This webinar was recorded live on November 13, 2024, and is approximately 90 minutes.

Dual Topic: Avoiding, Surviving, and Winning Medical Malpractice Claims & What Are the 5 Most Critical Financial Literacy Concepts to Know for a Successful Career as a Cosmetic Surgeon?
Speakers:  Wilbur Hah, MD, MBA, FAACS, and Alton (Tup) Ingram, MD, JD, MBA, FAACS

Description

First, Dr. Alton Ingram's insightful talk, Avoiding, Surviving, and Winning Medical Malpractice Claims, will uncover the common causes of malpractice claims in cosmetic surgery, explore effective risk management techniques to reduce liability, and learn best practices for comprehensive patient relationship and medicolegal documentation to enhance legal defense and minimize vulnerabilities. Next, Dr Hah will present, What Are the 5 Most Critical Financial Literacy Concepts to Know for a Successful Career as a Cosmetic Surgeon?

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the activity, the learner should be able to:

1. dentify common causes of medical malpractice claims in cosmetic surgery and describe strategies to prevent them.
2. Assess risk management techniques that can reduce liability in cosmetic procedures.
3. Apply best practices for thorough patient documentation to minimize legal vulnerabilities.
4. Demonstrate the two only "free lunches" in investing your money
5. Illustrate the two main reasons plastic and cosmetic surgeons will make a large amount of money, but unfortunately will often lose a significant amount of that over their careers.
6. Recognize risks of embezzlement  in cosmetic surgery practices.
7. Implement methods to make dollars spent count in marketing their practice.

Bonus Items – Dr Hah and Dr Ingram will also discuss:

1. Three most common deficiencies seen in Dr Hah's 15 current active malpractice cosmetic surgery cases he is helping to defend.
2. Why two board certified plastic surgeons served jail time for negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter from cases of patient surgical fatalities.

Target Audience

Practitioners in the field of cosmetic surgery including, but not limited to, dermatology, general surgery, and plastic/reconstructive surgery.

Registration Required

Instructions for accessing the webinar will be provided immediately upon registration.

Registration Fees

• $120 - Non-Member Practitioner
• $60 - AACS Member (Physician or Allied Health)
• $0 - AACS Member (Resident)*
• $0 - AACS Member (Training Fellow)*

*Residents and training fellows - After adding the course to your cart, use the coupon code in your renewal confirmation letter to bring the price to $0. If you need assistance, please email AACS headquarters.

CME Credit

This is a non-CME course

About the Speakers

Wilbur Hah, MD, MBA, FAACS, has a background in banking with MBA in finance almost 40 years ago before attending medical school.  He is triple board certified in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, and cosmetic surgery.  He also served for eight years in the additional role of  Chief Financial Officer for a multispecialty group while maintaining a very busy practice.  In addition to formal financial training with work experience, Dr Hah will share financial decisions that made money, but more importantly, those that lost money over his career. Dr Hah is a past President of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. Along with Alton Ingram MD, JD, MBA, he cofounded the Cosmetic Surgery Patient Safety and BBL Safety programs for the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. 

He is most grateful for having performed 10,000 surgical procedures over a 30-year private practice in Southeast Texas.  He and his wife physician, Dr. Marian Chen-Hah  just retired this year. Dr Hah performed his last surgical procedure in Texas on his 60th birthday. He has a strong interest in cosmetic surgery patient safety topics.  Dr Hah is also currently serving as an expert witness in defending 15 different cosmetic surgery malpractice cases. He also recently served as the expert witness for Colorado District Attorney office where defendant plastic surgeon had to serve jail time and community service for conviction of criminal charges of negligent homicide.  Dr Hah is also a designated Cosmetic Surgery Expert Case reviewer for the Texas Medical Board. He has reviewed over 70 Medical Board Complaints made against Plastic, Facial Plastic, Cosmetic, and other surgeons in last 10 years.

Alton Ingram, MD, JD, MBA, FAACS, is a fellow and trustee of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and a former trustee of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

He assisted Dr. Wilbur Hah with the establishment of the Board's Cosmetic Surgery Patient Safety Initiative and its BBL Safety Certification. Dr. Ingram worked for five years at a plaintiff-side law firm in the 2010s where he specialized in medical malpractice, faulty medical device, and civil rights litigation.

In addition, he is Section Editor of The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery, and a member of the Editorial Board of Modern Research in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is an examiner for the written and oral boards in cosmetic surgery and facial cosmetic surgery. He is the only cosmetic surgeon on staff at Nashville General Hospital, where he provides free reconstructive surgery to those who need it most.