Career Achievement Award
Honoring a lifetime of achievements.
The Career Achievement Award is an annual award and fundraiser that honors esteemed aesthetic plastic surgeons for their significant contributions to advancing the field of aesthetic plastic surgery.
We celebrate each recipient's distinguished career, commitment to aesthetic surgery, dedication to patient safety, and powerful positive influence on others through donations to The Foundation in their honor.
Donating to The Aesthetic Foundation in their honor is a befitting way to say "thank you" to those who have given so much to the specialty while also helping to further our mission.
Nomination And Selection Process
You have the opportunity to nominate someone who has impacted you or the industry in a significant way through education, leadership, or research.
To nominate someone, you must:
Be an active Aesthetic Foundation member.
If your nominee is selected, agree to participate in or chair the Career Achievement Award Steering Committee.
Complete the Nomination Form.
For a nominee to be eligible, they must:
Be an active or life member of The Aesthetic Society and The Aesthetic Foundation.
Have significantly impacted the specialty through education, leadership, or research.
The Aesthetic Foundation’s board considers and evaluates all nominations before selecting and announcing the award recipient(s) each January.
Nomination Deadline: August 1
Award Presentation
We honor the Career Achievement Award recipient(s) each year at The Aesthetic MEET during the annual business meeting. We invite you to celebrate this year’s honoree and the money raised.
Support This Year’s Award Recipients
We are proud to announce the 2025 Career Achievement Award recipients are Drs. Jack Fisher and G. Patrick Maxwell.
Dr. Fisher, a Past President of The Aesthetic Society (2013 – 2014), retired in 2022 after an accomplished 44-year career as an aesthetic plastic surgeon, educator and author. He has been a staple in the Nashville plastic surgery community since 1986 with his own practice and as a longtime Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Fisher has more than 120 publications and has been invited to speak and present at over 300 medical conferences throughout the world.
Dr. Maxwell, also a longtime Nashville resident, is recognized nationally and abroad for his achievements in breast surgery. He was a pioneer in the areas of breast reduction and microsurgery and invented the textured tissue expander that has become a primary device used in breast reconstruction over the last two decades. Dr. Maxwell is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has taught plastic surgery at his alma mater since 1985.
Drs. Fisher and Maxwell are longtime friends and between them, have over 85 years of surgical experience. They were the co-recipients of the Walter Scott Brown Award for Best Video Presentation at The Aesthetic Meeting in 1989.
Donations made in honor of these two worthy recipients will benefit the Foundation’s Breast Cancer Journey Assistance Fund that was established in 2023.
We invite you to donate in their honor and help us reach our fundraising goal.
