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 John G. Hunter, USA / President-Elect Cheng-Har 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 Italo Braghetto, Chile / Chair Global Surgery Subcommittee Hisham Abdullah, Malaysia / Chair Scientific Subcommittee 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.

Robert Danis Prize: Juan A. Asensio, USA

ISS/SIC Prize (ex aequo): Ian D. Civil, New Zealand James O. Garden, UK

ISS/SIC Prize Awarding of James O. Garden and Ian D. Civil at ACS by Peter Angelos & Ken Boffard

Honorary Membership: Yvonne Chan, USA Ronald V. Maier, USA Sathiya S. Pillay, South Africa

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 GREY TURNER LECTURE: Forty years in practice: Infrastructure and policy to optimize surgeon retooling for a lifetime of peak performance Lecturer: Barbara Bass, USA

The ICE Krakow Congress Center WCS 2019 decorated

ACS / ISS/SIC LECTURE: Gender equality as a prerequisite for ensuring global access to safe surgery & anesthesia Lecturer: Hilary A. Sanfey, USA

ISS/SIC Abstract Prize Winners at WCS 2019: The awards for best ISS/SIC Abstract presentations in the category Free Paper (oral) and Poster were awarded to the following presenters:

ISS/SIC LLOYD M. NYHUS PRIZE: Presenting Author: Jaymie Henry, Kenya Advancing universal health coverage through strengthening essential surgical care provision in primary care: sharing the results from the Kenya National Surgical Capacity study

ISS/SIC POSTER PRIZE: Presenting Author: Adrian Perdyan, Poland Circulating tumor DNA in KRAS positive colorectal cancer patients as a prognostic factor: a systematic review

The Martin Allgöwer Lecturer, Prof. Hisham Abdullah getting awarded