International Collaborations
Pakistan as an active participant in the global aesthetic surgery community, contributing knowledge and expertise while learning from international colleagues.
A legacy of international engagement
- 4
- Annual meetings
- 18
- Visiting faculty
- 10
- Countries
The Association for Aesthetic Surgery Pakistan brought Pakistan's aesthetic surgery community onto the international stage. Between 2022 and 2025 its four annual meetings, in Lahore and Islamabad, welcomed distinguished faculty from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.
These meetings went beyond lectures. Visiting surgeons performed live surgery in Pakistan, broadcast to the conference hall, and led hands-on workshops, giving Pakistani surgeons and trainees direct exposure to techniques from leading centres abroad.
That engagement helped raise professional standards and strengthen Pakistan's standing within the international aesthetic surgery community. PASS builds on it.
Four strands of collaboration
Partner societies and institutions
Formal relationships with aesthetic and plastic surgery societies, universities and teaching hospitals abroad.
Visiting international faculty
Leading surgeons invited to lecture, teach and operate at the Society's meetings.
Academic exchange programmes
Observerships, fellowships and visits that let members and trainees learn in centres of excellence, and colleagues from abroad learn here.
Joint conferences, workshops and educational initiatives
Co-hosted meetings, joint sessions at international congresses and shared educational projects.
Partner societies and institutions
Agreements are listed as they are formalised.
Memorandum of understanding
The Aesthetic Society
Memorandum of understanding with the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, signed in September 2023. Under it, The Aesthetic Society waives its application fee for members applying for International Active Membership.
Agreed by AASP. Continuation under PASS to be confirmed.
Academic partnership
Cairo FACE
A partnership uniting Cairo FACE and the Society to advance education and innovation in facial aesthetic surgery.
Agreed by AASP. Continuation under PASS to be confirmed.
International faculty
Surgeons from abroad who have lectured, taught or operated at the Society's meetings.
Bahrain
- Dr Ayman Elmeligy
Brazil
- Dr Adel Bark
Egypt
- Dr Ahmed Abdelaziz
Italy
- Assoc. Prof. Chiara Botti
- Dr Giovanni Botti
- Prof. Alessio Redaelli
Morocco
- Dr Wafaa Mradmi
Sweden
- Dr Charles Randquist
Türkiye
- Dr Süleyman Eserdağ
- Dr Süreyya Şeneldir
- Prof. Erkan Soylu
- Prof. Süleyman Taş
United Arab Emirates
- Dr Samir Ghoraba
United Kingdom
- Dr Taimur Shoaib
United States
- Dr Timothy Marten
- Dr Tinatin Tomadze
To be confirmed
- Dr Elad Azizli
- Dr Humberto Morelli
Societies and institutions interested in an academic partnership with PASS may write to the General Secretary at secretariat@pass-pk.com.