About ESTS HistoryInteractive History TimelineConstitutionBoard of DirectorsCommitteesESTS Board of DirectorsESTS Database CommitteeESTS International CommitteeESTS Learning Affairs CommitteeESTS Membership CommitteeNominating CommitteeESTS RegentsESTS Women in General Thoracic SurgeryESTS 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 SurgeryAimsMembersResourcesWomen in GTS AcademyWorking 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. Disclosure Statements 2022 - 2023 Working Group - Awake Thoracic Surgery Member Office Term of Office Eugenio Pompeo Chair - Working Group Chest Wall The Chest Working Group meeting will be held: Monday 20 June 2022 Time: 07:30 - 08:30 hours CET Room: Kilimanjaro 1 - second floor World Forum, The Hague Member Office Term of Office Jose Ribas De Campos Chair 2018-2021 Isabelle Opitz President - Gaetano Rocco Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - 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 - 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 - Martin Lucenic Member - Alessandro Mariani Member - Fabrizio Minervini Member - Jose Miranda Member - Laureano Molins Member - Francisco Javier Moradiellos Member - Natalia Motas Member - Nuria Novoa Member - Hyung Joo Park Member - Hans Pilegaard Member - Federico Raveglia Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Herman Rijna Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee Member - Michele Salati Member - Rajan Santosham Member - Marco Scarci Member - Miguel Tedde Member - Daniel Valdivia Member - Hans Van Veer Member - Vitalii Vasylkivskyi Member - Working Group Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Working Group Meetings: To be arranged Member Office Term of Office Nizar Asadi Chair - Alessandro Brunelli President - 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 - 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 MITIG Member Office Term of Office Florian Augustin Chair 2019 Alessandro Brunelli 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 Member Office Term of Office Pier Luigi Filosso Chair - Working Group Patient Centred and Quality of Life Working Group Patient and Quality of Life Meeting: Tuesday: 21st June 2022 Time: 12:30-13:30 Room: Everest 2-Second Floor, World Forum, The Hague Member Office Term of Office Cecilia Pompili Co-Chair - Maria Rodriguez Co-Chair - Nuria Novoa Member - Shanda Blackmon Member - Marta Fuentes Member - Federico Raveglia Member - Working Group Pleural Diseases Pleural Disease Working Group Meeting: Tuesday 21 June 2022 07:30 - 08:30 CET Room: Europe 2 - zero floor, The World Forum, The Hague 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 - Peter Kestenholz Member - Thomas Kiefer Member - Katerina Marinova Member - Paolo Mendogni Member - Fabrizio Minervini Member - Isabelle Opitz Member - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - Alessandro Pardolesi 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 Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Working Group Meeting at the Annual Meeting - Milano 2023 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 Member Office Term of Office Giulia Veronesi Chair - Isabelle Opitz President - Clemens Aigner Member - Kalliopi Athanassiadi Member - Jean-Marc Baste Member - Hasan Fevzi Batirel Secretary General - Danjouma Cheufou Member - Tuğba Coşgun Member - Joel Dunning Member - Pierre Emmanuel Falcoz Member - Maria Teresa Gomez 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 - Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos Member - Michael Peer Member - Jens Rueckert Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Marco Schiavon Member - Tamas Szoke Member - Ricardo Terra Member - Alper Toker Member - Davide Tosi Member - Daniel Valdivia Member - David Waller Member - Thorsten Walles Member - Piotr Yablonskii Member - Working Group Student, Trainee, Early Career Members (STEM) Network Member Office Term of Office Edward Caruana Chair 2022-2023 Anna Elisabeth Frick 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 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 - Jeroen Hendriks Member - Zymantas Jagelavicius Member - Pramoj Jindal Member - Dhihintia Jiwangga Member - Shaf Keshavjee Member - Kostas Kostopanagiotou Member - Virginia Litle Member - Joseph Lula Lukadi Member - Gia Lursmanashvili Member - Farhan Ahmed Majeed Member - Alessandro Mariani Member - Gilbert Massard Member - John Mitchell Member - Atilio Morais Member - Igor Motus Member - Zoilo Augusto Placeres Leon Member - Radek Pohnan Member - Eserval Rocha Junior Member - Brendon Stiles Member - Sergo Vashakidze Member - Piotr Yablonskii Member - Sarra Zairi Member - Working Group - Thymic Thymic Working Group Meeting: Sunday 19 June 2022 Time: 15:30 - 16:30 hours CET Venue: Nile Room, First Floor World Forum, The Hague Please Click Here for the Agenda Please contact Prof Bernhard Moser, Chair of the Thymic Working Group for information Member Office Term of Office Bernhard Moser Chair 2020 - Frank Detterbeck Member - David Gomez de Antonio Member - Gaetano Rocco Member - Enrico Ruffini Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Walter Weder Member - Working Group Transplantation Member Office Term of Office Paula Moreno Casado Chair - Khaled Al Kattan Member - Antonio Alvarez Kindelan 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 - Mario Nosotti Member - Alessandro Palleschi Member - Bernward Passlick Member - Ilaria Righi Member - Lorenzo Rosso Member - Farahnaz Sadegh Beigee Member - Jan Spillner Member - Pascal Thomas Member - Dirk Van Raemdonck Member - Working Group Uniportal VATS Interest Group Working Group Uniportal VATS Interest Group Tuesday: 21st June 2022 Time: 14:00 -15:00 Room: Everest 1 Second Floor, World Forum, The Hague 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 - Back to previous page