Speakers
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Paramedical Day Speakers
Ricky Allen
Helen Golisano
Sue Butterfield
Ricky Allen has qualifications in nursing, psychology, beauty therapy, paramedical aesthetics, health management, public relations and is at present working on a Master in health education.
For the last 13 years she has run postgraduate classes in paramedical aesthetics and paramedical camouflage for beauty therapists and nurses. These courses are internationally and nationally recognised.
She also delivers training to clinics, Medi Spas, hospitals and cosmetic houses covering subjects such as internal marketing, selling techniques, understanding ingredients and customer service.
She is a regular guest presenter at international medical and beauty conferences.
Ricky also is the Consultant to Vogue in cosmetic enhancement and edits the Cosmetic enhancement book that they have brought out for the last 12 years. She is also the health consultant to News magazines. She has been quoted in many books written on Cosmetic Enhancement.
She is the Beauty Director of Bella beauty and beauty writer for Cosmetic Surgery Magazine.
Ricky advises doctors on the setting up, running and staff training of their clinics.
Helen Golisano is an ITEC and Cidesco trained Aesthetician and has completed an advanced training in Paramedical Aesthetics and Medi Spas. She has been practicing as an aesthetician for 27 years and as a paramedical aesthetician for eight years.
Helen also has successfully set up 12 Medi Spas in Australia and currently owns and runs four salons in WA, employing 30 staff. Her Medi Spas turn over in excess of $2,000,000 per annum.
Helen also runs an advisory service for Medi Spas, advising on setting up, managing, marketing, staffing and appropriate services. She is currently working with five Medi Spas around Australia.
She has been awarded the No. 1 Clarins Salon in Australia and has won the Doctors Formulas best skincare clinic distinction 4 years in a row.
Medi Spas are a new specialty clinic for Australia and Helen Golisano’s knowledge and experience in this area makes her unique. For the last three years she has been the guest speaker for True Solutions International’s National Conference on setting up a successful Medi Spa.
Sue Butterfield has been involved in the beauty industry for more than 25 years of which the last 11 years with True Solutions International distributors of skincare and Omnilux Light Therapy.
She is a qualified hairdresser, a beauty therapist and has qualifications in business management and paramedical fields – expert in light therapy.
She has worked with Doctors involved in developing and research with light therapy in Australia and overseas. Sue has also been involved in training in Medi Spas and Beauty Salons.
PSC and PEP Speakers
Dr Steve Byrd
Dr David Dunaway
Dr Frank Lista
Dr Michael Miller
Professor G. Ian Taylor
Dr Steve Byrd – Dallas, Texas, USA
Dr. Steve Byrd has been practicing as a plastic surgeon in Dallas, Texas since completing his residency in 1978. He is board certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He entered private practice at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and was appointed vice-chairman to the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center following his residency.
Since those appointments, he has been distinguished as a full professor at the above mentioned University and has served as Chief of Service at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. In addition, he is the Director of Plastic Surgery at Children's Medical Center, is past president of the Dallas County Society of Plastic Surgery, is a founding member and past president of the Rhinoplasty Society, and a former member of the board of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation.
In a recent poll, "Best Doctors in America", Dr. Byrd was elected by his peers as one of the top plastic surgeons in the United States. He accredits this acknowledgment to his uncompromising commitment to the highest standard of patient care, to the development of innovative and state of the art surgical techniques, and to the betterment of his specialty through the educational and governmental process.
Dr. Byrd's practice emphasis is aesthetic surgery. He is internationally known for his techniques in endoscopic facelift and rhinoplasty techniques.
David Dunaway graduated as a doctor from the University of Manchester in 1989. After training in surgery in general, he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1992. He undertook his higher surgical training in Plastic Surgery in Leeds, Newcastle, London and at the Australian Craniofacial unit in Adelaide. He is also qualified as a dentist and is a Fellow Dental Surgeon of the Royal College of Surgeons.
After gaining his specialist fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Plastic Surgery (1996), he was appointed as a consultant Plastic Surgeon at Canniesburn Hospital in Scotland where his specialist interests were in facial deformity, Craniofacial Surgery and Head and Neck surgery. In July of 2000 he was invited to join the Plastic Surgery and Craniofacial Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, undertaking the treatment of Craniofacial and facial conditions. He now leads the craniofacial service, which forms one of the four nationally designated craniofacial centres for England. In 2003 he joined the multidisciplinary facial deformity service for adults, based at University College London Hospital and the Eastman Dental Hospital.
In his private practice David Dunaway undertakes most aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. He has a special interest in cosmetic surgery of the face and in particular, facial rejuvenation and rhinoplasty. David Dunaway takes an active role in training young plastic surgeons in cosmetic surgery. He lectures regularly, and participates in training organised through the Royal College of surgeons, BAPRAS and Royal society of Medicine.
He has an international practise in the treatment of craniofacial deformity including facial reconstruction after injury or from the treatment of head and neck tumours. Other interests include the management of vascular malformations and skin lesions.
David Dunaway is a past president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, British Medical Association, the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery and the European Society of Craniofacial Surgeons.
David Dunaway lectures nationally and internationally on many aspects of plastic surgery and takes an active interest in the education of Plastic Surgeons both in the UK and abroad. He is actively involved in teaching reconstructive surgery to surgeons in West Africa and in Facing the World, a British charity treating children from third world countries with craniofacial deformity.
Dr Frank Lista – Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Dr Frank Lista is a board certified specialist in plastic surgery in Canada and the United States. He holds a specialty certificate in plastic surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is also a board certified plastic surgeon in the United States as a diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is one of only a few plastic surgeons board certified in both Canada and the United States.
Dr Lista is on active staff at Trillium Health Centre (The Mississauga Hospital) and was Chief of Plastic Surgery for over 10 years. He is a founder and Past President of the Ontario Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr Lista is a member of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He is the Past President of the Canadian Society of Aesthetic (Cosmetic) Plastic Surgery.
Dr Lista has innovated many new surgical procedures. He is recognised as an authority in aesthetic and cosmetic plastic surgery and has given numerous papers and presentations at national and international meetings around the world. He has been invited to give presentations at the University of Toronto Breast Symposium and also the University of Toronto Aesthetic Surgery Symposium. He has been asked to perform surgery as the invited surgeon and lecturer at McMaster University. Dr Lista has been invited to give papers, make presentations and sit on panel discussions at all 4 of the major North American Plastic Surgery annual meetings: The Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery, The Canadian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, The American Society of Plastic Surgery and The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Dr Lista frequently hosts visiting surgeons who come from around the world to view him performing surgery at The Plastic Surgery Clinic. Fashion Magazine recently named Dr Lista as one of Toronto's top cosmetic surgeons.
Dr Lista resides in Mississauga with his wife and two children. He has a keen interest in world history, philosophy, art and architecture.
Dr Michael Miller - COLUMBUS, OHIO, USA
Dr Mike Miller is Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Ohio State University Medical Center.
Dr Miller, formerly deputy chair of the department of plastic surgery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, performs a wide range of reconstructive and aesthetic surgical procedures, particularly reconstructive microsurgery related to trauma and cancer deformities. He also is nationally recognised for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction using microsurgical techniques.
His research interests include tissue repair and regeneration and the use of advanced technology in clinical surgery.
Dr Miller serves as associate editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He is chair of both the Research Fellowship Committee of the American Society of Plastic Surgery and the Education Committee of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.
Since 2003 he has served as a voting member and consultant to the General and Plastic Surgery Device Panel of the Medical Device Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Dr Miller has received numerous honours and awards and has edited, written or reviewed more than 200 papers, abstracts and book chapters. In addition, he is a frequently invited speaker at international conferences.
Professor G. Ian Taylor, A.O. – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Professor G. Ian Taylor, A.O. is one of our most distinguished Australian Plastic Surgeons, with a world-wide reputation.
He qualified M.B.B.S. at Melbourne University in 1963 and pursued his surgical training at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, achieving his Fellowship in General Surgery in 1968. His specialisation in Plastic Surgery took him to the United Kingdom, where he spent two years at the renowned Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. He returned to Australia to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, serving ten years as Head of the Plastic Surgery Unit.
His anatomical research began at the time he returned from Britain, initially with studies on the groin flap, which he and Roland Daniel successfully transferred as the world’s first successful free flap in 1973.
Ian has had a passion for research ever since and has tied this in with his busy clinical life. His CV is a most impressive document and his achievements are too numerous to list. He has been recognised and awarded membership of nearly every Plastic Surgery society, including the United States, Japan, China, France, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany and Canada. He has been awarded honorary fellowships of the British, Irish, Edinburgh, Canadian and American surgical colleges and an M.D. from Bordeaux in France.
He has been a frequent keynote lecturer in both the United States and Britain and on four separate occasions he has received the Barrett Brown Award. This is presented by the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, for the paper judged to be the most outstanding publication in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in the previous year. He has won their A.S.P.R.S. International Scholarship Contest eight times.
In 1981 he was a Hunterian Professor and won the Mowlem award of the B.A.P.S in 1986. In 1993 he was the Sir Arthur Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor and in the same year received The Sir Ian Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award.
In 1997 he was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, one of only five living Plastic Surgeons to be so honoured. In 1999 he was elected President of the I.P.R.A.S., was made an Honorary Professor of The University of Melbourne and in the same year was made an Officer in The General Division of The Order of Australia (A.O.) “for service to medicine in the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the transfer of living bone grafts by utilizing micro-vascular techniques.”
Ian Taylor’s contribution to surgery has been in identifying the vascular anatomy of the body, so that it is possible to transfer tissues, utilising the appropriate vascular life lines. It has been said that he is to vascular surgery what global positioning is to navigation.
In spite of his enormous research and clinical load, he still finds time for his passion of fly fishing, family and friends. Ian Taylor’s contributions have greatly enhanced surgery, both in his country and worldwide and added to the high regard of Australian surgery.
Ian retired from private practice in December 2007.