Friday, April 27th
Vascular Surgery Symposium
Featured Presentation
Cirugia Taurina: Surgery in the Bullfight Ring
Leopoldo Fernandez Alonso, MD, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Honors Luncheon
Special Presentation
Surgery: Past, Present and Future
Prof. Adel Ramzy, MD, FICS, ICS World Past President, Professor of Surgery, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Adel Ramzy was born in Cairo, Egypt and graduated from Cairo University Faculty of Medicine in 1962. He then received his Master’s in Surgery in 1966 and a Doctorate in Surgery in 1971.
Prof. Ramzy was Chair of the Department of Surgery at Cairo University and was named Emeritus Prof. of Surgery at Cairo University in 1999. He has served as Counselor of the Egyptian Society of Surgeons and was President of the Egyptian Fellowship of Surgery and the Egyptian American Medical Society. He was also named Honorary President of the Egyptian Section of the American College of Surgeons.
Prof. Ramzy joined the International College of Surgeons in 1979 and became the President of the Egyptian Section in 2002. He has held several leadership positions at the International College of Surgeons World body level including, Member of the Executive Council, African Federation Secretary, First Vice President and from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014 he served as World President of the International College of Surgeons.
Saturday, April 28th
The Dr. Andre Crotti Lecture {click here for more}
Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Nose
Robert Walton, MD, Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Dr. Robert Walton despite his outstanding academic achievements and cutting edge contributions in the field of research has never forgotten the small town values of the community in which he was raised. After completing his undergraduate studies and medical training at the University of Kansas, he served a surgical internship and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. For his outstanding performance he was named a Halsted Fellow both years. Dr. Walton then went on to Yale University where he completed his general surgery residency and plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship. Long before “global surgery” came into vogue, Dr. Walton traveled to Haiti in 1976 during his residency to volunteer his time and talents. Since that time, and over the past 41 years he has traveled at least annually and of late, multiple times during any one given year to drive his private foundation Proyecto Miro, which was established in 1992, to provide gratis plastic and reconstructive services to the poor served by the San Jorge Children’s Hospital in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Forum
The Dr. Arno Roscher Lecture {click here for more}
Therapeutic Misadventures
Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology at USC, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran is a medical graduate from Madras University India. He is a 30+ year veteran of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, and was appointed as Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for Los Angeles County on February 18 1992 by the Board of Supervisors. The Board of supervisors of Los Angeles County on recommendation of the Chief executive officer also appointed him to the position of Director (Interim) on April 3, 2012 and also requested him to continue his duties as Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner. Dr. Lakshmanan retired on August 11, 2013. Dr. Lakshmanan was re-appointed by the Board of Supervisors on April 11th 2016 as Interim Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for Los Angeles County through January 18th, 2017.