Your Speakers

Dr Steven Liew is a specialist trained plastic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. Well regarded as an educator and a global innovator in the development of a series of world-first non-surgical procedures which have earned him an international reputation. Dr Liew’s LIFT techniques to re-shape and dramatically transform facial shapes and features have revolutionised the cosmetic industry.

Dr Liew is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). Dr Liew is an educator. He is the brainchild and co-owner of Complete Face (www.completeface.net), the world’s first iPad interactive digital encyclopaedia of facial injectables, available to the global facial clinicians. Dr Liew sees himself as an innovator, a change agent, challenging the status quo with the uncomfortable notion that we can do things better. In 2019, Dr Liew started the all-inclusive multi-disciplinary aesthetic conference focusing on all things nonsurgical in Sydney: Aesthetics 2019, with the philosophy that education should be inclusive rather than exclusive. To learn, To share, To advance TOGETHER (www.aestheticsau.com).

Dr David Ong is an Australian trained Medical Doctor with over 10 years of postgraduate experience. He trained with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons before focusing his skills on the art of facial aesthetics.

He is a presenter at national cosmetic conferences and regularly trains doctors and nurses to optimise patient outcomes. His specialty interests include Asian Aesthetics, HA-based Structured Jawline Contouring and using evidence based Facial Rejuvenation techniques. 

Dr Van Park graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of New South Wales in 2000. Whilst undertaking her undergraduate medical studies, Dr Park worked as a qualified makeup artist, where her passion for cosmetic and aesthetic medicine was born. It was from this early exposure in her career to facial shape and contours and its relationship the perception of beauty and youth that has led her to develop an intimate understanding of facial aesthetics.  This has given her a unique angle to aesthetic medicine and its interrelationship between the concept of beauty, art and science. 

In Australia, whilst the cosmetic medicine industry was still in relative infancy in 1998 Dr Park was afforded the opportunity to work under some of Australia’s pre-eminent cosmetic physicians.  This experience gave Dr Park invaluable exposure to the industry and an opportunity to fine tune her technique in combining the science and technology of cosmetic medicine with the art of makeup artistry.

For the past 16 years Dr Park has been a trainer for multiple companies facilitating workshops and training sessions both nationally and internationally in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and China. She is a fellow of the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australia (CPSA), Australian Society of Cosmetic Medicine (ASCM) and an honorary member of the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery (ACCS).

According to Dr Park there are many opportunities to shape the face without invasive procedures; the greatest potential being from dermal fillers. Dr Park’s role as International Trainer is the realisation of a career goal bringing together over 10 years’ experience with her passion for beauty and the desire to see the industry grow through education and the sharing of ideas.

Professor Sebastian Cotofana is an Associate Professor for Anatomy in the Department of Medical Education at Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA. He received his M.D. degree in 2008 from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, where he also received his first Ph.D. degree in Medical Science. He obtained his second Ph.D. in Anatomy from Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria in 2015. After completing his residency in Trauma Surgery, Prof Cotofana transitioned to basic sciences and research, moving to Ross University School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Anatomy. In 2017, he moved to Albany, New York and joined the team at Albany Medical College.

In his scientific work, Prof Cotofana specializes in anatomy, facial embryology and histology. He is an international speaker and Live-Dissector at many meetings, international conferences and workshops. Prof Cotofana also serves as a reviewer for more than 10 scientific journals and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and books.