COURSE PROGRAMME
Advanced Educational Courses in Plastic Surgery
 
Course Programme
 
DAY ONE   DAY TWO
 

Focusing on Melanoma
 

 

Focusing on Sarcoma

08:00 Registration and coffee
 
  08:00 Registration and coffee
Session 1
Chairmen: Barry Powell / Jonathon Bowling
  Session 1
Chairmen: Graham Perks / Prof Steinau
 
08:30 Trainee half hour: How I do it - Inguinal/ileoinguinal dissection
Prof Charles Balch
  08:30 How we structure our soft tissue sarcoma service
08:30  Prof Hans Ulrich Steinau
08:40  Mr Andrew Hayes
08:50  Mr Robert Grimer
09:00 Genetics of melanoma, an update
Prof Julia Newton-Bishop
  09:10 The golden age of soft tissue sarcoma pathology
Dr David Hughes
09:30 Improving Melanoma Classification
Dr Amaya Viros
  09:35 Resection and functional restoration in soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities
Prof Hans Ulrich Steinau
10:00 Panel Discussion   10:10 Panel Discussion
10:30 Coffee
 
  10:30 Coffee
 
Session 2
Chairmen: Dr A Viros / Prof J Thompson
  Session 2
Chairmen: G Perks / R Grimer
 
11:00 Staging Melanoma. The New AJCC
Prof Charles Balch
  11:00 Abdominal wall resection and reconstruction
Prof Hans Ulrich Steinau
11:30 Pathology, Update
Prof Martin Cook
  11:30 The difficult resection margin and recurrent disease
Mr Robert Grimer
12:00 Dermoscopy and other imaging update
Dr Jonathan Bowling
  12:00 Update on ILP for sarcoma and melanoma
Mr Andrew Hayes
12:30 Panel Discussion   12:30 Panel discussion Desmoid tumours
13:00 Lunch   13:00 Lunch
 
Session 3
Chairmen: B Powell / J Bowling
  Session 3
Chairmen: B Powell / G Perks
 
14:00 Trainee half hour.  How I do it - Neck dissection
Prof John Thompson
  14:00 Imaging in melanoma
Dr Colin Walker
14:30 Sentinel Node Biopsy, the technique
Mr Howard Peach
  14:30 Local and locoregional treatment of metastatic melanoma
Prof John Thompson
15:00 Sentinel Node Biopsy: the controversies
Prof Charles Balch
  15:00 Melanoma Guidelines UK
Mr Howard Peach
15:30 Panel Discussion
 
  15:30 Melanoma Guidelines USA
Prof Charles Balch
16:00 Coffee
 
  16:00 Melanoma Guidelines Australia
Prof John Thompson
Session 4
Chairmen:B Powell / M Cook
  16:30 Panel Discussion and
Close of Meeting
     
16:30 SNB/ Ultra Sound and lymph nodes
Prof John Thompson
     
17:00 Chemotherapy and advances
Dr James Larkin
     
17:30 Excision margins for melanoma
Mr Howard Peach
     
18:00 Trainee half hour.  How I do it - Axillary dissection
Prof Charles Balch
     
18:30 Panel Discussion and
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