference chair in 2010, and we welcome Drs Thomas Bell and Frank Lista as conference co-chairs in 2011.
Each year, the U of T Aesthetic Symposium concentrates on specific areas of current interest, where particular advances have been made. In addition to local faculty, four visiting professors have been invited to present lectures in these specific areas.
The 2012 meeting will be held at the Sutton Place Hotel, April 20-21, 2012.
The four visiting professors are:
- Fabio Nahas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Rod Rohrich, Dallas, Texas
- Anne Taylor, Columbus, Ohio
- Simeon Wall Jr, Shreveport, Louisiana
We look forward to welcoming you to Toronto this spring.
--Drs. Thomas Bell and Frank Lista
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