"EDUCATION IN PARADISE"
The American Electrology Association's Annual
Convention & Exhibitor's Showcase
Oct. 16 -19
A CONVENTION WITH I.M.P.A.C.T., is how the organizers of the American Electrology Association's annual convention are describing their forthcoming get-together in Hawaii, Oct. 16-19, 1996. They promise that their program will have all the essential ingredients - Informative, Motivating, Participatory, Advanced, Communicative, Theory and technology - for a "best ever" meeting, and have lined up an excellent roster of speakers to ensure that the AEA's reputation for quality education remains undisputed. As further insurance that nothing will get off course, the Association is returning to the same tried-and-true host hotel, the Hawaiian Regent, on Honolulu's Waikiki Beach, which has been a big hit with convention visitors on previous junkets to the South Sea islands.
Across the North American continent during the last 10 months, at every professional electrolysis organization meeting, the topic of laser epilation has headed the agenda, and the AEA intends to have this subject well covered in Hawaii. To help delegates stay fully informed, three laser experts will be among the convention's guest speakers, and it looks as though "the laser phenomenon" might be the sub-theme of this year's "AEA Grande Event."
First, The Education
For most convention visitors the convention gets under way on the morning of Wednesday Oct. 16, with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. and going on until 5:00 p.m.. For electrologists who are taking the AEA certification exam (for CPE designation), registration is between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.. The exam will take place between 9:00 a.m. and noon.
Wednesday afternoon starts off with the AEA's Annual Meeting, election of officers and installation 1:00-2:30 p.m. - all members invited. The balance of the afternoon is reserved for the convention's keynote speaker, Adrianna Scheibner, M.D., who will talk about the techniques she has developed to eliminate scarring and her laser treatment of portwine birthmarks, tattoos, stretchmarks, various skin blemishes and sclerotherapy. Of particular interest to electrologists will be that part of Dr. Scheibner's private dermatology practice in Beverly Hills, California, that deals with laser hair removal - "performed by certified laser specialists who are specifically trained by Dr. Scheibner in the use of 'The Scheibner Technique.'"
Wednesday evening is reserved for the AEA's now-famous Welcome Cocktail Party, 7:00-9:00 p.m., where there's always lots of good food and entertainment in the company of friends and compeers.
On "the morning after," Thursday, Oct. 17, things get going bright and early with Continental Breakfast, Registration and Exhibitors Showcase. Dermatologist Marianna W. Rosen, M.D., is the first speaker of the day, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. She will explain how electrologists can recognize and know the implications of certain skin conditions.
British electrologist, author and educator Gill Morris, will be the next lecturer, 10:00 a.m. until noon. Ms. Morris has 22 years of experience in the electrolysis field and was instrumental in converting U.K. electrologists to the use of sterile, disposable needles. In addition to her role as Director of Training and Public Relations for Sterex Electrolysis International, she sits on a number of collage advisory committees and has represented the electrolysis community numerous times on British TV and radio. In her presentation at this meeting, Ms. Morris will present the clinical aspects of electrolysis, viewed from an international perspective.
After the lunch hour there is just one education session, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., presented by orthopedist Gregory Chow, M.D., of Queens Medical Center, Hawaii. Dr. Chow will discuss bone disorders such as osteoporosis (to which females are most prone) and carpel tunnel syndrome (a condition commonly found among electrologists).
The short Thursday afternoon program allows plenty of preparation time for those conventioneers who intend to join their colleagues in a big fun night aboard the Star of Honolulu, absorbing the breath-taking views of Oahu, wining and dining and being entertained by some of Hawaii¹s top entertainers.
On Friday morning after continental breakfast its time for another lecture on the ever-popular subject of laser epilation. The expert on this occasion will be Melanie C. Grossman, M.D., who is clinical instructor of dermatology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, in New York, and director of Clinical & Research Studies at the New York Laser and Skin Surgery Center. Dr. Grossman recently conducted the second of two clinical trials on the laser epilation system developed by Spectrum Medical Technologies in Natick, Massachusetts (a subsidiary of Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc.). In February of this year she was quoted in the Boston Globe as saying, ³the hope is that lasers will prove to be more efficient than other methods of hair removal, though we don¹t have the answers to that yet.² It will be especially interesting for AEA convention visitors to hear what Dr. Grossman now has to say about laser epilation, following closely on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration¹s July 1996 announcement that Spectrum¹s Epilaser would not be approved as a hair removal device.
The second part of the morning is reserved for guest speakers Andrea Bingham and Steven Gondert who together will offer ¹90s-style information on selecting computer-based business management tools for the electrologist¹s office.
The afternoon lecturer, completing the triad of laser specialists, will be Judith Irwin, executive vice-president of Paradigm Lasers, Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., who will enlighten her audience on the basic theory and properties of laser energy. Tim Irwin, chief executive officer of Paradigm, was a guest speaker at last year¹s AEA convention in Reno, Nevada, when the new probe-type laser epilator developed by Dr. Ken Hashimoto (to be marketed by Paradigm) had its unveiling.
With work over by 3:00 p.m. on this third day of the convention, those delegates who are ready for some more R & R can opt, if they wish, to join the group of electrologists who will be heading out to Paradise Cove for a traditional luau and a fun-filled evening of Hawaiian food, pitchers of
Mai Tais, and sensational Polynesian entertainment.
After continental breakfast on Saturday, Oct. 19, Mark Chudnoff becomes the last guest speaker of the event, holding the podium from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Mr. Chudnoff, who is the president of Chudnoff & Associates, Inc. ‹ a highly regarded, independent marketing research company that has done other surveys for AEA in the past ‹ will talk about the interesting responses he got from dermatologists, endocrinologists and other American medical doctors to questions regarding electrolysis and electrology practitioners.
Once the data from the current Electrolysis and Physicians survey has been presented at the Hawaii convention, work can begin on the remaining two parts of the study: a questionnaire to provide updated information about client/practitioner relationships, and a random telephone study among women in the United States. The findings from these studies will be presented at AEA conventions in 1997 and 1998.
The AEA¹s educational program concludes with Mr. Chudnoff¹s presentation, but the closing of the Exhibitor Showcase ‹ open all day on the three weekdays ‹ officially closes the AEA convention on Saturday at 1:00p.m.
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