Mr Ali Ghanem runs advanced facial topography course to raise money for Syrian charity work

Leading aesthetic surgeon and founder of the Academy of Aesthetic Regenerative Medicine, Mr Ali Ghanem, is running an Advanced Facial Topography Aesthetic Regenerative Cadaver Course this month and donating all the proceeds to fund reconstructive surgery humanitarian medical visits and educational activities in Syria. 

Taking place on June 24-25 at The Centre of Biotechnology, A. Cardarelli Hospital, Napoli, this exclusive course provides you with a holistic and extensive insight into the essential anatomy of the human face for a safe practice in aesthetic medicine. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of various anatomical layers and structures that have relevance to aesthetic injectables working on fresh frozen cadaver samples to analyse and address facial volume loss and ageing.



About the course

Delegates will learn the essential anatomy via a combination of dissection, dye Injection techniques using needle and micro-cannula techniques in interactive sessions that would enable deeper understanding and confidence for your toxins, filler and soft tissue augmentation practice.

The faculty will assist you in employing advanced injectable techniques in a small instructor/delegate ratio to address combination treatment of dermal fillers and toxins for each aesthetic subunit of the face. You will also gain important insights into reading the surface anatomy of the face and understanding the danger zones for facial injectables with an emphasis on patient safety.

Over the duration of one and half days, delegates will learn this course’s module by multiple educational methods that include lectures, videos, demonstration anatomical samples and hands on injection and dissection.

Course fees are £2,000 and cover: 

• Access to the course lectures
• Fresh frozen cadaver training
• Lunch & Refreshments.
• A copy of the course manual

About the charitable work in Syria

Mr Ghanem said, "I visited Syria for the first time after the civil war last November (2018) to participate in a complex reconstructive surgery case. I was shocked to see the scale of devastation of the war along with the lack of key equipments and technologies. Surgeons there are doing their best to alleviate the burden of the war however, often, without access to key equipment, techniques or technologies. I will be focusing on organising medical volunteer missions and educational workshops that are focused on children reconstructive surgery."

1. Cleft lip and palate surgery

There is a surge in the incidence of cleft deformities in the country and the current infrastructure is not adequate to meet the needs. Where available, modern multi-disciplinary care is lacking. 

Mr Ghanem is organising a workshop to using simulators developed and validated in the Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto to share with young surgeons selected by several institution to be trained to look after the cleft children in these hospitals. Sharing modern techniques will greatly help improving the outcome of surgery in the affected children. He will need £5200 to borrow 10 sets of these simulators and ship them to Syria via Lebanon. Permissions and logistical challenges have been overcome already and all is needed is the capital to buy these very useful educational tools that would help hundreds of children treated every year by building local capacity. The workshop will take place between 29-31st of July 2019 in Damascus. 

2. Children burn reconstructive surgery

Mr Ghanem would like to take with him a Dermatome (a tool that can obtain skin graft - not available in most of the hospitals of Damascus) and a Mesher (tool that would help expanding skin in patients suffering from large severe burns requiring large area to be resurfaced). The costs of these would reach £10 000. He would leave these equipment after training in the central paediatric plastic surgery and burn service in Damascus receiving tens of children burns every week. 

3. Reconstructive Microsurgery (adults and children)

He would like to set up a training workshop for freshly graduated plastic and orthopaedic surgeons to learn basic principles of microsurgery for nerve and vessels injuries. Training itself is straight forward if we have the adequate tools and equipments. I have teamed up with the Centre of Biotechnology at Cardarelli Hospital Italy and my network of international microsurgeons to help facilitate this. A huge advantage to limb salvage surgery can be realised if we are to be able to deliver this key training that would directly benefit patients of immediate and old war trauma leading to life and limb salvage. 

To find out more about the charitable work or to donate you can visit Mr Ghanem's Go Fund Me page.