IAES Report Janice L. Pasieka, SecretaryTreasurer IAES
Greetings from the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer of the IAES. On behalf of Dr Akira Miyauchi and the entire IAES Council, our thoughts turn to those of our colleagues and their families affected by the COVID-19 virus. The start of 2020 has been a trying and difficult one for each and every one of us. At the writing of this newsletter, it is unclear where this pandemic will take us, but it is important that we work together to combat this global threat to our world. Many of the spring activities such as meetings and courses on endocrine surgery that our IAES members normally would attend, have been cancelled or postponed. As such face to face meetings with friends and colleagues have been lost for the time being. However, in the words of Per-Ola Granberg, we are the ‘Friendly Society’ and your IAES friendships remain strong. Let us hope that in the coming months we will be able to once again enjoy each other’s company, if not in 2020, then in Kuala Lumpur 2021.
This past year we met for the 20th meeting of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons in Kraków, Poland. For those in attendance, the overall feeling was it was one of our best meetings in recent memory. Not only were the scientific papers, posters, and panel discussions topical, entertaining and insightful, the city of Kraków was a wonderful and welcoming venue. Highlights of the meeting would have to include the Peter Heimann Lecture given by Dr. Megan Haymart, an endocrinologist from the University of Michigan.
Peter Heimann Lecture given by Dr. Megan Haymart
Dr. Jerry Doherty
Dr. Jerry Doherty's presidential address, published in the February issue of the World Journal of Surgery, was inspiring for both the young and the young at heart endocrine surgeons in the audience. The State-of-the-Art Lectures highlighted the diversity and ever-evolving changes in the field of endocrine surgery. From Dr. Peter Stalberg’s historical address on neuroendocrine tumours to Dr. Carrie Lubitz’s exciting work in the field of thyroid cancer care.
Dr. Carrie Lubitz
Kraków, Poland
May 2020
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