Dr. Joon Pio (Jp) Hong, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. is Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center. He has board certification in Trauma, Hand and Plastic surgery. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University USA and St Paul University Ethiopia.
He received his BS degree from the Yonsei University of College of Medicine and his MS degree in medicine and PhD degree from the Graduate School of Yonsei University. He received his M.B.A. on medical management from University of Southern California at Marshall School of Business.
He is an active member is number of professional associations such as American society of plastic surgery, Korean society of Plastic surgery and currently serves as President of the KSRM (Korean society of Reconstructive Microsurgery) and President-Elect for WSRM (World society of Reconstructive Microsurgery).
His major work has been research and clinical practice in wound healing, diabetic foot & lower extremity reconstruction and supermicrosurgery. He is the Editor-in-Chief for an internationally well-known journal and serves on the editorial board for numerous journals. He has been invited to over 80 countries to present his work and travelled as visiting professor for more than 60 institutions. He has over 280 publications, 28 book chapters and edited two books in this field of science.
He was awarded the "Godina Travelling Fellowship" from the 2015 American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, "Al Fred W. Farmer Lectureship" 2016 from the Canadian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, "Acta Scandinavia Lectureship" 2018 from the Scandinavian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the "Maliniac Lectureship" 2020 from the American Society of Plastic Surgery and "James Burret Brown award" 2022 from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.
Bernard T. Lee, MD, MBA, MPH is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Vice Chair of Finance in the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His area of expertise is in breast cancer reconstruction and microsurgical perforator flaps. Dr. Lee's basic science laboratory focuses on the development, implementation, and translation of novel imaging systems for microsurgery and composite tissue allotransplantation, funded by multiple National Institute of Health (NIH R01) grants. In addition, his clinical research in reconstructive surgery focuses on patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, health disparities, and health literacy. He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, an editor of the textbook Encyclopedia of Flaps, and has served on the editorial board of another 4 journals. Dr. Lee is past-President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons - Plastic Surgery Foundation, past-President of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, and a Director of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He has served as an American Society of Plastic Surgeons Visiting Professor and lectures nationally and internationally on the topics of microsurgery and imaging.
Dr. Akitatsu Hayashi is specialized in reconstructive microsurgery & surgical treatment for lymphedema.
He started his career of plastic surgeon and microsurgeon from 2012 in Tokyo Univ under Prof. Isao Koshima. He has held the present post since 2018 after working in Belgium and Italy as Technical Advisor of Lymphatic Surgery and Imaging.
He is well-known in pioneer in the (Pre-Op / Intra-Op) ultrasonographic imaging and laser tomographic imaging of the lymphatic vessel and perforators for lymphedema surgery and reconstructive microsurgery.
He has been invited over 14 countries to present his work and travelled as visiting professor for 6 institutions. He has over 80 publications in this field of practice with 10 book chapters.
Kameda Lymphedema Center where he serves as a program director has been the first asian designated Surgical Centers of Excellence by the Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) from 2020.
Dr. Giuseppe Visconti is a Plastic Surgeon based in Rome. He started the Lymphedema Surgery Program in University Hospital "Agostino Gemelli" in Rome, which is nowadays one of the highest-volume Center for lymphedema surgery in Europe and recognized as LE&RN Center of Excellence for Lymphatic Surgery. The first user of Ultra high-Frequency Ultrasound in Europe for lymphatic surgery, he pioneered its use for perforator flaps. Dr Giuseppe Visconti has been granted by the Italian Ministry of Health a research project on Lymphedema Surgery in 2017, has produced more than 25 publications dedicated to lymphedema surgery on international peer reviewed Journals, 3 chapters on lymphedema surgery for International Books and is Co-Editor of the first book entirely dedicated to Supermicrosurgical LVA, published in 2020. Co-Founder of the Ultrasound in Reconstructive Microsurgery Yearly Meeting since 2019, he is regularly invited in National and International Meetings for Lymphedema Surgery.
