The event's programming is led by master injectors and industry voices — the physicians, surgeons, and educators performing live procedural demonstrations on a model in front of the room.
Confirmed Demonstrators
The 2026 event’s live procedural demonstrations are led by two of Empire’s most respected master injectors — physicians who teach the same techniques at Empire’s certification workshops every month of the year.
Gamil Makar, MD
Senior Lead Instructor · Empire Medical Training
Practices in Clifton & Paterson, NJ
Three decades in medicine, two as an aesthetics specialist. Dr. Makar earned his MD from the University of Alexandria School of Medicine and completed his family medicine training at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center (affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine), followed by additional fellowship training at Robert Wood Johnson in New Brunswick, NJ. He is board-certified in family medicine and in aesthetic medicine. After entering the aesthetic field in 2009 with liposuction and fat transfer, Dr. Makar transitioned in 2019 to focus exclusively on non-invasive aesthetics — performing thousands of procedures across his Clifton Cosmetic Center and his second New Jersey practice, including liquid face lifts, advanced injectables, lip augmentation, and PRP hair restoration. A senior lead instructor at Empire Medical Training and featured demonstrator on Empire On-Demand — including his signature Plexr course for face, neck, and body — he is among Empire’s most-booked physician educators for advanced injectables and combination therapies.
Maritza Mejia, FNP
Faculty Proctor · Empire Medical Training
Owner & Founder, LIBB by Maritza · Smithtown, NY
Two decades in healthcare — including critical-care and ICU nursing — before stepping fully into aesthetic medicine. Maritza earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing Cum Laude from Stony Brook University and completed her Family Nurse Practitioner training in 2023. She is the owner and founder of LIBB by Maritza in Smithtown, NY — a medical aesthetics practice built on natural, rejuvenating results using FDA-approved dermal fillers, neurotoxins, biostimulators, and advanced skin treatments. As an Empire Medical Training faculty instructor and a recognized Empire Practitioner of the Month, Maritza teaches the patient-safety-first philosophy that defines her work, and is featured on Empire On-Demand with her signature course, “The Complication Conversation: What Every Beginner Injector Needs to Know Before They Start.”
The Lineup Format
Industry Briefing
Empire’s leadership opens the evening with a state-of-the-industry address — what 2027 looks like for aesthetic practice owners, distilled from a year of data and field work.
Three Live Demonstrations
Dr. Makar and Maritza Mejia perform live on a model: lip enhancement & facial balancing, cheek & jawline contouring, and biostimulators & regenerative combination therapies. Anatomy-driven, no slide decks.
Open Q&A
An unhurried Q&A with both demonstrators — the technique, decision-making, and complication-management questions that only get asked in a room of peers.
Open Networking
The room of aesthetic practitioners, practice owners, and industry voices most likely to change what you do next year — in one room, all night, with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres throughout.
