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Executive Committee

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Officers
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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

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President-Elect

Development Committee

Chairperson

Scientific Committee Chairperson

Marcelo Martinez-Ferro, M.D.

 

Consultant

Fundaçion Hospitalaria Hospital

Buenos, Aires, Argentina

Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

CEMIC University

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Secretary

Membership Committee Chairperson

Guidelines Committee Chairperson

Lisa McMahon, M.D.

 

Pediatric Surgeon

Director of Chest Wall Clinic

Phoenix Childrens' Hospital

Phoenix, Arizona

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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
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Gastón Bellia-Munzón, M.D.

Surgeon, Pediatric Thoracic and Airway 

Chief of the Surgical Department 

Pedro de Elizalde Children's Hospital

Director of Clinica mi Pectus

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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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

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Development Committee

Co-Chairperson

Sjoerd de Beer, M.D.

Pediatric Surgeon

Dept of Pediatric Surgery

Emma Children’s Hospital

Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands

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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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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.

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Nezih Onur Ermerak, M.D.

 

Vice Chief Medical Officer 

Marmara University Hospitals

Assoc. Professor of Thoracic Surgery

Marmara University Faculty of Medicine

Department of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery

Istanbul, Turkey

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Treasurer

Frank-Martin Haecker, M.D., FEAPU

​Professor and Lecturer in Pediatric Surgery (University of Basel)

Chief physician of Pediatric Urology (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland)

Senior consultant 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)

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Website/Social Media Committee Chairperson

Maira Kalil, M.D.

Thoracic Surgeon 

Santa Izabel Hospital 

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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Tunc Laçin, M.D.

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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

Robert J. Obermeyer, M.D., FACS, FAAP

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

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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

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Scientific Committee

Co-Chairperson

Luzia Toselli, M.D.

Pediatric Surgeon

Pedro de Elizalde Children’ s Hospital

Academic Coordinator - Clínica Mi Pectus

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Pieter van Huijstee, M.D.

Trauma and General Thoracic Surgeon
Haga Ziekenhuis The Hague

Netherlands

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Database Committee Chairperson

Hans van Veer, M.D.

Thoracic Surgery

Joint Clinic Head

University Hospitals Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

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2024 Executive Board
Phoenix, Arizona
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