12th Congress of the European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (ESPRAS) 2014 Edinburgh

The British Asso­ci­a­tion of Plas­tic, Recon­struc­tive and Aes­thetic Sur­geons (BAPRAS) is delighted and hon­oured to host the 12^th Qua­dren­nial Euro­pean Meet­ing of ESPRAS in 2014, when we look for­ward to bring­ing you to the gath­er­ing of our clans, as they would say in Scot­land. The Con­gress will give us the oppor­tu­nity to wel­come you to the cen­tre of Edin­burgh, to a full sci­en­tific pro­gramme with work­shops, emi­nent guest speak­ers, and spe­cial ses­sions for nurses. We hope you will join us in shar­ing devel­op­ments in our spe­cialty, your spe­cialised knowl­edge and your sur­gi­cal skills.

As well as offer­ing a care­fully devel­oped sci­en­tific pro­gramme of ‘cut­ting edge’ sub­jects to improve the care of those we care for, we want to work together with you to strengthen our spe­cialty to face the social, medico-​political and eco­nomic chal­lenges to plas­tic surgery in each of our coun­tries, and through­out the ESPRAS com­mu­nity. There is great scope for us to join together and share novel ideas and organ­i­sa­tion in our efforts to develop the high­est stan­dard of plas­tic sur­gi­cal care through­out Europe.

• Abdom­i­nal Wall and Pelvis – Niri Niranjan/​Hugh Gal­lagher
• Aes­thetic – Nigel Mer­cer
• Basic Sci­ence – Andy Hart
• Breast – Venkat Ramakr­ish­nan
• Burns – Peter Dziewul­ski
• Cleft Lip and Palate – Tim Goodacre
• Con­gen­i­tal Cran­io­fa­cial – David John­son
• Ear Recon­struc­tion – Ken Stew­art
• Enhanc­ing Ser­vice Deliv­ery – Ste­fan Hofer
• Facial Palsy – Omar Ahmed
• Gen­eral Plas­tic Surgery, Body Con­tour­ing and Post Bariatric Surgery – Andy Malyon
• Head and Neck and Adult Cran­io­fa­cial – Derek Gor­don

• Hypospa­dias, Per­ineum and Trans­gen­der Surgery – David Cole­man
• Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light – Iain MacKay
• Lasers and Non Sur­gi­cal Aes­thetic Inter­ven­tion – Iain MacKay
• Lower Limb includ­ing Trauma – Jagdeep Nan­cha­hal
• Micro­surgery – Paul Har­ris
• Mil­i­tary Surgery – Tania Cubi­son
• Pae­di­atric Surgery – Paul Smith
• Skin Can­cers and Sar­coma – Marc Mon­crieff
• Train­ing, Edu­ca­tion and Reg­u­la­tion in UK & Europe – Aidan Fitzger­ald
• Upper Limb and Hands – Vivien Lees

This part of the pro­gramme will be held over 5 days (Monday-​Friday) and will have the oppor­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate at two levels:

Mas­ter­class Pro­s­ec­tion ses­sions, which should appeal to both trainees and more senior del­e­gates, will be filmed and trans­mit­ted live to a nearby lec­ture room in the RCSEd. The com­bined video and audio link will allow tech­nique dis­cus­sion dur­ing pro­ceed­ings and give the del­e­gates the oppor­tu­nity to observe a true “Mas­ter at Work”.

Dis­sec­tion ses­sions with tutors will be aimed at del­e­gates who wish to enhance their recon­struc­tive skills. These ses­sions will accom­mo­date approx­i­mately 24 del­e­gates and cover a wide range of top­ics such as Lower Limb, Head and Neck Recon­struc­tion, Hand, Aes­thet­ics, Breast and Abdom­i­nal Wall Reconstructions.

Places will be avail­able on a first-​come first-​serve basis. Please ensure to pur­chase your tick­ets in advance, when reg­is­ter­ing for the Con­gress. Sur­gi­cal Skills Mas­ter­class atten­dance is only accepted in con­junc­tion with reg­is­tra­tion to ESPRAS 2014.

List of Classes

• Del­e­gate Dis­sec­tion – Lower Limb
• Mas­ter­class Pro­s­ec­tion – Facial Aes­thet­ics
• Del­e­gate Dis­sec­tion — Facial Aes­thet­ics
• Mas­ter­class Pro­s­ec­tion — Head & Neck Recon­struc­tion
• Del­e­gate Dis­sec­tion — Head & Neck Recon­struc­tion
• Mas­ter­class Pro­s­ec­tion – Upper Limb
• Del­e­gate Dis­sec­tion — Upper Limb
• Mas­ter­class Pro­s­ec­tion – Breast
• Del­e­gate Dis­sec­tion – Abdom­i­nal Wall Recon­struc­tion

Late Break­ing Abstract Submission

It is rec­om­mended that the fol­low­ing head­ings are used when sub­mit­ting abstracts:

• Intro­duc­tion and Aims
• Mate­r­ial and Methods
• Results
• Conclusion(s)

To increase the like­li­hood of accep­tance the abstract should cap­ture the inter­est of the review­ers, be suc­cinct, have a clear mes­sage and avoid phrases such as “pre­lim­i­nary results” or “results will be pre­sented”. In con­sid­er­ing which papers to accept for pre­sen­ta­tion at the con­gress, the Sci­en­tific Com­mit­tee favours orig­i­nal work which has not already been pub­lished. Pref­er­ence will be given to abstracts that con­tain details of the aims and objec­tives, the mate­ri­als and meth­ods used, the key results, the con­clu­sion and clin­i­cal appli­ca­tion of the study.

E-​Poster Submission

Elec­tronic posters (ePosters) are short Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tions or PDF files that sum­ma­rize your work fol­low­ing the same prin­ci­ples as a paper poster. You have to pre­pare an ePoster and upload it through the Inter­net on a cen­tral server before the start of the con­fer­ence. Your poster will then be avail­able for view­ing on ded­i­cated com­puter ter­mi­nals (the ePoster area will be in the exhi­bi­tion area, the Lennox Suite) from Mon­day 7^th – Thurs­day 10^th July inclusively.

Dur­ing this time, con­fer­ence atten­dees will be able to vote on your work. After the con­gress, your ePoster will also be avail­able for view­ing on the ESPRAS 2014 website.

The dead­line for the ePoster upload is Sun­day 15^th June 2014.

To upload your ePoster suc­cess­fully, please read the guide­lines for ePosters here.

Please use the fol­low­ing link to upload your ePoster: http://​www​.abstract​sto​sub​mit​.com/​e​s​p​r​a​s​2​0​1​4​/​p​u​p​load/

Pub­li­ca­tion Opportunity

Copy­right is assumed by ESPRAS 2014 for pub­li­ca­tion of the abstracts on their web­site, inter­ac­tive PDF and printed Book of Abstracts (ISBN publication).

The top 50 abstracts will be pub­lished in JPRAS (with DOI num­ber) over 2 edi­tions. For pub­li­ca­tion in JPRAS, the abstract must be pre­sented at ESPRAS 2014. Papers sub­mit­ted incor­rectly will NOT be considered.

Accred­i­ta­tion Statement

ESPRAS 2014 has been granted CPD accred­i­ta­tion by BAPRAS for UK sur­geons and health­care pro­fes­sion­als. CME points have now been cal­cu­lated for the ses­sions. Visit the accred­i­ta­tion page for more information.

An appli­ca­tion has also been made to the Euro­pean Accred­i­ta­tion Coun­cil for Con­tin­u­ing Med­ical Edu­ca­tion (EAC­CME) for CME accred­i­ta­tion of this event. The EAC­CME is an insti­tu­tion of the Euro­pean Union of Med­ical Spe­cial­ists (UEMS).