Regenerative Medicine and Plastic Surgery

PART 1: SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE REGENERATION1. Induction of the Fetal Scarless Phenotype in Adult Wounds: Impossible?2. Scar Treatment and Prevention: Know Thine Enemy3. Challenges and Opportunities in Drug Delivery and Wound Healing4. Harvesting, Processing and Injection of Lipoaspirate for Soft Tissue Reconstruction - Details Make the Difference5. Adipose Tissue Complex (ATC):  Cellular & Biocellular Uses of Stem/Stromal Cells & Matrix in Cosmetic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery & Regenerative Medicine6. Preparation, Characterization, and Clinical Implications of Human Decellularized Adipose Tissue Extracellular Matrix7. Mesenchymal Cells that Support Human Skin Regeneration8. Stem Cells and Burn9. Skin Tissue Engineering Advances in Severe Burns: Review and Therapeutic Applications10. Skin Substitutes for Burn Wounds11. Wnt Signaling During Cutaneous Wound Healing12. Drug Delivery Advances for the Regeneration of Aged SkinPART 2: BONE REGENERATION13. Innovative Scaffold Solution for Bone Regeneration Made of Beta-Tricalcium Phosphate Granules, Autologous Fibrin Fold and Peripheral Blood Stem Cells14. Ordinary and Activated Bone Substitutes15. Absorbable Bone Substitute Materials Based on Calcium Sulfate as Triggers for Osteoinduction and Osteoconduction16. Perivascular Progenitor Cells for Bone Regeneration17. Bone Repair and Regeneration is Regulated by the Wnt Signaling PathwayPART 3: CARTILAGE REGENERATION18. Cartilage Tissue Engineering: Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Growth Factors and Scaffolds19. Sox9 Potentiates BMP2-induced Chondrogenic Differentiation and Inhibits BMP2-induced Osteogenic Differentiation20. Stem Cells and Ear RegenerationPART 4: MUSCLE AND TENDON REGENERATION21. Muscle Fiber Regeneration in Long Term Denervated Muscles. Basics and Clinical Perspectives22. Rejuvenating Stem Cells to Restore Muscle Regeneration in Aging23. Silk Fibroin-Decorin Engineered Biologics to Repair Musculofascial Defects24. Skeletal Muscle

Dr. Dominik Duscher MD, PhD, is the director of the Division of Experimental Plastic Surgery at Technical University of Munich. He holds a doctorate of medicine and a research doctorate focusing on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. After his medical education in Vienna (Medical University of Vienna), London (University College London) and Boston (Harvard Medical School) he graduated from a postdoctoral fellowship in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. For his research he received the Stanford University biomaterial research prize, and scholarships from the American Austrian Foundation and the Austrian Science Fund, among other distinctions. Dr. Duscher holds multiple patents, published more than 100 peer reviewed publications and authored more than 100 conference presentations. Dominik Duscher is the General Secretary of the European Plastic Surgery Research Council. He further acts as the Research Coordinator of the Microsurgical Education Center of the Kepler University Hospital Linz and the Young Forum of the Austrian Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Dr. Melvin A. Shiffman, MD, JD, FCLM, received his MD from Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1957 and completed his residency in general surgery in 1964 at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, California. Since then he has been continuously involved in oncologic surgery, reconstruction, and cosmetic surgery. In 2002, Dr. Shiffman became Chair of the Section of Surgery at Tustin Hospital and Medical Center and in 2009-10 he served as President of the American College of Legal Medicine. He is Editor Emeritus of the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery, a member of the Scientific Committee of the American Journal of Aesthetic Medicine, and an examiner for the International Board of Cosmetic Surgery. He is also a former Editor-in-Chief of both the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery and the International Journal of Cosmetic