Learning domains.
State of the specialty
A clinical synthesis of how consultation, revision, systems and long-term responsibility are changing.
Materials evidence
What laboratory and longitudinal observations can—and cannot—support about noble-metal and magnetic systems.
Decision quality
How patient understanding, uncertainty and daily-life priorities should shape professional communication.
Responsible growth
How education, governance and quality structures must mature with a national specialty network.
Program structure.
Why these speakers
Invitations reflect direct responsibility for the work being discussed. Speaker profiles distinguish institutional role, clinical or scientific focus and the specific question assigned.
Disclosure
Speakers identify relevant program, research, intellectual-property or vendor relationships for Program Committee review and attendee disclosure.
Discussion
Featured talks reserve time for moderated questions so evidence, uncertainty and institutional limits remain part of the record.
Featured speakers and assigned questions.
Sarah Whitmore, MD, FANSR
The state of areolar plate replacement careDr. Whitmore connects complex revision, revision and network clinical standards in the opening plenary.
Malcolm Reed, PhD
Noble-metal surface observations: what the evidence supportsDr. Reed leads the Materials Laboratory and frames the distinction between controlled observation, research inference and clinical claim.
Priya Desai, MD, MPH
Measuring whether a patient understood the planDr. Desai directs patient outcomes and studies decision quality, follow-up and patient-reported confidence.
Marcus Ellison, MD
Interchangeable systems as a long-term responsibilityDr. Ellison leads magnetic plate surgery and focuses on compatibility, handling, registration and revision of earlier interfaces.
Thomas Greene, MD
Competence in a young specialty: beyond case volumeDr. Greene directs surgical education and the competency framework for fellows and Academy physician programs.
Margaret C. Rowe
Responsible growth of a focused national fieldAREOLA’s chief executive closes the meeting with the institutional responsibilities created by national scale.
Assessment, records and boundaries.
Featured sessions receive structured attendee feedback and Program Committee review after the meeting.
A featured presentation is an educational contribution, not a product endorsement, regulatory claim or substitute for clinical guidance.
Speaker information updated upon program confirmation