26th Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
27 May - 30 May 2018 - Ljubljana, Slovenia

Committees


LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair
Marko Bitenc

Anton Crnjac
Tomaž Štupnik
Tomaž Jensterle
Mihael Sok

Jana Šubic – Symposium for Nurses

ESTS COUNCIL

COUNCIL OFFICERS 2018
President
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
Leeds (UK)

Secretary General
Alessandro Brunelli
Leeds (UK)

Treasurer
Isabelle Opitz
Zurich (Switzerland)

Editor
Gaetano Rocco
Naples (Italy)

President Elect
Gilbert Massard
Strasbourg (France)

Past President
Jaroslaw Kuzdzal
Krakow (Poland)

DIRECTORS 2018

Director of Annual Meeting
Marco Scarci
London (UK)

Director of Database
Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz
Strasbourg (France)

Director of Education
Hasan Batirel
Istabul (Turkey)

Director of External Relations
Gonzalo Varela
Salamanca (Spain)

COUNCILLORS 2017/2018

Corinna Ludwig
Dusseldorf (Germany)

Nuria Novoa
Salamanca (Spain)

Rene Petersen
Copenhagen (Denmark)

Enrico Ruffini
Torino (Italy)

David Waller
London (UK)

Willem-Hans Steup
The Hague (Netherlands)

Douglas Wood
Seattle (USA)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE 2018

Hasan Batirel
Istanbul (Turkey)

Alessandro Brunelli
Leeds (UK)

Marko Bitenc
Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Anton Crnjac
Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz Strasbourg
France (Fr)

Wentao Fang
Shanghai (China)

Gilbert Massard
Strasbourg (France)

Meinoshin Okumura
Osaka (Japan)

Isabelle Opitz
Zurich (Switzerland)

Kostas Papagiannopoulos
Leeds (UK)

Gaetano Rocco
Naples (Italy)

Enrico Ruffini
Torino (Italy)

Marco Scarci
London (UK)

Alan Sihoe
Hong Kong (China)

Gonzalo Varela
Salamanca (Spain)

Douglas Wood
Seattle (USA)