TIPS will fill key professional and educational gaps within the aesthetic and reconstructive surgery community. Both goals center around innovation: First, TIPS will provide clinicians with a practical knowledge base of and networking opportunities with key stakeholders within the innovation process.
Next, a series of lectures will explore several areas of our field that each has a robust and innovative technology component. These technologies have become the basis of several viable businesses and by initiating a conversation between busy clinicians and industry, we hope to accelerate the development of novel technologies to improve patients’ lives.
TIPS will provide clinicians and medical technology entrepreneurs with a tool kit to take their ideas from initial design ideas to an approved clinical device. This will include a detailed exploration of intellectual property, the process of forming a company, ways to attract investors and buyers in the clinic….all written by global experts in these areas.
TIPS will focus on several clinical areas in aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery that have become major businesses with some reporting annual revenues exceeding a billion dollars. Part of the agenda will be dedicated to the comparison of existing technology; by comparing the features of various available products and devices, a dialogue between busy clinicians and the private sector will open.
Currently, no other meeting within the plastic surgery arena provides this exciting combination of networking, technology development, and clinical education.
Session topics for TIPS 2010 include:
- Resurfacing Technology
- Noninvasive Body Contouring
- Breast Implants
- Adipose-derived Stem Cells
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
- Acellular Dermis and Meshes
- Injectables: Neurotoxins and Fillers
- How to Develop a New Technology in Plastic Surgery
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