Will there be a plastic surgeon at TEDMED?

According to SignonSanDiego: What do rocker Ozzy Osbourne, genomicist Nathaniel Pearson and astronaut Scott Parazynski have in common?They’ll all be speaking at the TEDMED conference in Coronado on Friday morning.

The conference scheduled for Tuesday evening through Friday at Hotel del Coronado sets three goals for its 60 speakers: make it short (15 minutes), make it lively, and bring something innovative to the topic of health and medicine.

The conference draws together leaders in technology, entertainment and design as both speakers and audience members. Unlike the typical medical conference with keynote talks and panels focusing on a single discipline, TEDMED’s speakers include scientists, performers, architects, journalists, and tech industry leaders who come to the subject of medicine with diverging points of view, said organizer Marc Hodosh.

“It’s that cross-pollination across varied disciplines that creates an intersection and connection of new ideas,” Hodosh said.

It’s too late to pull out the checkbook and pay the $4,000 registration fee, however. The conference is sold out, with 600 attendees.

Among the scheduled speakers are: La Jolla biologist J. Craig Venter, who will talk about creating what he called the first synthetic cell earlier this year; W. Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on disaster response; architect Frank Gehry, whose designs include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, on “what aches and pains me;” CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta on lessons learned in Haiti; magician and world record breath-holder David Blaine on feats of endurance; Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, Harvard Medical School neurology professor and researcher, on Alzheimer’s disease; Medtronic senior vice president Stephen N. Oesterle on implantable medical devices; and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne on “what will the unveiling of a full Osbourne genome reveal?”

It seems that in a society that is so curious about plastic surgery, a plastic surgeon would be speaking at this conference. Dr. Stuart Kincaid  ,like other plastic surgeons has worked very hard to maintain the medical respect the specialty deserves. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons to which Dr. Stuart Kincaid belongs is the only plastic surgery specialty recognized by the American Medical Association. This elite group of surgeons make up only about 3% of all medical doctors. The only medical specialty that has more training than an ASPS board-certified plastic surgeon is a cardiovascular surgeon. This means in no uncertain terms plastic surgery is medicine. Unfortunately when the public sees advertising for low breast augmentation prices or cheap liposuction the perception of the skill of the doctor goes down the price. Hopefully, we overlooked the plastic surgeon who will be speaking at TEDMED in this article. We should be represented in this forum.

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