and cooperation of the Balkan nations who all participated in it in addition to the participants from more than thirty countries who were all satisfied with the quality of lectures, and choice of eminent lecturers. I would single out some of them such as Ives Gerard Illouz from Paris, the founder of liposuction who is also a legend of aesthetic surgery, then Luis Montellano from
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Brazil, one of the creators of the lower leg prosthesis and Markos Sforza from Brazil who gave a key lecture on the use of STEM cells in regenerative medicine, and many others. Janek Januszkiewicz from New Zealand spoke of breast reconstruction, and his colleague Rado Žic from Zagreb and Violeta Skorobać from Belgrade, Nebojša Rajačić from Kuwait and Miodrag Colić from
Belgrade talked about body contouring after great weight loss. Albin Stritar talked outstandingly about burns, Igor Smiljanić and Jelena Nikolić from Serbia spoke about perforator flaps and Goran Lazović in the capacity of the Vice President of the Congress took care of the general plastic surgery and rhinoplasty techniques along with his colleague Zambelli from Croatia. Sonja Cerovac from London was a chairperson of an exceptional session on hand surgery, as well as her colleague from Romania Dan Georgescu, while Dr. Radmilo Rončević was a doyen of craniofacial surgery. Hair transplant was covered by Dr. Gorana Kuka who spoke aboutrobot technology as well as her colleagues Marsio Crisostomo from Brazil and Mihail Skerlev from Bulgaria. The most numerous surgical team was from Turkey that was headed by Ali Barutçu and Sabri Acaturk as the founders of BAPRAS, which, this time, was the first by the number of participants. It is, of course, impossible to name all participants, who were more numerous that at any other BAPRAS congress in the past. Social spirit was very much appreciable through a rich program starting from the opening ceremony by the Mayor of Budva who also supported the ceremony financially, through the dinner for lecturers and the gala dinner for all participants to the tour of the vivid Boka Kotorska that went from Cetinje, Kotor to Sveti Stefan and the Skadar Lake. We would heartily like to thank our sponsors: X1 Medical Technologies (Cytori,Motive,Tulip), Polytech, Mentor, Allergan, MediexpertD.O.O., LipoSales, VOE, Proaesthetic, Promoitalia, Zimmer, Bioenergetic Labs
At the IPRAS booth. From the left: Dr. Kostas Manos, Greece, Dr. Toma Mugea, Romania, Prof. Andreas Yiacoumettis, Greece, Prof. Eisenmann-Klein Marita, Germany, Prof. Acaturk Sabri, Turkey, Turkey, Dimitre Evstatiev, Bulgaria, Prof. Alexandru V. Georgescu, Bulgaria, Dr. Agim Berisha, Kosovo, Dr. Miodrag Đurović, Montenegro
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