The 11th Congress of ESPRAS, 2009 on the scenic island of Rhodes at the Rodos Palace Resort & Convention Center from 20-26 September 2009.
ESPRAS, the European Section of IPRAS can be congratulated to its great achievements within the past couple of years: In Spain the Federal Court confirmed that Aesthetic Surgery can only be done by plastic surgeons, France increased its requirements for accreditation of outpatient centers, Denmark identified procedures which only can be done by plastic surgeons and Germany introduced a law banning advertisement for aesthetic surgery.
The recommendations of the European Parliament concerning breast implants are considered to be outstanding and many innovations in our field were introduced first in Europe. The European Boards in Plastic Surgery have been institutionalised before many other fields started to work on the European exam.
IPRAS does and will even more benefit from this progress in the future. Since the International Society of Burn Treatment decided to join IPRAS as a coopted society, the number of individual members of IPRAS comes close to a 100.000. The number of Board certified plastic surgeons in the world has increased to 21.500.
For more information please visit www.espras.org. ESPRAS 2009 is followed by ISAPS Instructional COURSE 2009
September, 26-27 2009.
