ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The UniCamillus University hosted the second official meeting of its Advisory Board, composed by Andrea Biondi, Vito Cozzoli, Maria Bianca Farina, Giuseppe Feltrin, Luciana Lamorgese, Gianni Letta and Tiziano Onesti, which flank the Profit Rector in the development of the academic and scientific strategies of the University. The aim of the meeting was to highlight the urgency of an ethical approach in aesthetic medicine. “In a rapidly expanding sector, where the boundaries between science, business and aesthetic desire become thinned, UniCamillus intervenes firmly: aesthetic medicine should not be demonized and should be practiced by professionals trained in universities. But at the same time – it is evidenced – it cannot and must never lose its ethical foundation: the patient must be informed and treated with extreme care and scientific approach without ever being the object of unjustified commercial aggression”. Comparison with professors and experts of aesthetic medicine, endocrinology, maxillofacial surgery and innovative technologies fits into a precise strategic question: is it possible to develop this area without scientific compromise and maintaining a solid and recognizable ethical identity? The numbers make the issue urgent. Aesthetic medicine is today one of the fastest growing healthcare sectors, with a global market destined to exceed $27 billion, while the next-generation metabolic drugs – also used to slim down – could exceed 120 billion by 2030. In this scenario, marked by increasing accessibility and social pressure on the image, the risk is concrete: transforming medicine into an immediate response to induced needs, more than to real clinical needs. It is on this land that UniCamillus takes its position: “Innovation – the University explains – cannot be translated into simplification, abuse or commercial drift, but must remain anchored to safety, clinical appropriateness and patient protection.” After the greetings of the Profita Rector, Donatella Padua, General Secretary of the Advisory Board, held her speech entitled “Esthetic Medicine Today: Between Longevity and Social Changes”. “Today the market of aesthetic medicine grows at a rate greater than 10% per annum, driven by social media pressures, technological innovation and the expansion of the younger ranges. Aesthetics is becoming a new paradigm of inclusion and social exclusion: this is where UniCamillus identifies a responsibility and an opportunity, that of forming doctors of aesthetic medicine according to ethical and inclusive principles,” he stressed. Later, the heart of the meeting was represented by the session “Aesthetic Medicine between Society, Technology and Clinical Ethics”. Salvatore Corsello, UniCamillus Projector with Delegation to Scientific Communication, who has set the ethical perimeter of the entire meeting: aesthetic medicine must have as its sole objective the real well-being of the person, avoiding reducing itself to response to social pressures or superficial demands. Ethics and centrality of the patient are not negotiable, but the very foundation of clinical practice. The debate then entered the merits of the pharmacological revolution in place with the intervention of Marco Infante, Lecturer UniCamillus, Endocrinologist and Diabetologist, who addressed the topic of the agonist drugs of the receptors GIP and GLP-1. The message was clear: not tools to lose weight “on request”, but clinical therapies to be used exclusively in the presence of real diseases, with rigorous specialist management and full risk awareness. Continuing, Candida Marandola – Director Master UniCamillus Aesthetic Medicine in Dentistry – and Massimo Giannessi – Director General and Co-Founder Accurate – showed how advanced simulation technologies are redefining university education in the middleaesthetic DNA. In an area where the risk of improvisation is increasing, competence becomes the first form of patient protection. To close, a concrete example of health-oriented aesthetic medicine was presented by Giovanna Franceschelli – Director Master UniCamillus Aesthetic Medicine of the face – and by Francesco Calvani – Specialist in surgery Maxillo-Facciale – with functional rinofiller: not a simple aesthetic procedure, but an intervention that improves a function – nasal air flow – with immediate benefits for the patient. An approach that overturns the traditional perspective: first health, then aesthetics. The meeting thus assumed a meaning that goes beyond scientific comparison: it represents the start of a structured reflection on the role of aesthetic medicine and on the responsibility of universities in defining its standards, limits and quality. “UniCamillus not only forms competent professionals: we train people who know how to act with responsibility and integrity – concluded the Profit Rector – aesthetic medicine must be a real wellness tool, in the service of the health and dignity of the patient, never profit or vanity, and never at the expense of the fragility or insecurity of people. A true professional is not limited to clinical practice: it makes the difference in the real life of people, their health and their serenity.”.
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