2023 Speakers

Guest Faculty

William P. Adams Jr.

William P. Adams Jr. MD
Immediate Past President The Aesthetic Society
Past President Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF)
Program Director UT Southwestern Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship
Associate Professor UT Southwestern Dept. of Plastic Surgery

Dr. Adams maintains a private practice in plastic surgery in Dallas, TX., and also serves as an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He is the program director of the UT Southwestern Aesthetic Fellowship, and Immediate Past President of The Aesthetic Society and Past President of Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation (ASERF).

Dr. Adams is an international authority on breast surgery/augmentation, breast implants technology including new generation devices, and soft tissue support materials, capsular contracture, and breast implant associated ALCL. He has developed new techniques for use in clinical breast implant surgery that has made breast augmentation / enlargement and breast reconstruction safer for patients. He also recently opened AYA Dallas Medical spa in Snider Plaza next to his medical office, and serves as AYAY medical director.

Dr Adams recently in 2019 completed the 2nd edition of the worlds’ only Breast Augmentation Atlas to further educate surgeons on breast augmentation surgery.

In 2009, he founded and currently serves as the CEO / President and Chief Medical Officer of The Plastic Surgery Channel, a multi-media company. The channel specializes in high quality doctor delivered programming in plastic surgery, and creates a novel media voice to the public.

Dr. Adams was named the #1 Breast Augmentation Surgeon for 2021 and 2022 by Newsweek/ Statista. He was presented the Aesthetic Society President’s Recognition Award in 2019, 2017 ASAPS Special Educator Award and the 2017 Simon Fredericks Award for best panelist at the ASAPS annual meeting. He received the teaching Award in 2005 in the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern and received the Faculty Excellence Award in 2001, and was named Department of Plastic Surgery Clinician of the Year in 1998 and 2019.

M. Bradley Calobrace

M. Bradley Calobrace MD
Private Practice, CaloAesthetics Plastic Surgery and CaloSpa Rejuvenation Center
Clinical Faculty, Dept of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Clinical Faculty, Dept of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Traveling Professor, Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons
Member-at-large, Board of Directors, The Aesthetic Society
Co-chair, Aesthetic Training Committee, The Aesthetic Society
Co-chair, Breast Emergency Response Group, The Aesthetic Society
Co-chair, Aesthetic Breast Section of Plastic Surgery The Meeting, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Chair, Beauty Through Science New York
Co-Chair, Beauty Through Science, Stockholm

Dr. Calobrace is a graduate of Indiana University Medical School and
completed residencies in both General Surgery and Plastic Surgery at the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he
completed a cosmetic and breast surgery fellowship with Dr. G. Patrick
Maxwell and began practice in Louisville, Kentucky in 1997. He has dual
clinical faculty appointments with the Departments of Plastic Surgery, at
the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky and received
teaching honors in 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. Dr. Calobrace
also is the director of his Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship endorsed by ASAPS
(Aesthetic Society for Plastic Surgery).

Dr. Calobrace is an internationally and nationally-recognized leader in
aesthetic breast surgery, has participated in multiple FDA clinical breast
studies and has been a consultant and speaker for Allergan, Mentor,
Galatea, SIA, Evolus, Revance and Sientra. He also performed live surgery
at the 2009, 2014, 2016 and 2019 Atlanta Breast Symposium, 2018 Advanced
Aesthetics Meeting in St Petersburg Russia, and SOS/ISAPS Meeting in
Vienna, Austria in 2021 and the 2023 Baker-Gordon Meeting in Miami. He
co-authored the 10-year clinical FDA trials for Sientra and Mentor.
Recently, his publication in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal entitled, “The
Safety of Smooth and Textured Silicone Breast Implants” was the recipient
of the Best Journal Article Paper award for ASJ 2018. Dr.
Calobrace also received the prestigious ASAPS 2018 Scott Spears Award for
Best Lecture on Breast Surgery. In 2020, he published a textbook on
Augmentation Mastopexy published by Springer and a video series on “Options
in Mastopexy” with QMP Publishing.

Dr. Calobrace began the Beauty Through Science New York meeting in 2022.
This meeting and the Beauty Through Science Stockholm is an amazing
collaboration between Dr. Calobrace and Dr. Per Heden, committed to
bringing together the world’s greatest educators in Surgical and
Non-surgical Aesthetic Medicine, setting a new standard in aesthetic
education.

Dr. Calobrace is traveling professor for the Southeastern Society of
Plastic Surgeons.. He also co-chairs the Aesthetic Training Program
Committee and Breast Emergency Response Workgroup Committee and on the
Board of Directors of the Aesthetic Society. He also serves as a clinical
editor for the Aesthetic Surgery Journal.

Charles Guertin MD
Montreal Quebec
CSAPS President

Melinda J Haws

Melinda J Haws MD FACS
Private Practice Nashville Tennessee
President Elect of The Aesthetic Society
Clinical Assistant Professor Plastic Surgery Vanderbilt University

Melinda Haws is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons as well as President Elect of The Aesthetic Society (The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery)

Dr. Haws received her medical degree from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1991, In her residency training, Dr. Haws completed a six-year combined general surgery/plastic surgery residency at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois. From there she did a six-month breast and aesthetic fellowship with Nashville Plastic Surgery with Dr Pat Maxwell, Dr Jack Fisher and her future partner. Dr Mary Gingrass. After working as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine for four years, Dr. Haws returned to Nashville in the spring of 2002 to join her best friend, Dr. Mary Gingrass, in practice and they are still in practice together today. Dr Haws currently focuses her practice on Aesthetic breast and body contouring and was recently a clinical investigator in the ASERF systemic symptoms study.

Foad Nahai

Foad Nahai MD FACS FRCS (Hon)
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Professor Emory University Atlanta
Diplomate and Former Director, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Past President, The Aesthetic Society, AAAASF, ISAPS
Former Chairman, Plastic Surgery Research Council
Former Maurice J. Jurkiewicz Chair in Plastic Surgery Emory University
Editor in Chief, Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Foad Nahai is the former Maurice J. Jurkiewicz chair in Plastic Surgery and Professor of Surgery at the Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the editor-in-chief of Aesthetic Surgery Journal and the past president of several organizations including the American Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the International Society of Plastic Surgery and Chairman of the Plastic Surgery Research Council. Professor Nahai has published over 260 peer reviewed articles, edited or co-edited 14 textbooks, covering all aspects of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery.

Professor Nahai is internationally recognized as an innovator in the field of plastic surgery, where he has developed and refined many aesthetic and reconstructive procedures. He has been honored by numerous organizations worldwide including Honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Thailand.

Rod J. Rohrich MD
Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery-Baylor College of Medicine
Past Chair/Distinguished Teaching Professor of Plastic Surgery-UTSW
Founding Partner-Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute

Dr. Rod J. Rohrich is an internationally known, highly respected and skilled plastic surgeon with a global clinical practice at Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute in Dallas, Texas. He has been honored by his peers as one of the most influential physicians and plastic surgeons in this century. He is a world expert in rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, facelift and revision facelift surgery as well as all aspects of facial rejuvenation. Dr Rohrich is also a global expert in the science of aging as he described the facial fat compartments which are the hallmark of how humans age. He has developed multiple innovative techniques and technology to advance both patient safety and outcomes as well as the science of how to reverse facial aging in a natural manner.

Dr. Rohrich also serves as a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is a past professor/chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern and is the first plastic surgeon to be appointed a Distinguished Teaching Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He chaired most of the prestigious plastic surgery organizations in the country including serving as President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the largest organization of board certified plastic surgeons in the world. He has received numerous honors and awards in plastic and cosmetic surgery, both nationally and internationally. As Editor-in-Chief of PRS, he transformed it into the best and most respected peer reviewed journal worldwide in plastic surgery. He now serves as Editor Emeritus of PRS and is Founding Editor/Editor Emeritus of the first open access peer reviewed plastic surgery journal in North America – PRS Global Open.

He has authored over a thousand innovative academic peer reviewed publications in the field of plastic surgery and eight textbooks on plastic surgery including the award winning Secondary Rhinoplasty by the Global Masters and most recently The Facial Danger Zones.

Dr. Rohrich is chair of the Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting which has trained over 15,000 plastic surgeons worldwide on the art and science of rhinoplasty. He is also the Founding Chair of the Dallas Cosmetic Surgery and Medicine Meeting.

Douglas S. Steinbrech MD FACS
Member-at-Large, Board of Directors, The Aesthetic Society
Vice-Chair, Program Committee, The Aesthetic Society
Vice-Chair, Education Commission, The Aesthetic Society
CEO, ALPHA Aesthetics
Gotham Plastic Surgery

Dr. Steinbrech, described by Forbes as the “Go-to surgeon for men,” is one of the nation’s most sought out experts for men’s surgery, leading the new wave of techniques in the accelerating field of men’s aesthetics. His techniques, attention to detail, and approach to cosmetic procedures have been customized to the male anatomy. Dr. Steinbrech has been recognized as being one of the top plastic surgeons for men in his field by multiple media sources such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Times, NBC & ABC.

In addition to his busy surgical practice, Dr. Steinbrech in often called upon to speak both nationally and internationally about his techniques and the unique differences he has implemented in his practice to accommodate the desires and body structures of men.

Along with an internationally respected team of physicians, Dr. Steinbrech is currently editing the first textbook focused solely men entitled Anesthetic Plastic Surgery for Men. The textbook is expected to be in circulation by Spring, 2019.

Dr. Douglas Steinbrech graduated from the University of Iowa, College of Medicine in 1994 & completed his specialty in plastic surgery at the New York University Medical Center in 2004. Dr. Steinbrech is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgeons and is very active on The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. His passion for male plastic surgery led him to establish The New York Institute of Male Plastic Surgery in early 2016, which provides an educational foundation for current and future physicians to learn about and help further this subspecialty.

James Stuzin

James Stuzin MD
Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Dr. James Stuzin is a plastic surgeon practicing in Miami, Florida. Dr. Stuzin has served as Chairman of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, President of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and as the Co-Editor of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He also serves as the Chairman of the Baker Gordon Symposium on Cosmetic Surgery.

Local Faculty

Jamil Ahmad MD FRCSC
Mississauga Ontario

Ryan E Austin MD FRCSC
Mississauga Ontario

Mitchell H Brown MD MEd FRCSC
Toronto Ontario

Julie Khanna MD FRCSC
Oakville Ontario

Frank R Lista MD FRCSC
Mississauga Ontario