Voting is now open for the British Society of Facial Plastic Surgery 2023 presidential election to determine the next president-elect of BSFPS. We are looking for an established NHS consultant surgeon with known experience and a track record of teaching, training and research in Septorhinoplasty and facial plastic surgery.

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Established practitioner scheme has been very popular and the deadline for applications has been extended from December 2022 to August 2023.

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SADIE KHWAJA

BSFPS COMS LEAD

Happy Xmas and a prosperous 2023 to all BSFPS members. It will be a slightly Northern theme this year following the success of our London meeting in Oct 2022. 

I am delighted in welcoming our new reps and committee members. 

2023 will be a busy year. I hope you can join us for the facial plastic section of BACO in Feb in Birmingham.

As we return to our practises post covid, why not get updated and  refreshed on your surgical techniques. 

In May 22nd-24th we will be running our popular hands on cadaveric course in Nottingham.

Finally our AGM will be in Manchester on Oct.12-13th. The theme will be ' how to Develop your practise ' LA techniques, writing business cases and international speakers sharing their knowledge and experience.

Please save the dates in your diary. Links to register will follow shortly.

The Junior section continues to build and we are keen to be the port of call for all trainees who wish to pursue a career in Facialplastic surgery. 

Our goals for 2023 will be to develop patient leaflets for our patients.

We already a library of e learning. We will continue to build on new techniques and procedures. 

Sadie 

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the results of our voting of the BSFPS office bearers ( for regional representatives, secretary and treasurer positions)

I would like to thank all the members who where keen to contribute to the growth of our organisation.

We have the following colleagues appointed to the BSFPS.  With these appointments, our council and regional reps positions are complete and we will update the data on our ENTUK/BSFPS site. 

• Mr Ashok Rokade--BSFPS Secretary
• Ms Nadia Ashraf --BSFPS Treasurer
• Mr Nicholas Calder --Regional rep for Scotland
• Ms Siew Keh --Regional rep for Scotland
• Mr Ben Stew -- Regional rep for Wales
• Ms Sharinie Yapa -- Regional rep for York
• Ms Caroline Smith - Regional rep for Northern Ireland

Many congratulations and looking forward to work with you all over the next 2 years of my tenure. I will constantly updates any developments happening. I would like to actively involve the regional reps in teaching and training initiatives. I am very welcome to any new ideas or initiatives which can be useful for the organisation. Appreciate if you can update me on any issues.

The tenure  will be staring from January 2023 for three years till December 2025. After discussing with the compliance team of ENT-UK, I would like to confirm that we will  also be extending the tenure of the current office bearers till December 2025 for ease of administration. So, apart form the president  election (which is for two years only), all other office bearers election will be due to be advertised only end of 2025.

Kind regrads,

Mr Balaji, President BSFPS

Speaker: Garyfalia Lekakis

Moderator: Munish Shandilya

Speaker: Nadia Ashraf

Moderator: Baskaran Ranganathan

Day 3: Friday 17^th February 2023

9.15 AM - 10.00 AM |Friday 17th Feb 2023

“Keynote” Lecture by Philio Lekakis

11.15 AM - 12.15 PM |Friday 17th Feb 2023

Advanced Update – "Advances in Facial Plastics"

Speakers:

1. Kristian Hutson

“Advances in Auricular reconstruction / DCELL tissue dermis”

2. Jose Cardoso

“Advances in Facelift surgery“

3. Ullas Raghavan

“New look at the old valve”

4. Munish Shandilya

“Mandatory Psychiatric Evaluation in Rhinoplasty”

Moderator: Sadie Khwaja

4.30 AM - 5.00 PM |Friday 17th Feb 2023

Instructional Session 5 – "Regional blocks in facial plastic surgery"

Speaker: Pei Pei Cheang

Moderator: Samit Unadkat

5.00 AM - 5.30 PM |Friday 17th Feb 2023

Instructional Session 3 – "Non-surgical facial rejuvenation"

Speaker: Bhaskar ram

Moderator: Anil Joshi

The British Society of Facial Plastics Surgery (BSFPS) Annual Meeting 2022 Juniors Forum was held face-to-face on the 6th of October 2022 at the Hallam Conference Centre in London, UK. It was well attended by trainees and experienced surgeons with an interest in facial plastic surgery from the UK and internationally. The forum was opened with a warm welcome by BSFPS President Mr. Natarajan Balaji. Attendee were treated to a wide range of high value topics in facial plastic surgery including ‘Nasal reconstruction techniques’ by Mr. Baskaran Ranganathan to ‘Cutaneous Malignancies’ by Miss Sadie Khwaja. The sessions were expertly moderated by Mr. Raj Bhalla and Prof. Anshul Sama who were able to draw out pertinent insights and stimulate active discussions with trainees. Trainees also had the opportunity to present and share their work on facial plastics projects during the free paper presentations segment. The day concluded with a mock viva session for candidates of the FRCS(ORL-HNS) exit examination. Overall, the BSFPS annual meeting continues to deliver as the pre-eminent meeting in facial plastics surgery in the UK and we look forward to seeing you in the BSFPS Annual Meeting 2023 in Manchester!