Program

10-12 April, 2025

Uppsala Breast Meeting 2, 2025
How to get it done well!
April 10, 2025
13:00-13:30Registration (for the meeting and the pre-meeting workshops)
13:30-14:45Workshop session
14:45-15:15Coffee Break
15:45-17:00Workshop session
The participants will be allocated in two groups and do the workshops sequentially.
Workshop 1: Localisation strategies for complex oncoplastic resections (Hands-on with models)
Faculty: Michael Alvarado, Peter Barry, Jill Dietz, Andreas Karakatsanis, Eirini Pantiora, Jaime Navia, Ricardo Pardo, Ariel Saracco.
Sponsor: Endomag
Workshop 2: Intraoperative minimum invasive intact lesion excision for surgeons (Hands-on with models)
Faculty: Kristalyn Gallagher, Andreas Karakatsanis, Brett Laven, Nasos Zouzos, Bashar Zeidan.
Sponsor: Resitu
Free evening
April 11, 2025
08:15-08:45Registration (meeting only)
08:45-09:00Welcome and housekeeping rules
09:00-09:30Nipple sparing mastectomy with or without reduction of the skin envelope. The technique
Speaker: Nicola Rocco
09:30-10:00Optimising prepectoral breast reconstruction with B-Lite implants: a new concept.
Speaker: Peter Barry
Sponsored session (Polytech)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:00Flat closure. It is not that easy.
Speaker: Jill Dietz
11:00-11:30TIGR Mesh in Implant Based Breast Reconstruction.
Speaker: Bashar Zeidan
Sponsored talk (Novus Scientific)
11:30-12:00Goldilocks Mastectomy is more than a poor man’s reconstruction.
Speaker: Jill Dietz
12:00-13:00LUNCH
13:00-13:30State of evidence: what studies do we need in oncoplastic breast surgery?
Speaker: Malin Sund
13:30-14:00From techniques to patients. The pillow and the pillow-case. Andreas Karakatsanis, Giuseppe Catanuto
(Oncoplastic assessment, Baseline measurements and how they relate to outcomes, Vascular anatomy of the skin envelope and the mammary gland)
14:00-14:30Coffee Break
14:30-15:00Periareolar and circumareolar approaches. Crescent and Donut mastopexies; Round block and Benelli mastopexies; Parenchymal Rotation.
Speaker: Kristalyn Gallagher
Learning objectives: Surgical planning; how much mobilisation; planning the shape of the specimen to optimise defect closure; keeping it simple; a plan B for re-excision
15:00-15:30”Simpler” Mammoplasties (Batwing, reverse batwing, Grisotti, Lateral mammoplasty, J-mammoplasty, V-mammoplasty).
Speaker: Ricardo Pardo
Learning objectives: Surgical planning; Identification of landmarks; Reconstructive principles; re-centring the nipple areola complex; a plan B for re-excision
15:30-Surprise Session
Speakers: Michael Alvarado, Giuseppe Catanuto
19:00Dinner (Restaurant Brezza, Skolgatan 31)
April 12 2025
Third session: Vertical and Wise patterns
08:30-09:15Preoperative marking- Intraoperative corrections
Speaker: Yazan Masannat
09:15-09:45Vascular anatomy of the breast. A tool for all surgeons
Speaker: Peter Barry
09:45-10:15Superomedial pedicle-based techniques (Lejour, Hall-Findlay, Wise pattern)
Speaker: Amit Agrawal
10:15-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-11:15Inferocentral pedicle-based techniques (SPAIR, Wise pattern)
Speaker: Giuseppe Catanuto
11:15-12:00What to do when the defect is outside the resection pattern (Secondary, Extended, Supercharged or no pedicles)
Speaker: Andreas Karakatsanis
12:00-13:00LUNCH
Fourth session: Volume replacement; beyond the hype and towards evidence
13:00-13:30Fat is your friend.
Speaker: Susanna Kauhanen
13:30-14:00Chest wall perforator flaps: What to consider
Speaker: Andreas Karakatsanis
14:00-14:30Anterior based chest wall perforator flaps
Speaker: Peter Barry
14:30-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-15:30The (in)famous LICAP
Speaker: Amit Agrawal
15:30-16:00LTAPs and TDAPs
Speaker: Andreas Karakatsanis
16:00-17:00Is any surgery extreme? Case discussions
Moderators: Kristalyn Gallagher, Jill Dietz
17:00Closure and remarks

Contact

Academic Conferences - conference secretariat
E-mail: uppsalabreast@akademikonferens.se
Phone: +46 18 67 15 33 or +46 18-67 10 03

 

Important dates

Registration will open in January 2025

Conference 10-12 April, 2025

 

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