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WPS Symposium January 29-31, 2027

Program Chair: Paige Myers, MD | Vice Chair: Patricia Mars, MD

Join us in New York City for an intimate, highly interactive program featuring expert panel discussions, practical education and real-time case analysis. Attendees will explore emerging techniques, complex surgical challenges, perioperative care, practice management and professional development while gaining strategies to apply to their practices and careers.

Keynote Addresses

Keynote speakers will be announced soon.

Featured Panels

Trending Techniques

Evaluate emerging aesthetic treatments and technologies, including peptides and GLP-1 medications, while considering their impact on surgical planning, patient care and expectations.

Preop and Postop Rehabilitation

Explore evidence-based prehabilitation, recovery protocols, pain management therapies and practical strategies for improving surgical outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Fat or Fiction

Separate evidence from marketing claims while examining fat grafting, cadaveric adipose-derived products, lipedema and other emerging applications.

Complex Revision Breast Surgery

Review strategies for challenging breast revision cases, including mastopexy augmentation, mesh utilization and individualized planning for patients with prior surgery or significant weight loss.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Discover strategies for increasing professional visibility, securing speaking opportunities and building a national reputation as an educator and leader.

Show Me the Money!

Strengthen your understanding of RVUs, CPT coding, reimbursement, compensation models, procedure pricing and financial sustainability.

Interactive Session

Complication Management: Real-Time Decision Making in Aesthetic Surgery

Test your clinical judgment through live polling and case-based discussion as experienced surgeons navigate evolving aesthetic surgery complications in real time.

The WPS Symposium offers a welcoming, collaborative environment to exchange ideas, gain practical insights and reconnect with colleagues from across the specialty.