The Cutting Edge: 2025 USC Oculofacial Plastic Surgery Surgical Skills Course
Dates: June 6-7, 2025
Location: USC Surgical Skills Simulation Center
2250 Alcazar St., Room B-10, Los Angeles, CA 90033
Friday, June 6, 2025
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am – 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| 8:00am – 9:00am | Lecture – Oculoplastic Surgery – Putting Anatomy to Work | Kenneth Cahill |
| 9:00am – 9:10am | Intro | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 9:10am – 9:30am | Filler Injections on Upper Face | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 9:30am – 9:40am | What I learned from 10,000 blepharoplasties | Cynthia Boxrud |
| 9:40am – 9:45am | Transpalpebral Optic Nerve Sheath Fenestration | Sang Hong |
| 9:45am – 9:50am | Optic Nerve Sheath Fenestration lab | Sang Hong |
| 9:50am – 10:15am | Upper Bleph Lab | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 10:15am – 10:30am | Lower Eyelid Bleph and Canthoplasty | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 10:30am – 11:30am | Lower Eyelid Bleph with Fat Repositioning and Canthoplasty Lab | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 11:30am – 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30pm – 12:40pm | Transorbital Craniotomy | Sang Hong |
| 12:40pm – 12:50pm | Orbital Decompression | Allison McCoy |
| 12:50pm – 2:15pm | Transorbital Craniotomy and Orbital Decompression with Drill and Sonopet lab with Navigation | Allison McCoy, Lila Ediriwickrema, and Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 2:15pm – 2:30pm | Orbital Fracture Plating Lecture | Vik Durairaj |
| 2:30pm – 2:40pm | Patient Specific Implants | Farzad Pakdel |
| 2:40pm – 3:15pm | Orbital Fracture Lab | Vik Durairaj |
| 3:15pm – 3:25pm | Silicone Intubation and External DCR lecture | Jessica Chang |
| 3:25pm – 4:30pm | Silicone Intubation and External DCR Lab – RIGHT side only | Jessica Chang and Bruce Becker |
| 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Cocktail Reception Journal Club at Takami Elevate Lounge (sponsored by Stryker) |
Saturday, June 7, 2025
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am – 8:00am | Breakfast | |
| 8:00am – 8:10am | Corneal Neurotization Lecture | Jessica Chang |
| 8:10am – 8:40am | Corneal Neurotization Lab | Jessica Chang |
| 8:40am – 8:50am | Endoscopic DCR Lecture | Robert Goldberg |
| 8:50am – 9:00am | Septoplasty and Endoscopic Medial Orbital Decompression Lecture | Kevin Hur and Kent Tadokoro |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Endoscopic DCR, Septoplasty and Endoscopic Orbital Decompression Lab – LEFT side | Robert Goldberg |
| 10:40am– 11:00am | Fillers on Lower Face | Sandy Zhang-Nunes |
| 11:00am – 11:15am | Endoscopic, Pretrichial and Trichophytic Brow Lifting Lecture | Sandy Zhang-Nunes, Christina Choe |
| 11:15am – 12:30pm | Endoscopic Brow Lift and Trichophytic Brow Lift Lab | Sandy Zhang-Nunes and Christina Choe |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm – 1:40pm | Facial Fat Transfer and Complications of Facial Fat Lecture | David Samimi |
| 1:40pm – 2:10pm | Facial Fat Transfer Lab | David Samimi and Ilke Simsek |
| 2:10pm- 2:40pm | Facial Implants Lecture and Lab | Robert Goldberg and Randal Pham |
| 2:40pm – 2:50pm | Face Lifting Lecture | David Saadat |
| 2:50pm – 3:30pm | Face Lifting Demo and Lab | David Saadat |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Exenteration of Orbits Lecture and Demo | Alomi Parikh |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Demo of new technology, Face Lifting practice, more Orbital Plating and drilling practice, Facial dissection to look for fillers and threads, and Free Dissection Lab |
For questions or additional information, please contact Lien Lam