Dear colleagues,
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It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to address you and express my deep gratitude to all the representatives of IFSES.
The main purpose of this federation; to promote growth of minimally access surgery, serving as an international forum for the discussion, evaluation, and dissemination of information pertaining to endoscopic surgery and minimal access techniques and select the venues of future World Congresses.
The rapid evolving world of minimally invasive surgery is challenging surgeons everyday with technical and ethical aspects, exciting advances in all fields of surgery are present and many changes for the near future, we must evaluate this new technologies and embrace only those that pass strict scientific scrutiny, keeping in mind that the most important of what we do is for the benefit of our patients.
The members societies of the Federation are the Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS), European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES), Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA), Federación Latino Americana de Cirugia (FELAC). Association Latino Americana de Cirugia Endoscopica (ALACE), Japanese Society of Endoscopic Surgery (JSES), Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (IAGES)and The Chinese Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgery (CLSES).
The Group of Corporate Partners:
Aesculap
Cine-Med
Covidien
Johonson and Johnson
Karl Storz
Olympus
Historical list of the World Congresses of Endoscopic Surgery
The International Federation of Societies of Endoscopic Surgeons (IFSES) was created at the end of the 3rd WCES June 19th. Professor Gerald Marks was elected as first President of IFSES.
The 1st World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery (WCES) was organized conjunctly by SAGES and Springer Verlag publisher under the Presidency of Professor H. Troidl in Berlin Germany EU June 1988.
The 2nd WCES was organized by SAGES under the Presidency of Professor G. Bercy in Atlanta Georgia USA April 1990.
The 3rd WCES was organized conjunctly by EAES and SAGES under the Presidency Professor J. Périssat in Bordeaux France EU June 1992.
The 4th WCES was organized by IFSES-JSES under the Presidency of Professor Y. Idezuki in Kyoto Japan June 1994.
The 5th WCES was organized by IFSES-SAGES under the Presidency of Professor G. Marks in Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA April 1996.
The 6th WCES was organized by IFSES-EAES under the Presidency of Professor A. Montori in Rome Italy EU June 1998.
The 7th WCES was organized by IFSES-ELSA under the Presidency of Professor P. Goh in Singapur June 2000.
The 8th WCES was organized by IFSES-SAGES under the Presidency of Professors K.Forde and L.Swanstrom in New York, New York USA April 2002.
The 9th WCES was organized by IFSES-FELAC-ALACE under the Presidency of Professor A. Chousleb in Cancun Mexico February 2004.
The 10th WCES was organized by IFSES-EAES under the Presidency of Professor G. Buess in Berlin Germany EU September 2006.
The 11th WCES was organized by IFSES-JSES under the Presidency of Professor S. Kitano in Yokohama Japan September 2008.
Future events hosted by the IFSES Societies will continue to provide the quality of education and scientific content that was experienced in previous world meetings. Therefore I would like to wish my best to the Organizing Committee of our next World Congress and Professors, Barry Salky (SAGES Chair) and Christopher Schlacta (CAGS Chair); that without any doubt will organize a superb event. The 12th World Congress venue already elected during the 11th WCES and will be organized by IFSES, ALACE-FELAC under the Presidency of Natan Zundel.
A third very important aspect of IFSES; "Organize, and train the developing parts of the World in basic Laparoscopic Techniques", multiple committees have been created for this purpose, one of them to help develop MAS in Africa. Founded by Professor J. Perissat and the support of our corporate partners.
With the help of FELAC and ALACE, MAS has reached marginal regions in Latin-America. India and Southeast Asia are doing the same with the direction of their local Societies. Teaching teleconferences are growing as another tool to actualize the dynamic changing of our current knowledge.
Structured courses like FLS (Fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery) and LAP (Laparoscopia Avanzada Practica) are being incorporated into the surgical curriculums of many countries in the American Continent. Currently FLS has become part of the mandatory curriculum of the American Board of Surgery. These hands on courses provide a structured curriculum with material available online and on DVD hands on course. The LAP course in many aspects has the teaching principles of ATLS and was imparted to surgeons with adequate training in Minimally Invasive Surgery from different countries in Latin America to uniform the teaching in small towns of the region ("teach the trainers").
The Corporate Partnership Committee of the Federation provides a forum for collaboration between surgeons and corporations regarding education, practice of endoscopic surgery with the highest standards and research in MAS. I would like to acknowledge our Corporate Partners for their great support.
Finally I woul like to express my deep gratitude to the advisory committee integrated by Professors Gerald Marx,Jacques Perissat, Tehemton Udwadia, Sir Alfred Cushieri and Tatsuo Yamakawa for their invaluable and permanent work for IFSES.
Alberto Chousleb, MD
President IFSES
Alberto Chousleb, MD FACS
Chief Department Experimental Surgery
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