Provisional Programme:

8:30-8:45: Registration, Tea & Coffee

Session: Introduction and academic plastic surgery

8:45-8:50: Professor Ash Mosahebi: Welcome

8:50-9:00: Mr Mark Henley: Opening of forum

9:00-9:20: Professor Peter Butler: Setting up a National Facial Transplant Program: Hurdles, pitfalls, triumphs and failures

9:20-9:40: Professor Andrew Hart: Building a career in academic plastic surgery, reflections on one route

Session: Artificial intelligence in surgery

9:40-10:00: Professor Naiem Moiemen: AI Surgeons’ Perspective

10:00-10:20: Mr Allan Ponniah: Using artificial intelligence for facial reconstruction

10:20-10:50: Tea & Coffee

Session: Nerve and vascular surgery

10:50-11:10: Professor Mikael Wiberg: The use of stem cells in reconstructive nerve surgery. Dream or reality?

11:10-11:30: Mr Ralph N. A. Murphy: Peripheral nerve regeneration including our first-in-man polymer nerve conduit trial

11:30-11:50: Professor George Hamilton: Outcomes from modern management of Vascular Malformations

11:50-12:10: Dr Amir Gander: A platform to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical trials

12:10-13:30: Lunch break

Session: Aesthetic surgery

13:30-13:50: Associate Professor Eqram Rahman: ‘Let there be light’: Evidence based practice and current research in non-surgical aesthetics

13:50-14:10: Dr Katie Goldie: Optimising soft tissue filler placement – full face approach

14:10-14:30: Professor Katarina Andjelkov: The role of Stromal Vascular Fraction cells and signalling proteins in the treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia

Session: Clinical Trials

14:30-14:45: Mr Matthew Gardiner: Where next for clinical trials in plastic and hand surgery?

14:45-15:05: Professor Kurinchi Gurusamy: All systematic reviews are not created equal

15:05-15:30: Tea & Coffee

15:30-15:50: Mr Dan Marsh: Gamma delta T cells – a novel cancer therapy

Session: Tissue engineering in plastic surgery

15:50-16:10: Professor Wenhui Song: 3D printing elastomer nanohybrid for soft tissue reconstruction

16:10-16:30: Associate Professor Deepak Kalaskar: Improving implant interface to facilitate tissue integration and angiogenesis

16:30-16:35: Closure, Professor Ash Mosahebi

16:35: Drinks & Nibbles

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