World's First Scientific Successful Hand Transplant.

Professor Owen led the first hand transplantation team in Lyon France, September 1998.

Professor Earl Owen was elected the World President of the International College of Surgeons (headquarters in Chicago, USA, with Fellows in 110 countries) a very busy position commenced in 1996. He is Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has been Medical Director of the Microsearch Foundation of Australia since its beginning in 1973 and the expanded MICROSEARCH building houses the Institute of Medical Sciences of both the University and the International College of Surgeons, and is home to the Sydney Microsurgery Centre.

From “Australian Great Ideas and Achievements”

(researched by Professor Neville Stephenson, IBSN 0 949 203 18 1)

The discovery of Antiseptics and anaesthetics enabled the surgeon’s skills to be greatly extended, since he than had control over bacterial infection and pain. The diagnostic skills of the physician were about to be supplanted in importance by the technical skills of surgeon. The next great step forward in the development of the technical skills of the surgeon was surgery performed under powerful microscopes – micro surgery. It would be possible to rejoin the finest capillaries in the body, to repair amputated limbs, finger and toes, to reverse vasectomies and to repair damage to sight the hearing. These techniques world require special instruments to enable the surgeon to see and manipulate the very small parts involved in the operation. The pioneer of microsurgery and the world leader in this field was Dr. Earl Owen, a graduate from the University of Sydney. In 1967 he delivered the first lecture on the subject at Edinburgh University and in the following year successfully replaced the amputated finger of two-year-old Sydney child in the first such operation in the world. Together with Dr. David Vickers, a range of instruments was designed in Australia to enable surgeons to perform these delicate operations under a microscope. Earl Owen also developed new teaching methods involving closed circuit television and these techniques are now used throughout the world. Earl Owen was appointed AO in 1980 and Australia now enjoys an international reputation in microsurgery because of his work.

A B C D stands for The Anatomical Beneficial Comfortable Design Company, which is TM and registered and based in Sydney. We are agents for GRANDEE, and are Designers of Instruments, LOGOs, Impliments, Chairs, Tables, and other furniture. (Examples: All the chairs in the 5 Auditoria of the famous Sydney Opera House are our design, as are the Boardroom and C E O's chairs for some of Australia's largest Companies, and the well known ABCD Surgeon's Chair : and are the Microinstruments to do the finest microsurgical operations, and some special General Surgery instruments ; as well as the design for a neat small Laser pointer.)

We are contacted in our Sydney office ABCD Company Pty Ltd

3rd floor, 121 Walker Street

North Sydney, NSW 2060, AUSTRALIA

Telephone: (61. 2.) 99 545042

The ABCD company has Professor Earl Owen, the pioneer Microsurgeon and designer as its Director

and Senior Lecturer, and specializes in original and useful and always ergonomic products.

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