The New Zealand Institute of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery is pleased to welcome Mr Brandon Adams, FRACS, as the Institute’s 2012 Plastic Surgery Fellow. Brandon is a New Zealand trained plastic surgeon who has completed his specialist training with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and has been awarded the opportunity to undertake 6 months […]
Stephen Gilbert convened the scientific program for The International Confederation of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons on the Amalfi Coast in Italy in April this year. At this stunning location, not far from the mystical Isle of Capri and in the shadow of Mt Vesuvius on the west coast of Italy near Naples, ICAPS held one of […]
Subsequent to a recent television programme filmed in Australia it has become apparent that some women in New Zealand received PIP implants which were placed by an Auckland based GP surgeon. These implants are suggested to carry a five times higher risk of rupture. Further information on these implants can be found on the websites […]
I was recently invited to be one of two Plastic and Craniofacial Surgeons involved with the first Craniofacial mission to the southern Philippines province of Mindanao organised by Operation Smile Australia and supported by Operation Smile Philippines-Mindanao. Our objective was to work with the local Plastic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons to treat complex congenital craniofacial disorders. […]
Janek Januszkiewicz has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal. This is the most widely read international scientific journal dedicated to aesthetic surgery and is the official publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery as well as more than a dozen other national plastic or aesthetic surgery societies around […]
Janek Januszkiewicz has been invited to participate as a panellist and lecturer at the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver, May 2012 where he will speak on the topics relating to breast implant surgery. He has also been asked to contribute as a faculty member at the International Society of […]
The New Zealand institute of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery is very pleased to announce that Mr Jonathan Wheeler has joined the practice. Mr Wheeler is a New Zealand trained Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who won the Mentor Aesthetic Surgery Prize for Australia and New Zealand in 2007. He worked in Brisbane, Australia as a Fellow […]
“After completing my specialist training in Plastic Surgery I was driven to improve my knowledge and experience in the sub-specialty of Cosmetic Surgery. I was lucky enough to be taken on by Stephen, Janek and Glenn as their ‘Fellow’ (a qualified medical specialist who is undertaking further training) at the Institute where I spent the first […]
ISAPS as a global leader in plastic surgery has a commitment to patient safety and education. It has raised serious concerns over the increasing numbers of complications occurring after patients travel away from their home country for ‘cheap’ cosmetic surgery ‘holidays’. There is a growing concern that patients are being treated surgically by incompetent and […]
In April Mr Januszkiewicz attended a breast augmentation workshop in Singapore hosted by Allergan Corporation. The workshop was led by Dr Charles Randquist, a Swedish plastic surgeon who shared his insights on breast implant surgery with the small group of Australian and New Zealand plastic surgeons attending. Amongst the attendees were other current or former […]
