About ESTS HistoryInteractive History TimelineConstitutionBoard of DirectorsCommitteesESTS Board of DirectorsESTS Database CommitteeESTS Finance CommitteeESTS International CommitteeESTS Learning Affairs CommitteeESTS Membership CommitteeNominating CommitteeESTS RegentsESTS Women in General Thoracic SurgeryESTS Annual Meeting Committee Barcelona 2024ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Milano 2023ESTS Annual Meeting Committee The Hague 2022ESTS Annual Meeting Committee 2021ESTS Annual Meeting Committee The Hague 2020ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Dublin 2019ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Ljubljana 2018ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Innsbruck 2017ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Naples 2016ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Istanbul 2016ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Lisbon 2015Lisbon 2015 Abstract ReviewersESTS Annual Meeting Committee Copenhagen 2014Copenhagen 2014 Abstract ReviewersESTS Annual Meeting Committee Birmingham 2013Birmingham 2013 Abstract ReviewersESTS RegentsPast PresidentsHonorary MembersPatient Information (Patient Centered Working Group)What is Thoracic SurgeryTypes of surgical incisions or skin wounds for pulmonary and mediastinal surgery Other alternative approaches: rigid and flexible bronchoscopy; cervical incisionsDiseasesCOPD and the pulmonary surgeryWhy is COPD important to your surgeryCOPD treatmentPulmonary nodules and lung cancerRisk factors: smokingLung cancerTypes of Lung cancerDiagnosisStagingTreatmentTypes of Pulmonary resectionsChest traumaDiagnosis and initial managementTypes of chest injuries according to their locationTreatment of the most frequent lesionsPneumothoraxChest wall tumorsThymic tumors: thymoma, thymic carcinomaRespiratory insufficiency and lung transplantWhat is a Lung Transplant? Preoperative evaluation and optimization The surgical process of lung transplantWhat to expect during recovery and possible complicationsThe surgical processAt the outpatient clinicPreparation for admissionAdmission one day or more before Admission the same day of the surgery The day of the surgeryThe postoperative period: Expected recovery after surgery.Once at homeGeneral instructions Standard Wound CareReasons for seeking medical attentionFrequently asked questions after surgerySummary of recommendations of what NOT to do after surgery CounsellingStop smokingChest physiotherapyBasic exercisesExercises lying downExercises sitting downUseful appsWomen in General Thoracic SurgeryWorking Groups (multiple)Working Groups: General Information & MembersRegulationsLive ActivitiesOutputFeedbackAnnual ReportCollaborationJob OpportunitiesOrganogram of GovernanceIndustry PartnershipsGeneral AssemblyContactAbout ESTS Share via: Home About ESTS Working Groups (multiple) Working Groups: General Information & Members Working Groups: General Information & Members Below lists descriptions and current members of our working groups. Please Contact Prof Hasan Batirel, Secretary General if you would like to express an interest to join a Working Group Disclosure Statements 2023- 2024 Working Group Chest Wall The Chest Working Group meeting will be held: MiCo Conference Centre, Milano, Italy Meeting Room 6, Level -1 Tuesday 6 June 2023 08:00 - 09:00 hours CET Member Office Term of Office Hans Van Veer Chair 2023 - Jozsef Furak President 2023-2024 Henrik Aamodt Member - Phillip Antippa Member - Jose Aranda Member - Sion Barnard Member - Benedetta Bedetti Member - Alessandro Bertani Member - Luca Bertolaccini Secretary General - Korkut Bostanci Member - Julien Dahdah Member - Erik De Loos Member - Duilio Divisi Member - Joel Dunning Member - John Edwards Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Christophoros Foroulis Member - Markus Furrer Member - Alesssandro Gonfiotti Member - Peter Kestenholz Member - Jaroslaw Kuzdzal Member - Vladimir Kuzmichev Member - Alessandro Mariani Member - Fabrizio Minervini Member - Jose Miranda Member - Laureano Molins Member - Francisco Javier Moradiellos Member - natalia motas Member - Nuria Novoa Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - Hyung Joo Park Member - Hans Pilegaard Member - Federico Raveglia Member - Jose Ribas De Campos Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Herman Rijna Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee Member - Michele Salati Member - Rajan Santosham Member - Marco Scarci Member - Miguel Tedde Member - Daniel Valdivia Member - Vitalii Vasylkivskyi Member - Sue Hesford Member - Working Group Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Working Group Meeting: during 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Nizar Asadi Chair - Jozsef Furak President 2023-2024 Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General - Nuria Novoa Director - Hermien Schreurs Director - Zalan Szanto Director - Ihsan Alloubi Member - Jose Aranda Member - Ciprian Bolca Member - Alfonso Fiorelli Member - Carlos Alfredo Fraile Olivero Member - Michael Gooseman Member - Lin Huang Member - Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu Member - Francesco Leo Member - Gunda Leschber Member - Nora Mayer Member - Anna Minasyan Member - Andre Miotto Member - Marcelo Parra Member - Cecilia Pompili Member - Igor Saftic Member - Mohamed Salama Member - Marco Scarci Member - Piergiorgio Solli Member - Georgios Sotiropoulos Member - Natasha Toleska Dimitrovska Member - Stefan Watzka Member - Sarra Zairi Member - Working Group - Fit to Perform Member Office Term of Office Sridhar Rathinam Chair 2023 Pietro Bertoglio Member 2023 Fabrizio Minervini Member 2023 Hermien Schreurs Member 2022- Willem-Hans Steup Member 2023 Working Group MITIG The next meeting of the MITIG Working Group will be held during the 32ndEuropean Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Florian Augustin Chair 2019 Alessandro Brunelli Past Past President - Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General - Carlo Curcio Member - Herbert Decaluwe Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Diego Gonzalez Rivas Member - Dominique Gossot Member - Henrik Jessen Hansen Member - Rene Horsleben Petersen Member - Cezary Piwkowski Member - Didier Schneiter Member - Alper Toker Member - Working Group Neuroendocrine Tumours The next meeting of the NETWorking Group will be held during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Pier Luigi Filosso Chair - Working Group Nursing & Allied Health Professionals Members: Florian Fehlmann, BScN, cand.MScN Nurse Practitioner Department of Thoracic Surgery Zurich, Switzerland Mr Johnny Moons, RN, MSc, PhD Datamanager Thoracic Surgery Clinical Research Co-ordinator UZ Leuven, Belgium Malene Missel, PhD Senior Research Lecturer in Nursing and Clinical Nurse Specialist Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark Pernille Donsel, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Denmark Mai Schoenau, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Denmark Veronica Rossi, Ospedale Policlinico di Milano, Italy Eva Puttevils, UZ Leuven, Belgium Elke Lauber, University Hospital Berne, Switzerland Member Office Term of Office There are no current members of this Working Group Working Group Patient Centred and Quality of Life Next Meeting of the Patient Centred and Quality of Life Working Group during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Cecilia Pompili Co-Chair - Maria Rodriguez Co-Chair - Nuria Novoa Member - Apostolos Agrafiotis Member - Leah Backhus Member - Shanda Blackmon Member - Wei Dai Member - Marta Fuentes Member - Lin Huang Member - Biniam Kidane Member - Olivia Lauk Member - Lukadi Joseph Lula Member - Gita Mody Member - Federico Raveglia Member - Paolo Scanagatta Member - Magdalena Sielewicz Member - Yuan-Ming Tsai Member - Working Group Pleural Diseases Next Pleural Disease Working Group Meeting: 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Edward Caruana Chair 2022- Beatrice Aramini Member - Hasan Fevzi Batirel Member - Benedetta Bedetti Member - Luca Bertolaccini Member - Pietro Bertoglio Member - Alessandro Brunelli Member - Margherita Cattaneo Member - Laurens Ceulemans Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Shadi Hamouri Member - Peter Kestenholz Member - Thomas Kiefer Member - Katerina Marinova Member - Paolo Mendogni Member - Fabrizio Minervini Member - Isabelle Opitz Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - Elena Prisciandaro Member - Federico Raveglia Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Marco Scarci Member - Yaron Shargall Member - Alper Toker Member - Gonzalo Varela Member - Luigi Ventura Member - Ryuichi Waseda Member - Richard Whyte Member - Working Group Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Please click here for the list of Members of the ESTS Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Working Group The next meeting of the Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Working Group will be held: during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Isabelle Opitz Chair - Marc de Perrot Member - Walter Klepetko Member - Bernhard Moser Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Working Group Robotic The Next Meeting of the Robotic Working Group will be held: Member Office Term of Office Jean-Marc Baste Chair 2023- Isabelle Opitz Past President - Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General - Clemens Aigner Member - Kalliopi Athanassiadi Member - Natalie Baldes Member - Danjouma Cheufou Member - Joel Dunning Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Maria Teresa Gomez-Hernandez Member - Puja Khaitan, MD, FACS Member - Francesco Guerrera Member - Marcelo Jimenez Member - Athanasios Kleontas Member - Arvind Kumar Member - Stefan Limmer Member - Luca Luzzi Member - Elisa Meacci Member - Maria Rodriguez Member - Francisco Javier Moradiellos Member - Lucia Morelli Member - Pierre-Benoit Pages Member - Alessandro Palleschi Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - Michael Peer Member - Jens Rueckert Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Marco Schiavon Member - Ghada Shahin Member - Tamas Szoke Member - Ricardo Terra Member - Alper Toker Member - Davide Tosi Member - Daniel Valdivia Member - Giulia Veronesi Member - David Waller Member - Thorsten Walles Member - Piotr Yablonskii Member - Erkan Yıldırım Member - Working Group - Spontaneous Ventilation Thoracic Surgery The next meeting of the Spontaneous Ventilation Working Group will be held during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Eugenio Pompeo Chair - Jozsef Furak President - Davide Tosi Member - Stefan Watzka Member - Working Group Student, Trainee, Early Career Members (STEM) Network Next Meeting of STEM 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Edward Caruana Chair 2022-2023 Romy Glenz Member 2022-2023 Michael Gooseman Member 2022-2023 Niek Hugen Member 2022-2023 Olivia Lauk Member 2022-2023 Working Group Thoracic Infections of Surgical Interest The next meeting of the Thoracic Infections of Surgical Interest Working Group: Friday 15 December 2023, 4 - 5 pm CET, Webex Member Office Term of Office Stefan Watzka Chair 2022 - Apostolos Agrafiotis Member - Andrey Akopov Member - Khaled Al Kattan Member - Ihsan Alloubi Member - Amol Bhanushali Member - Petre Vlah-Horea Botianu Member - Souheil Boubia Member - Amitabha Chakrabarti Member - Anshuman Darbari Member - Hussein Elkhayat Member - Shilpa Gandhi Member - Dmitry Giller Member - Shadi Hamouri Member - Jeroen Hendriks Member - Zymantas Jagelavicius Member - Pramoj Jindal Member - Dhihintia Jiwangga Member - Shaf Keshavjee Member - Kostas Kostopanagiotou Member - Tibor Krajc Member - Grigorii Kudriashov Member - Virginia Litle Member - Lukadi Joseph Lula Member - Farhan Ahmed Majeed Member - Alessandro Mariani Member - Konstantinos Markakis Member - Gilbert Massard Member - John Mitchell Member - Atilio Morais Member - Igor Motus Member - Zoilo Augusto Placeres Leon Member - Radek Pohnan Member - Eugenio Pompeo Member - Eserval Rocha Junior Member - Praveen Sridhar Member - Brendon Stiles Member - Sergo Vashakidze Member - Piotr Yablonskii Member - Sarra Zairi Member - Working Group Thoracic Trauma The Inaugural meeting of the Working Group Thoracic Trauma was held during the 31st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Milan Italy on Tuesday 6 June 2023 Chair of the Working Group: Michael Gooseman, Hull, UK Members Member Office Term of Office Michael Gooseman Chair 2023- Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General 2023- Phillip Antippa Member 2023- Alessandro Brunelli Member 2023- John Edwards Member 2023- Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member 2023- David Sutori Member 2023- Pieter Jan van Huijstee Member 2023- Thomas White Member 2023- Working Group - Thymic Thymic Working Group Meeting: next meeting to be announced Please contact Prof Bernhard Moser, Chair of the Thymic Working Group for information Member Office Term of Office Bernhard Moser Chair 2020 - Marco Chiappetta Member - Frank Detterbeck Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Giulio Maurizi Member - Hruy Menghesha Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Walter Weder Member - Working Group Transplantation The next meeting of the Lung Transplantation Working Group will be held: during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery in Barcelona, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Laurens Ceulemans Chair 2023- Khaled Al Kattan Member - Antonio Alvarez Kindelan Member - Paula Moreno Casado Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Tomasz Grodzki Member - Ilhan Inci Member - Shaf Keshavjee Member - Thorsten Krueger Member - Bartosz Kubisa Member - Gilbert Massard Member - Anna Minasyan Member - Mario Nosotti Member - Alessandro Palleschi Member - Bernward Passlick Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Lorenzo Rosso Member - Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee Member - Marco Schiavon Member - Jan Spillner Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Working Group Uniportal VATS Interest Group Working Group Uniportal VATS Interest Group The next meeting of the UVIG Working Group will be held during the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 26-28 May 2024 Member Office Term of Office Luca Bertolaccini Member - Hasan Fevzi Batirel Member - Erik De Loos Member - Diego Gonzalez Rivas Member - Mahmoud Ismail Member - Calvin S H Ng Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Alberto Sandri Member - Marco Scarci Member - Hermien Schreurs Member - Alan Dart Loon Sihoe Member - Davide Tosi Member - Back to previous page