ISAPS can look back with pride on a 25-year history since the first draft of the Constitution and Bylaws was made in São Paulo on October 1-4, 1969, and on the accomplishment of the goals as summarized in the Act of Organization on February 12, 1970, at the Headquarters of the United Nations.

This site was chosen to reaffirm the international scope of the Society.

The Founding and following EXCO Members, always backed by the General Assemblies, guided the Society in a straight direction. As a result, Aesthetic Surgery has become a respected field of Medicine, represented by a responsible body of Plastic Surgeons.

Founders

• Salvador Castanares – USA
• Perseu Castro de Lemos – Brazil
• Mario Gonzalez-Ulloa – Mexico
• Ulrich T. Hinderer – Spain
• John R. Lewis, Jr. – USA
• Ernesto F. Malbec – Argentina
• Hector Marino – Argentina
• Rodolphe Meyer – Switzerland
• John C. Mustarde – United Kingdom
• Guillermo Nieto Cano – Colombia
• David Serson Neto – Brazil
• Jose C. Vinas – Argentina

Charter Members

• Leo A. Bornstein – Israel
• Ernestor Caronni – Italy
• Jack Edward David – Argentina
• Claude Dufourmental – France
• Simon Fredricks – USA
• William A. Lange – USA
• Gordon Letterman – USA
• William R.N. Lindsay – Canada
• David Napier Matthews – United Kingdom
• D. Ralph Millard Jr. – USA
• Lorenzo Mir Y Mir – Spain
• Roger Mouly – France
• Seiichi Ohmori – Japan
• Jack P. Penn – South Africa
• Darrel Shaw – USA
• Joseph Tamerin – USA

Honorary Members

• Thomas S. Davis – USA
• K. Guler Gursu – Turkey
• Wayne Morrison – Australia
• Frederick V. Nicolle – United Kingdom
• G. Ian Taylor – Australia