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Send to a FriendThe European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Officers and Council were elected at the 17th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery held 31 May - 3 June 2009 in Krakow, Poland.
President: Michael Mueller, Vienna
President Elect: Gunda Leschber, Berlin
General Secretary: Dirk Van Raemdonck, Leuven
Treasurer: Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos, Leeds
Editor: Pascal Thomas, Marseille
Past President: Laureano Molins, Barcelona
Past Past President: Gaetano Rocco, Naples
ESTS Directors 2009 – 2010:
Director of Annual Meeting: Dirk Van Raemdonck, Leuven
Director of Database and Audit: Alessandro Brunelli, Ancona
Directors of Education: Gaetano Rocco, Naples; Federico Venuta, Rome
Director of External Relations: Gaetano Rocco, Naples
ESTS Council 2009-2010:
Alessandro Brunelli, Ancona
Jozsef Furak, Szeged
Cengiz Gebitekin, Bursa
Jaroslaw Kuzdzal, Krakow
Mariano Garcia Yuste, Valladolid
Alper Toker, Istanbul
Federico Venuta, Rome
The 18th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery will be held 30 May – 2 June 2010 in Valladolid, Spain.
The next ESTS School of Thoracic Surgery will be held in Elancourt, Paris. This is the practical component of the school. The School will take place from the 8–9 October 2009. The topic of Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery and Associated Treatments.