Speakers from Overseas

Akiko Tanaka

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Bart P. Meyns

Gasthuisberg Univ. Hopital, Belgium

David Adams

Mount Sinai, NY, USA

David Taggart

Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Oxford, UK

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas

Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain and Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China

Donald E. Low

Emeritus Head of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington USA

Edward P. Chen

Division Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Elaine Tseng

University of California San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Filip P. A. Casselman

Cardiovascular Center OLV Aalst

Hubert Schelzig

Clinic of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University Medical Center Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Ivan Netuka

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Cardiovascular Surgery Department

Joel S. Corvera

Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery

Laurent de Kerchove

Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium

Leonard N. Girardi

Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, USA

Lorenzo Ferri

David S Mulder Chair in Surgery, Surgery and Oncology, McGill University

Martin Kostolny

Cardiothoracic Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, Head of clinical service, Institute of Cardiovascular science, UCL

Michele De Bonis

Director of Cardiac Surgery, Innovation and Research “Vita-Salute” San Raffaele University , IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Nai-Hsin Chi

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine

Nasser Altorki

New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medicine, Thoracic Surgery Experimental Therapeutics Program, Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell

Patrick Perier

Klinik für Kardiochirurgie, Campus Bad Neustadt – Germany

Richard van Hillegersberg

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht Heidelberglaan, The Netherlands

Shinichi Fukuhara

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, USA

Taweesak Chotivatanapong

Central Chest Institute of Thailand, Consultant, CVTSurgery, Vejthani Hospital Thailand.

Tsuyoshi Kaneko

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA