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Dubai Derma 2025

14 April 2025 -16 April 2025
Dubai Derma 2025: Pioneering the Path to Dermatological Excellence In the ever-evolving landscape of dermatology advancements, Dubai Derma has consistently stood as a beacon of innovation and knowledge dissemination in the field. As we eagerly await the arrival of Dubai...

AMWC Monaco 2025

27 March 2025 -29 March 2025
AMWC 2025: The leading aesthetic and anti-ageing medicine conference returns The Aesthetic & Anti-Ageing Medicine World Congress (AMWC), returns for its 23rd edition on 27–29 March 2025, at the iconic Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. As the world’s premier event in...

Medico-legal Forum (Botulinum/Laser)

1 April 2017 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
The PMFA Journal and Hamilton Fraser Cosmetic Insurance have teamed up to provide a series of articles that will give examples of claims that occur from different procedures. In our February/March issue we featured a case that involved complications following...

In Conversation with Dr Wang Xiaolu

3 April 2024 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
We were delighted to interview Dr/Professor Wang Xiaolu, Founder and Chair of the International Medicine of Anti-aging & Aesthetics Congress (IMAAC ZIYALAN), about her background and plans for this year’s congress. What motivated you to participate in international medical aesthetics...

Medicinal leech therapy in plastic surgery

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
The medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) has played a role in treating illness for over 3500 years [1]. It has survived rapid paradigm shifts in medical sciences and knowledge. In Ancient Rome, the use of leeches for bloodletting was propagated by...

The truth behind facelift myths

1 February 2019 | | PMFA - CPD, PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
As the number of non-surgical options to treat the ageing face has increased in recent years, so have the number of myths about facelift surgery. This article, from two expert facial plastic surgeons from Stanford Hospital in California, provides the...

In and out of love with surgery

27 August 2019 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Growing up with books shaped me into a hopeless romantic believing in heroes, magic and achieving the impossible. Throughout the years as I sat patiently waiting on my letter from Hogwarts I instead received my acceptance letter to medical school....

Start slowly, stay grounded: The vital role of education in aesthetic medicine

4 December 2025 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
Jude Dunican. Elaine Williams: I still remember the day we first met, with you coming into the clinic on behalf of Health Xchange back in 2018. We quite quickly got into developing ourselves professionally from that very first meeting, and...

Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine: specialties and specialists

1 February 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Dr Nikolaos Metatoxos has written an excellent article ‘How to establish a successful practice in aesthetic medicine’, which looks at the business of aesthetic medicine and underlines some very important ethical issues. When comparing hospital doctors and aesthetic medicine practitioners...

In conversation with Dr Emanuele Bartoletti (2020)

19 May 2020 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
We were delighted to catch up with Dr Emanuele Bartoletti, President of Società Italiana di Medicina Estetica (SIME) about his background, the society and the challenges of COVID-19. Dr Emanuele Bartoletti. You have been involved in plastic surgery and aesthetic...

Part two: Aye, Aye. AI?

14 February 2025 | | AI, artificial intelligence, blog, personal, ChatGPT, DeepSeek
This is the second blog in this series looking at the current trends in AI. In the first, I reviewed a 'chat' with ChatGPT regarding the limitations of the program in editing work. This is actually a highly skilled human...

How to establish a successful practice in aesthetic medicine

1 February 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
It is no secret that today’s aesthetic patients tend to seek non-invasive, non-surgical solutions as opposed to invasive treatments. According to the latest statistics published by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (www.surgery.org), there were over 11 million surgical...