L. Scott Levin, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chair
Michael R. Zenn, M.D., F.A.C.S., Co-Chair
Course registration is full.
This two-day course will allow the participants to familiarize themselves with the full spectrum of skin flaps, including muscle, fascial, bone and perforator based flaps.
The course will be held at Duke’s Human Tissue Laboratory, using fresh cadavers. Participants will be mentored by internationally renowned faculty, through prosection and participant dissection. Educational materials will also be provided.
This course has been designed to address the needs of the Resident in plastic surgery wishing to learn flap dissection and the Established Practitioner who wishes to expand their current repertoire of flap surgery. Both Pedicle and Microsurgical flaps will be covered.
Flap Dissections Covered
Head and Neck: FAMM, Forehead,Temporalis,Temporal Parietal Fascial, Platysmal, Submental
Extremities: Radial Forearm, Lateral Arm, Anterior, Lateral and Medial Thigh,Tensor Fascia Lata, Rectus Femoris, Gracilis, Sural, Saphenous, Intrinsic Hand Flaps, Fibula
Foot: Intrinsic Flaps, Toe to Hand Procedures
Methodology
A hands-on approach will be used with no more than four participants and one faculty per cadaver. All didactics will take place in the Cadaver Lab. A multimedia approach will be used, and scrubs are recommended. All instrumentation will be supplied.
The workshop brochure is currently not available but please check back.
Location
The course will be held at the Human Fresh Tissue Skills Lab on the Duke University Medical Center campus in Durham, NC.
(Directions to our new facility will be posted here soon)
Fees
On or Before July 17, 2008
After July 17, 2008
Residents
$1000.00
$1200.00
Attending Physicians
$1500.00
$1700.00
Hand Fellows/Attending
$1000.00
$1200.00
Please make checks payable to DUMC H.F.T. Lab. Residents will be required to show proof of residency. Unfortunately, we are not set-up to accept credit cards, so payment must be a check or cash. Please send payment to:
Check in for the course and join our corporate sponsors at the Durham Hilton Hotel for a cocktail reception.
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. Bus departs Durham Hilton for Duke HFT Lab
7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Cadaver Dissection Workshop I (breakfast and lunch included)
5: 15 p.m. Bus back to Durham Hilton
Dinner on your own in Durham/Chapel Hill
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m. Bus departs Durham Hilton for Duke HFT Lab
7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Cadaver Dissection Workshop II (breakfast and lunch included)
5: 15 p.m. Bus back to Durham Hilton
Duke Flap Course- Faculty 2008
L. Scott Levin, MD - Duke University Medical Center - Course Director
Michael Zenn, MD - Duke University Medical Center - Course Director
Allan Bishop, MD - Mayo Clinic
Charles Butler, MD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lawrence Gottlieb, MD - University of Chicago
Moustapha Hamdi, MD - University of Gent, Belgium
Neil Ford Jones, MD - UCLA Medical Center
Sally Langley, MD - Christchurch, New Zealand
Jeffrey Marcus, MD - Duke University
Detlev Erdmann, MD - Duke University
Steven Morris, MD - Toronto, Canada
Chris Pederson, MD - San Antonio, TX
Julian Pribaz, MD - Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
Michael Sauerbier, MD - University of Frankfurt
Berish Strauch, MD - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Randy Sherman, MD - University of Southern California
Milan Stevanovich, MD - University of Southern California
Hotel Accommodations
Make your hotel registrations by calling the Hilton - Durham at 1-800-445-8667. Tell them that you are booking a room for the “Duke Department of Plastic Surgery” and you will get a special rate of $107.00 per night (not to include tax). After July 6, 2008 the reserved rooms will be released and you will be subject to the normal rate and room availability. It is your responsibility to book and pay for your rooms.
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