We are pleased that the congress is already well booked.
In the event that the lecture hall becomes overcrowded, newly registered participants will be asked to follow the presentation via live screen transmission in the second lecture hall.
Join the Annual Meeting 2026:
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The 30th edition of our annual meeting will take place from March 13-14, 2026 in Berlin.
As aesthetic plastic surgeons, we should be open-minded to new ideas and innovations, but also be scientifically critical.
Our meeting in Berlin is a perfect opportunity to keep you updated and to combine this with a fantastic social experience.
Uniting Aesthetic Expertise!
Alexander Schönborn, MD
President VDAEPC
Katrin Müller, MD
Vice President VDAEPC
Andreas Heitland, MD
Secretary
Stéphane Stahl, MD
Treasurer
PROGRAM & SESSIONS:
- Regenerative Medicine
- Injectables, Toxins and EBD´s
- Brow and Forehead Rejuvenation
- What I do and no longer do in Facial Aesthetic Surgery
- Medical Rhinoplasty
- Gender Affirming Surgery in Non-Binary Patients
- Hot Topics (AI, Measurements, …)
- Surgical Strategies for Implant Complications
- Implant Free Breast Enhancement – Are only the Fat addicts right?
- Mummy Make Over and Daddy-Do-Over
- Body Contouring- Surgical and Non-Surgical
- Upper Body: Brachioplasty, Bra-Line-Back-Lift, etc.
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Keynote Lecture: AI and Plastic Surgery
Jacques van der Meulen (Rotterdam)
WORKSHOPS:
- Praxisgründung
- Marketing
- Injectables
INVITED INTERNATIONAL FACULTY:
Gulshan Ahmadli – MD, Hannover (Germany)
Sixtus Allert – MD, Hameln (Germany)
Jens Altmann – MD, Lindau a. Bodensee (Germany)
Elena Armas – MD, Madrid (Spain)
Philipp Bergmann – MD, Hamburg (Germany)
Jörg Blesse – MD, Bielefeld (Germany)
Juliane Bodo – MD, Berlin (Germany)
Eckart Buttler – MD, Munich (Germany)
Mufid Burgic – MD, Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jay Calvert – MD, Beverly Hills (USA)
Falk Z. Dagtekin – MD, Grünwald (Germany)
Holger Engel – MD, Heidelberg (Germany)
Joachim von Finckenstein – MD, Starnberg (Germany)
Juliane Finke – MD, Berlin (Germany)
Thomas Fischer – MD, Bern (Switzerland)
Wolfgang Funk – MD, Munich (Germany)
Ansis Ģīlis – MD, Riga (Latvia)
Martin Gründl – MD, Wernigerode (Germany)
Sebastian Haack – MD, Stuttgart (Germany)
Detlev Hebebrand – MD, Scheeßel (Germany)
Dennis von Heimburg – MD, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany)
Max Heiland, MD- Berlin (Germany)
Marie Jaeger – MD, Stockholm (Sweden)
Cristina Jorge – MD, Pentling (Germany)
Ramtin Kassir – MD, New York (USA)
Sheila Kassir – MD, New York (USA)
Olaf Kauder – MD, Berlin (Germany)
Nitzan Kenig – MD, Mallorca (Spain)
Caroline Kim – MD, Munich (Germany)
Tillmann Krüger – MD, Hannover (Germany)
Emre Kultas – MD, Hamburg (Germany)
Alexander Kutubidze – MD, Tbilisi (Georgia)
Barbara Machado – MD, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Lieselotte Mahler – MD, Berlin (Germany)
Timothy Marten – MD, San Francisco (USA)
Vladimir Mitz – MD, Paris (France)
Mariagrazia Moio – MD, Napoli (Italy)
Michaela Montanari – MD, Bochum (Germany)
Maryam Morris – MD, Darby (United States)
Melodi Motamedi – MD, Hameln (Germany)
Foad Nahai – MD, Atlanta (USA)
Niklas Noack – MD, Berlin (Germany)
Nora Nugent – MD, Tunbridge Wells (UK)
Tracy Pfeifer – MD, New York (USA)
Lukas Prantl – MD, Regensburg (Germany)
Roman Rahimi – MD, Darmstadt (Germany)
Thomas Rappl – MD, Graz (Austria)
Matthias Reichenberger – MD, Heidelberg (Germany)
Florian Sandweg – MD, Rosenheim (Germany)
Ruth Schaefer – MD, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Dietmar Scholz – MD, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Hendrik Schöll – MD, Munich (Germany)
Cemal Senyuva – MD, Istanbul (Türkiye)
Horia Siclovan – MD, Arad (Romania)
Felix Spiegel – MD, Munich (Germany)
Stéphane Stahl – MD, Saarbrücken (Germany)
Simone Vogel – MD, Potsdam (Germany)
Melodie Wähmann – MD, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Matthias Wähmann – MD, Mannheim (Germany)
Brian J. Wong – MD, California (USA)
(as of March 2026)
VENUE
March 13-14, 2026
Grand Hyatt Berlin
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 2
10785 Berlin | Germany
SOCIAL PROGRAM
March 13, 2026
Social Evening
Dinner & Party at the Austernbank Restaurant
12 CME Points
The 30th Annual Meeting of the VDAEPC – The German Aesthetic Meeting has been certified by the Medical Chamber of Berlin with 12 continuing medical education (CME) points.
GALLERY CONGRESS 2025:
CONGRESS VIDEO:
Aesthetic Surgery Combined with Aesthetic Medicine: Before or After?
Sessions:
Video Session | Mastering Challenges – My Approach
Video Session | Face Rejuvenation
Tissue Regeneration
The Aesthetic Society Session – Revision Breast Surgery
Male Aesthetic Surgery
IMCAS Session – Non-surgical Treatments
Minimally Invasive vs. Conventional Techniques
Breast Implant
Body Contouring
International Faculty, Presenters & Moderators
Aggarwal, Aditya, MD – India
Agrawal, Kapil, MD – India
Alamuti, Nuri, MD – Germany
Allert, Sixtus, MD – Germany
Altmann, Jens, MD – Germany
Arora, Sunil, MD – India
Babu, Bibilash, MD – India
Bansal, Priya, MD – India
Biemer, Edgar, MD – Germany
Bodo, Juliane, MD – Germany
Bruck, Johannes – Germany
Calvert, Jay, MD – USA
Dagtekin, Falk Z., MD – Germany
Delobaux, Alexis, MD – France
Dhami, Lakshyajit Dhansukhlal, MD – India
Eberlein, Aletta, MD – Germany
Erfon, Joao, MD – Brazil
Fenkl, Roman, MD – Germany
von Fritschen, Uwe, MD – Germany
Funk, Wolfgang, MD – Germany
Gabka, Christian, MD – Germany
Garson, Sebastien, MD – France
Giordano, Maks – Germany
Gupta, Rajat, MD – India
Hamers, Alexander T., MD – Germany
Hambarchian, Njde, MD – Germany
Handstein, Steffen, MD – Germany
Hashem, Ahmed, MD – USA
Haws, Melinda, MD – USA
Hebebrand, Detlev, MD – Germany
Hilpert, Alexander, MD – Germany
Isaev, Raya, MD – Germany
Joshi, Anand, MD – India
Jungwirth, Walther, MD – Austria
Kanjoor, James Roy, MD – India
Kauder, Olaf, MD – Germany
Kumar, Lokesh, MD – India
Mitz, Vladimir, MD – France
Motamedi, Melodi, MD – Germany
Muggenthaler, Frank, MD – Germany
Müller, Katrin, MD – Germany
Noah, Magnus, MD – Germany
Ostapowicz, Daniel – Germany
Radtke, Christine, MD – Austria
Rajan, Sheeja, MD – India
Reichenberger, Matthias, MD – Germany
Richter, Dirk, MD – Germany
Rodrigues, Daniel, MD – Brazil
Shankhdhar, Vinay Kant, MD – India
Schaff, Jürgen, MD – Germany
Schäfer, Ruth, MD – Germany
von Saldern, Sven, MD – Germany
Schoenborn, Alexander, MD – Germany
Schuhmann, Karl, MD – Germany
Selinger, Rami, MD – France
Sharma, Sandeep, MD – India
Stahl, Stephane, MD – Germany
Sukhoparova, Elena, MD – Russia
Wagh, Milind, MD – India
Wiedner, Maria, MD – Germany
Wilder, Daniel, MD – Germany
Wolter, Andreas, MD – Germany
Yamani, Venkata Ramana, MD – India
as of April 26, 2023