The IDEAL Conference (Final Brochure_AH06Apr16 and see #IDEAL2016 on Twitter) held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford on 7th April closed with a presentation for Best Poster.

The Judging Team comprising Riaz Agha (Balliol College, Oxford and SpR Plastic Surgery) & Natalie Blencowe (NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Surgery, University of Bristol) awarded the Prize jointly to authors of Poster (0006) and (0030)

(0006) A Systematic Review of the Methodological and Reporting Quality of Case Series in Surgery

Riaz Agha 1, Alexander Fowler 2, Seon-Young Lee 3, Buket Gundogan 4, Katharine Whitehurst 4, Harkiran Sagoo 5, Kyung Jin Lee Jeong 6, Douglas Altman 7, Dennis Orgill 8

1 Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Balliol College, University of Oxford, London & Oxford, UK, 2 Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, 3 Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK, 4 University College London, London, UK, 5 GKT School of Medical Education, King’s College London, London, UK, 6 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norfolk, UK, 7 Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 8 Division of Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA

(0030) Autologous plasma coating improves the biocompatibility of mesh implants. On the IDEAL way from bench to bedside.

 Holger Gerullis 1,2,  Dimitri Barski 1, Thorsten Ecke 3, Christoph Eimer 1, Mihaly Boros 3, Bernd Klosterhalfen 4, Albert Ramon 5, Thomas Otto 1

1 Lukas Hospital Neuss, Neuss, Germany, 2 University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, 3 University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 4 German Centre for Implant-Pathology, Düren, Germany, 5 ITERA International Tissue Engineering Research Association, Antwerpen, Belgium