ICOPLAST Meeting Peru 2022

ICOPLAST has been formed as a non-profit organization with a mission to improve patient outcomes worldwide; to educate, communicate, advocate and advance the specialty of Plastic Surgery globally; to ensure that quality and safety are the essential components of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery training and patient care, and to encourage collaboration of national plastic surgery societies worldwide.

The core values of ICOPLAST are to provide benefits for patients, benefits for plastic surgeons and benefits for plastic surgery.

During meetings in Chicago, Frankfurt, Bruges and Boston representatives from countries around the world met to discuss a new way forward for international plastic surgery and the first steps toward the foundation of a new organization were taken. Finally during the XXI Ibero-Latin American Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Punta del Este, Uruguay in March 2016, the International Confederation of Plastic Surgery Societies (ICOPLAST) was formally launched by sixty-two founding member societies.

The purpose of ICOPLAST is to educate, communicate, advocate and advance the specialty of plastic surgery globally, all in the widest sense of the word. The confederation will achieve this purpose by facilitating communications and education among national plastic surgery societies as well as by all other means that are conducive to that purpose as a not-for-profit organization.

ICOPLAST will openly welcome national societies that wish to join. ICOPLAST does not belong to any continent, region or country but supports plastic surgeons worldwide.

Given the extensive number of plastic surgery meetings that already occur, ICOPLAST will not organize stand-alone meetings but will meet in association with existing conferences of regional societies. It will focus on providing an online platform to share knowledge and provide opportunities for plastic surgeons to engage and interact without the need for additional travel.