24th MAFAC | Melbourne, Australia, 12 – 14 October 2022
LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE due to the two previous Courses being postponed due to Covid19 restrictions.
Event Information:
This workshop is available to qualified Plastic Surgeons and Trainees in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery currently registered in a Training Program at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).
Timings:
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Regrettably due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and border closures our upcoming Melbourne MAFAC has been cancelled. We apologise to all, in particular to delegates who have postponed their place for a second time.
Given MAFAC is renowned for its quality hands on dissection experience there is negligible benefit is producing an alternative format for our Course.
All […]
A highlight of the last MAFAC Advanced Course, in Brisbane October 2019 was the teaching of Andrew Jacono, the Prince of the Deep Plane Facelift, from New York.
The Surgical demonstration performed by Andrew, on an excellent cadaver, was outstanding. In fact, several Faculty colleagues present who had visited him in New York to observe and […]
Europe’s first professor of aesthetic plastic surgery, Prof. dr. Berend van der Lei, who is affiliated with the University Medical Centre Groningen, offered Dr. Lennert Minelli, a PhD position for the ongoing research and Dr. Bryan Mendelson to become the promotor of this PhD project.
The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) was founded in 1614 and is the […]
Local Faculty
Bryan Mendelson
The Gubener Plastinate Company near Berlin, Germany, which was founded by legendary Dr. Gunther von Hagens, is considered the world leader in the art/science of plastination. The plastinarium has accepted to work with MAFAC on the production of a series of sheet plastination slices which will […]
Prof. Hun-Mu Yang and his team, who have published the world’s leading papers on the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) for the demonstration of soft tissue organization, have accepted to work with MAFAC […]
The second part of the Tagliacozzi facial anatomy research will be conducted at the Medical Engineering Research Facility (MERF) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). This comes after the University of Melbourne’s Department of Anatomy was unable […]
Sixteen members of MAFAC presented at the first 48-hour non-stop around-the-globe fully virtual scientific conference held by ISAPS on 27-28 March 2021.
The unique ISAPS World Virtual Meeting event ran across 5 time zones, with customised regional programs. Over 48 hours, 400 expert speakers presented the latest in aesthetic education across […]
In November and December, MAFAC organised two follow-up Research Meetings. The progress of the research was discussed, and more in-depth presentations were given. Speakers included Dr. Jeremy Wilson, Dr. Andrés Freschi and Prof. Mark Ashton.
Dr. Jeremy Wilson, a plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, first presented on the biomechanics of […]
