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The Dallas Rhinoplasty Symposium → Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting

Two-sentence lead. The Dallas Rhinoplasty Symposium is the annual course Jack Gunter and Robert Oneal started in Dallas in 1984 to teach the open approach to plastic surgeons. Now the Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Rhinoplasty Meetings chaired by Rod J. Rohrich, it held its 43rd edition March 20–22, 2026 and claims tens of thousands of surgeons trained.

Timeline (sourced)

Year Event Source
1979 Gunter chief resident in plastic surgery, University of Michigan; Rohrich an intern on his service Rohrich, PRS 2018
1984 "the first Dallas Rhinoplasty Course in 1984 with one of his professors and close friend, Dr. Robert Oneal" Rohrich, PRS 2018
1984–86 early faculty: Steve Byrd, John Tebbetts, Robert Sheffield Rohrich, PRS 2018
1986 Rohrich joins UT Southwestern and the faculty Rohrich, PRS 2018; Wikipedia (joined 1986)
1987 Gunter + Rohrich, "External approach for secondary rhinoplasty," PRS — "a harbinger of things to come" PMID 3602167; Rohrich, PRS 2018
1991 Rohrich succeeds Fritz E. Barton as chair of plastic surgery, UT Southwestern Wikipedia
2016 33rd Annual Dallas Rhinoplasty Symposium listed under UT Southwestern CME (RP1603C); 2016 symposium dinner photo with Aston, Toriumi, Rohrich, Gunter UTSW CME page; Rohrich, PRS 2018 Fig. 2
2016 Rohrich leaves UT Southwestern; founding partner, Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute Wikipedia
2017 Gunter dies PRS obituary title
2026 43rd Annual Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting, March 20–22, Westin Galleria Dallas; chair Rohrich PR Newswire

What the meeting claims (its words)

  • "has played a pivotal role in shaping modern rhinoplasty techniques, including the widespread adoption of the open approach and the evolution of preservation methods" (PR Newswire 2026).
  • "Over its more than four-decade history, the Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting has educated tens of thousands of surgeons worldwide" (PR Newswire 2026). An earlier release put it at "over 20,000" (streetinsider mirror) — treat as the organizer's number.
  • Rohrich's own count for Gunter: "over 10,000 plastic and facial plastic surgeons" (PRS 2018).

2026 program (rhinoplasty track)

Chair Rod J. Rohrich. Faculty: Jamil Ahmad (Toronto), C. Spencer Cochran (Dallas), Teoman Dogan (Istanbul), Ashkan Ghavami (Beverly Hills), Aaron Kosins (Newport Beach), Sam Most (Palo Alto), Froilan Paez, Jason Roostaeian (Los Angeles). Topics: nasal analysis · preservation rhinoplasty · tip shaping · lateral wall / alar rim · advanced septal surgery · dorsum finesse. Jointly sponsored by Medical Seminars of Texas, LLC and Medical Educational Resources; managed by Meeting Designs, LLC. The Jack P. Gunter Distinguished Lecture is part of the program.

Textbook

Dallas Rhinoplasty: Nasal Surgery by the Masters (Gunter, Rohrich, Adams), 4th edition — sold via the meeting site.

Rod J. Rohrich (chair) — facts on record

Born August 5, 1953, rural North Dakota; NDSU / UND; MD Baylor College of Medicine; general + plastic surgery residency University of Michigan; pediatric plastic surgery training, Oxford; hand/microvascular fellowship MGH/Harvard (Wikipedia). UT Southwestern 1986; chair 1991–2016; first Distinguished Teaching Professor in plastic surgery there (Wikipedia; drrohrich.com). ASPS president 2004 (plasticsurgery.org). PRS editor-in-chief from 2005 (Wikipedia). Rhinoplasty Society president 2012–13, Lifetime Achievement 2026 (therhinoplastysociety.org). Newsweek rhinoplasty #1, 2026 (rankings.newsweek.com). "Author/coauthor of 900 scientific articles and 50 textbook chapters" (Wikipedia); PubMed: 143 rhinoplasty papers, 132 in core journals (our count, 2026-09-08).

Open items

  • Founding year 1983 vs 1984 (see jack-gunter.md).
  • Robert Oneal biography (co-founder) — not yet researched.
  • Attendance figures are organizer claims; label them as such on the page.

Sources