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IVth WORLD CONGRESS OF PLASTIC SURGEONS OF LEBANESE DESCENT
April 20-23, 2017, Săo Paulo, Brazil
Since its founding in 2010, the Association of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent – APSLD has grown steadily and is preparing to hold its IVth Congress in Săo Paulo, Brazil in April 2017. The inaugural Congress was held in Beirut in 2010, the second in Cancun in 2012, and the third in Beirut again in 2014. It was decided then to hold the forth congress in 2017 in order to avoid conflict with ISAPS biannual congresses. APSLD congresses will continue to be held biannually. The fifth will be in 2019 in Beirut. Photo Gallery of all APSLD congresses can be viewed at the following link: ht tps ://onedrive . l ive .com/redir?res id=28541A1CEA8DBB24!104&authkey=!AGGCgt2KDX3XZes&ithint=folder%2c
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RICARDO BAROUDI – Brazil Honorary President (for life) [email protected]
BISHARA ATIYEH – Lebanon President
FABIO NAHAS – Brazil General Secreatry
GEORGE BITAR – USA Secretary for North America
ROMEU FADUL – Brazil Secretary for Latin America
NICOLAS CHAMI – Switzerland Secretary for Europe
N A T I O N A L R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S
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Dina HELOU [email protected]
ITALY
Richard MOUFARREGE [email protected]
CANADA
Kemil ISSA [email protected]
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Jose Luis HADDAD TAME [email protected]
MEXICO
Kevin MALOUF [email protected]
GUATEMALA
Roberto BITAR [email protected]
ECUADOR
Marwan ABBOUD [email protected]
BELGIUM
Carlos JURI [email protected]
ARGENTINA
Jose ZARHI [email protected]
CHILE
Ghassan SAID [email protected]
RUSSIA NORDIC &
BALTIC STATES
International Lebanese Medical Association – ILMA The International Lebanese Medical Association – ILMA is a non-political, non-denominational association of Lebanese Medical societies throughout the world who have common ideas and objectives, that has been formed to promote these beliefs and goals at the National and International level and in particular within Lebanon. IMLA was established following initial discussions which originated in 2012 between National medical associations of Australia, Belgium, Brazil and the USA. These talks involved the founding member of ILMA: Drs Toufic Sleiman from Brazil, Prof Ray Hachem from The USA, Dr Elie Chelala from Belgium and Dr Walid Ahmar from Australia. In 2014 they were joined by Prof Jean Ayoubi from the French Lebanese Medical Association.
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The Association of Plastic Surgeons of L e b a n e s e D e s c e n t ( A P S L D ) i n association with the Lebanese Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery (LSPRAS) and the International Lebanese Medical Association (ILMA), Brazil Section, has the pleasure to invite all Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons whether of Lebanese descent or not to attend and actively participate in its 4th World Congress in São Paulo on April 20-23, 2017. Over 3 consecutive days, guest lecturers, speakers, and participants will have the opportunity to exchange knowledge, experience, innovative ideas and techniques of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, and above all friendship. In addition to the scientific program, participants will have a taste of Lebanese hospitality with a colorful Brazilian enthusiastic twist. Those who have attended the 1st and 3rd Congresses in Beirut in 2010 and 2014 as well as the 2nd Congress in Cancun in 2012 will certainly be witnesses to the quality of APSLD events.
Local Hosts: Fabio Nahas Romeu Fadul
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L E B A N E S E S O C I E T Y O F P L A S T I C RECONSTRUCTIVE & AESTHETIC SURGERY
Members of the Lebanese Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery are well positioned to be leaders of our specialty not only in Lebanon but in the region as a whole. Since its founding 50 years ago, LSPRAS has organized numerous high level scientific meetings that have attracted many regional and international participants. It has also strengthened its association to international plastic surgery societies a n d o r g a n i z a t i o n s s u c h a s t h e International Confederation of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (IPRAS), International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), Pan Arab Association for Burns and Plastic Surgery (PABPS), Euro-Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters (MBC), European Association of Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (EASAPS). Recently, it became an ISAPS Global Alliance Partner and joined the International Confederation of Plastic S u r g e r y S o c i e t i e s ( I C O P L A S T ) . Moreover, it maintains privileged ties with the French and Brazilian Plastic Surgery societies. No doubt, the founding of APSLD was the greatest achievement of LSPRAS.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 29-30/04/1966: Journées de Printemps de la Société Française de Chirurgie Plastique et Reconstructive 22/05/1993: Symposium on Burns 21-24/03/1996: The Third Pan Arab Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burns 13-14/04/1998: Le Deuxième Congrés Francophone de Chirurgie Esthétique 25/04/1998: Update on Microsurgical Free Tissue Transfer and Replantation Surgery in Lebanon 26-29/08/1999: The First Lebanese-Brazilian Plastic Surgery Meeting 19-21/04/2001: ISAPS Post-Graduate Course "New century, New Image" 11-12/11/2005: Bassil Fuleihan Seminar for Burns – State of the Art in Burn Treatment 10-12/10/2008: ISAPS – Beirut Post-Graduate Course “Beauty Art & Science” 18/10/2008: MBC Instructional Course: Burns, Pathology and Management 21/03/2009: Wound Healing: Update on Best Clinical Practice 10/10/2009: Wound Care Seminar 14-17/10/2010: Ist World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent 25-27/11/2011: ISAPS Course Body Contouring Conference and Live Surgery 10-13/10/2012: IInd World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent. Cancun, Mexico 15-16/06/2013: First Lebanese Hand and Upper Arm Surgery and Rehabilitation Meeting 23-26/10/2014: IIIrd World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent 26-28/04/2016: LSPRAS 50th Anniversary Conference, 19th MBC Meeting, 10th IAHM Conference
Based on a Fluorite crystal this spectacular Model is the feature of the main entrance For the IVth World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent, the APSLD invite you to experience inviting, beautifully decorated accommodation and unparalleled personal service at Maksoud Plaza São Paulo Hotel. The Maksoud Plaza is a different kind of São Paulo, Brazil hotel. It is not a deluxe hotel for the sake of luxuriousness, but for the quality of services and the pleasant - even zestful - comfort inherent in all rooms, suites and social areas. At the Maksoud Plaza, the engineering details, the inspiring architecture and the artistry of our surroundings are unparalleled. The five-star rating is also apparent in the state-of-the-art-technology and guest amenities. All features are designed to ensure the pleasure, well-being and satisfaction of business and leisure mmmm
travelers. While the hotel staff is committed to serve all guests who visit the restaurants, bars, shops, event areas and theatre, their dedication to guests of the hotel is a hallmark of the Maksoud Plaza five-star experience.
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MAKSOUD PLAZA – SÃO PAULO VENUE OF THE IVTH APSLD CONGRES
Participating in 1922 in the celebrations surrounding the centennial of Brazil’s independence, leaders of the Syrian-Lebanese community commissioned Ettore Ximenes, a renowned Italian sculptor whose work was associated with Brazil ian nationalism, to build a monument celebrating the community’s contribution to Bazilian culture and prosperity. The monument was placed in Săo Paulo’s Parque Dom Pedro II, the most prestigious government area in Brazil’s largest city. For everyone involved, a monument by Ximeres in that location represented the pinacle of achievement.
The public dedication of “Amizade Syrio-Libanesa” took place in 1928. The ceremony opened in the name of the President of Brazil, celebrated “ the traditional friendship that unites the hardworking Syrian-Lebanese community to the Brazilian people”, and included a parade by 2,000 soldiers. Nagib Jafet, an industrialist who was vice-president of the commission, hammered a key point in his address as he sought to celebrate primordial ancestry creating power in the present. The Phoenicians, he reminded the crowd, were “the fathers of colonizers who came later, the Greek, the Roman, the Portuguese, the Spaniard and the English”. Syrian and Lebanese immigrants and their descendants were the real founders of Brazil. The monument is a 50-foot tower of bronze and granite. At the top are three life-sized figures. One figure is a woman that represents the Brazilian Republic. Another is an Arab maiden and the third is an indigenous Brazilian warrior. The base of the statue has three corresponding sides, each with a relief denoting some Syrian-Lebanese contribution to world s e t t l e m e n t . O n e s i d e s h o w s t h e Phoenicians as pioneers of navigation and exploration. Another side contains Haitam the First’s discovery of the Canary Islands and his teaching of the alphabet. The last s ide depicts the symbol of Arab penetration in Brazil, represented by commerce and prosperity. There is a lot of symbolism and legends monument that is very interesting.
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Monumento Amizade Sírio-Libanesa
in this monument that is very interesting. The particular statue at the top of the monument carries a trinity of meaning with the female representing the Brazilian Republic, whose glory is the glory of the Brazilian fatherland. She faces the Arab maiden who offers a gift to her Brazilian brother, the indigenous warrior with the same love with which she was welcomed upon arrival in a land blessed by God. A famous poem is also written on the base of this statue, further interpreting what it stands for. The message of the poem is clear: Arab greatness has changed the world, even allowing Brazil to have been discovered and helped to prosper. The poem’s writer, Elias Farhat, who would later become world famous for his Arabic writings, communicates that Arabs were a part of the colonization of Brazil, and because of the “brotherly” relationship between the figures at the top of the statue, the Syrian-Lebanese community has became biologically Brazilian. The poem is written in Arabic and Portuguese and is said to have transformed the Middle East into a region of mobile culture and religious strength. Arabs were at the heart of the settling of Brazil, so the writer wants to prove, and have increased the stature of the country by their prosperity and contributions. By passing on such legends, the Syrian-Lebanese in Brazil are able to claim more of a heritage. The statue carries a trinity of meaning with the female representing the Brazilian Republic, whose glory is the glory of the Brazilian fatherland. She faces the Arab maiden who offers a gift to her Brazilian brother, the indigenous warrior with the same love with which she was welcomed upon arrival in a land blessed by God. Participating in 1922 in the celebrations surrounding the centennial of Brazil’s independence, leaders of the Syrian-Lebanese community commissioned Ettore Ximenes, a renowned Italian sculptor whose work was associated with Brazil ian nationalism, to build a monument celebrating the community’s contribution to Bazilian culture and prosperity. The monument was placed in Săo Paulo’s Parque Dom Pedro II, the most prestigious government area in Brazil’s largest city. For everyone involved, a monument by Ximeres in that location represented the pinacle of achievement.
welcomed upon arrival in a land blessed by God. By asserting that the three figures at the top of the monument are “brothers”, the Syrian-Lebanese community became biologically Brazilian.
Statue at the top of the monument
Haitam the First’s discovery of the Canary Islands and his teaching of the
alphabet
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It’s very difficult to keep track of Lebanese immigrants in Brazil. Lebanese are present across Brazil, but most chose to settle in São Paulo because it was the business hub of the country. The history of Lebanese immigration to Brazil is tightly linked to Rua de 25 de Março in downtown São Paulo. Unlike other immigrants, the newly-arrived Syrians and Lebanese rarely toiled as paid laborers on coffee plantations or rubber farms. As early as 1870 Levantine immigrants started as peddlers or small s h o p o w n e r s , r i s i n g t o s m a l l manufacturers during the early 1900s. Rua de 25 de Março continues to host old shops managed by second and third-generation Lebanese. Several streets around Rua de 25 de Março are named after Levantine merchants. In 1893, Syrians and Lebanese made up 90% of the peddlers in Sao Paolo's city almanac. In the 1907 edition, there were 315 businesses owned by Lebanese and Syrians specialized in clothing and dry goods. By 1920, their factories numbered 91 in Sao Paolo. They were most successful in commerce and In the state of São Paulo, they established a predominant position in textile commerce in the middle of the 20th Century. by 1930, Levantine immigrants owned 468 of the listed 800 retail stores and 67 of the 136 wholesale. By 1945, 27% of companies specializing fin spun and woven cotton, silk, rayon, wool and linen fabrics also belonged to Levantine immigrants and Rua de 25 de Março
Março became the center of the textile market in Brazil. In the next decades, Levantine immigrants accounted for 60% of wholesale textile profits in the entire country. The Jafet brothers became the most powerful Middle Easterners in Brazil at the turn of the 20th Century. After Benjamin, the eldest, was established in São Paulo Paulo, his five siblings followed suit through the 1890s. The brothers opened a wholesale textile outlet and entered the industrial sector in 1906. Their industrial complex came to employ more than 3,000 workers by the mid-1930s. Basílio Jafet took control of the family enterprises in 1923. He was nicknamed the "Rockefeller of the Lebanese in Brazil.” In the 1950, Syrian-Lebanese immigrants had the fourth-highest rate of real estate ownership among all immigrant groups in Brazil. After the 1930s, a high percentage b e c a m e re n o w n e d p ro f e s s i o n a l s ; particularly physicians, lawyers, and engineers. This became an important means of access to the political arena. At the end of the 90s there were 50 politicians of Lebanese descent across Brazil.
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THE LEBANESE IN SÃO PAULO
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HOSPITAL SÍRIO-LIBANÊS
http://www.hospitalsiriolibanes.org.br
The Hospital Sírio-Libanês (Syrian-Lebanese Hospital) is one of the most important hospitals in Brazil and South America. It is located in Bela Vista district, next to Paulista Avenue, Central Zone of São Paulo. It was founded in 1921 by the large Syrian and Lebanese community of São Paulo. It is one of the most well-known health care facilities in Brazil due to the high quality of care. A p ioneer in incorpora t ing new technology, the Sirio-Libanes Hospital occupies 80,000 m². Its has over 5,000 employees, and approximately 3,800 doctors specialized in over 40 medical areas. the Sírio-Libanês Hospital has the capacity to carry out more than 50 surgical procedures per day, around 2,000 types of diagnostic examinations and has beds for 354 people. It is a worldwide reference point in its areas of competence. Philanthropic by nature, the Sirio-Libanes Hospital is continuously expanding because it has always aimed to be a center of medical excellence, focusing on actions in the healthcare, teaching and research areas. 354
Based on a Fluorite crystal this spectacular Model is the feature of the main entrance
The “MIM” museum in Beirut is the First Minerals Museum in Lebanon and the Middle East and is the most impressive mineral museum built to date. It is a private museum in Beirut, located on the Saint-Joseph University “Campus de l’Innovation et du Sport”. Mr. Salim Edde built his private mineral collection over the past 17 years and put together one of the most spectacular displays that the mineral world has ever seen. In order to share his passion with the greatest number of people, he decided to create the mineral museum in Beirut and called it MIM. MIM gets its name from the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet, the equivalent of the Latin letter M, precisely because it is the first letter of the Arabic words for M u s e u m , M i n e r a l s a n d M i n e s . Coincidentally, the same words begin with the letter M in English and in French. The mission of the museum is to promote the historical,
historical, industrial and economic but also aesthetic aspects of mineralogy till now unknown in the world of museums, both in Lebanon and in the Middle East. The museum was officially opened On Saturday October 12, 2013. More than 1400 minerals are exhibited there, representing more than 300 different species from over 60 countries. It is now considered to be one of the world's paramount private collections for the variety and quality of its minerals. There you can discover pieces originating from a number of renowned collections -both old and more recent- as well as from the major mining discoveries of our era. A didactic circuit, accompanied by screens showing films and scientific applications of mineralogy, will reveal a world of unsuspected marvels, priceless both from an aesthetic and scientific point of view.
The entrance Hall of the MIM museum
From the main entrance, the visitor enters the galler
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THE “MIM” MUSEUM; WHEN SCIENCE AND BEAUTY SHINE TOGETHER
The gallery area through an impressive vaulted door. From now on, the visitor is placed in a dark environment, which draws attention uniquely to the minerals. Even if it might be considered as an old fashion way to present a mineral exhibit, it proved many times to be successful (the Sorbonne collection, the American Natural History Museum and our own museum have a similar feel to it). Display cases, backgrounds, ceilings and walls are black. Floor tiles are of a light grey. The lighting used is by fiber optic and spot lights from above the specimens. The atrium which connects the different parts of the museum is also a meeting place dedicated for special events. 5 columns stand there and form an ensemble that recalls the entrance of an ancient temple. They are adorned with display cases exhibiting some minerals, giving the visitor a foretaste for its visit. The wall that separates the atrium from the treasure room is named after the twentieth-century English mathematician Roger Penrose. As a glimpse to the order so present in crystals, it gives the illusion that it is in three dimensions although the tiling is bi-dimensional. In this space dedicated for educational and entertaining activities, the visitor has access to the communication of the museum using the new technology tools: giant touch screen, computers… The first room in the vault area has 9 display cases mounted on the wall, containing each a single majestic mineral, representing the 9 classes of minerals following the traditional chemical system of classification proposed by the Swedish scientist Berzelius (1779-1848): 1- elements; 2
A big screen and one of the giant I-Pad touch pads
2-sulfides and sulfosalts; 3- halides; 4-oxides, hydroxides and arsenites; 5- carbonates and nitrates; 6- borates; 7- sulfates, chromates, molybdates and tungstates; 8- phosphates, arsenates and vanadates; 9- silicates. More than 900 minerals are exhibited according to their chemical class. Visitors can admire wonders of creation that have formed without human intervention but, rather, under the sole influence of temperature, pressure and the incredibly complex work of water and especially time. 7 countries weigh in for more than half of the collection's samples, with more than a 100 pieces from each: Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Namibia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China.
State of the art display
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Ivo PITANGUY (July 5, 1926 – August 6, 2016) Ivo Pitanguy was born in 1926 in Minais Gerais, Brazil. The son of a general surgeon, he followed in his father’s footsteps. He studied at the Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati under J.J. Longacre. Soon after, Pitanguy went to France and trained under Marc Iselin; then in the United Kingdom under Sir Archibald McIndoe and Sir Harold Gillies. Upon his return to Brazil in 1953, Dr Pitanguy set up the first hand surgery service in Latin America at the 19th Infirmary at the Santa Casa General Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also became the head of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On December 17, 1961, a fire swept through a circus tent killing 503 people in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. Pitanguy was one of the few Brazilian doctors at that time with advanced training in reconstructing the skin of people who had been severely burned. He later referred to the event as life changing, as it taught him that for many, physical appearance was critical to living. Treating skin burns showed him that operations that altered a person’s appearance were not trivial pursuits; they could be curative remedies for the psyche as well as for the body. In 1960, Dr Pitanguy opened the 38th Infirmary Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Rio de Janeiro, where it continues to serve some of the country’s most disadvantaged citizens. The 38th Infirmary, in conjunction with the Clinica Ivo Pitanguy, is a Center of Excellence for the training of Brazilian and international plastic surgeons. Many APSLD members are members of Associação dos Ex-alunos do Prof. Ivo Pitanguy or have trained with him among whom are Farid Hakme, Marcelo Daher, Jose Carlos Daher, Jose Horácio Aboudib Jr., Jose Miguel Zarhi Troy, Marcelo Chemin Cury, Samir Jose de Carvalho Mauad, Raul Jose Mauad Jr., Abel Chajchir, Gustavo Chajchir, and Antonio Tomaz Marcondes Nassif, just to vvvvv
name a few. The most recent Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent graduating from Clinica Ivo Pitanguy in November 2015 are Luiggi Fayad, Samir Janne Hasbun and Javier Abdala. Currently, Alvaro Cosac Daher and Carlo Debbas, a student of Lebanese Descent graduate of the American University of Beirut, are training in Plastic Surgery at the Clinic.
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Ivo Pitanguy carrying the Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro on 5 August. He died a day later
With Carlo Debbas
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With Luiggi Fayad
With Samir Janne Hasbun
With Marcelo Daher and Alvaro Cosac Daher
With Farid Hakme
With Javier Abdala
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Ricardo Baroudi and Ivo Pitanguy
With Samer Domloge
With Jose Carlos Daher
Tomaz Nassif with students of microsurgery course at Clinica Ivo Pitanguy
With Charbel el Hachem and Raphael Zarur
With Raul Mauad
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