Report ISS-Foundation Michael G. Sarr, Secretary-Treasurer ISS Foundation
This year the ISSF supported 15 travelers from around the world (Nepal - 3, India - 3, Russia, Ecuador, Ghana, Pakistan, Malaysia, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, and Moldova) to attend the World Congress of Surgery 2019 in Krakow, Poland. The interaction with one another and with other delegates at the WCS 2019 was superb and far reaching and having read all the summaries from these enthusiastic, deserving, young surgeons and anesthesiologists, these travel awards were a success. The financial support for these awards came from the ISS/SIC, from generous donations to the ISS Foundation from members of the ISS/SIC, from Department Chairs of Surgery in the United
States, and from many generous personal donations from the Japanese Chapter and the United States Chapter of the ISS/ SIC. Please see the summaries of two of these travelers that are at the end of this report. You will be very happy and interested to read them and to see just what a long-lasting impact these awards have given these travelers.
for surgeons in the developing world. The type of outreach programs have in some ways been modeled after the tremendous work done by IATSIC in their NTMC course on trauma where the initial program leads to opportunities to “educate the educators”. Michael G. Sarr Secretary-Treasurer ISS Foundation
In addition, the ISSF had provided financial grants to the IAES and BSI for their outreach programs for 2017-2019. The in-country educational seminars and hands-on workshops put on by BSI and IAES were conducted in Malaysia (x2), Vietnam (x2), and Bangladesh. For more information about these fabulous educational experiences designed to teach the teachers in these countries, please see the ISSF website “Issfoundation-ISSF.org”. These outreach programs have helped to support excellent medical care delivery in selected places in these countries and to provide education to further develop skills
Winners of the Travel Awards WCS 2019
November 2019
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