November 24th, 2003 - November 30th, 2003
MEDICAL SPA CONFERENCE
The Official Conference For Medical Spa Professionals
SANTA FE, NM: The Medical Spa Professional Alliance recently hosted their FOURTH Medical Spa Conference & Expo® in Indian Wells, CA at The Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa near Palm Springs. The ongoing series of Medical Spa Conferences is the only "official" and ORIGINAL conference designed specifically for `medical spas’, medical, spas, fitness and aesthetic professionals, who are interested in the successful growth of Medical Spas with attendees from the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Marian Urban, the CEO of Medical Spa Conferences notes, "This has become the only medically directed conference that remains true to medical spa clients and patients with state-of-the-art technologies. The Medical Spa Conference & Expo® events are absolutely different! This highly exclusive, educational conference has built a strong reputation for providing physicians, medical aestheticians, nurses, medical clinicians, spa directors and spa management teams with the educational tools and technical information they will need to be successful. These unique educationally driven events are designed specifically for those spa owners, directors and physicians that have medical spas or are researching how to open a new medical spa."
The Medical Spa Conference® is proud to be the ONLY spa conference that offers qualifying attendees with Continuing Medical Education ~ Category One Credits. The CME Board strictly guides educational accreditation based upon pre-approval of high quality curriculum within consistent educational standards. Seventeen CME Credits were awarded to each participating physician attendee at the 4th Medical Spa Conference in Palm Springs this year.
Marian Urban continues, "We are very pleased with our enormous success in this newly burgeoning trend in medical spas. We were pleased to have CBS TV and a host of 35 reporters, editors and publishers from across the globe in attendance to cover this event. We remain excited to see this new movement towards more progressive medical spas, which are changing the way that medicine will be practiced in the future! Today, medical clinic patients and spa clients are demanding more personalized healthcare and preventative treatments that will keep them healthy, while healthy-aging programs will also keep them feeling young and vibrant. The `Medical Spas’ are the perfect arena for this type of quality spacare through preventative wellness service treatments, healthy-aging therapies and holistic therapies. Our commitment remains to maintain a very exclusive environment at each of our two annual Medical Spa Conferences. The Medical Spa Conference is a relatively small event which is strategically planned to offer high quality advanced educational opportunities."
The Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Medical Spa was selected because of the recent addition of the 30,000 square foot Spa, Aqua Serena. Richard Foxx MD, Medical Director of The Medical and Skin Spa within the Hyatt Resort was a guest lecturer at this conference. He, along with Spa Director Bruce Taylor, offered a personal tour of this wonderful spa retreat. The Medical and Skin Spa at Aqua Serena is a luxurious medical spa that embodies a progressive example of how fitness, traditional therapies, relaxing spa treatments, medical and cosmetic medical therapies can be effectively and harmoniously incorporated within one facility.
Dima Ali MD was announced as the new president of the Medical Spa Professional Alliance. She hosted all of the nationally and internationally renown speakers whom included: Richard Foxx MD, Randy Alvarez, Pamela Price, Mitchel Goldman, MD, Gary Bucher MD, Robert Bradford, Nancy Griffin, Susie Ellis, Manon Pilon, Colby Smith, Sharon Norling MD, Sarah Noble and Sylvie Archenault. Some of the special topics include `Sports Medicine In A Medical Spa’ by Elizabeth Leeds-Pinto and Randal Schober; Hormone Replacement and Human Growth Hormones’ by Ron Rothenberg MD; `Lasers For Your Medical Spa’ by Dima Ali MD; `Hydrotherapy As A Medical Treatment’ by German Schleinkofer; ` Effectiveness Of Electrolysis Water Therapies and Vitamin C Anti-Oxidants’ by Priti Odedra; Protecting Your Skin With Vitamin E’ by Andres Papas MD; Non-Invasive Rejuvenation’ by Mitchel P. Goldman MD; `Integrating Massage and Medicine Into Your Medical Spa’ by Maria Turk.
NEXT MSC EVENT ~ ATLANTA GA: The next Medical Spa Conference® will be held at the elegant Hyatt Peachtree Hotel from June 13 to 16, 2004. Conference registration and more information can be found by calling 877-ALL-SPAS or by visiting their website.
This next Medical Spa Conference will feature Dima Ali MD; Manuel Sanchez MD; Marcello Suarez MD; Paula Dean, Clodagh Designs, Hugh Jones, Michael Effler, Helen Torok MD; John Fanuzzi, Maria Turk, Sharon Norling MD, Larry Oskin and many more notable speakers from across the globe. Seminars will include `Choosing Your Lasers’, `The Journey Of A Medical Spa’, `A Doctor And Her Designer For The Future Of Medicine’, `Laughter As Medicine’, `Medical Massage, `Your Environment & Your Patients’, `Botox’, `Successful Media Relations Strategies For Medical Spas’ and a series of technical presentations. Once again, a large number of CME units will be available in Atlanta.
MEDICAL SPA PROFESSIONAL ALLIANCE: The primary mission of the Medical Spa Professional Alliance is to provide a non-biased, informed, ACCME Certified, educational conference focusing wholly on medical spa information. The Medical Spa Professional Alliance will be a neutral institution, which will provide dissemination on information and whose focus will be in maintaining the integrity of the term "Medical Spa."
Beatrice Mendez is the Medical Advisor for the Medical Spa Conference. Marian Urban is the CEO of the Medical Spa Professional Alliance. Board Members include Dima Ali MD as President; Derrick DeSilva MD as Vice President; and Stephanie Urban as Secretary / Treasurer. The newly updated Educational Advisory Committee includes Manuel Sanchez MD; Richard Foxx MD, Marcello Suarez MD; Michelle Palmer, PhD; Helen Torok MD; Maria Turk, Julie Eller-Zech and Marian Urban.
CALL FOR FUTURE MEDICAL SPA SPEAKERS! Each conference is designed with an ever-changing array of demonstrations, speakers, lectures and topics, which guarantees that all Medical Spa Conference attendees will want to be regular attendees at each event. Interested speakers should immediately submit their 2004 presentation proposals, resume and photograph for consideration to medicalspaconference@msn.com. Discounts are always available for early conference attendee and exhibitor registrations. For more information on registration, exhibiting and speaker opportunities, contact: 877-255-7727 or visit their website.
Email / Electronic Versions Of This Release Are Available By Calling Larry Oskin at: 703-359-6000 or via email at: LOskin@MktgSols.com.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The Medical Spa Conference & Expo event is not to be confused with the New York Spa & Resort "Medi-Spa Expo" [for questions about this statement, contact: medicalspaconference@msn.com].
