5th Annual Current Concepts in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Saturday – Sunday, March 2 – 3, 2013

Course Logistics

Course Directors

Jeffrey E. Janis, M.D., FACS
Associate Professor and Program Director
Department of Plastic Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Joseph P. Minei, M.D., MBA, FACS, FCCM
C. James Carrico, MD Distinguished Chair in Surgery for Trauma and Critical Care
Professor of Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

UT Southwestern Faculty

Farshid Araghizadeh, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of Colon & Rectal Surgery

Ronald E. Hoxworth, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery

Girish P. Joshi, MBBS, M.D., FFARCSI
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Mark Watson, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery

Guest Faculty

Parog Bhanot, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery
Director, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Comprehensive Hernia Center
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Charles E. Butler, M.D., FACS
Professor with Tenure
Director, Graduate Medical Education Programs
Department of Plastic Surgery
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

George DeNoto, III, M.D., FACS
Director, General Surgery
St. Francis Hospital
Manhasset, NY

William M. Kuzon, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Reed O. Dingman Professor of Surgery
Department of Plastic Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Robert G. Martindale, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief,
Division of General Surgery
Medical Director for Hospital Nutrition
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Portland, OR

Michel Saint-Cyr, M.D., FRCS(C)
Associate Professor
Department of Plastic Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Bruce G. Ramshaw, M.D.
Chair, General Surgery
Halifax Health
Daytona Beach, FL

Yuri W. Novitsky, M.D.
Director, Connecticut Comprehensive
Center for Hernia Repair
Chief, Division of Laparoscopic Surgery
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery,
UConn Health Center
Farmington, CT

Suzanne Sims
Director of Peri-operative Services
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Dallas, Texas