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The first International Bernd Spiessl-Symposium for innovative and visionary
technologies in the field of maxillofacial surgery was held at the Basel
University Hospital on June 17th-18th, 2005. The aim of the symposium
has been the initiation of multidisciplinary collaborations and
transdisciplinary dialogue between medicine, biomedical technology,
informatics, social sciences and arts. We are grateful to Co-Me project
leader Hans-Florian Zeilhofer of the Basel University, who has organised the
Bernd Spiessl-Symposium together with his project partners. The second Bernd
Spiessl-Symposium will be held next year, again together with ART
Basel.
Bernd Spiessl, born 1921 in Nittenau/Germany, was appointed to the first
extraordinary chair for maxillofacial surgery at the Basel University in
1965. He was an outstanding personality, a passionate and excellent surgeon
and scientist. With his innovative and unconventional ideas Bernd Spiessl
brought important progress to medicine, mainly in the field of head and neck
tumour surgery. Bernd Spiessl died in 2002.
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