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Program Orientation

Know more about the type of sessions included in the exciting program of the ISAPS World Congress 2024, Cartagena.

The program of the World Congress 2024 features:   

  • 350 faculty members, delivering keynotes, masterclasses and immersive sessions, state of the art updates, and special themed panels / debates across the six different topic themes of the Congress. 
  • An addition 260 speakers, selected through competitive peer review to take part in our free communication sessions also presented in the same six key topic themes: Face, Breast, Body, Rhinoplasty, other/innovative surgical techniques, and non-surgical (including minimally invasive, injectables, regenerative medicine, practice management, and patient safety), and    
  • Award lectures: Ohmori, best APS Journal papers, best Safety investigation by an ISAPS member. 
  • Best paper by an early career surgeon awards 

More than 500 talks will be presented by speakers from 67 different countries, in several presentation formats:   

  • Special sessions: panel discussions, debates, clinical pearls, ‘What I no longer do’ sessions. 
  • State of the Art updates / conventional sessions (short updates in topic themes) 
  • Scientific sessions (new free communication presentations) 
  • Rapid-fire sessions (short update free communication lectures) and panel discussions in topic themes  
  • Poster discussion sessions throughout the congress in our open stage in the exhibit hall  
  • Special award lectures: the Ohmori prize, APS Journal best papers, Patient Safety award  
  • ISAPS leadership program (L.I.F.T.)  
  • Excerpts from the 4S Business School 

The program also offers integrated keynote faculty Masterclasses; our ISAPS Women's Symposium; industry workshops; and a full day of pre-congress activities including our Video Live Surgeries course and Residents’ Symposium.   

This year, the Ohmori lecture will be awarded at our Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, June 12 at 18:20. 

ISAPS is in the process of applying to EACCME for CME points for the ISAPS World Congress 2024, Cartagena.   

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