Ther New Surgeon: Patient-Centered, Disease-Focused, Technology-Driven, and Team-Oriented -- The Ever-Changing Departments of Surgery: The New Paradigm-The Roadmap to a Modern Department of Surgery -- Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future? -- Nanotechnologies in Surgery: The New Paradigm -- Telemedicine for Trauma and Intensive Care: Changing the Paradigm of Telepresence -- Augmented Reality in Surgery -- The Lean Innovation Model for Academic Medical Discovery -- Changing the Protocol: Is There Still Room for the Professor's Viewpoint? -- Ethical Implications of Advanced Technologies in Surgical Care. Dedicated Resuscitation Operating Room for Trauma -- End Points Resuscitation -- Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything  that Bleeds Needs and Operation -- Neurosurgical Advances in Trauma Management -- Damage Control and Organ Injury Priority Management of Trauma Patients -- Multiorgan Dysfuction in Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Units -- Advances in Burn Care -- Biology of Nutrition Support and Gut Access in Critically Ill Patients -- Advances in Head and Neck Surgery -- Neck Cancer: Imaging Techniques and Progress on the Operative Approach -- Advances in Thyroid and Parathyroid Care -- Neuron Based Surgery: Are We There Yet? Technical Developments in the Surgical Treatment of Brain Injury and Disease -- Brain Cancer: The New Frontiers -- Advanced Thoracoscopic Surgery to Modern Pulmonary Disease: The Japanese Approach -- The Role of Robotics in Selective Throacic Surgical Problems: Technical Considerations -- Cardiac Surgery Advances: Do We Still Remember How to Do Open Bypass? -- Artificial Hearts and Cardiac Assist Devices: The Spectrum of the New Era -- New Valves: Where Do We Stand? -- Technological Advances in Endovascular Surgery -- Carotid Disease: The Stents and the Evidence-Based Medicine-What Happened to the Old Surgery? -- Laporascopic Approaches in General Surgery: Is There Anything New? -- Robotic Applications in Advancing General Surgery -- Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) -- Bariatric Surgery: The Less, The Better -- New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux -- Minimally Invasive Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Associated GI Interventions -- Pancreatic Advances -- Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Advances in Colorectal Surgery -- Technological Advances in Heart and Lung Transplantation: Concomitant Cardiac Valve Surgery -- Abdominal Organ Transplantation: An Overview -- Small Bowel Transplantation: Is There a Hope on the Horizon? -- Islet Cell Transplantation: New Techniques for an Old Disease -- Face Transplant: The Future is Better Than Current Concepts -- Limp Transplantation -- Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy -- Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future -- Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias -- Use of Biologic Grafts in Surgery -- Artifical Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation -- Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery.