NSS2022 With Dr Naveen Somia

Transforming Bodies Podcast

Transcript- NSS2022 With Dr. Naveen Somia Nic Hello, and welcome to Aesthetics Uncensored with your host Trish Hammond and today, I'm joining her Nicole Montgomery. And we have the Conference Convenor and Past President of ASAPS Dr. Naveen Somia, today joining us which is very exciting to talk to us all about the Non-Surgical Symposium, which is from the 3-5 June this year at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Naveen, please let us know what we are in store for? Dr Somia Thanks, Trish and thanks, Nicole for having me on this podcast. Look, I think we are very excited to have everyone back together under one roof. Because I think over the last two years we've not had a live face to face meeting and I think we've missed everyone, and we miss the joy of having people, miss the interactions, the exchange of ideas, information and basically the lack the interruption and the continuity of what we call as care and understanding of knowledge flow. So all those things, hopefully we can rectify this with this meeting. And look, we're all pumped and excited and it's sure going to be a very successful blockbuster meeting, as we call it, we've had a record number of people subscribing to attend the meeting in person, we've had the anatomy for injectors workshop, full, we've had all the exhibitors occupy all these stands so I think there is something in it for everyone. And I think the best way to look at this meeting is it's something that you're going to add to your current body of knowledge by listening from experts around the world, we're going to talk and share stuff with you, you've learned from industry who have been busy in the background, researching and developing products and procedures over the last two years, and then there'll be such a fabulous wealth of information knowledge for you to improve your practice. And ultimately, the entire focus of this meeting is about education, and how education translates to safety so there is plenty, and plenty more for everyone and there's something in it for everybody so we can't wait to host the meeting and personally welcome all of you to the Gold Coast. Nic It is so exciting. I think for myself, we've had a lot of zooms so there's been a lot of content thrown at us over the last couple of years. But a lot of those zooms have been run by, you know, by distributors or companies who obviously have their own product or device. Whereas having a conference like the Non Surgical Symposium, it is very education boasts a base and there are a lot of sessions that are non bias that are based on you know, a real clinicians, real experiences or case studies or whatnot, which is something that we've really missed in the last couple of years. Dr Somia Absolutely. Look, I agree with you. In fact, one of the things, plus points of a meeting or conference is to have a chat with the speaker after the session is over. And I think that, to me, is priceless and even if you just look around to your left and to your right in the meeting, both the time we have a coffee break, you'll always come across somebody who either will offer a different perspective on the same treatment, or an advanced version of what you think. So it's, I find it priceless and every time we've been doing this meeting for quite some time, and every time I've either done the anatomy detector tutor job, I've always picked up a few things and I'm always amazed at how much of information is out there that I have missed out over the last few years and you pick up a technical tip or two from other people and one from industry, a better business practice, so on and so forth. So ultimately, you will get kind of what I say is a holistic view of the practice and ultimately little by little, it'll just incrementally increase. And I haven't read a book recently called Atomic Habits by the American gentleman called, James Clear. And if you haven't heard of that book, it is worthwhile looking at this book and reading about it and walking the walk