Meeting Review

Abstract

While there is never a perfect practice tissue when working with foreign country regulations, this course used synthetic materials to allow participants to practice hairline design, FUT, FUE, donor assessment, site making, and graft placement. In all, to the Basics Course covered hair restoration from A to Z for newcomers through the combination of 3 hours of lectures and 4 hours rotating sessions for hands-on practice. As chair of the Basics Course, I wish I could list everyone by name who made this course a success, but the list is too long! Dr. Otavio Boaventura and Rita Kaufman were my right and left hands in making this workshop happen, and I am especially grateful to the technicians who worked tirelessly behind the scenes long before and after the workshop was complete to ensure that each station was properly set up with all the equipment. My goal was to make this course balanced and comprehensive in hair surgery skills and I believe we accomplished that.