The new executive committee and councilors for IATSIC 2019-2021 are: President Elmin Steyn, South Africa President elect Scott K. D’Amours, Australia Past President Christine Gaarder, Norway Secretary/Treasurer Hayato Kurihara, Italy Representative on the WJS Timothy C. Hardcastle, South Africa
Chair, Education Committee Scott K. D’Amours, Australia Chair, DSTC Committee Tarek Razek, Canada Chair, DATC Subcommittee Jonathan O. White, Denmark Chair, NTMC Committee Ranjith N. Ellawala, Sri Lanka Council Representatives North America: Mark W. Bowyer, USA South America: Gustavo P. Fraga, Brazil
Europe: Eric J. Voiglio, France Africa: Alain Chichom Mefire, Cameroon Asia: Ming-Terk Chiu, Singapore Oceania: Katherine Martin, Australia Middle East: Mahir Øzmen, Turkey Japan and related Geographical Areas: Takashi Fujita, Japan
perspective, the congress indeed appears as a great success, not only for ISS/SIC as a whole, but also for the integrated societies. The IASMEN scientific program offered a broad variety of relevant topics, presented by well-renowned experts, which attracted a lot of attendees. As always, the collaborative sessions with other integrated societies were particularly well appreciated and offered development of new ideas and opportunities to networking for future collaborations. Maybe most important and encouraging, the abstract
sessions included numerous impressive scientific contributions from all over the world where young researchers got the opportunity to present their work and discuss them with senior colleagues with broad knowledge within the various fields. The best abstracts were presented in the IASMEN prize session on Tuesday 13 August and a study from India “Enhanced recovery after surgery versus conventional approach in gastric cancer - a randomized clinical trial” presented by Shritosh Kumar was elected as the winning contribution.
IASMEN Report Anders Thorell, President IASMEN
Dear colleagues and friends It has now passed a couple of weeks since the ISS/WCS in Krakow, Poland. In
Opening Ceremony at WCS 2019
November 2019
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