Yves-Gérard Illouz (also known as Gérard Illiouz; September 12, 1929 – January 21, 2015) was a French surgeon who developed safer methods of liposuction.
Illouz was born in Oran, at the time of his birth part of the colony of French Algeria.
[2][3] In the late 1970s, Illouz developed a safer and easier method of liposuction.
[4] His "Illouz Method", introduced in 1982[5] and first published in Annales de Chirurgie Plastique in 1984,[1] was a "wet method" using blunt cannulas, rather than sharp, and of smaller size than previously, in order to minimise bleeding while injecting saline solution into the subcutaneous fat deposits, breaking up the fat for extraction by suction.
[1] In 2010, he established the Illouz Foundation for the study of adipose-derived stem cell therapy.