Thoracic Surgery Residents Association Inaugural Presidential Address: Preserving the passion in cardiothoracic surgery training

FOGSI Presidential Inaugural Address.

I wish to thank one and all for electing me as President for the year 2013. With the support of all the FOGSI’ans, I feel confident, optimistic, excited, and enthusiastic to begin my responsibility of carrying forward the work of this prestigious organization. This organization has offered great opportunities and led me to embrace several challenges—the most recent one is that of the position o...

ESTS Presidential Address - Creative destruction: a new era in the field of thoracic surgery.

Ladies and gentlemen, dear members and guests, Thank you for attending the 23rd Conference of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery in Lisbon. Here in the audience, I see many familiar faces from our previous meetings, Antalya and Elancourt Schools and other thoracic society meetings. I recognize leaders from our sister societies and expert surgeons whose work I greatly admire. I would like ...

Cardiothoracic surgery.

Cardiothoracic surgeons provide care to neonates, children, adults, and the elderly with a range of disorders of the heart, lungs, esophagus, and major blood vessels of the chest. The field of cardiothoracic surgery continues to thrive among the transformations in thoracic and cardiovascular medicine. This article is intended to provide a guide to medical students and physicians on the training...

Presidential address: time for the future of vascular surgery.

Think different: presidential address at the 2009 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They inven...