A welcome letter from Birgit Stark

ESAPS President

We are delighted to invite all plastic surgeons on September 12th – 14th 2024 to the EASAPS/ESAPS meeting in Göteborg/Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. We extend a warm welcome to all of you, whether you are starting your career or are an experienced plastic surgeon working in solo or group practice, in a public or university hospital. Recent years of digital events have shown that we need to meet physically for promotion of the European spirit and diversity and to strengthen our European network and specialty. We would especially like to invite and welcome our younger colleagues to join us at the meeting. In times of shifting content and priorities of aesthetic plastic surgery training across European countries, we strongly believe that this event provides additional modern education in the field...

Dr. Carlos Parreira kindly handed the governing responsibilities of ESAPS/EASAPS over to me after approval by the general assembly in Lisbon 2022. To serve European aesthetic societies (EASAPS) as well as individual plastic surgeons (ESAPS) is a great honor but also a challenge. Together with past president Ivar van Heijningen, immediate past president Carlos Parreira and president elect Michel Rouif, we discussed and defined the future path for ESAPS/EASAPS some years ago and our thoughts are well documented in the “long term vision” document.

The next years to come will therefore follow a logical and sequential pathway. During my term 2022 -2024, I will humbly serve to promote our core values so well defined by dedicated and hardworking earlier leaders and individuals of our Society. Together with my team, we will focus on creating value for individual members and societies by promoting Aesthetic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as one united speciality. In my view, we should bridge the gap between academic reconstructive plastic surgery and aesthetic surgery for the benefit of patients. Understanding and mutual respect for both medical fields can help to improve patients’ outcomes by improved systematic and comprehensive education of young colleagues. It is therefore a pleasure to work on standards for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery training and present regular educational events in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Preparation of the scientific programme of the next biennial meeting in Göteborg, April 24 has already been undertaken.

In addition, we offer the excellent “Patient Safety Handbook” edited by Dr. Jesús Benito Ruiz and his team and are preparing a database for relevant scientific publications. Updates on Public Hearings, CEN communications, Medical Device Regulations and interactions with media will be communicated in our newsletters and presidential retreats. Internally, we have much work to do to improve the ESAPS administrative structure and define an internal code of conduct with a background of clear governance definitions and structure. We are expecting interesting discussions and regular interactions with our industry partners with a common endpoint of promoting and improving patient safety.

My primary function will be to orchestrate all committees within a democratic environment and spirit to end up with a well performing symphony without dissonances. I value the input and contributions of all aesthetic plastic surgeons in Europe. ESAPS and EASAPS have no future without your valuable confidence in my intentions and aspirations and those of our fantastic colleagues in different committees serving our specialty of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Sincerely,
Birgit Stark
President

Registration fees

All prices are in Euro, VAT Exclusive

The registration fees cover your access to the scientific sessions, congress material, access to the exhibit hall, coffee breaks,
lunches, as well as the get together cocktail on September 12th.

CATEGORIES	EARLY FROM 1.3.2024 TO 31.5.2024	REGULAR FROM 1.6.2024 TO 31.7.2024	LATE FROM 1.8.2024 TO 2.9.2024	ON SITE FROM 3.9.2024
ESAPS members	€ 480	€ 530	€ 580	€ 680
EASAPS National Society members	€ 580	€ 630	€ 680	€ 780
Regular non-member plastic surgeon	€ 680	€ 730	€ 730	€ 880
Resident registration	€ 320	€ 350	€ 370	€ 470
Nurse registration	€ 320	€ 350	€ 370	€ 470
Day registration EASAPS members	€ 175/day	€ 200/day	€ 225/day	€ 250/day
Day registration EASAPS NS members	€ 200/day	€ 225/day	€ 250/day	€ 275/day
Day registration non-member Plast.Sur.	€ 250/day	€ 275/day	€ 300/day	€ 325/day
Day registration resident	€ 150	€ 175	€ 200	€ 225
Day registration nurse	€ 150	€ 175	€ 200	€ 225
Sponsor delegate (with a booth)	€ 600	€ 650	€ 700	€ 750
Industry without any booth / person	€ 1500	€ 1600	€ 1700	€ 2000
Workshop 1	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50
Workshop 2	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50
Get together for accompanying person	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50	€ 50
Congress Dinner Thursday Sep 13th	€ 100/ppp	€ 100/ppp	€ 100/ppp	€ 100/ppp

ONLINE REGISTRATION
EASAPS NS members / ESAPS members	€ 580	€ 630	€ 680	€ 780
Non Member Plast.Sur. registration fee	€ 680	€ 730	€ 730	€ 880
Residents / nurse registration	€ 320	€ 350	€ 370	€ 470