IASMEN Report

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 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.

Opening Ceremony at WCS 2019

We congratulate the group from Bhubaneswar to their great work and wish them good luck in the future.

The city of Krakow also took the opportunity to show itself from its very best with tremendous weather and its impressive, well-preserved city center and surroundings. I truly hope that as many of you as possible took the opportunity to spend some extra days before or after the congress.

During the Executive Committee meeting the strategies for IASMENs work during the coming two years were discussed. The following executive committee board was elected:

President Anders Thorell, Sweden President elect Steven E. Wolf, USA Scientific chair Ho-Seong Han, South Korea Secretary / Treasurer Dileep Lobo, UK Members at Large Olle Ljungqvist, Sweden Andrew G. Hill, New Zealand Secretary SNS Communication Joji Kotani, Japan

Several topics were identified as prioritized areas for the near future:

Broaden membership and collaboration – Identify, approach, and attract new potential IASMEN members, in particular young surgeons – Identify, approach, and attract other associations for future collaboration and suggest collaborative sessions at their congresses as well as at ISW, Malaysia

IASMEN Scientific program at ISW 2021, Malaysia – Promote additional joint sessions together with other nutrition related societies, such as ESPEN, ASPEN, PENSA – Increase number of delegates from developing countries, especially young surgeons – Setup travel grant for one young surgeon delegate ($ 1,500-2,000) – Reduce registration fee for Allied Health professionals

Homepage – Designate responsible person within IASMEN ExCom for SNS information – Improve the information regarding IASMEN´s goals and mission

Other – Expand scientific chair’s role, i.e. communication with ISS/SIC about arrangement of meetings, etc. – Setup group meetings using WhatsApp. (Dileep Lobo +44-7545-766471) – Deepen the relationship and collaboration with other Integrated Societies of ISS/SIC – Establish local branches of IASMEN in other countries (Japan, Korea and other) – Develop integration of ERAS society within ISBI: Collaborative sessions ISBI/ IASMEN at ISW, other meetings (Steven Wolf) – Develop integration of ERAS society within I ASMEN: Collaborative sessions ERAS/IASMEN at ISW as well as at oth er international meetings (Olle Ljungqvist)

It is, thus, with good confidence I am looking forward to the two years to come regarding the development of IASMEN´s role as an Integrated Society of ISS/SIC.

Anders Thorell President IASMEN