13/04/2026
HANGZHOU STOLE MY HEART — AND BLEW MY MIND.
Just returned from presenting at the 3rd MEVOS Congress in Hangzhou, China (April 10–12) and I genuinely don’t know where to begin.
As a guest speaker on facial anatomy & facial rejuvenation, I came prepared to give. What I didn’t expect was how much I’d receive.
China doesn’t do things by halves. The technology on display was staggering. The organisation, immaculate. The hospitality — genuinely, profoundly warm. And the food? Let’s just say my sense of taste has been recalibrated.
Then there’s West Lake. 西湖.
I’ve seen beautiful places. This is different. There’s an ancientness to it, a scale and serenity that makes you feel simultaneously small and expanded. The old saying holds — bigger, better, best — but somehow China makes enormity feel poetic.
The privilege of sharing the stage and breaking bread with some of the finest minds in aesthetic surgery — Prof. Lee Pu, Dr. Aris Sterodimas, the legendary Dr. Woffles Wu — is something I never take for granted. And to add a new friend and colleague to that circle in Dr. Arthur Yu made this trip complete.
Surgery is a science. But it is also a conversation — across borders, languages, and traditions — about what it means to help people feel more like themselves.
Hangzhou reminded me why I never stop learning.
