This meeting took place from September 29 to October 1 in Boston and received the best hand surgery experts in the world.

Under the title: “Back to the basics, practice and education, this has been the name given to the 77th meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (AASH)).

Dr. Piñal addressed the catastrophic hand and the reconstruction of toes on the hand in amputations. He presented the latest techniques for the microsurgical approach and recovery of the catastrophic hand, together with the solutions developed by the Cantabrian surgeon for radius fractures. He also participated in a seminar where he discussed advances in wrist arthroscopy and complex regional pain to a group of experts on those topics.

Born in 1960 in Santander, Dr. Francisco del Piñal is considered one of the best hand surgeons in the world. His contributions in areas such as the reconstruction of catastrophic hands or arthroscopic surgery techniques in wrist fractures are endorsed and applied on an international scale.

Doctor Piñal together with Doctors Jesse Jupiter (Harvard Emeritus Professor), Raja Sabapathy (Head of the Department of Hand Surgery at Ganga Hospital, India), and Scott Levin (Head of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Doctors Bauback Safa (Head of the University of San Francisco), Jim Higgins (Head of the University of Maryland), Francisco Piñal and Kyle Eberlin (Head of Hand and Microsurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston)