16th Global Conference on
Plastic Surgery and Therapy

Dr. William Rassman trained at the Medical College of Virginia and University of Minnesota, Cornell and Dartmouth Medical Centers. He obtained a cardiovascular fellowship with the man who invented modern heart surgery. He is a professional inventor who holds over 4 dozen patents including much of the technology that led to the commercialization of the Intra-aortic Balloon pump, the standard heart assist pump used today worldwide today. His patents extend from medical devices to computer software. Dr. Rassman founded the New Hair Institute (NHI) in 1991, and changed the Standard of Care in hair transplantation. He published new techniques in the field, pioneering small grafts in large sessions of up to 5000 grafts in a single session by 1994, the Follicular Unit Transplant (1995) and Follicular Unit Excision (FUE) publishing the seminal article for the field in 2002, the surgery that has now again become a new Standard of Care surgery for the field. In 2003, he developed a patent for the hair transplant robot and licensed Restoration Robotics to build the ARTAS robotic hair transplant system. His recent interest extends into the field of biotechnology creating a ‘Lab-on-a-chip' the size of a Credit-Card capable of testing up to 1000 laboratory tests in under 15 minutes on a drop of blood. He has published 90 articles, wrote chapters in cardiac and hair transplant textbooks, is the winner of the Golden Follicle Award from the ISHRS in 2003, lifetime achievement awards in 2019 by the European and Laten American Societies, published extensively defining Scalp Micropigmentation use in the hair restoration field and he is the primary author of Hair Loss and Replacement for Dummies.

Most recently he has submitted patents for a new treatment for hair loss and automation tools for FUE to once again change the field.

I was graduated as medical doctor at Miguel Hernandez University in Elche (Spain), and subsequently, I developed my career in dermatology in Malaga (Spain). I started my experience in aesthetics (my great passion) in Grupo Pedro Jaen Clinic in 2006. Nowadays, I am head of dermatology area at Sanchinarro University HM Hospital and medical director at Dorsia clinics.

I was graduated as medical doctor at Zaragoza University (Spain), and subsequently, I developed my career as plastic surgeon at Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza (Spain), where I also work as anaesthetist. I started my experience in cosmetic surgery at plastic and severe burns unit in 1996. Nowadays, I am plastic surgeon in Dorsia Clinic.

Gottfried Lemperle, born on 17.12.1936 in Berlin. Medical studies in Tübingen, Innsbruck, Berlin and Kiel 1955-1960. doctorate 1960. general surgical training at Freiburg University Hospital 1961-1971. Immunology fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, USA 1964-1966. Chief of experimental surgery in Freiburg 1966-1971. 1st prize of the Amer. Soc. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 1969. Surgical Boards 1970. Training in plastic surgery at the Markus Hospital in Frankfurt/Main 1971-1977. Thesis on the immune system in severely burned patients 1974. Plastic Surgery Boards 1978. Associate Professor at the University of Frankfurt/Main 1974-1998. Chief of Plastic Surgery at Markus Hospital 1978-1994. Attending physician at the Frankfurt Clinic 1994-1998. Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of California, San Diego 1998-2013. Chairman of the Taunus Music School 1973-1978, Chairman of the Works Council at Markus-Hospital 1976-1978. Member of the Board of German Plastic Surgeons 1975-1990, President of the Association of German Plastic Surgeons 1985-1988. Winner of the 3rd Senior World Cup of Windsurfers 1981 in Cebu, Philippines. Founder of Interplast-Germany 1979 and its chairman until 1990, founder of the 2nd Interplast-Hospital in Nepal 1997, and the 4th Interplast-Hospital in Goma, Congo 2021. More than 40 Interplast missions worldwide. Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class 1997. Pro-Sina-Award for Breast Reconstruction 2000, Herbert-Höhler-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aesthetic Surgery 2005. Dieffenbach-Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2010. Master of the DeTao Masters Academy, Beijing 2011. Honorary Member of Interplast-Germany e.V. 1996; of the German Soc..Plast. Reconstr. Aesthet. Surg. 2012, the Dalmatian-Dt. Ges. Plast. Rekonstr. Chir. 2017, and the German Soc. Ästhet. Plast. Surg. 2017. Most Referenced Article in 50 years APS journal, 2020. Best Paper Gold Award 2020 of Plast.Reconstr.Surg. Global Open (journal). Chief Scientific Officer of Artes Medical, Inc. San Diego, CA 1999-2006; Chief Medical Officer of Hafod Bioscience B.V., Guangzhou, China since 2002, Chief Scientific Officer of AscentX Medical, Inc. San Diego CA since 2009. On the Supervisory Board of Lavenir Bioscience AG, Hamburg since 2018, and Formmed AG, Frankfurt since 2018. Organizer of 5 International Congresses, Chairman at 32 Symposia and Congresses, Editor of 5 plastic surgery books, Author of 22 book chapters, of 12 scientific films and videos, and of >250 scientific publications and >450 lectures. Retired in Frankfurt am Main since 2013, married with 5 children.