The STS Postgraduate Program has come to represent a supreme level of educational excellence for practitioners in our profession. Directly preceding the Annual Meeting, the 2001 program will take place on Sunday, January 28, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. This year, the program will focus on the new technologies available to practitioners of thoracic medicine.
The morning session will offer two mini-symposia. The first, New Technology in the Myocardial Revascularization, will highlight off-pump and robotic techniques. The second, New Technology in the Management of Lung and Esophageal Carcinoma, will focus on VATS lobectomy treatments and minimally invasive procedures.
The afternoon mini-symposia are New Technology in the Management of Lung Cancer and New Technology and Robotics in Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery. The first will feature presentations on surgical management, neoadjuvant therapy, and malignant airway obstruction management. The second will showcase treatment options for minimal invasion.
The one-day program also features the mid-day CCCETS Basic
Science Lecture. David B. Campbell, chairman of the Coordinating
Committee for Continuing Education in Thoracic Surgery, will discuss
Tissue Engineering: A 21st Century Solution for Surgery
Reconstruction. This special presentation will be open to
all interested individuals. In addition, the Postgraduate Program
is proud to welcome the Honorable David Durenberger, President
of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum, who will deliver the
luncheon address. 
