Report WCS 2019
At the World Congress of Surgery WCS 2019 in Krakow, the ISS/SIC convened a Council Meeting as well as a General Assembly and the new slate of officers and council members were appointed as follows:
ISS/SIC Council 2019-2021
President and Congress President ISW 2021 Deadline for John G. Hunter, USA Abstract submission: President-Elect January 2019 Cheng-Har24 Yip, Malaysia Immediate Past-President Andrew G. Hill, New Zealand Secretary-General Kenneth D. Boffard, South Africa General Treasurer Gerard M. Doherty, USA Councillors-at-Large Chair Membership Subcommittee SAVE THE DATE ie (ISS/SIC) Italo Braghetto, Chile Chair Global Surgery Subcommittee crine Surgeons auma Surgery and Intensive Care Hisham Abdullah, Malaysia Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition #WCS2019 Chair Scientific Subcommittee Surgery esia Presence www.wcs2019.org Hiroyuki Konno, Japan Chair Social Media Subcommittee Albert Tuchmann, Austria Editor in Chief WJS (ex-officio) Julie Ann Sosa, USA Secretary-Treasurer ISS Foundation (ex-officio) Michael G. Sarr, USA Representatives of Integrated Societies President IAES Akira Miyauchi, Japan President IATSIC Elmin Steyn, South Africa President IASMEN Anders Thorell, Sweden President BSI Gaurav Agarwal, India President ISDS Alessandro Fichera, USA President ASAP Russell Gruen, Australia
Prize Winners & Honorary Fellowship at WCS 2019 Also, the following distinguished candidates have been awarded the most prestigious Prize Awards resp. ISS/SIC Honorary Fellowship at WCS 2019 – congratulations upon this achievement. Unfortunately, not all awardees could attend WCS 2019 and the missing candidates have been awarded at the ACS meeting in October.
Honorary Membership: Yvonne Chan, USA Ronald V. Maier, USA Sathiya S. Pillay, South Africa
Robert Danis Prize: Juan A. Asensio, USA ISS/SIC Prize (ex aequo): Ian D. Civil, New Zealand James O. Garden, UK
Awarding of Honorary Membership – Ronald V. Maier, USA and Sathiya S. Pillay, South Africa
ISS/SIC Distinguished Lectures The prestigious ISS/SIC lectures were given by most prominent lecturers. The program committee WCS 2019 wishes to extend their thanks to these lecturers for their great contributions at the Krakow meeting. ISS/SIC MARTIN ALLGÖWER LECTURE Difficult thyroid surgery: primum non nocere Lecturer: Hisham Abdullah, Malaysia
ISS/SIC Prize Awarding of James O. Garden and Ian D. Civil at ACS by Peter Angelos & Ken Boffard
ISS/SIC GREY TURNER LECTURE Forty years in practice: Infrastructure and policy to optimize surgeon retooling for a lifetime of peak performance Lecturer: Barbara Bass, USA
November 2019
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