Speakers
Michael Assayag
Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction for Congenital Musculoskeletal Pathologies
Shaun Desai
Facial Reconstructive Surgery in the 21st Century
Hélder Ferreira
Neovagina Creation Using Image-guided Surgery Technology in the Setting of Congenital Vaginal AgenesisDr. Michael Assayag is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon. With years of experience in advanced orthopedic care, Dr. Assayag has helped patients around the world add inches to their height and increase their confidence and self-esteem. In addition to cosmetic height enhancement, Dr. Assayag offers treatment for patients with complex orthopedic conditions, including reconstructive procedures for bone defects, limb deformities and osteomyelitis, as well as bowleg and knock knee correction.
Dr. Assayag is highly renowned among his peers and has distinguished himself throughout his career as an orthopedic surgeon. He has been named as one of Baltimore Magazine’s Top Doctors in 2019 and serves as co-director of the prestigious Baltimore Limb Deformity Course, where he teaches the principles of limb lengthening to surgeons across the globe. He has also published influential research on limb reconstruction, sharing his knowledge with others to improve the quality of orthopedic care worldwide.
Some of Dr. Assayag’s proudest achievements occur outside the office. He is involved with Operation Rainbow, a nonprofit organization that provides orthopedic services to children and young adults in developing countries like Haiti. By volunteering, he has helped to improve the lives of hundreds of patients who might not otherwise have access to advanced medical care. He also supports the Rubin Institute’s Save-A-Limb Fund, which sponsors medical missions abroad and provides financial assistance for patients in need of limb-saving surgery.
Shaun Desai, M.D., is an assistant professor of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Desai is uniquely double-board certified in both otolaryngology-head and neck surgery by the American Board of Otolaryngology, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr. Desai's practice focuses exclusively on plastic surgery of the face, head, and neck. Within the field of facial plastic surgery, his practice encompasses a broad spectrum of both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Reconstructive procedures include facial trauma management, microvascular or “free-flap” reconstruction of major head and neck defects after cancer or trauma, skin cancer reconstruction after Moh’s surgery and management of skin cancer, such as malignant melanoma. He is also an active surgical member of the multi-disciplinary Facial Transplantation team at Johns Hopkins.
To date, Shaun Desai has published over 50 research articles, 9 book chapters, and solely edited his own textbook entitled, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Clinical Reference Guide.
Hélder Ferreira (MD, PhD, MBA) is the Head of the Minimally Invasive Gynaecologic Surgery Unit of Centro Hospitalar Universitário in Porto, Portugal. He is also a Professor of Gynaecology at the University of Porto in ICBAS (Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar).
Pr. Ferreira is the Chairman of YEP-ESGE and Executive Board Member of European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) and the President of the Portuguese Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery. He is the holder of a fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery, a Medical Education diploma. He works together with EBCOG (European Board&College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) to develop the European curriculum in gynaecology (PACT-EBCOG).
Hélder Ferreira is the author of several original articles, book chapters, short communications and Websurg™ video publications. He lectures in national, regional and international scientific meetings/congresses and performed live demonstrative surgeries in several countries. He has been invited lecturer in several organizations like IRCAD (Research Institute against Digestive Cancer), University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa), MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT) and Institute of Anatomy at the University of Tuebingen. He is one of the Head instructors of the European Academy of Gynaecological Surgery (Leuven, Belgium) and has tutored many training courses on dry/live-tissue lab and cadaver dissection.