About ESTS HistoryInteractive History TimelineConstitutionBoard of DirectorsCommitteesESTS Board of DirectorsESTS Database CommitteeESTS Finance CommitteeESTS Learning Affairs CommitteeESTS Membership CommitteeNominating CommitteeESTS RegentsESTS Women in General Thoracic SurgeryESTS Annual Meeting Committee Athens 2026ESTS Annual Meeting Committee Budapest 2025ESTS 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 Communications Task Force Disclosures 2024 Communications Task Force The next Task Force meeting will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Brendon Stiles Chair 2024- Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General 2024- Mara Antonoff Member 2024- Benoit Jacques Bibas Member 2024- Varun Gupta Member 2024- Rene Novysedlak Member 2024- Alessandro Mariani Member 2024- Matthieu Sarsam Member 2024- Georgios Sotiropoulos Member 2024- Working Group Chest Wall The next meeting of the Chest Working Group meeting will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Hans Van Veer Chair 2023 - Nuria Novoa President 2024-2025 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 The next Digital Transformation Working Group Meeting will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Nizar Asadi Chair - Nuria Novoa President 2024-2025 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 Co-Chair 2023 Hermien Schreurs Member 2022- Willem-Hans Steup Member 2023 Nuria Novoa Member - Kalliopi Athanassiadi Member - Sara Fra Fernandez Member - Nora Mayer Member - Working Group MITIG The next meeting of the MITIG Working Group will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Florian Augustin Chair 2019 Isabelle Opitz Past Past President 2024-2025 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 ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 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 will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Cecilia Pompili Co-Chair - Maria Rodriguez Co-Chair - Elena Prisciandaro Co-Chair - Nuria Novoa Member - Apostolos Agrafiotis Member - Leah Backhus Member - Shanda Blackmon Member - Wei Dai Member - Marta Fuentes Member - Jozsef Furak 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 - Francesco Guerrera Member - Aki Kobayashi Member - Working Group Pleural Diseases The next Pleural Disease Working Group Meeting will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 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 ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Olivia Lauk Co-Chair - Bianca Battilana Co-Chair - Isabelle Opitz Member - 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 during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Jean-Marc Baste Chair 2023- Isabelle Opitz Past Past President 2024-2025 Jozsef Furak Past President 2024-2025 Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General - riad abdeljalil Member - DHARMENDRA AGRAWAL Member - Clemens Aigner Member - Kalliopi Athanassiadi Member - Natalie Baldes Member - Cenk BALTA Member - Ralitsa Baranowski Member - Claudia Bardoni Member - Stephen Barnett Member - Monica Casiraghi Member - Danjouma Cheufou Member - Rita Costa Member - Joel Dunning Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Carlos Alfredo Fraile Olivero Member - Filippo Tommaso Gallina Member - Aron Ghimessy Member - Maria Teresa Gomez-Hernandez Member - Francesco Guerrera Member - Niek Hugen Member - Mehlika Iscan Member - Marcelo Jimenez Member - Puja Khaitan, MD, FACS Member - Athanasios Kleontas Member - Gregor Kocher Member - Vasileios Kouritas Member - Arvind Kumar Member - Stefan Limmer Member - Luca Luzzi Member - Veronica Manolache Member - Alessio Mariolo Member - Elisa Meacci Member - François MONTAGNE Member - Francisco Javier Moradiellos Member - Lucia Morelli Member - Natalia Motas Member - Bernhard Moser Member - Dania Nachira Member - Ajay Narasimhan Member - Pierre-Benoit Pages Member - Alessandro Palleschi Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - LEONIDAS PAPASTAVROU Member - Michael Peer Member - Sara Ricciardi Member - Maria Rodriguez Member - Laura Romero Vielva Member - Lorenzo Rosso Member - Tom Routledge Member - Jens Rueckert Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Marco Schiavon Member - Stefan Schwarz Member - Ghada Shahin Member - Davor Stamenovic Member - Tamas Szoke Member - Ricardo Terra Member - Alper Toker Member - Davide Tosi Member - Jiri Vachtenheim Member - Daniel Valdivia Member - Giulia Veronesi Member - David Waller Member - Thorsten Walles Member - Erkan Yıldırım Member - Peter Zsoldos Member - Valeria Musso Member - Ismail Sarbay Member - Gerard Fitzmaurice Member - Raul Embun Member - Amaia Ojanguren Member - Working Group - Spontaneous Ventilation Thoracic Surgery The next meeting of the Spontaneous Ventilation Working Group will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Eugenio Pompeo Chair - Jozsef Furak Past President 2024-2025 Davide Tosi Member - Stefan Watzka Member - Alessio Mariolo Member - Working Group Student, Trainee, Early Career Members (STEM) Network The next Meeting of STEM will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Stijn Vanstraelen Chair 2024-2025 Niek Hugen Member 2023-2024 Margherita Brivio Member 2024-2025 Edward Caruana Member 2023-2024 Katarzyna Żanowska Member 2023-2024 Varun Gupta Member - Katharina Flöthmann Member - Nees Marquenie Member - Working Group Thoracic Infections of Surgical Interest The next meeting of the Thoracic Infections of Surgical Interest Working Group will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Kostas Kostopanagiotou Chair - John Mitchell Chair - Stefan Watzka Member - Apostolos Agrafiotis 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 - Fahmi Kakamad Member - Shaf Keshavjee 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 - Atilio Morais Member - Igor Motus Member - Amina Moumen Member - Zoilo Augusto Placeres Leon Member - Radek Pohnan Member - Eugenio Pompeo Member - Eserval Rocha Junior Member - Praveen Sridhar Member - Brendon Stiles Member - Piotr Yablonskii Member - Sarra Zairi Member - Working Group Thoracic Trauma The next meeting of the Working Group Thoracic Trauma will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Chair of the Working Group: Michael Gooseman, Hull, UK Members 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 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 The next meeting of Thymic Working Group Meeting will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Please contact Prof Bernhard Moser, Chair of the Thymic Working Group for information Member Office Term of Office Bernhard Moser Chair 2020 - Souheil Boubia Member - Ivan Bravio Member - Geoffrey Brioude Member - Monica Casiraghi Member - Laurens Ceulemans Member - Marco Chiappetta Member - Karol Chorąży Member - Stephane Collaud Member - Pierfilippo Crucitti Member - Alberto Dela Vega Member - Frank Detterbeck Member - Matic Domjan Member - Attila Enyedi Member - Gerard Fitzmaurice Member - Christophoros Foroulis Member - Jozsef Furak Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Maria Teresa Gomez-Hernandez Member - Sára Lality Member - Francesco Londero Member - Fernando Martelo Member - Giulio Maurizi Member - Hruy Menghesha Member - Isabelle Opitz Member - Till Plones Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Ahmad Shalabi Member - Zalan Szanto Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Georgios Sotiropoulos Member - Tomaz Stupnik Member - Ricardo Terra Member - Akif Turna Member - Paul Van Schil Member - Luca Voltolini Member - Walter Weder Member - Alessio Mariolo Member - Paolo Mendogni Member - Apostolos Agrafiotis Member - Raul Embun Member - Peter Juhos Member - Theresa Stork Member - Francesco Guerrera Member - Gian-Marco Monsch Member - Alessandro Mariani Member - Charalambos Zisis Member - Angela De Palma Member - Working Group Transplantation The next meeting of the Lung Transplantation Working Group will be held during ESTS 2025 in Budapest, 25-27 May 2025 Member Office Term of Office Laurens Ceulemans Chair 2023- Clemens Aigner Member - Irene Bello Member - Alberto Benazzo Member - Geoffrey Brioude Member - Khaled Al Kattan Member - Antonio Alvarez Kindelan Member - Jose Luis Campo-Cañaveral de la Cruz Member - Paula Moreno Casado Member - Frank D'Ovidio Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Alilis Fontana Bellorín Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Tomasz Grodzki Member - Konrad Hoetzenecker Member - Ilhan Inci Member - Ilker Iskender Member - Shaf Keshavjee Member - Thorsten Krueger Member - Bartosz Kubisa Member - Robert Lischke Member - Gilbert Massard Member - Anna Minasyan Member - Mario Nosotti Member - Nuria Novoa Member - Rene Novysedlak Member - Isabelle Opitz Member - Michaela Orlitova Member - Alessandro Palleschi Member - Bernward Passlick Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Alejandra Romero Member - Lorenzo Rosso Member - Eloisa Ruiz Lopez Member - Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee Member - Marco Schiavon Member - Jan Spillner Member - Monika Švorcová Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Valeria Musso Member - Sara Degiovanni Member - Riccardo Orlandi Member - Working Group Thoracic Autonomic Nervous System Member Office Term of Office Federico Raveglia Chair - Miguel Congregado Member - Riccardo Orlandi Member - Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu Member - Denis Trufa Member - Jose Ribas De Campos Member - Korkut Bostanci Member - Sara Degiovanni Member - Iurii Mykoliuk Member - Dania Nachira Member - Working Group Pulmonary Metastasectomy Member Office Term of Office Stefan Sponholz Chair - Moritz Schirren Member - Michel Gonzalez Member - Christophoros Foroulis Member - Konstantinos Grapatsas Member - Vlad Cristian Dobrea Member - Daniel Baum Member - Natalia Motas Member - Till Plones Member - Pierfilippo Crucitti Member - Christian Galata Member - Ihsan Alloubi Member - Mohamed Hassan Member - Satoshi Shiono Member - Thomas Schweiger Member - Stefan Welter Member - Marko Popovic Member - Ioannis Karampinis Member - Dania Nachira Member - Diletta Mongiello Member - Robert Chudzik Member - Rene Novysedlak Member - Elena Prisciandaro Member - Fabrizio Minervini Member - Todd Demmy Member - Pietro Bertoglio Member - Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu Member - Martijn van Dorp Member - Rita Lopes Member - Pramoj Jindal Member - Paolo Albino Ferrari Member - Jose Antonio Vega Barandiaran Member - Attila Dr. Farkas Member - 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