APSI – Ethicon sponsored Course 5th and 6th Sept, 2011
Topic :Hand Surgery Venue: Ganga Hospital
Eminent and experienced faculty will lecture on all
aspects of Hand Surgery, excluding hand injuries. We
will also utilize the expertise of the overseas faculty
members who will be attending the APSICON. Topics
covered will include Congenital Hands, Surgery for
Paralysis, Complex Secondary Reconstructions, Burn
Hands, Spastic Hands, Stiff Hands, Infections, CRPS and
Tumours. A well structured programme will be made.
Do not miss it.
The registration fee is Rs. 2500. You can register for
this course alone or can combine it with the
conference.
Prof CR Sundararajan Workshop
7th Sept, 2011
Venue: Ganga Hospital
We plan a live demonstration workshop
and run three surgeries at a time. There
will be interesting procedures for
everyone, what ever be your field of
interest. Please do not miss it.
Charles Pinto CME Excel, Educate, Empower 8th Sept, 2011
Venue: Le Meridien
The CME and the conference will run
on the theme of the meeting i.e. to
excel. The CME will be organized in
various modules like, 'Towards
excellence in Aesthetic Surgery',
'Towards Excellence in Trauma Care', 'Towards
Excellence in Burn Management', 'Towards Excellence
in Cleft Care', 'Towards Excellence in Oncological
Reconstruction' etc. We sincerely believe that there
will be take home messages for everyone. Please join
us.
Main Conference 9th to 11th Sept, 2011
Venue : Le Meridien
There will be a good mix of orations by experienced
faculty, invited guest lectures and free papers. Free
papers would be screened by a National Scientific
Committee to give you value for time sessions.
Provisional Programme Outline
Date
Venue
Event
05 . 9 . 2011
06 . 9 . 2011
Auditorium
Ganga Hospital
APSI Ethicon Course in Hand Surgery
07 . 9 . 2011
Auditorium
Ganga Hospital
Prof. CR Sundararajan Live
Demonstration Surgery Workshop
08 . 9 . 2011
Hotel
Le Meridien
Charles Pinto CME
Inauguration
of Conference
09 . 9 . 2011
Hotel
Le Meridien
Gillies Oration
Sushrutha Oration
Peet Prize Session
Godrej Oration
CBK Lecture
Guest Lectures & free Papers
10 . 9 . 2011
Hotel
Le Meridien
Murari Mukerjee Oration
SN Sharma Lecture
APSI Best Papers Sessions
AC Ganguli Lecture
RN Sharma Symposium
Guest Lectures & free Papers
11 . 9 . 2011
Hotel
Le Meridien
Quiz Finals
Fellows & PG's Sessions
Guest Lectures & free Papers
Orations in the APSICON 2011
1.
Gilles Oration
Prof. G. Balakrishnan
Topic
Ars longa, vita brevis, iudicium difficile
2.
Sushruta Oration
Dr. Bob Acland
Topic
Successes and Failures: a Pioneer's Perspective
3.
Godrej Oration
Prof. Michael Tonkin
Topic
The importance of achieving balance between wrist and fingers during reconstructive surgery for patients with nerve injury, rheumatoid arthritis and cerebral
palsy.
4.
Murari Mukherjee Oration
Dr. Mukunda Reddy
Topic
The road less travelled
5.
C. Balakrishnan Lecture
Dr. S Baliarsing
Topic
Teaching of Dr. C. Balakrishnan: Is it significant in the present day?
Title : Fat Grafting Convener : Dr. Lakshyajit D. Dhami
Post Graduates and Trainees Session
A special session will be organised exclusively for the Post Graduates. All papers presented will be from trainees. They will be divided into four sessions:
General Plastic Surgery and Burns.
Hand and Microsurgery.
Cleft and Craniofacial Surgery.
Aesthetic Surgery.
While the papers will be from the trinees the chairpersons for the sessions will be senior accomplished surgeons in the field. There will be enough time for discussion wherein the senior people will critically evaluate and constructively comment on the presentation. At the end of the session there will be four general talks each for 10 minutes duration.
The topics will be:
Equipping for the future – What a trainee should do when he is a trainee?
Coping with the dissatisfied patient.
Establishing practice – Flying solo.
Establishing practice – Entering into a team.
The whole session will be exclusively for Post Graduates and for people within one year after qualification. The Post Graduates interested in presenting papers will send in their papers . This will be evaluated by the committee and graded before giving the opportunity for presenting. Five papers can be discussed in each category.
Quiz Competition
The Organising Committee has planned to conduct a Quiz Competition. Four teams of two members each will be selected based on a written examination (50 questions of multiple choice). This will be conducted on the evening of 8th September 2011 towards the end of the CME (at Le Meridien). Each participant will have to take the test separately and the combined total of the team members will help us decide the teams. The finals will be on the morning of 11th September 2011 and it will be a plenary session. The Quiz Master is Dr. Vijay Joseph from Bangalore, the IT Capital of India. M/s Reddy’s Laboratories will be the sponsors to this event and we have very handsome prizes for the winning teams:
First Prize
Rs.25,000/-
Second Prize
Rs.15,000/-
Third Prize
Rs.10,000/-
The Quiz Master has been working hard for the last two months and you have a month to catch up with him!
Sponsored Workshop on V.A.C. Therapy
Labindia Healthcare is conducting a “Hands on Workshop” on VAC Therapy on the morning of 10th September 2011 between 11am and 12 pm.
This will be for 25 participants.
Faculty Ms. Cynthia Miller Mikolajczyk,
Senior Clinical Science Liaison, Kinetic Concepts Inc.,
San Antonio, TX. USA
Ms. Cynthia has been an Clinical expert on Wounds healed by VAC Therapy for over 20 years.
Participation is only by registration and it would be on a first come first serve basis.
