Lectures & Speaking
Three decades of clinical struggle and research, distilled into lectures that challenge dogmas and change practice. Available for conferences, hospitals, universities and industry events worldwide.
A speaker who has been in the operating room the morning of the talk
Dr. Topaz lectures from live clinical experience: thousands of surgeries, decades of research, and technologies he invented that are used by surgeons around the world. His talks combine hard data, real cases and a willingness to challenge accepted dogmas in surgical infection management.
- Over four decades of clinical and academic experience
- Academic director of international continuing medical education programs
- Lectures delivered in English or Hebrew, on site or online
Core speaking themes
Closure of Hard-to-Heal & Complex Wounds
Primary closure of large, high-tension wounds using stress relaxation and mechanical creep; the TopClosure® approach; regulated negative pressure therapy enriched with oxygen (RO-NPT); avoiding grafts and flaps; applications in trauma, military and mass-casualty settings.
Management of Wound Infections
Challenging antibiotic strategies and current dogmas in surgical infections: ultra-high concentration local antibiotic delivery, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, sternal infections after cardiac surgery, and conservative salvage of infected cardiac implantable devices.
Breast Implant Safety & Registries
Lessons from founding and chairing the International Breast Implant Registry (IBIR): long-term implant safety, quality assurance and international standards in aesthetic surgery.
From Bedside Problem to Medical Device
The journey of a surgeon-inventor: identifying unmet clinical needs, developing and validating new medical technologies, and bringing them from concept to worldwide clinical use.
Where Dr. Topaz has lectured
A selection of the institutions, hospitals and congresses around the world where Dr. Topaz has been invited to lecture, teach and perform demonstration surgery.
University of Hong Kong
Department of Surgery, guest speaker (April 2024): "Challenging Antibiotic Strategies and Current Basic Dogmas in Surgical Infections", with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Department Chairperson, alongside a visit to Hong Kong's Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Centre.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Invited faculty as the Ethicon Visiting Professor in Cosmetic Surgery, awarded by the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, with lectures across India.
The People's Hospital of Deyang, Sichuan
Visiting Professor: more than a decade of regular lecturing, surgical teaching and research collaboration in wound healing.
Second People's Hospital, Taiyuan
Visiting Professor at the hospital in Shanxi Province, with ongoing clinical teaching in advanced wound closure techniques.
Shihezi University Affiliated Hospital
Visiting Professor at the university hospital, part of a national project implementing innovative wound healing technologies across China.
Fourth Military Medical Hospital, Xi'an
Research collaboration and lecturing on wound treatment in military and trauma settings.
Mayo Clinic Innovation Summit
Invited to present at the Mayo Clinic Cardiology & Radiology Innovation Summit 2026, on the integrated approach to complex infections and compartmentalized wound management.
Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)
Invited faculty at the scientific sessions of the world's leading electrophysiology society, presenting the conservative salvage of infected cardiac implantable devices.
Military Hospital 175, Ho Chi Minh City
Official visit, lectures and hands-on clinical instruction of surgical teams at Vietnam's leading military medical center.
Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok
Special session at Thailand's largest and oldest hospital, the Faculty of Medicine of Mahidol University (2025): "Management of Soft Tissue Injury in Trauma Situation", with departmental teaching and surgical demonstration.
Thai-Israel Medical Innovation Forum & Royal Thai Air Force
Keynote at the forum of the Thai-Israel Friendship Foundation and MTEC/NSTDA at Thailand Science Park (2025), and clinical teaching for the medical service of the Royal Thai Air Force.
IPRAS World Congresses
As a former Executive Committee member of the International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, presented at its world congresses.
IQUAM Consensus Conferences
As Secretary-General of the International Committee for Quality Assurance, Medical Technologies and Devices in Plastic Surgery.
Israeli Academia
Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Postgraduate School of Medicine, senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and academic director of CME programs in China and Asia for the Hebrew University's Magid Institute.
More documented venues: Europe & the Americas
Europe: IPRAS World Congress Berlin; European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery (Vienna 2016, Oslo 2022); ESPRAS Congress, Rhodes; EBOPRAS European Course, Budapest; courses and congresses in Barcelona, Geneva, Bratislava, Sofia and London.
The Americas: First ICOPLAST World Congress, Lima 2022; FILACP Congress, Punta del Este; national plastic surgery congresses of Venezuela, Peru and Argentina; ASERF/PSEF panel, St. Louis; ASAPS annual meeting, Dallas; University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston.
More documented venues: Asia, Africa & Israel
Asia: ISAPS Congress, Tokyo; WFUMB Congress, Seoul; IPRAS Congress, Mumbai; APSICON conferences across India; NABICON burn congresses, New Delhi; Silk Road International Orthopaedic Congress, Xi'an; Tongji International Medical Summit, Wuhan; Belt & Road Sino-Israel Symposium, Guiyang; congresses in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.
Africa: Africa Health, South Africa 2018; Kenya Society of Plastic Surgeons, Nairobi 2018.
Israel: IPRED international disaster-preparedness conferences; annual congresses of the Israeli surgical, cardiothoracic and hernia societies.
Moments from around the world
Invite Dr. Topaz to speak
Conferences, hospital grand rounds, academic courses and industry events, in English or Hebrew.