Invitation

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends
We have the pleasure to invite you to the «5th International Bernd-Spiessl-Symposium for Innovative and Visionary Technologies in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery», from June, Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th 2009. At our conference you will be confronted with the human face in the most varying aspects of cranio-maxillofacial surgery, of physics, computer sciences, life sciences, humanities and arts.

Traditionally the symposium takes place at the University Hospital of Basel, while the city simultaneously celebrates the ART Basel, and you will also have the chance to attend this famous exhibition.

The syn- and transdisciplinarity of the symposium is ensured by the three organizing partners: the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery & the Hightech Research Center of the University Hospital Basel, the Department of Oral Surgery, Oral Radiology & Oral Medicine of the University Basel, and the Academy of Art and Design in Basel.

We are convinced you will enjoy a refreshing, creative and visionary Dialog between medicine, natural sciences and humanities like in the previous years. With guests from all over the world we will discuss the latest results of research in the field of our main topics «Face and Identity» and «Bionics».

Aside these fascinating lectures from international experts, young scientists will present their work and compete for the Bernd-Spiessl-Award 2009 (Best Lecture and Best Poster).

We wish you a compelling scientific meeting and a memorable stay in Basel.

Sincerely yours

Hans-Florian Zeilhofer (1)spot J. Thomas Lambrecht (2)spot Alois Müller (3)

(1) Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery & Hightech Research Center, University Hospital Basel
(2) Department of Oral Surgery, Oral Radiology & Oral Medicine, University Basel
(3) Academy of Art and Design in Basel