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Chair(s)
Prof. Isao Koshima
International Center for Lymphedema, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Prof. Koshima is the past president of World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, executive director of the Japanese Society of Lymphology, and honorary president of International Society of Lymphology. He is a world authority in many areas of plastic surgery including supermicrosurgery (flap transfer with vascular anastomosis around 0.5mm), perforator flaps, head and neck reconstruction (muscle transfer and vascular nerve flaps for facial palsy, vascularized fat flap for lipodystrophy and sclerodermia, irradiated severe facial deformity, mandibular loss etc.) and lymphedema (surgical treatments LVA, node transfer and liposuction).
Dr. Xiao Long
Department of Plastic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China.
Speaker(s)
Dr. Hiroo Suami
Australian Lymphoedema Education, Research and Treatment Program, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Suami developed a novel radiographic technique to demonstrate the lymphatic system in a cadaver model in 2003 and in 2005 he was awarded the Basic Science Award from the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation in the USA. In 2009, Dr Suami joined the Department of Plastic Surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas as Assistant Professor and a director of the microsurgery research centre. Here he developed a large animal model for lymphoedema and assisted with indocyanine green fluorescence lymphography in over 250 surgical lymphoedema cases.
Dr. Hari Venkatramani
Plastic, Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery & Burns, Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India.
Prof. Isao Koshima
International Center for Lymphedema, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Moments
Presentation
Dr. Hiroo Suami
Topic: Technical Transitions of Anatomical Studies of the Lymphatics
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Dr. Hari Venkatramani
Topic: Surgical Management of Lymphedema-Macro to Supra Microsurgery
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