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Fotona was honored by a visit of Charles H. Townes to its exhibit during the ASLMS 2010 annual conference. Dr. Matjaz Lukac, Fotona President, had the privilege of meeting with Charles H. Townes, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator, to introduce Fotona’s latest Dynamis range of laser systems.

The Laser and Health Academy and the University of Sharjah - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences have established The Sharjah University Laser Training and Research Center (or SULTARC).

Laser & Health Academy experts, in cooperation with the Josef Stefan Institute’s Light and Matter Department and the University of Ljubljana’s Biotechnical Faculty have published a paper outlining the results of their study on the physical properties of Quasi Continuous Wave pulsed, 1064 nm, Nd:YAG laser in lipolysis.

Fotona and the European Society for Laser Dermatology (ESLD) have engaged in an agreement through which Fotona becomes an official industry member of the organization.

Fotona and the Laser and Health Academy announce that Dr. Paul Steventon has become the newest member on the Academy’s board of Clinical Expert Lecturers. Representing the UK-based Epsom Skin Clinic and Forever Young Medical Aesthetics, Dr. Steventon will be working actively with Fotona and the Academy on advancing medical, technical and scientific knowledge, particularly in the field of laser lipolysis and laser-assisted liposuction.

During the recent 6th International Fotona Meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia, the Laser and Health Academy welcomed Mark Whiteley as its latest Expert Clinical Lecturer. Mr. Mark Whiteley is a UK-based Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon and an innovator in the field of endovenous surgery. With his team at the internationally renowned The Whiteley Clinic, where he uses Fotona’s XP-2 laser system, he has performed over a thousand EVLA procedures.