ISTANBUL - The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) presented a Turkish plastic surgeon with "The Maliniac Lecture" Award for the first time.
Prof. Dr. Onur Erol received the award given after Prof. Dr. Jacques W. Maliniac, founder of the PSEF, during the Plastic Surgery 2007 Conference held in Baltimore, the United States, with the participation of nearly 4 thousand plastic surgeons from different countries.
Erol delivered a speech on "the Synthesis of Western and Turkish Culture on the Development of a Plastic Surgeon" and gave information of development of plastic surgery in Turkey and his surgical techniques.