Program

Pre Conference Afternoon

Pre Conference Day Wednesday, November 11, 2009

18:30 

Concert at the Sainte-Chapelle, 4, boulevard du Palais, Paris

Pre Conference

Thursday November 12, 2009

9:00- 12:00

BCCA Certification Testing, Espace Saint-Martin

13:30-17:30

Conference Registration, Painting Gallery, Espace Saint-Martin

17:30-19:30

IAA Opening Reception (included), Painting Gallery,  Espace Saint-Martin

Conference Day 1

Friday  November 13,  2009 • Artistic Implications

7:30 – 8:30

Continental Breakfast and Exhibit Review, Espace du Zodiaque, Espace Saint-Martin

8:30– 8:45

Welcome Address: When Art and Science Meet,  Anne-Marie Riedinger, Program Chair, IAA President-Elect, France

8:45 – 9:45

Keynote Speaker: Margot Cooper, President of Limbs and Things, Bristol, UK

Design and Fabrication of Complex Medical Models

She will present how to design and develop complex medical models, starting from an idea and a sketch, going through the stages of research and development, and using cutting edge technologies to the final product. A high degree of realism and accuracy has always been an important factor of product design, and essential in the training process.

Margot Cooper is an Australian medical artist who trained in London in the 1960s. She settled in the UK and continued to work in medical education, focusing on 3D work in the early 1990s. Her mission was to establish a system of clinical and surgical skills training away from the patient and operating theatre.

Her company, ‘Limbs & Things’ was founded to create a commercial presence for the work. A high degree of realism and accuracy has always been an important factor of product design, and essential in the training process. After 17 years in this important sector of skills training, she employs around 60 people and supplies worldwide. In 2007 Margot Cooper was awarded the Female Entrepreneur Award.

9:45-10:00

Coffee break

10:00 – 10:45

Selected Abstracts

11:00-12:00

Invited Speaker: Elisabeth Daynès, Paleoartist, Ateliers Daynès, Paris, France

Bringing our ancestors back:an Art to Serve Science

 With more than hundred anthropological sculptures, Elisabeth Daynès is a leading expert in hominid reconstructions. This artist uses a unique blend of paleoanthropology and painstaking sculptural skills to create hyper realistic reconstructions of prehistoric man and trace the story of human evolution. Each hyper realistic reconstruction combines state-of-the-art techniques with the latest global discoveries to bring the science of paleoanthropology to starting life. From major museum exhibits to miniature pieces designed for teaching human evolution, the work of Atelier Daynès is acknowledged worldwide for its stunning realism.

13:00 – 14:00

Invited speaker:  Philippe Lanthony, Opthalmologist, France

The Eyes of the Painters

The ocular pathology influence painting. Philippe Lanthony, M.D. an ophtalmologist specializing in the physiology and pathology of color vision, presents a study of the effects of eye diseases on the vision of the artists and of their reaction to compensate it. He has published numerous papers on color vision deficiencies and devised some known woldwide colour vision tests.

15:30 -16:30

Selected Abstracts

17:30-20:15

Optional Social Event: Dinner Cruise on the Seine River: 
Dine while discovering Paris by night: the Eiffel tower, the Grand Palais, the Louvre, Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, the Orsay Museum, the Hotel de Ville, and all the famous bridges …

Conference Day 2   

Saturday November 14, 2009 • Scientific Implications

7:30 – 8:30

Continental Breakfast and Exhibit Review

9:00 - 9:30

Tribute to Dr Paul Tessier, by Françoise Firmin, MD
Presentation of Dr. Tessier’s worldwide collection of skulls of craniofacial defects.

Paul Tessier is considered as the pioneer of craniofacial surgery, a true innovator and a great master amongst the worldwide community of plastic surgeons.
He left us orphaned one year ago, June 5th, 2008.
Besides his great surgical ability and his precise knowledge of the anatomy of the face , he had an exceptional tridimensional surgical approach to correct severe malformations of the face.
At a time when 3D imaging did not yet exist  he wanted to really understand the abnormal anatomy of complex malformations in order to be able to improve their corrections. He started to collect abnormal skulls all over the world. These skulls were reproduced and used to study and demonstrate his innovating technique
These studies would not have been possible without the technology which permitted the reproduction of rare skulls specimen.
This demonstrates that exchanges between specialists dealing with different approaches of the human body can be of great importance.

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break and Exhibit Review

10:00 -12:00

Round Table Panel Discussion: Possibilities and Limitations for Facially Disfigured Patients

For the first time, all the actors dealing with facial reconstruction will be together to discuss the range of technologies available to the facially disfigured patient

Moderator: Anne-Marie Riedinger

Pr Bernard Devauchelle, France -Facial Transplantation
Dr Françoise Firmin, France- Autologous Auricular Reconstructions
Dr Anders Tjellström, Sweden- Osseointegrated Implant Surgery
Dr Philip Federspil, Germany- Surgical Nasal Reconstructions
Dr Kerstin Bergström, Sweden- Facial Anaplastology
Mr Keith Thomas, UK- Facial Anaplastology

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch (included in registration fee), Espace Saint-Martin

13:00 – 14:45

Selected Abstracts

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee Break and Exhibit Review

15:15- 16:30

Selected Abstracts

Evening

IAA Annual Awards Banquet, Glass Gallery, Espace Saint-Martin  

Day 3  

Sunday, November 15, 2009  IAA Workshops

8:30 - 10:00

Workshop 1.1   Autologous Reconstruction for Congenital Ear Defects
Invited Presenter: Dr Françoise Firmin, Paris, France

Reconstructing an ear using Autologous tissue is considered as a challenge, the aim being to reproduce the complex contours of the ear with rib cartilage and to cover it with local skin.
Using the skin remnants of a malformed or amputated ear,  to cover a cartilaginous framework, remains the real challenge and implies a good knowledge of the skin’s blood supply and the possible use of local skin flaps. Carving a cartilaginous framework implies a comprehensive approach of the three dimensional architecture of the ear and training to learn the different steps needed to reproduce the contours of a normal ear with several segments of rib cartilage. After an unavoidable learning curve,  this carving will become the most routine part of the surgical procedure.
The participants of this workshop will themselves carve an ear framework from synthetic material following step by step  the construction of an ear,  as if it was performed during surgery.
They will then appreciate their personal  ability to conceive the three dimensional architecture of the ear.

Limited to 20 participants.

Workshop 1.2 Advanced Digital Colouring Technology with the Spectromatch System: Clinical Application to Colour Match Silicone Elastomers for Facial Prostheses
Workshop Presenters: Cristina Nacher-Garcia, Pam Kaur, Peter Wright, London, UK

The Craniofacial Prosthetics Unit at King’s College Foundation Trust provides a referral prosthetics services for the rehabilitation and management of patients with traumatic, surgical and congenital deformities. Clinical protocols for skin colour matching of silicone elastomers for facial prostheses using the Spectromatch system have been developed within our practice.

Demonstration of clinical protocols in use with the Spectromatch system when producing prostheses will be presented and attendees will be able to use the system to generate silicone pigment formulae and make test skin swatches.

Limited to 20 participants.

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Workshop 2.1  Glass Blown Ocular Prostheses Demonstration 
Invited Presenter: Ferdinand Förster, German ocularist.

Discover the intricate art of glass-blown ocular prosthesis. Watch how glass-bowls are blown out of the basic material of Kryolith-Glass Tubes at over 800°C, using a special Bunsen-Burner. Then, on these bowls the Iris Drawing will be reproduced, with all of its colours, crypts and lacunae, drawn with heated glass rods. Observe further how Mr. Förster is preparing the Corneal Limbus with pure crystal, giving the Iris Drawing its special depth and liveliness, just as you know it from the natural eye. The colour of the Sclera will be adapted and all the fine Capillaries are elaborated; follow how the eye prosthesis takes on its special, individually shape and is separated from the glass bowl.

The Manufacturing of glass-made artificial eyes has a long tradition in Europe. First records reach back to Venice in 1623 and the occupational image of the ocularist was established in Paris in the middle of the 18th century. The technique used in Germany goes back to Ludwig Müller-Uri, who developed and applied the manufacturing technique in 1832 – 1835. Glass-blown eye prosthesis are made with this special technique until today. Over the years many generations of ocularists have continuously improved and developed it up to its actually form.

Ferdinand A. Förster is one of the leading ocularists in Germany with more than 40 years of experience. After an education of 7 years at the institute F.Ad. Müller-Söhne in Wiesbaden, he graduated with great success in 1975. Shortly after he took over the Institute of Otto Adam (founded in 1947) and turned it into the Ferdinand a. Förster GmbH with its headquarters in Saarbrücken. Ferdinand A. Förster is chairman of the audit committee of the D.O.G., the Association of German Ocularists, for over 15 years and also member of the IMPT, the IAA and the IASPE.

Limited to 20 participants.

10:30 - 12:00

Workshop 2.2 The Digital (R)Evolution in Facial Prosthetics
Our Practical Future: “Technology Works. What’s Next?
Presenters: Rosemary Seelaus, Chicago, IL, USA, and Suzanna Verma,Dallas, TX, USA.

This workshop is designed as a practical exercise to consider technology and its role in facial prosthetic treatment. Technical examples of how computer-driven systems contribute to the planning, design and fabrication of prostheses are easily identified. What is more difficult is defining a technical solution within the comprehensive treatment process.

Participants in this workshop will discuss existing digital technologies and their application in prosthesis fabrication. Teams of workshop participants will pursue an exploration of the treatment process from planning through delivery of the restoration, considering both conventional and technological solutions.

Drawing from plenary session lectures, workshop discussion, and hands on experience, participants will be asked to define innovative treatment solutions as a team, for different patient treatment scenarios. Considerations of all aspects of the treatment process will be critical in defining practical solutions for future prosthetic delivery.

Limited to 30 participants.

14:30

Conference Adjourns