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Message from the President

Dear Delegates, Colleagues and Visitors,

he 8th IQUAM biannual Consensus Conference biannual this year was held as a joint meeting with the ASPS (American Society of Plastic Surgeons) as the Transatlantic Innovations Meeting to mutually exchange the latest results and scientific baselines of the newest technologies in Plastic Surgery. Together with the leading officials of the American (FDA) and European (BfArM) regulation institutions as well as manufacturing companies, technical differences, efficacy, patient safety and quality management of technologies like:

- breast implants
- permanent and non permanent dermal fillers
- face and composite tissue transplantation
- stem cell applications
- tissue engineering and
- non-invasive devices and methodologies

were discussed for three days. Summarizing the results the biannual IQUAM Consensus Declaration was prepared by the IQUAM Delegates and is communicated to medical institutions and authorities internationally. For the first time it will additionally be published in the American Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

This website has been relaunched and renamed to IQUAM-IPRAS.org demonstrating IQUAM´s defined association with IPRAS - The International Confederation of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery - clearly.

In addition to the tasks and goals IQUAM has been pursuing since its constitution to scientifically evaluate medical devices and technologies in Plastic surgery, IQUAM is stepping forward to also function as quality management tool for IPRAS. IQUAM will nevertheless maintain its independent status.

In the future IQUAM is planned to act as clearing house for quality issues and assurance for the societies that are united under the roof of IPRAS. As such IQUAM with its delegates and board members is constantly open to further development and advancements with constant maintenance of independent dedication to scientifically based quality evaluation in Plastic Surgery.

This website is under constant processing and mainly serves to provide access and information for IQUAM ongoing activities and latest results as especially the biennial published Consensus Declaration, IQUAM is committed to launch regularly after being agreed on at the Consensus Conferences.

As President of IQUAM since 2006 I take pleasure to finally present the 8th IQUAM Position Statement (see <<Archive >>) issued following the 8th Consensus Conference April 7, 2009 in Paris, France.

Please feel free to contact me for your questions and remarks at info@iquam-ipras.org.

Constance Neuhann-Lorenz, MD
President IQUAM