NYC Facelift & Rhinoplasty Master Course™

NYC Facelift and Rhinoplasty Master Course           
April 23 - 26, 2026 I New York City I Activity Description 2026      

The NYC Facelift & Rhinoplasty Master Course™ 2026 is a four-day, in-person advanced surgical education program designed for board-certified and board-eligible plastic surgeons, facial plastic surgeons, fellows in aesthetic and facial plastic surgery, and senior residents preparing for independent operative practice.         

The program addresses advanced operative technique, anatomical precision, revision strategy, and long-term outcome optimization in facelift and rhinoplasty procedures. As surgical philosophies continue to evolve, there remains variability in technique selection, ligament release patterns, SMAS manipulation, structural support strategies, and complication management. This activity provides a structured forum for comparative analysis, intraoperative reasoning, and anatomy-driven surgical execution. The curriculum integrates full-length live surgical demonstrations, expert-moderated operative discussions, focused lecture blocks, keynote presentations, complication panels, structured debates, and hands-on cadaver laboratory dissection. The program emphasizes:
 

• Anatomy-driven surgical planning and ligament release strategy

• Comparative evaluation of deep plane, high SMAS, and SMASectomy techniques

• Structural, preservation, and hybrid rhinoplasty frameworks

• Revision sequencing and management of complex secondary cases

• Deep neck management and cervicomental contour optimization

• Integration of periorbital and brow procedures into comprehensive facial rejuvenation

• Longevity-based operative design and reproducibility of results

• Standardized approaches to complication recognition and mitigation


Through integration of operative observation, anatomical reinforcement, and expert faculty discussion, the activity is designed to elevate surgical judgment, technical refinement, and consistency in advanced facial aesthetic surgery across varying levels of experience.

Target Audience

The New York City Facelift & Rhinoplasty Master Course is designed for board-certified and board-eligible plastic surgeons, facial plastic surgeons, oculoplastic surgeons, and other specialists with a focus on aesthetic and reconstructive facial surgery. It is also highly relevant for fellows and residents seeking to advance their expertise in advanced facelift and rhinoplasty techniques. The program is tailored to practitioners with a strong interest in refining surgical skills, expanding their clinical knowledge, and staying at the forefront of innovation in facial aesthetics.

Learning Objectives

 1. Compare structural, preservation, and hybrid rhinoplasty techniques and select the appropriate operative framework based on airway function, tissue characteristics, and long-term structural stability.

2. Apply advanced tip support principles and dorsal management strategies to improve predictability and durability in primary and revision rhinoplasty.

3. Execute deep plane facelift dissection with precise identification of retaining ligaments, facial nerve branches, and critical vascular structures.

4. Differentiate between deep plane, high SMAS, and SMASectomy techniques and determine appropriate indications based on patient anatomy and risk profile.

5. Perform advanced cervical rejuvenation techniques, including platysma management and submandibular gland reduction when indicated.

6. Demonstrate cadaver-based dissection of midface, periorbital, and deep neck planes with improved anatomical orientation and operative efficiency.

7. Recognize early intraoperative and postoperative warning signs of complications and implement evidence-informed management strategies.

8. Integrate structural fat grafting and regenerative adjuncts into comprehensive facial rejuvenation planning when appropriate.

9. Develop structured patient evaluation and operative planning algorithms that improve case selection and procedural sequencing.

10. Apply systematic consultation and planning strategies that enhance expectation alignment and treatment clarity.

 

Commercial Support

 This activity received in-kind support from Evolus, Inc. and Merz North America, Inc.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 38.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 38.25 ANCC

     

     

     

  • 38.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/23/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Horizontal Tabs

April 23rd
Live Surgery
Ramtin Kassir, MD, Ruslan Zhuravsky, MD
06:00am - 09:00am
SECTION I
Edgar Kaminskyi, MD, Froilán Páez, MD, Masoud Saman, MD, Emre İlhan, MD, Umang Mehta, MD, Ali Sajjadian, MD, James Newman, MD
09:30am - 10:30am
KEYNOTE
Grant Hamilton, MD
10:30am - 11:00am
SECTION II
Sureyya Şeneldir, MD, Ruslan Zhuravsky, MD:, Froilán Páez, MD, Umang Mehta, MD, Emre İlhan, MD, Ali Sajjadian, MD
11:00am - 12:30pm
SECTION III
Masoud Saman, MD, Edgar Kaminskyi, MD, Ali Sajjadian, MD, Ramtin Kassir, MD
01:30pm - 02:30pm
PANEL
Silvio Podda, MD Karan Dhir, MD James Newan, MD, Ruslan Zhuravsky, MD, Emre İlhan, MD, Omar Suleyman Tas, MD, Sureyya Şeneldir, MD
03:00pm - 03:50pm
PANEL
Ramtin Kassir, MD, Teoman Doğan, MD, Emre İlhan, MD, Süreyya Şeneldir, MD, Grant Hamilton, MD
04:15pm - 05:30pm
April 24th
LIVE SURGERY
Carl Truesdale, MD, Elizabeth Chance, MD
06:00am - 09:30am
PANEL
Mirza Firat, MD, Artur Díaz Carandell, MD, Mubariz Mammadli, MD, Fayçal El Kouhen, MD, Gad Renert, MD, Dmitry Batiukov, MD, Marc Mani, MD
08:45am - 10:00am
KEYNOTE
Eduardo Rodriguez, MD
10:00am - 10:30am
SECTION I
Francisco Bravo, MD, Waldemar Penna, MD, Süleyman Taş, MD, Kevin Sadati, MD, Samir Ghoraba, MD, Ritu Chopra, MD, Michael Lee
10:45am - 12:15pm
Deep Plane
Ramtin Kassir, MD, Sam Rizk, MD, Sarmela Sunder, MD, Alessandro Gualdi, MD, Lessandro Martins, MD, Mario Pelle, MD, Daryoush Saadat, MD, George Bitar, MD, Yannis Alexandrides, MD
01:15pm - 02:45pm
KEYNOTE
Mario Pelle, MD
02:45pm - 03:15pm
PANEL
Ariel Rad, MD, Ramtin Kassir, MD, Elizabeth Chance, MD, Leonardo Gagliano, MD, Ashkan Ghavami, MD, Fas Arshad, MD, Michael Lee, MD, Kiya Movassaghi, MD, Francisco Bravo, MD
03:30pm - 05:15pm
MASTERS PANEL
Ariel Rad, MD, Ashkan Ghavami, MD, Elizabeth Chance, MD, Marc Mani, MD, Lessandro Martins, MD, Ramtin Kassir, MD, Babak Azizzadeh, MD, Carl Truesdale, MD, Dmitry Batiukov, MD, Mario Pelle, MD
05:00pm - 06:15pm
April 25th
LIVE SURGERY
Francisco Bravo, MD, Steve Cohen, MD
06:00am - 09:30am
CADAVER DISSECTION
Multiple
07:00am - 06:00pm
April 26th
Panel
James Newman, MD, Louise Vennegaard Mielke, MD, Andreas Lindahl, MD, Katrin Müller, MD, Greg Bran, MD, Jennifer Levine, MD
09:00am - 10:00am
PANEL
Haideh Hirmand, MD, Flora Levin, MD, Deepak Ramesh, MD, Babak Maleki, MD, Mario Pelle, MD
10:00am - 11:15am
KEYNOTE
Neil Gordon, MD
11:15am - 11:40am
PANEL
Ramtin Kassir, MD, George Bitar, MD, Omar Suleyman Taş, MD, Yannis Alexandrides, Ryan Neinstein, MD, Neil Gordon, MD, Marc Mani, MD
12:00pm - 01:30pm
PANEL
Ramtin Kassir, MD, Vincent Giampapa, MD, Steven Cohen, MD, Lars Høie, MD, PhD
01:30pm - 02:45pm
Advanced Injectable
Ramtin Kassir, MD
02:30pm - 03:30pm
Final Panel Discussion
Ramtin Kassir, MD
03:30pm - 04:00pm
PANEL
Sahar Nadimi, MD, Kevin Tehrani, MD, Sheila Kassir, MD, Randall Craft, MD, Martin Kassir, MD, Rod Rohrich, MD, Lessandro Martins, MD
07:15am - 08:40am
04-23-26 2026, New York City, NY
United States
Reviewer(s)

Rebecca Lakofsky, BSN, RN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker, Instructor, Faculty(s)

Yannis Alexandrides, MD FACS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Fas Arshad, FRCS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Babak Azizzadeh, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Dmitry Batiukov, https://batiukov.com, @dr.batiukov

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Polytech Health;.

George Bitar, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Greg Bran, MD PhD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Francisco Bravo, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

ARTUR CARANDELL, MD. FEBOMFS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Elizabeth Chance, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

ritu chopra

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Steven Cohen, MD

has a financial relationship (Individual stocks and stock options) with London Regenerative Institute;.
has a financial relationship (Individual stocks and stock options) with Paracrine;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with Tiger;.

Randall Craft, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Karan Dhir, American Board Of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Teoman Dogan

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Fayçal El kouhen, Fayçal El kouhen, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

mirza firat, ISAPS and Turkish Board certified plastic surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jorge Gagliano, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Samir Ghoraba, MD, PhD, MRCS, MSc - Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Vincent Giampapa, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Neil Gordon, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Alessandro Gualdi di Castelgualdo

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Grant Hamilton, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Haideh Hirmand

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Lars Hoie, MD PhD, Dr. Philos

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Edgar Kaminskyi

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

MARTIN KASSIR, MD, FAAD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ramtin Kassir, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Jonathann Kuo, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Michael Lee

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Flora Levin

has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with QMP;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Galerma;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with L'Oreal;.

Jennifer Levine, Double Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with sciton ;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with revance ;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with galderma ;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with BTL;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with merz;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Allergan ;.

Andreas Lindahl, MD, PhD, Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sheila Malek, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Babak Maleki, MD, FRCSC

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Mubariz Mammadli, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Marc Mani, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Lessandro Martins, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Umang Mehta, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Leandro Menezes, Brazilian Plastic Surgeon certified by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP) and Brazilian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (BAPS).

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Louise Mielke

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

kiya Movassaghi

has a financial relationship (Advisor) with motiva;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with revance;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Integra;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with sofwave;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with Abbvie;.

Katrin Mueller

has a financial relationship (Speaker) with ELIXIR MD;.

Sahar Nadimi

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

RYAN NEINSTEIN

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

James Newman, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Froilan Paez, Facial Plastic surgery

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

MARIO PELLE-CERAVOLO

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Waldemar Penna

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Silvio Podda, Chief of Division of Plastic Surgery SJUMC

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Ariel Rad

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sathyadeepak Ramesh, MD, FACS

has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with Poriferious;.

Gad Renert, Renert Gad, MD, Senior Consultan Plastic Surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Samieh Rizk

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, DDS

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Johnson & Johnson;.

Rod Rohrich, MD

has a financial relationship (Researcher) with MTF;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with Galderma;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with InMode;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with MTF;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with Allergan/AbbVie;.
has a financial relationship (Ownership interest) with Medical Seminars of TX;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Allergan/AbbVie;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with InMode;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with InMode;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Evolus;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with Evolus;.
has a financial relationship (Researcher) with Teoxane;.
has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with Thieme Publishers;.
has a financial relationship (Royalties or patent beneficiary) with Micrins Surgical;.
has a financial relationship (Advisor) with ElixirMD;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Lumisque;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Acclaro;.

Daryoush Saadat, Facial Plastic Surgeon

has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Abbvie;.
has a financial relationship (Speaker) with Prollenium;.
has a financial relationship (Consultant) with Galderma;.

Kevin Sadati, Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

ali sajjadian

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Masoud Saman, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

sureyya seneldir, MD

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sarmela Sunder, Facial Plastic Surgeon

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Suleyman Tas, Prof.Dr.Suleyman Tas

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Kevin Tehrani, MD FACS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Carl Truesdale, M.D.

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

ruslan zhuravsky

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Aryanna Media LLC.  AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this live activity for a maximum of 38.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

 

Nursing
Credit being awarded: 38.25 ANCC contact hours

Available Credit

  • 38.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 38.25 ANCC

     

     

     

  • 38.25 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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