Executive Committee
Officers
President
Dawn Jaroszewski, M.D., M.B.A, F.A.C.S.
Professor of Surgery & Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Director of Thoracic Oncology and Chest Wall Program
Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, Arizona
President-Elect
Development Committee
Chairperson
Marcelo Martinez-Ferro, M.D.
Consultant
Fundaçion Hospitalaria Hospital
Buenos, Aires, Argentina
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
CEMIC University
Secretary
Lisa McMahon, M.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Director of Chest Wall Clinic
Phoenix Childrens' Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona
Past President
Manuel Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., H.D.R.
Head of Department of Pediatric Surgery & Urology
Head of Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Laboratory: CIBBIM-Nanomedicine Bioengineering, Cell therapy and Surgery in Congenital malformation.
University Hospital of Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Professor
University Autonoma of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Committee Members
Women in Pectus Chairperson
Rebeccah L. Brown, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.
Professor of Clinical Surgery and Pediatrics
Co-Director of Chest Wall Center
Associate Director of Trauma Services
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Erik R. de Loos M.D., Ph.D.
Vice-Chair, Department of General Surgery Training
Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery Training
Zuyderland Medical Center
Heerlen, The Netherlands
Education Committee Chairperson
Nezih Onur Ermerak, M.D.
Memorial Health Group, Memorial Goztepe Hospital
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Istanbul Health and Technology University, Faculty of Medicine
Istanbul, Turkiye
Scientific Committee
Co-Chairperson
Mohit Kumar Joshi, M.D.
Professor, Department of Surgical Disciplines
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
Ana Laín Fernández, Ph.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Thoracic & Digestive Pediatric Surgery Unit
Coordination of the Pediatric Airway Team
Vall d´Hebron University Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
Robert J. Obermeyer, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.
Surgeon-in-Chief
Vice President for Surgical Affairs
Medical Director of Children’s Surgery
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Co-Director, Nuss Center for Chest Wall Treatment
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Professor, Surgery and Pediatrics
Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University
Sergio Sesia, M.D., P.D., M.H.A.
Senior Consultant and Lecturer in Pediatric Surgery
Head of Chest Wall Outpatient Clinic
University Hospital of Bern, Department of General Thoracic Surgery
Biel Hospital Center, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Switzerland
Pieter van Huijstee, M.D.
Trauma and General Thoracic Surgeon
Haga Ziekenhuis The Hague
Netherlands
Development Committee
Co-Chairperson
Sjoerd de Beer, M.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Dept of Pediatric Surgery
Emma Children’s Hospital
Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
Guidelines Committee Chairperson
Community Outreach Chairperson
Joel Dunning, M.D.
Thoracic Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK.
Lead surgeon of the North of England Pectus Centre.
Editor in Chief of CTSNet (www.ctsnet.org)
Chief Investigator of the RESTORE Trial.
Treasurer
Frank-Martin Haecker, M.D., F.E.A.P.U.
Professor and Lecturer in Pediatric Surgery (University of Basel)
Chief physician of Pediatric Urology (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland)
Deputy chief physician of Pediatric surgery (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland)
Co-Director of the Chest Wall Unit (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland)
Head of OR-Management (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland)
Website/Social Media Committee Chairperson
Maira Kalil, M.D.
Thoracic Surgeon
Santa Izabel Hospital
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Kyohei Masai, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Chest Wall Trauma Committee Chairperson
Professor José Ribas Milanez de Campos, M.D.
Prof. Livre Docente da Discipline of Thoracic Surgery Hospital das Clinicas
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Retaguarda da Cirurgia Tórácica, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Chairperson - ESTS Chest Wall Working Group
Scientific Committee
Chairperson
Luzia Toselli, M.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Pedro de Elizalde Children’ s Hospital
Academic Coordinator - Clínica Mi Pectus
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Database Committee Chairperson
Hans Van Veer, M.D.
Thoracic Surgery
Joint Clinic Head
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
