Executive Committee
Officers
President
Manuel Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., H.D.R.
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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
Secretary
Marcelo Martinez-Ferro, M.D.
Chief - Department of Surgery
Fundaçion Hospitalaria Hospital
Buenos, Aires, Argentina
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Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
CEMIC University
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President - Elect
Dawn Jaroszewski, M.D., M.B.A, F.A.C.S.
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Professor of Surgery & Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Director of Thoracic Oncology and Chest Wall Program
Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, Arizona
Past President
Professor José Ribas Milanez de Campos, M.D.
Prof. Livre Docente da Discipline of Thoracic Surgery Hospital das Clinicas
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Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
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Retaguarda da Cirurgia Tórácica, Sao Paulo - Brazil
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Chairperson - ESTS Chest Wall Working Group
Committee Members
Gastón Bellia-Munzón, M.D.
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Surgeon, Pediatric Thoracic and Airway
Chief of the Surgical Department
Pedro de Elizalde Children's Hospital
Director of Clinica mi Pectus
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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
Sjoerd de Beer, M.D.
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Pediatric Surgeon
Dept of Pediatric Surgery
Emma Children’s Hospital
Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
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
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Website Committee
Co-Chairperson
Caroline Fortmann, M.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
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Treasurer
Frank-Martin Haecker, M.D., FEAPU
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Professor of Pediatric Surgery (University of Basel)
Consultant, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Head of the Chest Wall Unit
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Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Scientific Committee Chairperson
Andre Hebra, M.D.
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Director, Pediatric Surgical Services
Golisano Children’s Hospital
Fort Myers, Florida
Pectus for Women Committee Chairperson
Website Committee
Co-Chairperson
Maira Kalil, M.D.
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Thoracic Surgeon
Santa Izabel Hospital
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Tunc Laçin, M.D.
Sungsoo Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Yonsei University College of Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Membership Committee Chairperson
Guidelines Committee Chairperson
Lisa McMahon, M.D.
Pediatric Surgeon
Director of Chest Wall Clinic
Phoenix Childrens' Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona
Sadashige Uemura, M.D.
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Professor and Department Head
Division of Chest Wall Surgery
Nishinomiya Watanabe Cardiovascular Center
Nishinomiya, Japan
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Database Committee Chairperson
Hans van Veer, M.D.
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Thoracic Surgery
Joint Clinic Head
University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Robert Obermeyer, M.D.
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Co-Director of Nuss Center for Chest Wall Treatment
Surgeon-in-Chief
Vice President for Surgical Affairs
Medical Director of Children’s Surgery
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters
Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, Virginia
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Pieter van Huijstee, M.D.
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Trauma and General Thoracic Surgeon
Haga Ziekenhuis The Hague
Netherlands
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Professor Mustafa Yuksel, M.D.
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Emeritus Professor
Marmara University Medical School
Istanbul, Turkey
Lecturer - Demiroglu Bilim University Medical School Ä°stanbul
Istanbul, Turkey
