In the recently concluded Golden Jubilee National Meeting of Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (APSICON 2015) held in Mumbai from 28^th to 31^st December, 2015, Dr. Subramania Iyer, Professor and Head, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine was elected as the President. It has been 21 years since a plastic surgeon from Kerala was elected to this post. Dr. Subramania Iyer also delivered the A. C. Ganguli Memorial Lecture at the meeting on the topic, “Hand Transplant and Beyond.”

Dr. Mohit Sharma, Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, secured the Sam C. Bose and Saroja Bose Best Audit and Research Paper award instituted for the first time by APSI for Microtia Reconstruction. His paper was titled- “An Audit of Microtia Reconstruction: Improvement in Results after Review and Modification of Technique”. He was also awarded the Ethicon Visiting Professorship in Microsurgery for the year 2016.

Dr. Janarthanan R., Assistant Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, secured the APSI Best Paper Award for his paper titled, “Hydrogels & PRP- A Boon for Fatgraft Survival?”.

Dr. Raghuveer Reddy, MCh Fellow, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, secured the APSI Goa Research Award.