EVENT: NON-SURGICAL SYMPOSIUM (NSS)

NSS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

The Non-Surgical Symposium will celebrate ten years of educational excellence at the Gold Coast event in June

The Non-Surgical Symposium (NSS) event will return on 3-5 June 2022, with an in-person ‘comeback’ event. The decision underlines the event’s commitment to education and attendee safety, both of which will be better served once restrictions have eased in 2022.

NSS Scientific Convenor Dr Naveen Somia said: “With the vast majority of attendees planning to visit the event in person this year, a large number of those would likely have been impacted by the restrictions currently in place in Australia and New Zealand. While the previous virtual NSS was a great success, we feel that shifting our focus to an in- person affair in 2022 to celebrate our ten year anniversary is the best way to deliver the NSS, and our renowned excellence in education, to the highest standard possible.”

This year marks two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, and the industry is craving the connection and sense of community that comes from in-person events. With the removal of border restriction ASAPS’s decision will ensure attendees receive the very best experience in an in-person format.

The NSS is an annual three-day conference dedicated to excellence in appearance medicine, with topics ranging from injectables to skincare, including laser and light devices, non-surgical body contouring tools, patient safety, and science. Hosted by ASAPS, the NSS will celebrate its tenth anniversary in June 2022, at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland.

The symposium provides AHPRA registered health care practitioners, including specialist plastic surgeons, dermatologists, medical practitioners, dentists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses as well as dermal therapists and practice staff, with the latest scientific research, cutting edge developments, technical expertise, and best practice advice that can’t be accessed anywhere else.

Dr Naveen Somia said, “What better way to celebrate 10 years of the ASAPS Non-Surgical Symposium. We can’t wait to see all of our attendees at NSS on 3-5 June 2022, for a comeback event that will be better than ever. Come June 2022, we strongly feel that there will be much to celebrate.”

The Non-Surgical Symposium will continue to take place at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on 3-5 June 2022.

Get to know Dr Naveen Somia, Scientific Convenor for the ASAPS Non- Surgical Symposium

Dr Naveen Somia is the immediate past president of the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), and is an experienced specialist plastic surgeon with over 15 years of experience, dedicated to achieving not only his patients’ aesthetic goals, but to becoming an informed educational leader for the aesthetic surgery industry.

Dr Somia completed his plastic surgery training in Sydney and Melbourne, before undertaking additional training in cosmetic surgery of the eyelids, face and breast at Paces Plastic Surgery, affiliated with Emory University, Atlanta USA. He has been the Scientific Convenor for the ASAPS Non Surgical Symposium meeting for the last four years.

Dr Somia and the rest of his colleagues are thrilled that the annual meeting can be reinstated ‘in person’ for its 10th anniversary and look forward to welcoming and hosting the delegates, speakers, international guests and industry partners. We are excited and grateful that our International Keynote speakers have travelled thousands of miles just to be here in person.

“The 2022 Non-Surgical Symposium will celebrate 10 years in an exciting, very new and very different new era of aesthetic medicine; where minimally invasive methods play a central role.

At the centre of this 2022 meeting will be the leading role of aesthetic education, to the very highest standard, and ASAPS’s ongoing goal of raising clinical standards of practitioners, and giving them the tools to deliver safe, effective and evidence-based successful treatments to their patients,” says Somia.

“Over the last ten years ASAPS have been on a mission of education. A mission which educates consumers to do their research, to ensure they get a better outcome, but also a continuous promise to practitioners and ASAPS members that they will forever receive only the very best in education, and this year is no exception.

“The event will host esteemed, high-calibre international and national experts in the field, who will present a wide spectrum of cutting-edge concepts in clinical practice, including in-depth talks across skin, facial specifics, body contouring, hair and even sessions on clinical practice marketing and communications, to further extend the depth of knowledge to business, as well as practice.

“There is something for everyone at this year’s Non-Surgical Symposium. Everything from aesthetics of the neck and jawline, thread lifts, filler complications, aesthetics of the lower face, updates on neurotoxins, acne management, the role of MRI and US in aesthetic medicine, skin tightening, injectables, cellulite, skin tightening, body contouring, improving skin texture and cutting edge topics like new frontiers in aesthetics followed by the great debate on the future of aesthetics.

“Our industry technology partners have been busy with research and development over the last few years, and we look forward to learning how ‘new tech’ is working hard to enhance the safety of the aesthetic industry. We are forever grateful for the commitment and contributions of the previous convenors, the organising committees and partner societies who have helped make the NSS the premier aesthetic meeting.”

NSS Keynote Speakers include:

• Kieran Bong – Scotland - Cosmetic Physician

• Richard Chaffoo – USA - Plastic Surgeon

• Mitchell Goldman – USA - Dermatologist

• Thomas Griffin – USA - Dermatologist

• John Joseph – USA - Plastic Surgeon

• Krishan Kapoor – India - Plastic Surgeon

• Stephanie Lam – Hong Kong - Plastic Surgeon

• Simon Ravichandran – Scotland - Cosmetic Physician & ENT

• Alison Telfer – USA - Nurse Practitioner

• Matteo Tretti Clemontini – Italy - Plastic Surgeon

• Steven Weiner – USA - Plastic Surgeon