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The search for eternal youth… in a needle

By Carolin Vesely “Look at my crow’s feet,” says Tony Sacco, moving in close to show the feathery lines around his dark brown eyes. “I don’t like getting older.” Neither, it would appear, do the 275 people who gathered in the Fairmont Hotel last night for Winnipeg’s first cosmetic-enhancement/anti-aging expo. Being male and 31 made…


IMTD 2009-Indian Medical Travel Conference in Toronto, Canada draws huge response

An impressive number of speakers at the conference led by Dr. Narottam Puri IMTD, President-Medical Strategy & Quality, Fortis Escorts Hospital Group, Mark Fam Deloitte Center Health Solutions, Canada, Ann Kaplan, President and Chief management, Medicard Finance Dr Vasanthi Srinivasan impressed, Director, Health System Planning and Research, Ontario Ministry of Health and Mr. Pradeep Thukral,…


Medicard CEO wins Peak award

By Chris Sorensen Women and business were in the spotlight at an awards gala at Vancouver’s Westin Bayshore hotel Tuesday evening. The Association of Women in Finance, an organization designed to encourage women in the business community, handed-out this year’s Peak Awards to three local women for their entrepreneurial achievements. Ann Kaplan, CEO and founder…


Medicard boss honoured

Ann Kaplan, president and chief executive of Medicard Finance Inc. of Vancouver, has won the Start-Up Award at the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2000 awarded annually by the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Medicard was formed to offer financing to persons seeking elective medical procedures. Kaplan saw an…


Make self over at New You

The third annual New You Show – dubbed North America’s largest cosmetic enhancement anti-aging show – is coming this weekend to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The event will feature more than 300 booths, 75 seminars and three demonstration stages. Comedians Joan Rivers and Carla Collins get serious about a new Medicis Aesthetics Canada (Restylane)…