WORKSHOP: 1.00pm - 5.00pm.
Afternoon tea is provided.
In this workshop, Mr Rajan Patel – Head and Neck Surgeon, offers a practical, hands-on demonstration of surgical instruments, cryotherapy, local anaesthetic infiltration, punch biopsy, curettage, shave excision, sebaceous cyst excision and suturing – including deep dermal sutures.
He will also focus on and run-through advanced surgical techniques for GPs, including specialist tips and tricks to optimise scar healing, local flaps, skin grafts, and more. As part of practising these techniques, please be aware the workshop will include handling raw pig skin.
Cost:
- Registration fee per session (add-on to Goodfellow Symposium registration) - $345
- Registration fee per session, Friday only participants (not part of Goodfellow Symposium) - $365
This workshop is capped at 50 participants, so register early.
This workshop has been endorsed and approved for professional development by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (3.5 hrs, 7 points), and the College of Nurses Aotearoa NZ for 3.5 professional development hours.
Presenter
Rajan Patel
MBChB, MD, FRCS (ORLHNS), FRACS (ORLHNS)
Rajan is the New Zealand Convener for World Head & Neck Cancer Day. He has been involved in Head and Neck Cancer treatment for 20 years.
He qualified as Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon in 2005. He was awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD) Diploma by the University of Glasgow for his research efforts in 2005. Thereafter he completed three years of Fellowship training in Head & Neck Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery in Toronto and Sydney.
He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Auckland City Hospital in 2009 and is Clinical Lead Surgeon at Auckland Head & Neck Surgery, which he established with Mark Izzard in 2010.
Rajan‘s clinical expertise includes surgical management of thyroid gland nodules, salivary gland tumours, neck lumps, head and neck cancers (including larynx, pharynx and oral cavity) and facial skin cancer and melanoma, and tissue reconstruction.
Rajan has published more than 40 articles in scientific journals and written several book chapters on head and neck surgery. He is part of the MercyAscot Head & Neck Service team.
This workshop is supported by
