for our upcoming collaborative/ outreach programs. Some of the upcoming activities that the BSI is committed to participate in are: the IBCS 2020 at Hue City, Vietnam 26-27 June 2020; Hong Kong Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Scientific Meeting 5 Sept 2020; the Malaysian Breast & Endocrine Surgery Course. Melaka Malaysia. 24-25 Sept 2020; Breastanbul Oct 2020; 6th World Congress on Controversies in Breast Cancer (CoBrCa) Berlin, Germany November 19-21, 2020 (which was originally planned to be held at Chongqing, China); AIIMS-UK Advaced Breast course, AIIMS , New Delhi Dec 2020; and Senaturk Dec 2020. Breast Surgery International at the International Surgical Week ISW2021, Kuala Lumpur: The preparations for the next ISW at Kuala Lumpur are in full swing. The BSI program for the International Surgical Week is being chalked out. The BSI program chair Jean Francois Boileau is hard at work to provide an interesting and meaningful scientific program, covering the most contentious topics in breast surgery and breast oncology. Being in Asia, we expect large turn-out and a keen contest for the BSI Free Paper Prize and BSI Poster Prize. To encourage
young breast surgeons from developing countries to join the congress, BSI Travel Award will be awarded to those who have abstract accepted for oral or poster presentation in the congress. Do not miss this highly educative and enjoyable meeting, and a great social experience too at Kuala Lumpur.
Gaurav Agarwal President BSI Sharon W.W. Chan Honorary Secretary BSI
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre – Park Entrance
ISDS Report Alessandro Fichera, President ISDS
The year after the congress is a year of planning and hard work. The ISDS had a very successful and stimulating congress in Krakow and we are all looking forward to another unique experience at the International Surgical Week - The World Congress of Surgery (ISW 2021) in Kuala Lumpur. We have approached the planning phase by revamping the subcommittees of the
Society to better align them with the ISDS constitutional changes proposed and approved in Krakow. We have three subcommittees: International, Membership and Education, each chaired by one of the ISDS Vice presidents. They have been tasked with defining a mission statement and achievable goals for the next two years. They will give quarterly reports to the ISDS President on the committee pro-
gress and plans moving forward. A forth subcommittee was also brought back: the Program Committee. For the 2021 congress the ISDS program has been put together by the Program Committee divided by segments of the GI tract, staffed by Executive Committee members with few exceptions and chaired by the ISDS President. We had a meeting on Sunday October 27, 2019 in San Francisco during the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons that officially started the planning phase. Working together virtually we had a rapid turnaround and delivered an outstanding scientific program with several changes and improvements. We took the suggestion from the ISS/SIC President Dr. John Hunter and built the scientific sessions to include “state of the
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