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ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery

Disclosure Statements 2023/2024

The ESTS Women in General Thoracic Surgery Committee is a joint effort from female leaders across different countries and cultures to dedicate, encourage, enable and inspire women to fulfil their surgical career ambitions.

Being a European Organization, we are aware that the experiences in developing a thoracic surgical career may be completely different and difficult to compare. For this reason, we would like to bring together various role models at different stage of their careers to be an example for all the membership. We would also like to formally develop mentorship programmes and networking amongst peers.

What we specifically aim is:

Advocate increased diversity in general thoracic surgery across Europe.
Work towards an understanding of the issues facing women in general thoracic surgery in the context of different cultural backgrounds.
Provide advice, guidance, and pastoral support for those women already in this surgical field and those considering entering it.
Create a social-media based networking platform to encourage female colleagues to seek mutual support and exchange opinions with peers and senior colleagues.
Collaborate with other similar international organizations in order to enhance educational opportunities for female thoracic surgeons.
Introduce sponsored mentorship programmes and scholarships in Institutions where women have led their way.

We would like to make ESTS an important networking and mentoring hub for European female colleagues who may be more encouraged by examples and initiatives of this society.

We would like to open this Committee to all of the membership and seek an active participation from ESTS members. If you want to be involved as a Mentor or participate in the initiatives falling within the WGTS remit, please email: sue@ests.org.uk or c.pompili@leeds.ac.uk

Our female colleagues:

Members

Name	Location	Country	Member Type
Mara Antonoff	Houston	USA	Active member
Cangir Ayten	Ankara	Turkey	Active member
Shanda Blackmon	Rochester	USA	Active member
Brascia	Deborah	Italy	Active member
Monica Casiraghi	Milano	Italy	Active member
Stephen Cassivi	Rochester	USA	Active member
Karishma Chandarana	Leicester	UK	Trainee Member
Rita Costa	Porto	Portugal	Trainee member
Jasmin Dei-Anang	Wiesbaden	Germany	Active member
Liesbeth Desender	Ghent	Belgium	Active member
Fra Fernandez	Sara	Spain	Active member
Romy Glenz	Szeged	Hungary	Trainee member
Sarah Hamdi	Les Plessis Robinson	France	Active member
Yanina Jansen	Brussels	Belgium	Active member
Sule Karadayi	Adana	Turkey	Active member
Aki Kobayashi	Osaka	Japan	Active member
Eveline Internullo	Bristol	UK	Active member
Toni Lerut	Leuven	Belgium	Honorary member
Elisa Meacci	Rome	Italy	Active member
Vanessa Menezes	Toronto	Canada	Active member
Maria Nizami	Athens	Greece	Trainee member
Samina Park	Seoul	Korea	Active member
Ilaria Potenza	Ferrara	Italy	Trainee member
Madhuri Rao	Minneapolis	USA	Active member
Sara Riccardi	Pisa	Italy	Active member
Maria Rodriguez	Madrid	Spain	Active member
Laura Romero Vielva	Barcelona	Spain	Active member
Romina Rosch	Heidelberg	Germany	Active Member
Lisa Schulte	Vienna	Austria	Trainee member
Marianna Soares	Sao Paulo	Brazil	Active member
Laura Socci	Sheffield	UK	Active member
Srirangaptna Srikrishna	Bangalore	India	Active member
Willem Hans Steup	Steup	The Hague	The Netherlands
Alice Taskova	Prague	Czech Republic	Active member
Maria Teresa Tsukazan	Tsukazan	Porto Alegre	Active member
Katrin Welcker	Monchengladbach	Germany	Active member
Demet Yaldiz	Izmir	Turkey	Active member
Kakol
Mayer
Muto
Ozgur
Ricciardi
Ruiz Lopez
Svorcova
Zanowska
Zielinska

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