SPSRC 2027 · July 22–24, 2027 · Stanford University
Program
Two lecture days and a half-day dissection laboratory. The structure below is set; individual sessions, speakers and times will be published as the program is finalized.
Draft program. Session titles and times are subject to change. SPSRC 2027 is a non-CME course. Surgical video is recorded and narrated by the operating surgeon; no live surgery is broadcast.
Thursday, July 22, 2027 — Day 1
500P Rooftop Garden Assembly Hall, 500 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Morning
Registration and continental breakfast
Opening remarks — Sam P. Most, MD, MBA, FACS
Opening remarks — Sam P. Most, MD, MBA, FACS
Part I — The foundations of preservation and structure
AM
Focused lectures: history, dorsal preservation concepts, high/intermediate/low strip approaches, blocking points, endonasal approaches
AM
Panel — "What would you do for this case?" Faculty cases plus one selected from the audience
AM
Video panel — short preservation and structural pearls
Midday
Lunch
Part II — Structural rhinoplasty and hybrid approaches
PM
Focused lectures: patient selection, the structural tip, septal surgery, combining structure with preservation
PM
Keynote masterclass
PM
Narrated surgical video — dorsal preservation, with faculty discussant
PM
Narrated surgical video — hybrid approach, with faculty discussant
Late PM
Q&A, then wine and cheese with the faculty
Friday, July 23, 2027 — Day 2
500P Rooftop Garden Assembly Hall, 500 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Morning
Registration and continental breakfast
Part III — Advanced preservation
AM
Focused lectures: preservation philosophy and practice integration, the crooked nose, imaging, septal extension and reconstruction
AM
Narrated surgical video — dorsal preservation, with faculty discussant
AM
Video panel — short pearls, part II
Midday
Lunch
Part IV — Revision, complications and innovation
PM
Focused lectures: preservation in revision, hump recurrence, the over-resected nose, rib grafting constructs
PM
Panel — "A difficult case and a lesson I learned"
PM
Keynote masterclass
PM
Narrated surgical video, with faculty discussant
Late PM
Q&A and closing of the lecture program
Saturday, July 24, 2027 — Day 3: Dissection laboratory
Center for Clinical Sciences Research, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 · half day · limited places
Morning
Continental breakfast
AM
Incisions and approaches — endonasal and external
AM
The dorsum — component versus preservation, osteotomies, piezoelectric instrumentation, spreaders and autospreaders
AM
The structural tip — cephalic trim, dome suturing, lateral crural work, tongue-in-groove versus struts
Late AM
Free-form tutoring with faculty
Close
Final remarks and Q&A