Congress Registration

Read Instructions Before Beginning The Registration Process

1. ISHRS Physician Members – You will enter your last name and ISHRS member number. Your member number is located on a recent meeting promotional e-mail and/or an old dues renewal notice. If you are unable to locate your membership number, then please contact the ISHRS Headquarters.

2. Non-Members & Non-Physicians – You will need a special code.

3. Exhibitors – You should register via the Exhibit Registration website.

Questions? Please contact the ISHRS Headquarters at 1-630-262-5399, U.S. Domestic Toll-Free 1-800-444-2737, or by email at info@ISHRS.org.

Registration Fees and Categories

Be an Early Bird to receive the best rates!

Early Bird Deadline: August 15, 2016
Regular Registration Deadline: September 16, 2016
Post- and Onsite Registration: After September 16, 2016

Registration Fees
The general registration fee includes: admittance to general scientific sessions, Friday workshops (one morning and one afternoon selection), scientific posters, exhibits, coffee/refreshment breaks, lunches (Thursday-Saturday), Welcome Reception, a Final Program Guide, and access to the electronic Abstract Book. For Surgical Assistants and Ancillary Staff categories, it also includes admittance to the Surgical Assistants Program. Extra courses and ticketed events may require additional fees. All fees are denoted in U.S. dollars (USD) unless otherwise indicated.

Registration Categories

Registration Verification

Registration verification is required for the indicated categories and must accompany registration form. Acceptable forms of verification are as follows:

• For the Non-Member Physician: a statement on the physician’s letterhead, a copy of the physician’s medical certificate or license, or, a letter from a current ISHRS physician member attesting to the credentials as a physician.
• For the Non-Member Adjunct/Trichologist: a statement on the person’s business letterhead attesting to the credentials of the person or a certificate of membership in his/her trichologic society.
• For the Non-Member Physician Resident: a letter of verification from the residency program director.
• For the Training Fellow: a letter of verification from the fellowship training program director.
• For Surgical Assistant, Office Manager, Office Staff, Clinic Director, Marketing/Webmaster: the official Letter of Attestation as provided on the ISHRS website or ISHRS meeting registration site.
• Spouse/Guest: a letter from the Physician or Adjunct noting the relationship with the individual.

Policy Limiting Attendance by Non-Physicians at ISHRS Meetings

Introduction The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (“ISHRS”) Board of Governors (“Board”) recognizes that the ISHRS’s exempt purpose is advanced by, among other things, providing educational opportunities, training, and courses to physicians and their assistants regarding hair restoration techniques, procedures, and related issues. The Board also recognizes that there have been, and are, physician assistants, and other non-physician personnel, who seek to perform hair restoration techniques and procedures without a physician and/or otherwise outside the scope of their licensure and area of expertise, thereby jeopardizing patient safety. Accordingly, the Board determined that patient safety is advanced and the ISHRS’s exempt purpose is furthered by limiting attendance by non-physicians at ISHRS educational meetings and courses in accordance with this Policy.

Policy

1. Only physicians and Authorized Non-Physicians (as defined herein) may attend the ISHRS’s Annual Scientific Meeting or any ISHRS sponsored educational courses (“ISHRS Course”). For the purposes of this Policy, Authorized Non-Physicians include only surgical assistants, technicians, and other office personnel employed by an ISHRS Physician Member (as defined in ISHRS’s Bylaws, including Fellow, Associate Member, Member, Resident Member, Emeritus Member) or ISHRS Physician Member Applicant (Member-Pending) with a completed application on file (Associate Member, Member, Resident Member, Emeritus Member) who attends the same ISHRS Course*. The ISHRS Physician Member or ISHRS Physician Member Applicant must have a clinical hair restoration practice and perform hair restoration surgery. For the purposes of this Policy, an Authorized Non-Physician is “employed by” an ISHRS Physician Member or ISHRS Physician Member Applicant only if they have an employer-employee relationship as recognized by law, and the employment is full-time or permanent part-time (i.e., as opposed to an independent contractor, partner, part-time, or temporary service provider, or any other business relationship), and the Authorized Non-Physician must be located in the same state/location as the physician who must be licensed in that state/location.
2. An Authorized Non-Physician will only be permitted to attend an ISHRS Course if his/her ISHRS Physician Member/ISHRS Physician Member Applicant employer also attends the ISHRS Course* and completes and submits a signed Letter of Attestation in the form prescribed by ISHRS verifying their employment. A copy of the current Letter of Attestation required by ISHRS is attached to this Policy.
3. Specific to stand alone Workshops with a separate Assistants Track: An Authorized Non-Physician will be permitted to attend without his/her employing physician if the following criteria are met. The ISHRS believes that a physician performing hair restoration should be acquainted with all aspects of hair restoration surgery, including the duties performed by the assistants and technicians. To ensure that the employing physician has the fundamental knowledge base there are physician requirements in order for their assistant(s) to attend. An Authorized Non-Physician will only be permitted to attend this type of workshop if his/her ISHRS Physician Member/ISHRS Physician Member Applicant employer has been practicing hair restoration for at least three years OR has attended one of the following meetings/courses within the preceding three years: 1) an ISHRS annual scientific meeting and attended the “Basics Course”, 2) the St. Louis University “Hair Transplant 360” Workshop, or 3) the ISHRS Orlando Live Surgery Workshop. The physician must complete and submit the signed Letter of Attestation in the form prescribed by the ISHRS.
4. Falsifying the Letter of Attestation is an ethics violation, and grounds for revoking a Physician Member’s membership.
5. Any person or entity who wants to exhibit and/or market their products or services at an ISHRS event may apply for an exhibit booth at the Annual Scientific Meeting or Regional Workshop in accordance with the ISHRS’s applicable policies and procedures, but are otherwise precluded from participating in an ISHRS Course unless they are a Physician or Authorized Non-Physician.
6. It is the ISHRS’s intention to closely monitor attendees and participants at ISHRS Courses to ensure compliance with this Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, the ISHRS’s Bylaws & Ethics Committee will play an active role in proctoring and taking action on any unethical behavior during all ISHRS Courses.

*Exception for approved stand alone Workshops with a separate Assistants Track.