The Northwest Society of Plastic Surgeons is a regional plastic surgery society. We serve a 350 physician membership from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii.

We welcome applications for membership from interested candidate plastic surgeons. Please see our Membership section.

Our recent annual scientific meeting, our 48th, was February 20-24, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort. Doctors Rollin Daniel and Tim Marten were our guest faculty. The meeting was super-well-attended, particularly "in these times", and with a surprising number of out-of-region physicians and their families.

Mark your calendars: our next annual meeting, our 49th (!), will be at one of our all-time favorite ski venues, Sun Valley. The dates of the meeting are February 12 - 16, 2011. Committed guest faculty are Jay Burns, MD from Dallas, and Jim Grotting, MD from Birmingham. This already looks to be another stellar meeting.

All plastic surgeons and invited healthcare professionals are welcome to attend. There is truly something of interest for everyone at our annual meeting.

Spouses and kids are also well-taken care of at the meeting sites.

2/28/10 Post-Meeting NEWS!

Aloha All,

Not four days after the end of the Kauai meeting and a wild thing happened:

Major quake (8.8) in Chile, which raised tsunami alarms in Hawaii and the West coast. Fortunately all coastal areas were OK. Major thanks to Drew for picking the pre-quake date.

Thank you again for the excellent vendor support this year, with Mentor and Allergan once again sponsoring traditional Saturday and Monday evening receptions . All exhibitors were acknowledged in the printed program and will look forward to meeting you and demonstrating their products and services in future meetings.

Thanks to all for joining the party - see you at Sun Valley!

Online annual dues payment is now available online. Click here or on the site map entry to your left to be directed to our online store.

Note the final meeting agenda for review on the meeting registration page. Check it out!

2010 and back Dues are due! Either pay online (see above) or mail those checks for $100 to Aysel Sanderson MD, 16 Central Way, Kirkland, WA 98033 - phone is (425) 284-2120. Your soul will feel light and airy after you pay your dues, both current and unpaid past dues. Trust us on this.

PLEASE NOTE the Photo Gallery HAS BEEN UPDATED thanks to the diligent work of Historian Louis McCraw MD, Nick Vedder MD, and Richard Baxter MD. We now have representative pictures from meetings at Maui in 2005 through the just-completed Kauai meeting in 2010.
All photograph submissions are appreciated. Go visit the Gallery and relive highlights of past meetings. If you have photographs you would like posted in the gallery please email them or send a CD to us. Prints can also be scanned and returned to you in pristine condition, I promise. Mail them to Vicky Dean-Swart, Louis McCraw MD, historian, or Dan Downey MD.