We are still working on this year’s programme. More updates will be published soon.
Following keynote lectures are alredy confirmed:
Modern Heart Support Systems
Professor Roland Hetzer is chairman of the German Heart Institute Berlin and director of its department for cardiothoracic and vascular surgery. Devices that are mechanically supporting the heart are extremely sophisticated and a real high-end technology. They are employed to treat acute or chronical heart insufficiency. The systems are especially important in times of organ donor shortage and guarantee the survival of patients until a suitable graft is found. Nowadays, this can take several years and during this time quality of life...
read moreAirway Transplantation: A Surgical and Biological Challenge
Professor Emmanuel Martinod is working at the department of thoracic surgery at the university of Paris, France. After more than fifty years of research, airway transplantation remains a major surgical and biological challenge in the field of thoracic surgery. Five principal types of tracheobronchial substitutes including synthetic prostheses, bioprostheses, allografts, autografts and bio-engineering conduits have been experimentally evaluated in numerous studies. More recently, few clinical attempts have provided encouraging results with...
read moreWill microelectonic implants restore vision in blind people?
Professor Peter Walter is director of the ophtalmic clinic at the university Aachen, Germany. Since 1992 research groups worldwide are working on the realization of microelectronic implants to restore vision in the blind. In 2011 the first of these implants gained the CE label as approval for marketing the implant in the European Union. Several subjects suffering from blindness due to retinitis pigments, a degenerative genetic disease of the retina were operated with this device but also with other implants within clinical trials. The...
read moreNew Therapeutic Devices for Epilepsy
Dr. Fisher is Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology and Director of the Stanford Epilepsy Center. He has won research awards from the Klingenstein Foundation, the Epilepsy Foundation of America and the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and 5 books. His peers named him to be listed 1996-2012 in Best Doctors in America. He was given the Ambassador Award from the International League Against Epilepsy, the 2005 AES Service Award and the 2006 Annual Research Award. Dr. Fisher is Past-President of the...
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