Prof. Rei Ogawa, MD, PhD, is currently a faculty member at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, where he serves as Professor and Chief of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and a member of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS), and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Additionally, he is an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand. His clinical expertise lies in reconstructive surgery and scar management, including the prevention and treatment of abnormal scars. He is a globally recognized expert on keloids. Since 2017, Elsevier has annually ranked him among the top 2% of scientists worldwide. He is the President of the Global Scar Society (G-ScarS), the Asian Pacific Society for Scar Medicine (APSSM), and the Japan Scar Workshop (JSW).
Prof. Ogawa is currently directing the Mechanobiology and Mechanotherapy Laboratory at Nippon Medical School. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Research Fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing Laboratory at Brigham and Women''s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA. His recent research focuses on mechanobiology and its applications in tissue engineering, wound healing, and anti-aging medicine. Prof. Ogawa has received numerous honors, including the Japanese Society of Plastic Surgery Prize, and has been awarded multiple research grants, such as the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) in Japan. He holds several patents in tissue engineering and mechanobiology. Prof.
Ogawa serves as an Editorial Board Member for numerous international and national scientific journals (e.g., Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) and is a Board Member of various international and local medical societies, including the Japanese Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (JSPRS). Prof. Ogawa has coauthored over 50 chapters in international and national books, published over 800 peer-reviewed papers in international and national scientific journals, and presented over 2,800 coauthored papers at international and national conferences, including more than 440 invited lectures. Prof. Dennis P. Orgill, MD, PhD, is Associate Chief in Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Full Professor at Harvard Medical School, Department of Plastic Surgery.
Orgill is vice chairman for quality improvement in the Department of Surgery at BWH Wound Care Center, and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Orgill''s lab is working to develop better technologies to treat wounds, prevent amputations, and regenerate tissues. His work has included improvements in artificial skin and methods to improve wound healing including micromechanical forces, platelets, and stem cells. He has consulted for several medical device and start-up companies and is the inventor on several patents. Dr. Orgill specializes in adult reconstructive surgical procedures and related cosmetic procedures, many of which done with a surgical colleague of a different discipline to provide the optimal care for the patients. The goal is to provide the best functional and aesthetic reconstructive procedure following tissue loss.
Educational Background: Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Internship at Brigham and Women''s Hospital. Residency: Brigham and Women''s/Children''s Hospital, Plastic Surgery Awards/Honors: Among many others, Dr. Orgill was elected "America''s Top Plastic Surgeon" and authored/co-authored over 372 papers in related international journals. Prof. Luc Téot, MD, PhD is head of the Burns Unit and Wound Healing Unit of the Montpellier University Hospital in France. He is author of over 100 publications and wrote several books and book chapters. He is an editorial board member of 8 journals and former president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies and the European Tissue Repair Society. Professor Téot is qualified in General, Orthopaedic and Plastic surgery and full professor at the universities of Montpellier, Nantes, Limoges, Antilles and La Réunion.
His passion for wound healing and scarring has encouraged him to become organiser of international conferences like Scar Club, Conférence de Plaies et Cicatrisation and the International Workshops on Wound Technology. Prof. Téot has beenpromoting wound healing and scar management since he founded the French Wound Healing Society in 1995. He was elected president of the European Tissue Repair Society (1998-2000) and then president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (2004-2008). He is also president of the Academy of Wound Technology, and was coordinator of the Scar Club (2006-2017). He has contributed to 12 international books as coeditor, chapter writer or editor. Prof. Julian J.
Pribaz was born in Trieste, Italy and raised and educated in Australia. After graduating from Melbourne University of Melbourne he trained in General Surgery at St. Vincent''s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and Salisbury, England as General Surgery Registrar, gaining FRCS at Edinburgh University. After completing Plastic Surgical Training back in Melbourne, he moved to the US, for a 2. residency in Plastic Surgery at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Pribaz then returned to Australia as Clinical Instructor in Plastic Surgery, St. Vincent''s Hospital, Melbourne University.
After years of very busy clinical practice, he obtained his FRACS (Australian Boards) in Plastic Surgery in 1982, and in 1986 went on to complete American Boards in Plastic Surgery. After 5 years as a consultant at St. Vincent''s Hospital, he was recruited to Harvard Medical School in 1987, to finally being promoted full Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 2002. Dr. Pribaz was also responsible for combining the 3 plastic surgery programs at Harvard and served as program director for 13 years. After 29 years at Harvard, Dr Pribaz resigned his position in 2016 and was recruited to the University of South Florida where he continues to teach and perform clinical work in reconstructive surgery. Dr. Pribaz''s research and clinical interests are primarily in the area of general reconstructive and microvascular surgery focusing on the head and neck, breast, as well as extremity reconstruction and more recently face and hand allotransplantation.
Dr. Pribaz has been the author of 160 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 70 book chapters and served on the editorial board of 5 major plastic surgery journals. He is a member of numerous national/ international surgical societies, and recipient of teaching awards (Clinician of the Year award from AAPS, Robert Goldwyn Mentorship award from ACAPS, and Distinguished Fellow award from the AAPS). He has delivered 52 keynote addresses, been a visiting professor/invited lecturer at over 190 national/ international institutions and conferences, as well as course director, and given over 860 presentations nationally/ internationally. Prof. Hiko Hyakusoku MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Surgery, at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. His career includes being Visting Professor at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sidney, of Nan-fang Medical University in Guangzhou, RP China. He was elected President of the Society of Japanese Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2001 and President of the Society of 12th Japan-China Joint Meeting of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2003.
Professor Hyakusoku has also headed the Society of Burns in Tokyo 2003, was appointed Vice president of the Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, and President of 1st Japanese Scar Meeting in 2008. He is Past-President of Japanese Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery His research and specialty focus on microsurgery, extensive burn surgery, skin cancer, keloid, aesthetic surgery, cleft surgery, tissue engineering and free vascular bundle implantation. Several pedicled flaps were developed by Prof. Hyakusoku at the Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, in the 1980s to treat a large number of patients with postburn contractures. In this setting, the propeller flaps were described for the first time in 1991, and Prof. Hyakusoku used the term first, in defining an island flap, based on a subcutaneous pedicle hub, that was rotated 90 degrees to correct scar contractures due to burns. He is also Honorary Member of a large number of Scientific Societies as the Japanese Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Japan Scar Workshop. On top of a clinical work that spans over decades with many research grants assigned, he has been teaching and lecturing extensively; his publications count over 366 research works.