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Winter 2014 • Issue 37

News from the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

IN THIS ISSUE

Gratitude

Cover Story

By Kishore Nayak, Past President

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Gratitude

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Meet the New IAOMS Executive Director, Pierre M. Désy

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Barcelona: An ICOMS to Be Remembered 3

ICOMS 2013: A Farewell

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Scientific Success

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Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Sub-Committee Chairs

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Honoring Our Colleagues

Leadership Viewpoints 7

President Strengthening the Scope of OMFS Worldwide

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Foundation Chairman Building the Foundation for the Future

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Executive Director Engage with IAOMS and Become a Partner in Success

Regional Associations 9

News from the SASFOMS

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News from the Trainees in Latin America

Activities 12

Investing in the Future — The OMS Trainee

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What IAOMS Means to Me

Alexis Olsson Editor-in-Chief Lisa Markovic Membership Associate 5550 Meadowbrook Industrial Court, Suite 210 Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008 U.S.A. +1 (224) 232-8737 lmarkovic@iaoms.org

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hankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. It’s been a wonderful ride being the President of the IAOMS and as I complete my term I can think of no better time than now to express how happy and grateful I am to everyone who made things happen for the IAOMS. It is that time of the year as the Gregorian calendar turns another page, most people around the world are taking audit of the year past, resolving differences and making plans for the year ahead; some to protect their health, some to grow their wealth and some of us find time to reflect on gratitude over things that went well and recount the near misses from the previous year.

While perhaps there are cultural differences in perception and expression of gratitude, most of us will admit to having something to be thankful for — an unexpected opportunity, a selfless mentor, a supportive family, a proud moment… the list goes on. Perhaps the acknowledgement of that gratefulness is the most joyful and sincere thing one could do. That however, is often an overlooked detail.

“…I can think of no better time than now to express how happy and grateful I am to everyone who made things happen for the IAOMS.” In our daily grind, we often don’t take the time to say thank you to those that matter. Our daily existence infringes on the boundaries of entitlement (often without our awareness), because we take people around us that help us daily and routinely, for granted. It is somehow our right to have been treated well, to be free, or to have that refill of the morning coffee. Yet we expect those around us to keep tabs of favors, and expect unconditional gratitude — all of us are, after all, just human!

Generational changes are impacting attitudes about gratitude all over again.

The ‘trophy kids’ — those that showed up at the soccer game and got a trophy regardless of whether they played well or their team won — have a different sense of (continued on page 2)

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acknowledgement of appreciation altogether. Thankfully, wisdom of adulthood or common sense prevails at some point in their life and hopefully, all is not lost. Multiple clinical studies in psychology and cognition and emotion have established the positive co-relation between gratitude and positive social behavior and success. In many ways, grateful mentees emulate their mentors who pride in their students’ successes.

As oral and maxillofacial surgeons we touch people’s lives all the time in ways beyond our perception. And we are constantly at the receiving end of our patients’ gratitude. In our busy practices, academic and professional lives, a team helps us perform at our best and in turn we find ourselves in constant thankfulness to that team. Gratitude is not the same as indebtedness. We understand that more than anyone else.

Our students and patients are grateful to us; we are indebted to our families, our parents, our closest friends for keeping us sane.

As I reflect on my Presidential tenure with the IAOMS, I cannot help think of the many people world over who have helped me through this course. I am grateful to the officers and staff at the IAOMS Headquarters, the various committee members, the ICOMS organizers, and the ‘boots on the ground’ volunteers in various countries at various IAOMS sponsored events making sure the lights turn on and that an extra power cord is available. A large organization like the IAOMS is a

continuum of leadership, and I am grateful to the giants that preceded me and providing the guiding light of their mission and vision. I am grateful to my fellow board members, who have travelled to various corners of the world on my behalf, poured over megabytes of committee documents and burnt the midnight oil in crucial web meetings convening at odd hours in their respective continents.

Resources in the form of talent, time and treasure are the living core of every large organization. The IAOMS Foundation is instrumental in harnessing the treasure, time and talent for the IAOMS. Generous donations from members, officers and the corporate world sustain the foundation, which in turn then supports the various IAOMS activities. Every small act of giving to the IAOMS Foundation is a return on investment to the membership beyond its value. It is representative of our gratitude, our giving back.

It is the season of expression of gratitude and saying thanks. This winter has come late to Bangalore and the Jacaranda tree outside my window overlooking the park still has some leaves left over from its autumn. As I finish up this last newsletter piece as your President, I sit staring at those few leaves, and I am left pensive, contemplative, a slight bit proud and overwhelmingly grateful. Thank you…It truly has been a great honor being the President of the IAOMS.

Meet the New IAOMS Executive Director, Pierre M. Désy

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he Board of Directors of the IAOMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Pierre M. Désy to the position of IAOMS Executive Director effective January 20, 2014.

Désy brings more than 13 years of senior executive experience in the field of association management.

Over the last four years, he served as Chief Development Officer at the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) where he provided leadership, developed and executed strategies to expand corporate sponsorships, fundraising, and new business ventures to advance ENA’s strategic plan. Prior to that, he

served as Director of the ENA Injury Prevention Institute, where he led the development of evidence-based educational programs and conceptualized the infrastructure for ENA’s now three Institutes (Research, Education, Quality and Safety).

“I am honored to be the IAOMS’s new Executive Director.

I look forward to working with the IAOMS board of directors, executive committee, staff, members and stakeholders to advance the organization’s mission and vision,” Désy added.

Désy holds a certificate in healthcare management from the Université de Montréal, a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University, Chicago, IL, and a master’s of public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a Certified Association Executive (CAE). Désy is active with the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) where he serves as a member of the ASAE Foundation Development Committee.

He is also active with Association Forum, where he serves as a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Congratulations to Madhav Kittur from Swansea, United Kingdom! He is the winner of our ICOMS Survey Drawing for one

free registration to the 22nd ICOMS in Melbourne, Australia.

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Barcelona: An ICOMS to Be Remembered

ICOMS 2013: A Farewell

By Dr. Javier Gonzรกlez Lagunas, Chairman 21st ICOMS, Barcelona 2013

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lmost two months have passed since the 21st edition of ICOMS took place. It is now time for reflection. The numbers for ICOMS were outstanding: more than 2,400 inscriptions, almost 1,500 free papers, delegates from 93 countries, over 150 speakers, and around 50 companies were represented in the exhibit.

SECOM (Spanish Association for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) as the host society is proud of the results and the efforts made by all the people involved in the organization. It is not only the people directly involved in the committees, but also those that attended the meeting, those that chaired sessions, or those that reviewed in a very limited period of time all the free papers. The success of ICOMS is our common success as a national association.

Meetings are not only for the promotion of science and knowledge. They are an extremely useful tool to achieve the cohesion of a professional group. Joining more than 2,000 people in a congress palace allows surgeons to interact and to network with people from all over the world. There is no better way to strengthen a medical association. Those personal liaisons will last forever. Young surgeons will meet colleagues that will have parallel careers in different corners of the world and will converge every now and then in meetings like ICOMS.

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I am sure that our organization failed in some aspects, and we will try to help our friends and colleagues in Australia, so they do not make the some mistakes we did. I feel obliged to IAOMS for giving us the opportunity of organizing such an important event as ICOMS. We want Melbourne 2015 to be an even better ICOMS, so they will have all our support.

I sincerely hope that you keep Barcelona ICOMS in your mind as a meeting that went beyond your expectations. For me, it was an extraordinary experience.

Thank you all for your support.

IAOMS Foundation Passing the Gift of Knowledge The IAOMS Foundation needs your support.

Make an investment in the future of the specialty and donate today! http://www.iaoms.org/ foundation/

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Scientific Success

By Julio Acero, Chairman Scientific Committee 21st ICOMS, IAOMS Vice President Dear IAOMS members, dear colleagues, dear friends,

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s the Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 21st International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS) held in Barcelona, Spain, it is my great honour and my pleasure to inform you on the scientific success of the Conference. The 21st ICOMS, gathering about 2,500 attendants coming from 93 countries, has been a landmark in the IAOMS history which will remain in our memories and our souls forever. I am very happy to say that, besides the exciting social events and the opportunity to find new and old friends coming from all parts of the world, the outstanding level of the scientific presentations will have a clear impact in our knowledge thus contributing to the progress of the specialty worldwide. We have received from all regions of the world very positive feedback about the scientific content of the Conference.

This scientific success is only due to the enthusiastic attendance of the delegates and the outstanding quality of all presenters, including more than 150 guest speakers in the main program, 705 Oral Abstracts and 751 Posters covering every field of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the highest scientific level with more than 200 chairpersons representing the best of our specialty. More than 80 Spanish Colleagues included in the Reviewers Subcommittee made possible a fast and strict

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reviewing process of the more than 1,500 abstracts received.

The scientific program included 92 scientific sessions and a variety of limited attendance courses, intra-congress courses and corporate forums. A special mention should be given to the Trainee Symposium “Disasters of the Masters” lead by Rui Fernandes, IAOMS Education Committee Chairman and to the keynote lectures “Can we Grow a New Jaw” by Riitta Seppänen, “Is Surgery an Art” by Bernard Devauchelle and the amazing Presidential Lecture “Orthognathic Surgery is a Science and an Art, Fact or Fantasy?” by Johan P. Reyneke.

The exciting great debates on “Preprosthetic Reconstruction of the Upper Jaw” and “Limits of Surgery in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer” closed the scientific program of the Congress.

May I express my gratitude to all of you involved in the ICOMS success and very especially to Javier González Lagunas.

Javier, as the Conference’s Chairman, showed not only the highest commitment but an incredible ability to join all efforts leading to the great success of the 21st ICOMS. Very special thanks goes to our President, Kishore Nayak, without his support and advice, nothing would have been possible. Our gratitude also goes to the whole IAOMS Executive Committee and the Secretariat, the Organizing and Scientific Committees of the Conference and the whole Spanish Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (SECOM).

Looking forward to seeing all of you at the 22nd ICOMS to be held in Melbourne, Australia in 2015.

With best wishes.

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Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Sub-Committee Chairs for 2014–2015 Executive Committee Board of Directors

Piet Haers, President Kishore Nayak, Past President Julio Acero, Vice President Alexis Olsson, Vice President Elect Larry Nissen, Foundation Chairman, Non-Voting Bob Woodwards, Treasurer Pierre Désy, Executive Director, Non-Voting Members-at-Large

Gabriele Millesi, Austria Sanjiv Chandrasekharan Nair, India Javier González Lagunas, Spain Regional Representatives

— John Fisher asia — Kenichi Kurita europe — Henri Thuau africa

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— Alejandro Martinez Garza north america — Arthur Jee oceania — David Wiesenfeld

Nabil Samman

— tr ainee committee Deepak Krishnan, U.S.A. 22nd icoms David Wiesenfeld, Ausustralia 23rd icoms Myung-Jin Kim, South Korea 24th icoms Luiz Henrique Moreira Marinho, Brazil

Committee Chairmen

Sub-Committee Chairs

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Executive Committee, Non-Voting Editor-in-Chief, IJOMS

education committee

Rui Fernandes, U.S.A. research committee

Joseph Helman, U.S.A. ibcsoms steering committee

Mark Wong, U.S.A. it advisory committee

Fred Rozema, Netherlands hadr committee

Steve Roser, U.S.A.

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The Sub-Committee falls under the direction of the Leading Committee Chair and are not part of the Executive Committee Sub-Committees of the Education Committee sig foundation fellowship

Ghali Ghali, U.S.A. e-learning and clinical databases

Juan Antonio Hueto-Madrid, Spain

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Honoring Our Colleagues IAOMS awarded the following recipients at the Gala Dinner in Barcelona, Spain for the 21st ICOMS.

Outstanding Committee Member Award

Distinguished Service Award

Distinguished Fellow Award

Distinguished Fellow Award

Presidential Citation

John Cawood

Carlos Navarro Vila

Kurt-Wilhelm Butow

Larry Nissen

Joseph Piecuch

United Kingdom

Spain

South Africa

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2014 Membership Dues Reminder The 2014 Membership Dues notices have been mailed to all Fellows and Trainees. Retired and Life Fellows received similar notices with the opportunity to subscribe to the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (IJOMS), submit voluntary contributions to the Foundation and update their contact information.

In order to ensure there is no interruption in your membership, please click here if you have not already renewed your 2014 dues.

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Strengthening the Scope of OMFS Worldwide

By Piet Haers, President 2014–2015

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ooking back at the past IAOMS year, I am sure that you will agree with me that the ICOMS in Barcelona was a tremendous success. A record number of colleagues attended this outstanding scientific meeting that was very well organized with plenty of opportunities to make and renew friendships in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Our thanks and admiration for this great achievement goes to the entire team of the local organizing and scientific committees and their chairmen Dr. Javier González Lagunas and Dr. Julio Acero.

This event has given us a great boost for starting the New Year in a dynamic way.

As you know and can read elsewhere on our website, new colleagues have joined the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors has been strengthened with the addition of Dr. Julio Acero as President-Elect and Dr. Alexis Olsson as Vice President Elect. I welcome them on to their respective positions and wish them a productive and successful term of service to IAOMS and its membership worldwide.

We also welcome a new Executive Director to IAOMS, Mr. Pierre Désy, whom joins us in January. I have great expectations and confidence that he will help us to achieve a growing, dynamic society that succeeds in being more relevant for its fellows by supporting and initiating initiatives that are valuable to all of us.

My wishes for you and IAOMS are that we can enrich and improve the interactions between the fellows and the Association. IAOMS aims to offer more than the bi-annual conference, the monthly journal and the periodic newsletter, the keystones of our traditional activities. IAOMS has the means to increasingly assure an ongoing relevance and reference in your professional life by providing network based information and communication. It is our task to make this attractive and interesting for you, the fellowship, by providing online resources that you are looking for and by optimally bundling access to that via the IAOMS website.

Strengthening the scope of OMFS worldwide was the topic of the Invitational Conference that initiated the ICOMS conference in Barcelona. This will also be the ongoing theme of my Presidency. A strategic plan is in place to help us realize a comprehensive set of tools to achieve for the IAOMS, and also to extend this to local associations and individual fellows in partnership with regional and local associations.

We wish to reach out to you as a source of information for consolidating your “scope” and strength, be it as an individual or a society. Ultimately this will lead to strengthening our mutual identities towards colleagues and patients, enhancing your “branding” based on quality of care and high standards. This will make us a stronger profession providing better patient care based on universal quality criteria as well as focused research and evidence…. This is our strategic plan in a nutshell!

This can only be achieved by the relentless efforts made by our fellows in all the committees we have, ranging from the editors and reviewers for our Journal to the many volunteering lecturers and surgical instructors for our educational courses and numerous others who give their time and expertise to help. If you feel you can volunteer your time and expertise for IAOMS, please do join us and contact me mentioning your interests and availabilities. Similarly, contact me if you have ideas on how our website and office can become more relevant to you.

My message is to try and convey to you what the IAOMS can do for you. I hope that you in turn will let us know what you can do for the IAOMS and the specialty, which we all belong to.

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“My wishes for you and IAOMS are that we can enrich and improve the interactions between the fellows and the Association.”

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Building the Foundation for the Future

By Larry W. Nissen, Foundation Chairman

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s we begin the New Year, I want to wish each of you happiness and prosperity in 2014 and discuss with you some of the issues the IAOMS Foundation will be dealing with over the next two years.

First, I know many of you thought you had heard the last of me, as my time as Immediate Past President and Foundation Chairman ended at the end of last year. The Board of Directors with the concurrence of the Executive Committee has asked me to stay on another two years as Chairman, and I am humbled to be given this opportunity and commit to give my best efforts to substantially improve the financial strength of the Foundation. Focusing efforts on fundraising will be my primary goal as well as implementing many “best practices” in its organizational structure.

Those of you who were not in Barcelona or those of who were and did not attend the Foundation Luncheon, missed a fabulous lecture relating the works of the painter Goya and maxillofacial deformities by Professor Florencio Monje. As an OMS, he has studied and written extensively on this subject and his expertise was quite obvious in his presentation.

Professor Monje, the IAOMS Foundation thanks you for your excellent presentation and your contribution to the ICOMS for this lecture. I would like to also thank Biomet for their generous donation in sponsoring this event.

In Barcelona, the Foundation Board of Directors approved the Envoy Program whose goal is to further expand the fundraising efforts of this organization. The Foundation Envoy Program is structured to have an envoy from each of the six IAOMS regions who will enlist an envoy in each of the affiliated national associations. Once these positions are filled, individual envoys will be identified to further augment the visibility and fundraising activities of the Foundation. In the coming months, the Board will be developing strategic directives and informational materials to support these solicitation efforts. I am currently actively seeking IAOMS members to fill these positions and look forward to speaking with many of you about volunteering to help. Please call me +1-321-432-2165 (cellular) or email me JWSRGN@aol.com.

I mentioned earlier about the Foundation Board developing strategic directives for this organization that will meld with the strategic objectives of the IAOMS. The Foundation’s chief function is to fund the Association’s educational programs that are vital for the growth and evolution of our specialty. The wheels of progress cannot move freely without adequate funding. Our Association can make all the strategic plans it chooses, but without sufficient financial resources, they will only remain “plans”. Only with substantial ongoing contributions from our members, our corporate partners and friends of our specialty, can we achieve our goals. I look forward to continuing this dialogue and I ask for your contributions.

Engage with IAOMS and Become a Partner in Success

By Pierre Désy, Executive Director

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ince the announcement of my new role, I have received many wonderful warm welcomes! I am truly honored and excited to have joined the IAOMS family. Thank you so much! When you read this article, I will have been at work for a few days already since starting on January 20, 2014.

Henry Ford once said: “Coming together is a beginning.

Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

Very much in line with Ford’s words, I will focus my energy to work in collaboration with all of you to help you grow your association to its greatest potential worldwide. To do so requires teamwork, dedication, well-coordinated communication, development and implementation of highly valuable concerted efforts in addition to persistence.

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Therefore, I encourage you to engage as a key partner on this quest to IAOMS’ greatest success. Get involved, share your ideas and insights with us, and stay in contact with IAOMS: “Like” us on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/IAOMS, “Follow” us on Twitter — https://twitter.com/IAOMS, and “Connect” on LinkedIn — http://www.linkedin.com/company/ international-association-of-oral-and-maxillofacial-surgeons.

Call or email me at any time. The IAOMS staff team and I want to hear from you. You will hear from us!

I look forward to talking with you and meeting you in the near future.

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REGIONAL A SSO CIATIONS

SASMFOS Cadaver Course in progress.

s ou t h a f r ic a n s o cie t y of m a x il lofaci a l a n d or a l su rgeons (s a sm fos)

News from the SASMFOS

By John Fisher, Past President SASMFOS and IAOMS councillor for South Africa.

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he SASMFOS held its annual congress at the picturesque and peaceful Mount Grace Country Hotel and Spa, north of Johannesburg from August 30th to September 1st, 2013.

We were privileged to host a number of international speakers at this meeting. They were Mr. Martin Danford from Guildford, United Kingdom, Professor Dennis Rohner and Dr. Marius Bredell from Zurich, Switzerland, Professor Peter Kessler from Maastricht in the Netherlands, Dr. Edmond Bedrossian from San Francisco, California, U.S.A., and Dr. Waldemar Polido from Brazil. Professors Russel Lurie and Johan Reyneke from South Africa completed the team of Keynote Speakers.

This meeting marked a first departure for the South African Society in that a three day Pre-Congress Cadaver Workshop was held in order to teach skills in free and pedicled flap transfer for reconstruction in the maxillofacial and oral region. The workshop included further skills training in gaining extra-oral surgical access to the facial skeleton. Superbly presented by Drs. Rohner, Danford and Bredell, co-chaired by Professor Jean Morkel and Dr. Gregory Boyes Varley, and facilitated by the availability of a world class cadaver teaching facility at the University of the Western

Cape. This was a significant milestone in the process of expanding the scope of work carried out by Maxillofacial and Oral Surgeons in South Africa. There is no doubt that there will be future hands-on courses arranged in this fine facility.

The SASMFOS was delighted and proud to welcome IAOMS President, Dr. Kishore Nayak and his lovely wife to the meeting at Mount Grace. Having entertained the guests at the Gala dinner with his inimitable brand of humour, Dr. Nayak was presented with honorary membership of SASMFOS. The 2014 SASMFOS Annual Congress will take place in Durban. All IAOMS members are very welcome and encouraged to attend. Further details will appear on the SASMFOS website www.sasmfos.org , and be made known through this newsletter.

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News from the Trainees in Latin America

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hese were the first words expressed by Dr. Luiz Fernando Lobo, President of the Latin American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology (ALACIBU) in his first speech as President at the Latin American Congress of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dr. Luiz Lobo (CIALACIBU) in July 2013. Since then, he has appointed a multi-national team of specialists from all over Latin America with the sole purpose of making his words the goal standard for his work as President. This multi-national team is formed by very important names in the region such as Alejandro Martinez (Mexico), Adrian Bencini (Argentina), Ricardo Holanda (Brazil), Leopoldo Meneses (Peru), Edwin Valencia (Chile) and Gerardo Cuenca (El Salvador) to cite a few and they are devoted to making education the priority. Based on this, Dr. Lobo appointed Dr. Raul Parra as Head of the Educational Committee of ALACIBU thanks to his successful work in several Congresses in Latin America.

Regarding the activities of the Trainees in the Latin American region, Dr. Lobo appointed Dr. Henry García Guevara as Head of the Residents/Trainees Committee for ALACIBU. Dr. García Guevara, a young surgeon, with studies in Venezuela and Brazil, gives this committee a more dynamic and better approach to Trainees in Latin America. To help the Residents/Trainees Committee achieve these goals, The Resident’s Representative Commission of ALACIBU was created. The Resident’s Representative Commission of ALACIBU will give the Trainees in Latin America a direct voice and representation before the Directors Board of ALACIBU and a more responsible and official participation in the Associations activities.

Dr. Henry García Guevara

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Antonio Gagliardi Lugo

Jenilee Omaña

As Head of the Residents/Trainee Committee for ALACIBU, Dr. García Guevara appointed the first and founding members of the Resident’s Representative Commission, on their initiative regarding the creation of the Commission and its goals, previous works in their respective countries and Academic records. The five trainees are: Antonio Gagliardi Lugo (Venezuela), Jenilee Omaña (Colombia), Carlos Sanchez Rivero (Brazil), Mario Lagunes (Mexico) and Barbara Rocha (Brazil).

Dr. García Guevara and his team of residents, started in August 2013 to work on five specific projects: 1. The Creation of the rules and election of the future Resident’s Representation Commission of ALACIBU: Every two years

the Commission intends to elect a representative of the Residents/Trainees from each of the countries in the region.

Members will vote to choose the next group of Residents/ Trainees to work with the Head of the Residents/Trainees Committee for ALACIBU. The Residents/Trainees that are elected will also help with the creation of specific rules and designation of responsibilities for this Residents/ Trainees Task Force.

“The Objective: Education. The Way: Our Trainees.

The Future: Certainly our Trainees.” –Luiz Fernando Lobo 2. Creation of ALACIBU Best Resident/Trainees Awards: The

ALACIBU Best Resident/Trainee will be a recognition of the best new surgeons graduating every year in Latin America. An Evaluation Committee of professors from the region will be appointed. The Resident/Trainee Commission will take care of the logistics regarding documentation, news and information concerning dates, application and notification to the winners. We are welcoming and receiving proposals from any company that would be interested in sponsoring the ALACIBU Best Resident/Trainees Awards.

3. Actualization of ALACIBU Training Centers Database: In a

coordinated effort with the Training Center Committee, the Resident/Trainee Commission will contact OMS Programs in all the countries that are affiliated with

Carlos Sánchez Rivero

Mario Lagunes

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ALACIBU. The objective will be to create a new and interactive database on the ALACIBU website, so that anyone around the world can access the information on the programs available in Latin America. At this time, 80% of the OMS Programs and local associations have been contacted. The Resident/Trainee Commission is expecting to end this actualization process in late March.

4. The Annual Trainees Meeting: The Resident/Trainee

Commission will make a formal proposal to the ALACIBU Board of Director’s regarding annual Resident/Trainee Meetings sanctioned by this Association so they can be celebrated once a year. This year the Resident/Trainee Meeting will be held on May 28th in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Resident/Trainees of Latin America and IAOMS Programs can participate in the presentation of clinical cases in the area of Oral and Maxillofacial Traumatology. These clinical cases will be presented before an open audience and an expert board made up of Directors of ALACIBU OMS Programs for a better interchange of experiences between the participants. Space is limited. Email Dr. Henry García Guevara: Henryagg@msn.com , if you are interested in participating in this year’s meeting.

5. Maintain and Improve the Resident/Trainees Communication and Social Networks: Venezuelan Trainee Antonio

Gagliardi Lugo is mainly responsible for the creation of an independent network of communication between the residents of ALACIBU. Once this had been established, many collaborators kindly presented themselves as a helping hand for the communication activities of the Trainees.

Contact Us President of ALACIBU • Dr. Luiz Lobo — drlobo@drlobo.com.br Head of the Residents’ Committee of ALACIBU • Dr. Henry García Guevara — Henryagg@msn.com The Resident’s Representation Commission of ALACIBU: • Carlos Sánchez Rivero — elcorreodecarlos@gmail.com • Mario Lagunes — mariolagunes86@hotmail.com • Jenilee Omaña — jeni_leez@hotmail.com • Antonio Gagliardi Lugo — odontologia.info@gmail. com/Silverbolt86@gmail.com • Barbara Rocha — dra.barbararocha@gmail.com

Our intention now is to go further. We hope to open a Trainees Information Site and continue the great work being done on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/ groups/ResidentesALACIBU/ and Twitter.

Latin America, Residents/Trainees and their education represent the main goals for ALACIBU. Their Directors today recognize them as a generation of disciplined, proactive, hardworking future surgeons. As an association, ALACIBU has and will evolve to greater heights because of the inclusion in their activities and participation of this Trainees representation.

Visit www.eacmfs2014.com for more details about the Congress topics and program.

Register online before May 31, 2014 and benefit from reduced fees.

Join us on Facebook to find out more about the Presidential Reception and Congress Dinner.

Contact eacmfs2014@guarant.cz with any questions.

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Investing in the Future — The OMS Trainee

By Deepak G. Krishnan, IAOMS Trainee Chairman

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s I sat in a board room in a Vegas hotel in February of 2013 being charged with the implementation of a strategic plan of creating a Trainee Committee for IAOMS, I did not need to look farther from that room for inspiration. People around that board table had all been involved in their respective national organization as a trainee at some level. I knew personally two of the senior board members had started their stint within IAOMS in the Trainee Committee. Being involved early in their careers in the association, has kept the fire going in them. All I needed to do was take that fire and kindle the same in the next generation!

The IAOMS is re-kindling the Trainee Committee. And a generation later, we have new tools to engage the new trainee.

The IAOMS Trainee Committee (IAOMST) was kick started on the social media (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ IAOMS and Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAOMS) this past spring. The momentum gained online was taken to ICOMS in Barcelona where the Trainee Committee met and looked at our goals, objectives and exchanged ideas to inject life and energy to the project.

Total Trainees who are members of IAOMS: 286 Total Trainees who attended ICOMS in Barcelona: 602

The challenges are broad and immense. As one can imagine, training varies in every part of the world. Having said that, in personal exchanges at the Trainee Committee meeting and the trainee reception earlier in Barcelona, I saw what I had assumed as barriers of language, culture, and differences in training tracks melt away in the gentle warmth of camaraderie.

I was pleasantly surprised at the commonalities among trainees, an interest in coming together and a keen sense of guarded yet clear intent to lead among many of them.

My mailbox has been flooded with emails from trainee participants at the ICOMS since Barcelona. I have received several good ideas and suggestions. The internet clearly has brought us together and the social media has connected us in ways we couldn’t imagine. One fact stands clear in the chaos;

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the new generation of trainees are just as interested in a common forum within IAOMS, as much as we would like to think how different the Millennials are from us.

What would the IAOMST offer? In addition to all the Trainee membership benefits — reduced ICOMS registration, Journal subscription, etc. the IAOMST will serve as a platform for exchange of ideas, a forum for nurturing future leadership, and offer tangible educational programs like webinars and facilitate international observership opportunities, work with the Education, Research and Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR) committees of the IAOMS to engage trainees in the activities of these committees. This kind of engagement of the surgical trainee, already stressed under restricted work hours and their innate short attention span is only possible with effective electronic media and social media engagement.

So if you are an IAOMS councilor or an educator anywhere in the world, I urge you to direct the attention of your trainees and residents to the trainee section of the IAOMS website (http://www.iaoms.org/) and encourage them to become members. It is free and requires very little effort from the institutional leadership to sign them on. I would also urge you to peruse the pages on social media pertaining to IAOMST and related OMS pages. You will see international journal club discussions, interesting cases shared, and perspectives clashing over choices of patient care. A new world of learning altogether!

The day is not far when e-learning becomes the norm in OMS training. It is only a matter of time before the archived maxillectomy lectures from a professor in Liverpool on ProjectTrain, becomes the Wednesday morning grand rounds presentation in a training program in Nairobi and the articles picked for journal club discussion at the OMS division at the University of Cincinnati are shared and discussed live with the training program in Tartu, Estonia.

Today’s trainee thinks and learns differently. Their motivations and ambition may be different from many of our current leadership’s. But they share a common love for our specialty that we must nurture. As President Nayak suggested in his newsletter a few months ago, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” –Greek Proverb. As leaders, teachers and mentors, it is time

for us to invest wisely in the future generation of leaders of our specialty and the IAOMST will be our breeding ground.

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What IAOMS Means to Me

By Fadekemi Oginni

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nowing IAOMS started with occasional contacts through IJOMS articles in my home country Nigeria as an oral maxillofacial surgery trainee. I then became a member of the Association and subscribed to IJOMS in pursuit of excellence. Participation at conferences followed quite naturally for me beginning with Austria 2005, continuing to London 2012 and Barcelona 2013.

A modest beginning indeed but of what value has this been?

Maturity and Resourcefulness: IAOMS today is my fifty-one year old, matured companion whose constitution and wisdom can withstand vast challenges, offers professional leverage and enormous resources for continuous professional development.

Conferences, IJOMS, workshops, publications, webinars and an informative website are sources of knowledge with excellent opportunities to gain experience in case studies/management, manuscript writing etc.

Networking and Collaboration: Indeed, John Donne’s quote “No one can whistle a symphony, it takes a whole orchestra to play it” rings true with the IAOMS. IAOMS is truly global in its composition, and yet synergistic in her activities. A terra firma for easy networking and collaboration, locally and internationally. Her absolute compliance with advances in information technology gives me easy access to follow IAOMS activities on her website including links to other related sites. Seeing IAOMS on Facebook, Twitter and a number of other social media channels tells me this is a fifty-one year old is relevant in every phase of modern development.

IAOMS’s biennial conferences (ICOMS) have always been worth more than their costs. They are outstanding opportunities to mix and mingle freely with colleagues from across the globe in both professional and leisure settings. I have had opportunities to share ideas, ask for advice, and volunteer to be a speaker or become a member of a committee, thereby developing my professional skills and knowledge.

Every ICOMS is an opportunity to visit a new country, make new contacts, learn "best practices" or new ideas, learn more about what is happening in OMS, and key into research opportunities. It is always interesting and exciting to listen to lectures delivered by legendaries in the field.

Mentoring: This is the cornerstone of IAOMS. It believes and invests in the younger generation, while observing trends to comply. Young members in most associations may never get 13

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in the room with a legendary in the profession, for a very long time or even in a life time. IAOMS has a structure that pairs members up with someone much more experienced or experts, hitherto met only in textbooks and journals. A typical example is the Special Interest Group designed to meet individual needs by bringing people of like interests together.

For the youngest of members (trainees and young consultants), there are offers of exchange programs, fellowships and further training.

As a member, I know that IAOMS has room for every member. No matter what the peculiar professional needs are, you will definitely find a mentor to help you or you may be in a position to mentor someone within the association. The multiplier effect of this is that mentee mature to become mentors and the association has a vast yet growing resource of mentors.

Nurturing and forward looking: It is ever so assuring to belong to an association that is nurturing and forward looking, because you cannot be out of tune. The carefully selected Board of IAOMS, rapidly and frequently assesses the needs of members globally, planning ahead while responding to existing trends and protecting existing privileges, yet, remaining open to new opportunities and responding to new threats.

“If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.”

–Christopher D. Furman Openness: A warm, friendly, sincere, transparent community that advances care of OMS patients. I know few organizations where members can be sincere enough to come out not only with their very successful cases but also with outcomes of mistakes made. A place where practitioners can sacrifice their ego on the altar of knowledge advancement and patient care: that to me is truly a family. Another aspect of the family life is the IAOMS Foundation’s roles in ensuring this global family is big enough to accommodate all nations, yet small enough to cater to all.

Leadership Training: I have seen excellence in the leadership of IAOMS over the years, and active membership has helped me to learn some excellent leadership qualities. This prestigious association rewards excellence, commitment, faithfulness and diligence wherever it is found.

The doors of IAOMS are wide open to contributions that will influence her direction. Everyone’s opinion at committee work, meetings, etc. is relevant. You have an opportunity to give feedbacks! You can also give back to the association through the Foundation, no matter how small.

IAOMS encourages and supports establishment of national associations and their meetings. It also appreciates suggestions and comments from these daughter associations.

IAOMS is simply all I need in a professional organization. www.iaoms.org

22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

The 22nd International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is the premier international forum for research, theory and development related to oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Join colleagues from across the world in Melbourne Australia from 27-30 October 2015 to discuss advances and innovations in the speciality. The four day program

27-30 OCTOBEr 2015 MElBOurnE COnVEnTIOn And ExhIBITIOn CEnTrE AuSTrAlIA www.icoms2015.com

For further information 22nd International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Office 119 Buckhurst Street South Melbourne VIC 3205 Australia T +61 3 9645 6311 F +61 3 9645 6322 E ICOMS2015@wsm.com.au

will encompass key note presentations, symposia and free papers as well as offer an exhibition showcasing the most recent products and services available.

Hosted by the Australian & New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

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