Know what’s coming next in aesthetics. 

Premier Global Hot Topics is a comprehensive, didactic course The Aesthetic Foundation offers at The Aesthetic MEET each Spring.

The course covers the latest topics, issues, procedures, and products that will soon impact the specialty. Hear from key opinion leaders, captains of industry, and member-surgeon researchers as they share their ideas, initial research findings, comments, and concerns about these latest trends.

If you want to be “in the know” and get a heads-up on what’s coming down the pipeline, this program is for you. It’s also an excellent resource if you’re interested in researching the latest topics.

“Premier Global Hot Topics” is one of the most popular courses, and you will not want to miss it. Tickets typically sell out, so reserve your seat early.

2026 Premier Global Hot Topics Program

The Blitz Part I: Regenerative Medicine for Plastic Surgeons

  • Alloclae vs Lipoderm vs Renuva: Does any of It Work?

  • Exosomes: Who is Still Standing?

  • Tissue Banking: Hair, Fat, Etc.

  • PDGF – Why I Like It

  • Unlocking the Secrets of Secretomes

  • PDGF – Not So Fast – What Does Contralabeled Mean?

  • Musecell Innovations

  • Exocube: Nasa and Regenerative Medicine Come Together

  • Peptides: What’s Real, What’s Risky, What’s Next

  • Discussion: Wellness, Weight Loss, Peptides and Exosomes. What's Real, What's Fad, and How Do We Know What to Incorporate?

Hot Topics Main Feature: Preservé - Over the Muscle We Go!

  • The Premiere of Preservé - Is this the Way or is it a Re-run?

  • Pro Prepectoral – This is the Way

  • Con Prepectoral – We’ve Seen this Movie Before and We Know How It Ends

  • Battle Royale: Is There a New Consensus for Prepectoral Breast Augmentation?

Facelifting – Deep Plane or Go Home!

  • Deep Plane: Why I Do It

  • Extended Deep Plane Facelift and Preservation Necklift

  • My Approach to Facelifting

  • Discussion: Brows, Face, Neck – What Planes Should Plastic Surgeons be Using in 2026?

The Blitz Part II: New Technologies and Hot Devices

  • Pozner’s Quick Hits: Tribrid Sciton: Moxi, Halo and Erbium All in One: What’s the Technology?

  • Barry’s Quick Hits: Tribid Sciton Photo Study/ Cryotherapy: A Means to Limit Inflammation

  • Update My Ellevate

  • The Latest in Non-Invasive Hair Replacement: Get Hair MD

  • Updates on Breast Scaffold

  • Ellacor Version 2 Microcoring

A Critical Appraisal of Hot Topics – The Devices

  • Round Robin Panel: What One Device to Buy, What One Device Not to Buy

A Quick Check In On Private Equity

  • If You are Considering PE, This is How to Prepare Your Practice

  • Round Robin Panel: Why I chose PE in 3 Minutes or Less

Avant Garde Perioperative Management – the Things You Need to Know About

  • Why You Need Hyperbaric In Your Practice

  • The Latest in Pain Management/Non-Opioid/ Journavx

  • The Modern Approach for Wound Closure

  • Update on Brijjt

  • Carboxy Therapy for the Face

  • Carboxy Therapy for the Body

  • Round Robin Panel: The 3 Things You Should Add Right Now, 1 Thing You Shouldn’t

The A.I. You Need in Your Practice Right Now

  • AI in the OR: Integrating AI with Intraop US

  • AI Tools in Your Practice – Clinician Focused

  • AI Sora

  • Optimizing for AI Search: Your Opportunity and Risk Now

  • Round Robin AI Panel: The 2 AIs You Should Add Right Now, 1 You Should Wait On

Body

  • Innovations in Lipedema Treatment

  • Intramuscular Fat Grafting – Augmentation in a New Way

  • Evolution of Rib Remodeling in Body Contouring

  • Incorporating Rib Remodeling Into Your Practice

  • Muscles & Ribs: Expert Commentary

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Weight Loss & Wellness in Plastic Surgery Practices

  • Next Generation GLP-1's To Be Aware Of

  • An Innovative System for Body Analysis

  • What are Exosomes? How Do We Use Them? (Or Regenerative Medicine in Gen)

  • Early Experience with AlloClae for Hip Dips

  • Discussion: Wellness, Weight Loss, Peptides and Exosomes. What's Real, What's Fad, and How Do We Know What to Incorporate?

Breast

  • Bellaseno (Scaffold)

  • 376 cases over 8 years of using Galaflex: Lessons Learned

  • The Mind Virus of Social Media

  • BII Study Updates: Capsule Terminology Confronted, Psychological Links

  • Finally! Athena-Sized Breast Implants Are FDA Approved- The Mentor MG Enhance

  • Non-Invasive Technique to Determine Benign vs Malignant Seroma

  • Update on ARISE

Special Presentation on the Motiva Implant in the USA: Lessons Learned Over 15 Years Using Motiva Implants, With Counterpoints

  • How to Incorporate Motiva Implants into Your Practice- Lessons Learned

  • Implant Testing in the Real World: What's Real and What's Hype

  • Panel: What's True and What's Hype? The Real Pros and Cons of Motiva- Discussion with Chacon, Wall, Adams, Calobrace

Face

  • What I'm Doing 2025: Endoscopic Fox Eye and Tear Trough Implants

  • How Do I Use TXA?

  • TXA Counterpoint

  • Should We Be Removing the Submandibular Glands?

  • Emerging Use of Human Collagen I as Filler

  • The Many Advantages of Using Ultrasound to Guide Filler Placement

  • Toxin & Filler Updates

  • Panel: Look How Far We Have Come and What Do We See on the Horizon?

Quick Hits: New Technology/New Offerings "Hear It from Us Before You Hear it from Your Patients"

  • 4-Minute Intro to MAP

  • Sciton Coring vs Other Coring Devices. Is it better?

  • The Latest in Non-Invasive Hair Replacement

  • Aveli Plus Renuvion for Cellulite IRB Study

  • Ulvera AI: Precise Non-Surgical Fat RDXN & Skin Tightening

  • Role of Suzetrigine in Acute Pain Management

  • Panel: 30 Years of Technology Failures

All About Ribs

  • The Rib Revolution

  • Rib Remodeling in Practice

  • Panel: Is the Rib Revolution Real?

Body, Buttock, and AI

  • AI in the OR: Integrating AI with Intraop US

  • LiRi Technique for Buttock Fat Infiltration

  • CO2 Lift for Improved Outcomes in the Setting of Vascular Compromise

  • Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Training Systems in Plastic Surgery

  • Entity Med AI Simulation for Breast Augmentation

  • Panel: AI & Other Modalities in Plastic Surgery and Augmented Reality: How These Have Changed My Practice

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2024 Premier Global Hot Topics Program

Where Did All the Facelifts Go? Are We Losing Facial Rejuvenation?

  • New Plastic Surgeons Aren’t Comfortable Doing Facelifts – What’s Wrong with Our Training Programs? Sherrell Aston, MD

  • Panel Discussion Sherrell Aston, MD, Chia Chi Kao, MD, Steven Levine, MD and Ben Talei, MD

Wellness

  • Next Health: Wellness as a Launch Point for All Aesthetic Services TBD

  • Is Your Loyalty Program Effective? Do You Have One? M. Bradley Calobrace, MD

  • Female Wellness as an Extension of Your Medispa M. Bradley Calobrace, MD

  • The Value of a Concierge in Your Medspa M. Bradley Calobrace, MD

  • Modern Medicine with the AI Simulator Renato Saltz, MD

  • Integrating the Skinny Shot, Wellness and Plastic Surgery: The Next Level Johnny Franco, MD

  • Is Your Practice Prepared to Get Personal? The Role of Autologous Stem Cells in Aesthetics Drew Taylor, PhD

  • Exosomes: What Do They Do? What Do I Need to Know? Renato Saltz, MD

  • The State of Subscription Aesthetic Services Grant Stevens, MD

  • Panel Discussion Johnny Franco, MD, Renato Saltz, MD, Grant Stevens, MD and Drew Taylor

The Latest in Toxins and Fillers

  • New Toxins and the Differences Z. Paul Lorenc, MD

Quick Hits: New Technology/New Offerings

  • What’s New in Lasers and How Are They Different? Barry DiBernardo, MD

  • The Latest in Non-Invasive Hair Replacement Barry DiBernardo, MD

  • InMode Quantum 10: Internal Fractionated Bipolar RF for Facial Skin Tightening Sherrell Aston, MD

  • What’s New in Oral Analgesics and How Do I Use Them? Ashley Gordon, MD

  • Cellulite Plus Skin Tightening: Is This the Holy Grail? Kristi Hustak, MD

  • My Experience with Ellacor Jay Burns, MD

  • Cybersecurity: What You NEED to Know Grant Stevens, MD

  • Nanofat with PRP Kamakshi Zeidler, MD

  • Social Media: Avoiding the Shadowban Kelly Graff, MD

  • Coffee Break & Continuing Discussion of New Tech

  • Special Topic 2024: Sunshine, Or Clouds? Steve Teitelbaum, MD

The Modern Practice: Death of the Lone Wolf? Or the Death of PE? What Are Our Practices Really Worth?

  • The Death of Independent Practices? Or the Death of PE? Simeon Wall, Jr., MD

  • So You Want to Sell Your Practice? The 4 Biggest Things to Consider Ben Hernandez

  • Panel Discussion

The 3 Biggest Misconceptions Surgeons Have About the Value of Their Practice

  • The Top 3 Best Things About Selling to PE

  • The Top 3 Worst Things About Selling to PE

  • What Is Left for The Young Plastic Surgeons?

  • What Happens When My PE Fund Goes Belly Up? Brad Adatto, Michael Byrd, Ben Hernandez, Tiffany McCormack, MD, Bruce Van Natta, MD

All Things Breast

  • The BII Star Study: What You Should Know Dave Turer, MD

  • Teitelbaum’s Take On BII Steve Teitelbaum, MD

  • New Perspectives on Long Term Breast Implant Safety: New FDA Study on Mentor Round Louis Strock, MD

  • What We Now Know About BII Patients Caroline Glicksman, MD, MSJ

  • Rapid Fire: Which Scaffolds and When to Use Them?

P4HB vs Durasorb vs Tigr Mesh

  • Renee Burke, MD, Steve Sigalove, MD, Louis Strock, MD, Bruce Van Natta, MD

Fat/Volume/Etc.

  • How Plastic Surgeon Advocacy Dropped Mortality Rates in Florida Pat Pazmino, MD

  • AI in the OR: Integrating AI with Intraop US Pat Pazmino, MD

  • US Guided Intramuscular Fat Grafting of the Upper Extremities, US Guided TAP and QL1 Blocks Pat Pazmino, MD

  • Removing Silicone Injections Barry DiBernardo, MD

  • Viality Fat Graft and Multicenter 1 Year Data Bruce Van Natta, MD

  • Panel Discussion Barry DiBernardo, MD, Pat Pazmino, MD and Bruce Van Natta, MD

  • Penile Enhancement On The Rise? Cory Torgersen, MD

  • Male Enhancement: What’s New and Why is This So Popular Now? Jennifer Walden, MD

  • Female Enhancement: The O Shot and the P Shot Cynthia Diehl, MD

  • Panel Discussion Cynthia Diehl, MD, Cory Torgersen, MD and Jennifer Walden, MD

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