Dear #ISAPSFamily, Friends, and Colleagues,

I trust you all celebrated a lovely holiday and are enjoying a good start to the New Year. As we begin our journey and prepare for the year ahead, it is also a good time to pause, reflect on 2025, and realize where we succeeded and where we fell short. Through this process, we identify our threshold and learn how to sustain our successes or improve where we struggled. This helps establish our goals, set benchmarks on what we want to accomplish or improve, and prepare for 2026.

I ask you all to practice this not only on a personal level but also as members of the #ISAPSFamily. All intentions start with an idea, then progress, and goals are met or not, based on the effort we put in. When we work unified, with the same goals, we will accomplish so much. We can be strong and influential as one; imagine what we can do when we do it together: Connecting Cultures, Sharing Knowledge, and Leading the Future in Aesthetics.

I can’t wait to embark on this journey with all of you and look forward to welcoming new members and making new friendships along the way. As leaders in the future of aesthetics, we are always paving the way with new ideas and projects, and establishing new learning opportunities for the advancement of our specialty and the safety of patients worldwide.

In this respect, we are so excited to host the inaugural ISAPS Face Masters Course in St. Louis, Missouri, from February 27 through March 1, 2026. With an outstanding program and the most respected names in facial aesthetic surgery, attendees will experience a transformative educational opportunity, including 7.5 hours of observing live cadaver dissections. The Course is already sold out on-site, but you can still attend via live stream, and it will also be available on-demand for a limited time after the event so that everyone can benefit from this valuable learning experience.

And don’t forget to submit your abstracts for the ISAPS World Congress in Cancun! The deadline is January 23, 2006, so don’t delay. This year will once again offer substantial learning and networking opportunities—register early to secure your place!

Remember, as part of the #ISAPSFamily, we are a part of something bigger. Every year offers an ‘open canvas,’ and we all play a part in painting an innovative, immersive, and unified picture. Thank you all for being part of ISAPS. I hope to see you soon!

Warm regards,

Arturo Ramírez-Montañana, MD
ISAPS President