RACS ASC 2024

CUTTING EDGE / CONTROVERSIAL

Scientific Session

Scientific Session

2:00 pm

09 May 2024

Bealey 5

Disciplines

Surgical History

Session Chairs

Rob Robertson

Aotearoa New Zealand

Session Program

2:00 pm

Artificial hearts - could we; should we? A controversial Medical Technology and its Sensational Patient Cases

Shelley McKellar

2:30 pm

Laurence Michael Dillon – the history of a remarkable doctor and patient

Alistair McCombe

2:40 pm

The History of Vaginoplasty for Gender Affirming Surgery

2:50 pm

Lenin, Krupskaya and Kocher. The meeting of the First Lady of the Soviet Union and the Father of Thyroid Surgery.

3:00 pm

Sir Geoffrey Keynes: A Surgical Luminary and Historian - From Blood Transfusion to Trailblazing Breast-Conserving Surgery

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