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Topic: Recent Advances
in Breast Cancer-related
Lymphedema
Dr. Suami (MD, PhD) trained in Japan as a reconstructive
microsurgeon. He was admitted to the Japan Society of
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1999. Dr Suami
started lymphatic research in 2001 when he worked in
the Reconstructive Microsurgery Research Unit at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr Suami developed
a novel radiographic technique to demonstrate the
lymphatic system in a cadaver model in 2003 and in
2005 he was awarded the Basic Science Award from the
Dr. Hiroo Suami Plastic Surgery Education Foundation in the USA. In
2009, Dr Suami joined the Department of Plastic Surgery
Department of Health Sciences, at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas
Faculty of Medicine, Health and as Assistant Professor and a director of the microsurgery
Human Sciences, Macquarie research centre. Here he developed a large animal
University, Sydney, Australia. model for lymphoedema and assisted with indocyanine
green fluorescence lymphography in over 250 surgical
lymphoedema cases. Dr Suami was recruited to the
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie
University in 2015 and works with the Australian
Lymphatic Education, Research and Treatment (ALERT).
