FESSH Academy Webinars

FESSH Academy Webinar series

When: 6 November 2025 19:30-21:00 CET 
Topic: Congenital Hand Anomalies Preaxial Problems
Presenters: Kahraman Öztürk, Ali Emre Aksu, Ömer Berköz, Ayşe Şencan, Osman Orman (Türkiye)
Host of the webinar: Elisabeth Haas (Germany)
Co-host of the webinar: Jonathan Hobby (UK)

PROGRAMME:

Introduction of the Turkish Hand Surgeons Society (TCD) – Kahraman Öztürk (TCD president)

Radial Clubhand: Centralization with Radical Wrist Release and without Fixators/Distractors – Ali Emre Aksu

Index Finger Pollicization in Congenital Thumb Hypoplasia/Aplasia – Ömer Berköz

Thumb Duplication: From Simple to Complex – Ayşe Şencan

Cases – Osman Orman

Questions

 PRESENTER INFO:

Ali Emre Aksu, M.D. is a former faculty and professor of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He was a lecturer and attending surgeon at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye for 20 years. He worked as research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Plastic Surgery Research Center, and conducted research on bone and soft tissue engineering by using adipose-derived stem cells, and on the immunoregulatory effects of bone marrow stem cells in composite tissue transplantation and immunotolerance. Dr. Aksu is in private practice since 4 years, and his areas of interest include: hand and upper extremity diseases and surgery; congenital hand and upper extremity anomalies; head and neck tumours and head and neck reconstructive surgery; melanoma and non-melanoma skin tumours and cancers; microsurgical and non-microsurgical breast reconstruction.

Ömer Berköz, MD: Assoc. Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery is a faculty member and head of the Hand Surgery Division at Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. He is the former President and currently the Vice President of the Turkish Emergency Hand Surgery and Microsurgery Association (ACELEMDER). He has also served as a board member of the Turkish Society for Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity and the Turkish Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (TSRM). His main clinical and academic interests include congenital and traumatic hand surgery, brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery, nerve and tendon transfers, and reconstructive microsurgery. Dr. Berköz has published extensively and is regularly invited to lecture at national and international scientific meetings.

Ayşe Şencan, MD. is a plastic surgeon and a hand surgeon. She works at the hand surgery clinic of University of Health Sciences Turkey Metin Sabanci Baltalimani Bone Diseases Teaching and Research Hospital. Her main area of interest is congenital hand deformities. She also performs microsurgical reconstruction of the soft tissue and bone defects following tumour resections, besides the other operations related to hand surgery. She was chosen as one of the IFSSH-AAHS/ASSH 2025 Travelling Fellows. She is a member of Turkish Society for Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity, Turkish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Emergency Hand Care and Microsurgery Society, Turkish Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, an international member of ASSH and AAHS.

Osman Orman MD. graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine and completed his residency in Orthopedics and Traumatology at Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital. He worked for five years as an orthopedic surgeon in a state hospital before starting his hand surgery fellowship at Baltalimanı Bone Diseases Training and Research Hospital in 2015, where he became a board-certified hand surgeon in 2019. In the same year, he joined the academic staff and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Since 2023, he has been serving as the Head of the Hand Surgery Department at Baltalimanı Bone Diseases Training and Research Hospital. In addition, he has been the General Secretary of the Turkish Society for Reconstructive and Microsurgery since 2022.

The webinar is free, but registration is needed. Please register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F7ewja0ASm2gIsxkL1QhKw