This is an overview of the topics and program in the Berlin meeting.
Conference Hotel is Hotel Riu Plaza Berlin
16:00-21:00 May 6 Wednesday Evening: Registration Booth Open !
May 7 Thursday Congress Center / Big room
Session | Topic | Moderation: Carlos Calixto |
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Session 1 | Welcome & Basic | |
08:00 – 08:10 | Welcome | Özgür Öztan, Reza Azar |
Session 1 | Consultation and surgical planning | Moderation: Lars Heitmann |
Psychological aspects of alopecia | Ozlem Bicer | |
Concept and Philosophy: Keeping hair restoration surgery minimally invasive: Why FUE? | Patrick Mwamba | |
Why Manual Harvesting? | Lars Heitmann | |
Why Motorised Harvesting? | Kuldeep Saxena | |
Hair consultation and surgical planning for men | Mughese Amin | |
Hair consultation and surgical planning for women | Chiara Insalaco | |
Female hair loss | Alex Seiadatan | |
Effective hair loss Treatment before Surgery | Pradeep Sethi | |
Female Hair Line Design | Bijan Feriduni | |
Male Hair Line Design | Bijan Feriduni | |
Concepts for Huge Bald Areas | Karin Leonhardt | |
Mega Session vs. Multi-Stage Surgery | NN | |
Discussion | ||
Session 2 | Donor area Assessment | Moderation: Pradeep Sethi |
Detailed family medical history as prerequisite to sustained surgical planning | Christina Sanoja | |
What is Safe Donor Area? | Mughese Amin | |
Balance Between Donor Area and Recipient Area | Carlos Calixto | |
Avoiding Over-harvesting and Shock loss of Donor Area | Patrick Mwamba | |
New Sotware: Automatic Calculation of Hair Diameter Index (HDI) – Avoiding Overharvesting | Georgios Zontos | |
New Software: Evaluation of Donor and Recipient Area | Christina Sanoja | |
Using Body Hair as additional source | Özgür Öztan | |
FUT vs FUE. Total graft availability | Rana Irfan | |
Discussion | ||
13:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
Session 3 | Donor Harvesting – Extraction of Follicular Units | Moderation: Patrick Mwamba |
Nerve block Anaesthesia in Scalp donor | Habib Ullah Shah | |
Optimal Storage Solution and Optimal temperature | Thitiwat Wirarojratchakul | |
Effect of Punch Size and Punch Shape on Surgical Outcome | Tejinder Bhatti | |
Unshaven FUE – My U-FUE Classic – | Patrick Mwamba | |
Unshaven FUE – My Experiences – | Tayfun Oguzoglu | |
Direct Hair Transplantation (DHT) | Pradeep Sethi | |
Four-Hands-FUE | Mughese Amin | |
Auto-Transplant on Myself | Felix Popescu | |
Discussion | ||
Session 4 | Incision and Graft implantation | Moderation: Tayfun Öguzoglu |
Nerve block Anaesthesia in Scalp Recipient Area | Habib Ullah Shah | |
My Opinion about Dense Packing | Tejinder Bhatti | |
Impact of Tumescence, Incision Angels and Density | Lars Heitmann | |
Which type of Incision is to be preferred: Sagittal or Coronal Incision? | Georgios Zontos | |
How to achieve maximum coverage by optimization of follicle placement | Dimitrios Ziakas | |
Forceps Implantation | Carlos Calixto | |
Stick and Place | Özgür Öztan | |
Using Implanter | Pradeep Sethi | |
Sharp Implanters in pre-made sites using multiple blades | Thitiwat Wirarojratchakul | |
Direct Implantation with sharp implanters | Anastasios Vekris | |
Automated Device for Incision and Implantation | Kuldeep Saxena | |
Discussion |
May 8 Friday Congress Center / Big room
Session | Topic | Faculty / Speaker |
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8:00-15:00 | Moderated Clinic Surgery Transmission | |
13:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
15:30-17:00 | Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine | Moderation |
Human Hair Regeneration or Neogeneration: Close but Yet So Far | Parvaneh Mohamadi /Keynote Speaker | |
Isolation and Expansion of Follicular Stem Cells – Cell Culture – | Beren Atac-Wagegg | |
Injection of Follicular Stem Cells against Heir Loss : REGENERA ACTIVA | Reza Azar | |
How to isolate a ready-to-use adipose-derived stem cells pellet for clinical application | Edoardo Raposio | |
PRP Procedures, Mesotherapy Products and Applications | Katrin Böttger | |
PRP Procedure and Clinical Results | Chiara Insalaco | |
Temporary Shedding after PRP Treatment | Reza Azar | |
Hair Transplant with complementary PRP and Stem Cells therapies | Felix Popescu |
May 8 Friday Clinic
Session | Topic | Faculty / Speaker |
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FRIDAY 8:00-15:00 | Moderation: Özgur Öztan | |
Room 1 | ||
08:00-08:30 | Eyebrow Transplant: Prepoperative Preperation, shaving, Anesthesia | Reza Azar |
08:30-08:50 | Eyebrows: Begin with extraction of FU | |
08:50-09:30 | Eyebrows: Anesthesia of eyebrows, Slits and Insertion | |
Live switch to room 2 | ||
10:00-11:15 | Eyelash Transplantation | Reza Azar |
11:55-13:30 | Isolation of adipose stem cells | Edoardo Raposio |
Room 2 | Manual Hair Transplant | Lars Heitmann |
8:00-8:30 | Prepoperative Preperation, Hairline Design | |
8:30-8:50 | Anesthesia, Starting extraction | |
Live switch to room 1 | ||
9:30-10:00 | Extraction | |
10:00 Live switch to room 1 | ||
10:50-11:15 | Slits and Insertion | |
11:15 Live switch to room 1 | ||
11:50-13:30 | Insertion and endig of surgery | |
Room 3 | ||
08:30-09:45 | Bodyhair transplantation: Prepoperative Preperation, shaving, Anesthesia | Patrick Mwamba |
09:45-11:00 | Bodyhair transplantation: Extraction and Insertion | |
11:30-13:00 | Unshaven FUE | Tayfun Öguzoglu |
Room 4 | ||
08:00-12:00 | PRP Workshop (alternating group workshop) – NO Streaming | Chiara Insalaco, Katrin Böttger |
LAB | Stem Cell Isolation and Expansion – Cell Culture – NO Streaming | Atac-Wagegg |
May 8 Friday Congress Center / Workshop Room
Session | Topic | Faculty / Speaker |
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Session 1 | Patient Communication | Bola, Ludger Mentrup |
Nico, Brian | ||
Ozlem Bicer | ||
– Marketing Strategy | ||
– Target groups | ||
– Marketing Portfolio | ||
– Handling Patients | ||
– Problem solving | ||
Session 2 | Black Market / Preparation of Presentaion on Friday | Ludger Mentrup |
Christoph Bomke | ||
Definition of Black Market | ||
Patient information: | ||
– Network of Doctors | ||
– Social Media | ||
– forums | ||
Legal (just frame) | ||
– Work law | ||
– Advertising law | ||
– Medical law | ||
– Immigration law | ||
Financing & Organisation | ||
Cooperation with Turkey / EU / ISHRS | ||
13:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
Session 3 | to be defined | NN |
End of Workshop 15:30 ! |
May 9 Saturday Congress Center / Big Room
Session | Topic | Faculty / Speaker |
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Session 1 | Innovation & Special Forms of Hair Transplantation | Moderation: Carlos Calixto |
Donor Evaluation and Assessment and Donor management with ke-bot and Ke-bot mobile | Keynote: Koray Erdogan | |
Beard Hair Transplantation | Dimitrios Ziakas | |
Beard Restoration and Beard as Donor Area | Anastasios Vekris | |
Eyebrow Transplantation | Reza Azar | |
Eyelash Transplantation | Reza Azar | |
Body Hair Transplantation | Patrick Mwamba | |
Discussion | ||
Session 2 | Hair Transplant Repair | Moderation: Patrick Mwamba |
Is FUE moving in the wrong direction: Black Market and Repair Surgery | Ludger Mentrup | |
Hair Transplantation: Laws and Regulations in Germany | Christoph Bomke | |
Hair Transplantation: Laws and Regulations in Italy | Leonardo D’Erasmo | |
Hair Density: balance between patient expectations and his real possibilities | Koray Erdogan | |
The Most failures in Hair Restoration Surgery | Tayfun Öguzoglu | |
My Experiences in Hair Transplant Repair | Bijan Feriduni | |
Failed Hair Transplants: Repair of Hairline | Habib Ullah Shah | |
Repair of Overharvested Donor: Donor Restocking | Patrick Mwamba | |
My Experiences with Hair Transplantation in Burn Scar | Habib Ullah Shah | |
Hair Transplantation in Burn Scar Alopecia | Mughese Amin | |
Graft density in Hair Reconstructive Surgery on skin grafts and scars | Felix Popescu | |
Stress and Wound Healing | Karin Leonhardt | |
Discussion | ||
13:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
Session 3 | Special Dermatological Topics | Moderation: Ralf Paus |
Biology of Hair Follicles and their Diseases | Ralf Paus | |
Alopecia: Evaluation and treatment | Annika Vogt | |
Cicatricial Alopecia: Evaluation and Treatment | Matthew Harries | |
Session 4 | Hair Transplant | |
Basics of Hair Transplant | Reza Azar | |
19:30:00 | Gala-Dinner |
Extra course: Stem Cell Workshop
This course will take place in clinic laboratory

This lab Hands-On Course about “Manual Isolation of Follicular Stem Cells” will be held with a small selected number of particpants . Not included in congress tickets – Please book extra !