Register Now for the VOS 2025 Conference!

Registration is now open for VOS’s 52nd Annual Conference in Breckenridge, Colorado!

VOS 52nd Annual Conference
February 8-15, 2025
Breckenridge, Colorado

To register for the conference, click on the button below or use this direct link to our reservation portal:
https://ncsucvmce.eventsair.com/vos-2025/register

Conference Lodging
To make lodging reservations, please follow the link in the conference registration portal or use this direct link:
https://reservations.travelclick.com/97052?groupID=4358925.

Be sure to book your accommodations through the VOS link to take advantage of great rates and benefit VOS!

Please secure lodging as soon as possible as we often run out of available rooms in the VOS room block! It is recommended that abstract presenters secure lodging prior to being notified of abstract acceptance.

Lodging refund policy: Individual reservations that are cancelled 30 days prior to arrival are charged a $49 processing fee but are otherwise fully refunded.

Order Lift Tickets, Lessons, Equipment Rentals, and On-Mountain Dining at Breckenridge!

For discounted lift tickets, lessons, rentals, and on-mountain dining, visit https://groups.vailresorts.com/breckenridge/lodging-offers/promocode and use the promo code VOSPROMO.

Book Your Airport Shuttle Reservations

For airport shuttle reservations, please visit: https://www.epicmountainexpress.com/group_redirect?code=VOSC2025.

Please be sure to choose Breckenridge / Beaver Run as your destination.

Abstract Submission Is Now Closed

Abstract submission closed on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 12 midnight Eastern time for both podium presentations and posters. This deadline will not be extended in 2024. Please see the Abstract Submission page for details of abstract submission, formatting and regulations.

ABSTRACT SUBMITTERS! Special Collaborative Travel Grant for 2025!

The VOS President for the 2025 Conference is offering to pay your travel and one night’s accommodations for the 2025 VOS Conference at Breckenridge! (International travel reimbursement will be capped at $1,000.) This is being offered for surgeons in training only. This special grant is to foster collegiality and collaboration among members of the VOS. Two surgeons in training from two separate institutions are being asked to work together and submit an abstract for the 2025 conference at Breckenridge. The winning abstract will be selected from the pool of abstracts submitted for the conference and cannot be a Bloomberg Award winner. The winners will each receive their travel to the conference and one night’s accommodations reimbursed. Please contact Heidi DeCamp, VOS Secretary, at secretary@vosdvm.org with any questions.

VOS Research Grant Applications Are Closed

Research grant applications are closed for the VOS Hohn-Johnson and Wade O. Brinker Research Awards. Please visit the Hohn-Johnson/Wade O. Brinker Research Awards page for more information about these awards.

Introducing Our 2025 Jacques Jenny Lecturer

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Jacques Jenny lecturer will be Prof. Dr. med. Yves Harder, Head and Full Professor, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Prof. Yves Harder graduated from the Medical School of Basel in Switzerland in 1994, where he completed his training in General Surgery (FMH) and Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon (FMH). Thereafter, he spent almost two years at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Research at the University of Saarland in Homburg/Saar, Germany. During this research fellowship, he investigated various non-invasive strategies to prevent critically ischemic musculo-cutaneous tissue from necrosis. Subsequently, he went to Johannesburg, South Africa for a clinical fellowship in Reconstructive Surgery. From 2005, he worked as a consultant surgeon in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the Geneva University Hospitals, where he completed his postdoctoral lecture qualification entitled “Non-surgical preventive strategies aiming at avoiding critical ischemia in musculocutaneous flap tissue” in 2008. 

From 2010, Prof. Harder has been working as a Senior Consultant in the Department of Plastic Surgery and Handsurgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar and as an Associate Professor at the Medical Faculty of the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany, combining clinical work, teaching and research. In 2014, he was commissioned to build up from scratch the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in Lugano, Switzerland, where he has been working since then and collaborating with many other clinical specialties and the students from the newly founded faculty of biomedical sciences at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. 

His main interests lie in reconstructive micro-surgery, particularly in the field of the breast and the lower extremities (lymphatic and orthoplastic surgery included) and aesthetic surgery of the breast. Prof. Harder is still active in basic research and teaching of pre- and graduated students and residents in training respectively. He is an author of more than 180 publications and book chapters, of which more than 130 are peer-reviewed. Furthermore, he is the co-editor of two textbooks entitled “Manual of Soft-Tissue Management in Orthopaedic Trauma” and “Modern Surgical Management of Chronic Lymphedema."

Use Our New Slide and Graphic to Promote VOS 2025!

Are you presenting a talk at an upcoming conference or meeting? VOS has created a PowerPoint slide that you can insert into your presentation to promote the 52nd Annual VOS Conference, coming up February 8-15, 2025 in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Download the slide (PowerPoint)
Download the slide (PDF)

After you have downloaded the slide, insert it into your presentation, and encourage your colleagues to join you at VOS 2025!