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8:50AM - 9:00AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 334 – 335
Welcome and Introduction to the AATS/ASCVTS Thoracic Postgraduate Course
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Thomas A. D’Amico is a graduate of Harvard University (BA) and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (MD). He received training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. D’Amico joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in 1996. He is currently the Gary Hock Endowed Professor, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. D’Amico is in leadership positions in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, including the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the Ethics Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Finally, he is the active in the NCCN, as a member of NCCN Board of Directors and Guidelines Steering Committee, the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee, as well as a member of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committees and co-chair of the Esophageal Cancer Guidelines Committee.
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Speakers:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
John Tam, Dept of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore
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Speakers:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
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Congenital Master Class: Aortic Valve Repair Strategies
Sertac Cicek, Istanbul University faculty of Medicine Department of CV Surgery
Dr. M. Sertaç Çiçek completed his medical education at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine and GATA Gülhane Faculty of Medicine, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He then completed a five-year residency in Cardiovascular Surgery at GATA, followed by fellowships in cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary transplantation at the Texas Heart Institute and the Mayo Clinic. He also had an extended pediatric cardiac surgery and transplantation fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Çiçek eventually returned to his home country, Turkey, to establish adult and pediatric cardiac surgery programs at many hospitals including Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training Hospital, which is one of the largest heart centers in Europe and where he also served as the Physician-in-Chief. He served as Director of Heart and Vascular Care Center at Anadolu Medical Center, an affiliation of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Istanbul. He has recently served as professor and senior associate consultant at Mayo Clinic and chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at WVU Heart and Vascular Institute and Children’s Hospital in US and has recently returned to Turkey to establish the heart program at Istinye University-Liv Vadistanbul Hospital. In addition to pediatric and congenital heart surgery, Dr. Çiçek has extensive experience as an adult cardiac surgeon as well. He serves on multiple Editorial Boards and is an Associate Editor of World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
Sitaram Emani, Boston Children's Hospital
Sitaram Emani is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Complex Biventricular Repair Program at Boston Children's Hosptial.
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9:00AM - 10:00AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Summit 2
Coronary Artery Disease
Hirokuni Arai, Hokushin General Hospital
Dr. Hirokuni Arai is the Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Medical and Dental University and President of Hokushin General Hospital in Nagano Japan. He completed his general surgery training and his cardiothoracic fellowship training at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and its affiliated hospitals. From1989 to 1991, he was a Research Fellow in Department of Surgery at St. Louis University, in St. Louis, USA, under Professor D. Glenn Pennington. From 1994 to 2000, he was a Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hokushin General Hospital. From 2007 to 2022, he had been Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and since this April he has been current position.
His specialties include mitral valve repair especially in the field of functional MR, off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) and ventricular assist device. He invented various surgical devices mostly related to OPCAB and obtained over 20 Patents. He has contributed to more than 100 original articles in peer-reviewed journals and given over 200 invited lectures at regional and international conferences. He is also dedicated to international teaching especially in Asia, such as organizing annual OPCAB Workshop in Thailand.
He is assigned for Program Director of AATS/JATS Mitral Conclave 2022 in Japan, and is currently Society President of Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery (JACAS) to host International Coronary Congress 2022 in Tokyo, Board of Directors of ISCAS/ICC, and Program co-Chair of ISMICS 2022. He was also past Congress President of Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery (JATS 2018) which is the counterpart of AATS in Japan, past Congress president of Japanese Association for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (J-MICS 2019), and past Congress President of Japanese Society for Heart Valve Disease 2019.
Leonard Girardi, Weill Cornell Medical Center
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
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9:00AM - 10:00AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 334 – 335
Understanding Lung Cancer: Updates in Staging and Treatment Modalities
Boon-Hean Ong, National Heart Centre Singapore
Clinical Assistant Professor Ong Boon Hean is a Senior Consultant and Deputy Head of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2006. He subsequently completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2014. He was then awarded the Singapore Ministry of Health-SingHealth HMDP Award in 2014 to pursue an advanced clinical fellowship in general thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in the United States of America.
In 2016, he returned from fellowship training to practice cardiothoracic surgery with subspecialty interests in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology and lung transplantation at the National Heart Centre Singapore. He currently is the service chief at the Singapore General Hospital campus for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre and vice chairman of the Chapter of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Singapore. Aside from his clinical work, he is also actively involved in education and research in thoracic surgery. He is a core clinical faculty member of the Singapore Integrated Program for Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency, a clinical senior lecturer with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and an examiner for the Joint Committee on Specialist Training / Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) Joint Specialty Fellowship Exit Examination in Cardiothoracic Surgery. He also a co-investigator for several studies related to lung cancer screening and novel treatment strategies for lung cancer.
Matthew Bott, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Bott is a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. After completing an undergraduate degree at Duke University, he went on to medical school at the University of Virginia and then a general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center. During his residency he took part in a research fellowship at MSK which investigated genomic pertubations in malignant pleural mesothelioma. Following his completion of cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, he joined the faculty of MSKCC and currently has a practice focused on thoracic surgical oncology. He is currently the surgical director of endobronchial therapies and co-leads MSK's robotic bronchoscopy program. He also has an active basic and translational research program which explores cellular responses to therapy in lung cancer.
Jang-Ming Lee, National Taiwan University Hospital
Graduated from Medical School, and acquiring his PhD degree in the Medical Research Institute in National Taiwan University, Prof. Lee is currently the Professor of Surgery in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and has been the chief of Thoracic Surgical Department of the NTUH between 2011 and 2017. He is one of the important pioneers in the development of minimal invasive surgery in thoracic and esophageal space in Asia. He possesses comprehensive understanding of both surgery development and medical environment of Taiwan. He is deeply devoted in development and education of minimally invasive thoracic surgery especially in the complex procedures including minimally invasive esophagectomy, robotic surgery or endoscopic surgery of the esophagus. Elected as president of Asia Thoracoscopic Education Platform (ATEP) (2018-2022) and Taiwan Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2017-2019), he voices for the society to the government sector, policy makers, the patients and other healthcare stakeholders and led the education of study for surgery in Taiwan. He also actively participates in the editorial or review board in many distinguished international medical journals and has published more than 150 scientific papers.
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10:30AM - 11:30AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 331 – 332
Coronaries and Complex Anomalies
Emile Bacha, NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Emile Bacha is a US board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Bacha is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and currently the Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery at NYP/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Komansky-Weill-Cornell Children’s. Prior to that, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bacha received his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He completed his surgical residency at MGH and Emory, followed by a research fellowship at the Hopital Marie-Lannelongue of Paris-Sud University. He then completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at MGH in 1989. He has been supported by grants from the NIH, AATS, and TSFRE. Dr. Bacha is one of the early developers of the "hybrid stage I" procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is also the principal developer of a widely accepted technical competency metric for pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Bacha has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past-Associate Editor of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and a member of the AATS, STS, the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), the ACC and ACS. He currently serves as the Treasurer for the AATS and as Secretary of the CHSS.
sivakumar sivalingam, National Heart Institute Kuala Lumpur
Qualitifcaitons: MMED(Surg)(Singapore), FRCS(C.Th)(Edinburgh)
Position:
Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Clinical Director of Congenital Heart Surgery, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur
Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, University Malaya
Proctor, Aortic Valve Neosucpidization procedure, Sanamedi Inc (Japan)
Professional Affiliations:
Malaysian Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons(MATCVS) (Council Member and HonoraryTreasuere)
Asian Association for Pediatric and Congenital Heart surgeons (AAPCHS)(Executive Director)
World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgeons(WSPCHS), Member
Asian Society for Cardiovasclar and Thoracic Surgeons(ASCVTS) - Member
European Associations of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgoens,(EACTS) Member
Society for Thoracic Surgeons, (STS), Member
Journal Affiliations
Member of Editorial Board, Congenital Heart Diesease
Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, Reviewer
Indian Journal for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Reviewer
Asian Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, Reviewer
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Reviewer
Special Interests
Neonatal and Low birth weight surgery
Unifocalization
Surgery for Congenitally Corrected transposition of Great Arteries
Complex pediatric valve repairs
Aortic Valve Neocuspidization Procedure
Database and risk stratification for Congenital Heart Surgery in the Developing nations
Humanitarian Missions
Yankin Childrens Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar
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10:30AM - 11:30AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Summit 2
Mitral, Tricuspid Valve
Taweesak Chotivatanapong, Chest Disease Institute
Bio Dr. Taweesak Chotivatanapong
Dr.Taweesak Chotivatanapong is now The Chairman of International Academic Institute Program and Senior Consultant at Central Chest Institute of Thailand.
He is now also serving as a Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery Department , MedPark Hospital , Bangkok, Thailand. He is a councilor member of the ASCVTS, active member of AATS.During last several years he set up Heart Care Foundation that he serves as the President of the foundation. The main activities of this foundation are to provide operations for valvular heart patients in the long waiting list and training for young surgeons under " Train The Trainer" program throughout Thailand. Several Center Of Excellences for valve repair are now successfully established under this program.
He also serves as Chairman COE of National Cardiovascular and Thoracic Disease Ministry of Public Health. After received his training for CVT surgery in Thailand, he got his further training in Australia and USA. He is the Former President of Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Thailand.
Most of his research focused on Mitral Valve Repair , Ross operation for infective AV and especially in Rheumatic Valve Repair.In February 2020, he was the Congress President of the 28th Annual Meeting of The Asian Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) which was organized in Chiangmai, Thailand. It was very successful and well attended.
Update 2025
Marc Moon, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Moon has been involved in AATS operations for more than a decade, originally as a program committee member for the Annual Meeting beginning in 2009. He has served on the Executive Board from 2012 to the present as Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately President at the 101st Annual Meeting in 2021. Dr. Moon's clinical focus in adult cardiac surgery includes aortic surgery and complex reoperative valvular surgery. Dr. Moon's educational platform focuses on advancing diversity and inclusion in the cardiothoracic community.
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10:30AM - 11:30AM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 334 – 335
UVATS and RATS: From Sub-Lobar Resection to Sleeve Lobectomy
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Moderators:
Agasthian Thirugnanam
Peter Licht, Odense University Hospital
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Moderators:
Agasthian Thirugnanam
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12:30PM - 1:30PM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 334 – 335
Advanced Lung Cancer I: How to Manage Them
Shuben Li, Affiliated Hospital Of Guangzhou Medical University
Shuben Li M.D，Ph.D
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Center of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Deputy Administrative Director of thoracic surgery and Head of Tracheal and Pulmonary Surgery District, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School
Research Fellow, Harvard University Massachusetts General Hospital
Gainer of Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, first prize and Huaxia Medical Award, first prize, etc.
Translator of Tracheal Surgery. Co-author of Noninubated Thoracic Surgery and other international monographs on thoracic surgery.
Completed the World's First Tubeless Robotic-assisted Trachea/Carinal Reconstruction and published in Annals of Surgery
Completed the World’s First 3 cases of autologous neoadjuvant immunotherapy+lung transplantation surgery after neoadjuvant immunotherapy, published in TLCR
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Moderators:
John Tam, Dept of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore
Shuben Li, Affiliated Hospital Of Guangzhou Medical University
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Moderators:
John Tam, Dept of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore
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12:30PM - 2:30PM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Summit 2
Aortic Valve, Aorta
Kay-Hyun Park, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
Dr. Kay-Hyun Park
- Graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine in 1987
- Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery resident training in SNU Hospital till 1992
- Staff cardiac surgeon in Samsung Medical Center from 1995 through 2005
- Visiting doctor in Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA) for 1 year in 2002
- Current affiliation: Director of cardiovascular surgery in SNU Bundang Hospital since December 2005 & tenured professor in SNU College of Medicine since 2012
- Almost 100 publications in English journals and > 50 presentations or lectures in international scientific meetings
- Organizer of the biannual Bundang Aortic Surgery Symposium (BASS) which started with a live surgery of thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair in 2008
- Council member / vice secretary general / aortic domain chief of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) since 2019
- Congress president of ASCVTS 2023 Annual Meeting in Busan, Korea
Davide Pacini, University of Bologna
Dr. Davide Pacini graduated from the University of Bologna in 1993. He completed Cardiac surgery residency training at the same University in 1998. Since 2000, he is a staff surgeon at the S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital in Bologna. He is mainly interested in cardiac and aortic surgery as well as in heart transplantation. In 1998, he was recipient of the "C. Walton Lillehei giovani laureati" Award. In 2009, he was recipient of the “Hans Borst Award”. He was Chair of the Vascular Domain of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS). He serves on the Workforces on New technologies and on International relationships of the Society of Thoracic Surgeon and as Councilor of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers. He is Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Residency Program and Director of the Cardiac Surgery Department of the S. Orsola Hospital. He is active member of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery, EACTS, the Society of Thoracic Surgeon and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He serves on several editorial boards and he is also reviewer of many scientific journals.
Y. Joseph Woo, Stanford University
Joseph Woo, M.D. serves as the Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he also conducted his postgraduate surgical training in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery as well as a postdoctoral research fellowship developing novel molecular strategies for attenuating myocardial ischemic injury. Dr. Woo has an active clinical practice of over 300 pump cases/year focusing on complex mitral and aortic valve repair, thoracic aortic surgery, cardiopulmonary transplantation, and adult congenital heart surgery, and has advanced these fields by developing several innovative operations. Currently funded via two NIH R01 grants on which he serves as principal investigator, Dr. Woo leads a basic science research lab studying stem cells, angiogenesis, tissue engineering, and valvular biomechanics and has held continuous NIH funding since 2004. He has also served as PI for several clinical device trials as well as translational scientific clinical trials entailing administration of stem cells during coronary artery bypass grafting and LVAD implantation. He has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications. He serves as the American Association for Thoracic Surgery President-Elect.
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12:30PM - 1:30PM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 331 – 332
Valves
Zohair AlHalees, Al Faisal University, Riyadh American University of Beirut, Lebanon
ZOHAIR Y. AL HALEES, MD, MSC, FACC, FRCSC, FACS
Professor Zohair Y. Al Halees, is a Distinguished Senior Cardiac Surgeon at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center – Riyadh, KSA. Dr. Al Halees held many positions within the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) and was instrumental in establishing the department of cardiovascular diseases in 1987. This evolved into the King Faisal Heart Institute in 2003, and now known as the Heart Centre. He was also appointed as adjunct professor of Cardiac Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical School, Lebanon since July 2013, where he frequently visits to perform complex cardiac surgeries. In addition, he holds the position of adjunct professor of surgery at AlFaisal University Medical School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2016).
Dr. Al Halees is a member of many national and international associations including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS), the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Heart Society, French Society for Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Gulf Heart Association, Pan Arab Congenital Heart Defects Association (PACHDA), Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Saudi Heart Association in addition to being honorary member of many other Arabic and International Associations/Societies.
Dr. AlHalees sits on the editorial board of many peer reviewed international cardiac journals like the Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, Journal of Heart Valve Diseases and World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery in addition to being on the advisory board of many others. He is often invited as a manuscript reviewer for various national and international cardiothoracic journals.
Akio Ikai, Shizuoka General Hospital
Shiga University of Medical Science (M.D. 1988)
Shizuoka children's Hospital residency & Staff surgeon (1990-1998)
Kyoto University Cardiovascular Surgery research/clinical fellow (1998-2000)
UCSF/Stanford Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Research scholar (2001-2003)
Stanford University Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Clinical Instructor (2003-2004)
Shizuoka Children's Hospital Staff Surgeon (2004- 2006)
Iwate Medical University, Assistant Professor Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (2007-2008), DIvision Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (2007-2017)
Iwate Medical University, Associate Professor (2008-2015)
Iwate Medical University, Professor (2015-2017)
Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Executive Vice President, Director of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (2017~2024)
Shizuoka General Hospital, Director of Pulmonary hemodynamics Research Division, Department of Clinical Research, Research Support Centor (2024~) -
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Outcomes
Richard Jonas, The George Washington University
Dr. Jonas undertook his general surgical training in Australia at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and his cardiothoracic surgical training at Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and Green Lane Hospital in Auckland New Zealand. He was admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1982 and subsequently moved to Boston where he undertook fellowships at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital. He was invited to take a staff position at Boston Children’s Hospital with Dr Aldo Castaneda in 1984. In 1994 he was appointed to the William E Ladd Chair of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and became the Cardiovascular Surgeon in Chief at Children's Hospital Boston. In 2004 after 22 years in Boston he moved to Washington DC where he established the Children’s National Heart Institute which he co-chaired as Chief of Cardiac Surgery until 2020. He maintained NIH supported laboratory and clinical research studies until 2023.
In 2005/6 Dr Jonas was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. In 2009/10 he was President of the Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society of North America and from 2016-18 President of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
Dr Jonas has a long-standing interest in international education in congenital heart surgery and is currently President of the Global Council for Education in Congenital Heart Surgery. He played a key role in the establishment of the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. His textbook “Comprehensive Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease “has been published in several languages and continues to be widely used globally
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Moderators:
Laszlo Kiraly
Richard Jonas, The George Washington University
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Moderators:
Laszlo Kiraly
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1:30PM - 2:30PM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Room 334 – 335
Leadership and Innovations in Thoracic Surgery
Sanghoon Jheon
Professor Sanghoon Jheon is a renowned thoracic surgeon with 35 years of invaluable
clinical experience. He has significantly impacted healthcare innovation and hospital
management in Korea, notably during his tenure as President and CEO at Seoul National
University Bundang Hospital.
In his ten years of hospital administration, including his time as CEO, Professor Jheon
pioneered the creation of the Healthcare Innovation Park, Korea's first hospital-centered
healthcare R&D cluster. He also introduced the Global Medical Academy, aimed at training
foreign doctors and hospital administrators. His visionary leadership extends
internationally; he led the establishment of a smart hospital in Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia.He serves as a trusted advisor for the development of healthcare systems in various
countries, including the CIS, China, and South Korea.
As the President of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Professor
Jheon is a respected global figure with an extensive network. He earned his medical degree
from Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Korea, and is board-certified in
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He also completed a fellowship in Thoracic Surgery
at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Professor Jheon's career highlights include his roles as the former President and CEO of
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and former CFO of the same institution. He is
an Academician of the National Academy of Medicine of Korea and currently presides as
the President of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Additionally, he
has served as the President of the Korean Society of Thoracic Surgical Oncology and the
Korean Society for Medical Informatics. He is also the founder and former Chairman of the
Korean Smart Medical Device Industry Promotion Foundation
Wentao Fang, Shanghai East Hospital
Chief Director, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Chief, Division of Respiratory Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, SCH
IASLC member
Staging and Prognostic Factor Committee
- Data quality committee
- Chair, Thymic tumor Subcommittee, M factor subcommittee
- Multidisciplinary Clinical Science Committee member
ITMIG member
- Chair, Education Committee
ISDE member
AATS member
EACTS member, Thoracic Domain Committee member
ASCVTS member, Thoracic Domain Executive member
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Moderators:
Sanghoon Jheon
Harish Mithiran Muthiah, National University Heart Centre Singapore
Wentao Fang, Shanghai East Hospital
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Moderators:
Sanghoon Jheon
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Advanced Lung Cancer II: Advances in Prognosis and Therapy
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Thomas A. D’Amico is a graduate of Harvard University (BA) and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (MD). He received training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. D’Amico joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in 1996. He is currently the Gary Hock Endowed Professor, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. D’Amico is in leadership positions in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, including the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the Ethics Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Finally, he is the active in the NCCN, as a member of NCCN Board of Directors and Guidelines Steering Committee, the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee, as well as a member of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committees and co-chair of the Esophageal Cancer Guidelines Committee.
Calvin Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital
Dr Ng is the endowed Environmental Foundation Professor of Thoracic Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital,Hong Kong.
He graduated from Imperial College, London in 1999 with Honours, and underwent surgical training in HK and UK, later awarded FRCSEd(CTh) and Doctorate of Medicine (MD(res)). He is a pioneer in Single Port VATS in Asia and hybrid operating room image-guided surgery. He is Co-PI of NAVABLATE, INCITE, PSR-Emprint, TARGET, POWER and TiLT trials investigating utilization of alternate ablation energies, and robotic assisted bronchoscopy in diagnosis and therapy.His academic contributions include more than 300 publications in indexed international journals including Lancet, Lancet Oncology, JCO, ERJ, JTO etc (Scopus Citations >6750; H-index 42), more than 30 book chapters (including in Pearson's Thoracic & Esophageal Surgery 3rd & 4th Eds, Shield's Thoracic Surgery 8th Eds), and is the corresponding Editor of the book Atlas of Uniportal Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (Springer Science), the standard text for uniportal VATS surgeons, and Associate Editor of the book Lung Cancer (1st & 2nd Editions). He is EIC of Annals of Translational Medicine, Assistant Editor EJCTS, and Editorial Boards of numerous inetrnational journals. He also serves on committees & workgroups in international societies including ESTS, IASLC etc.
Dr Ng is the current Programme Director for Cardiothoracic Surgery Board, College of Surgoens of Hong Kong, to oversee specialty training the development. He was the team leader for NTEC lung cancer multidisciplinary team outstanding team award 2021 (Hospital Authority, HK), and also supervises a team of postgraduate students to study molecular biology of lung cancer, organoids & aptamers, AI role in thoracic surgery, magnetic endoscopes, endoluminal robots, and therapeutic role of lung ablation. (www.surgery.cuhk.edu.hk/profile.asp?alias=calvinng)
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Moderators:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Calvin Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital
Deping Zhao, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
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Moderators:
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
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3:00PM - 4:00PM GMT+8 Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 3, Summit 2
Arrhythmia, Cardiomyopathy
Minoru Ono, The University ot Tokyo
Dr. Ono was graduated from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1987. He underwent surgical residency at the Social Security General Hospital. He started Cardiothoracic residency at the University of Tokyo Hospital, and entered cardiothoracic fellowship program at Asahi General Hospital. He went abroad to the Ohio State University Medical Center to have advanced fellowship training of Cardiothoracic Surgery (minimally invasive surgery and heart transplantation) from 1999 to 2001. After he came back to the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Tokyo as a staff surgeon, he established a program of surgery for advanced heart failure at the hospital. He promoted to the Lecturer in 2004, and was appointed as Chief and Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital in 2009. He actively participated in a cooperative development program of the medial devices with School of Engineering at The University of Tokyo and some companies (endoscopic surgical manipulators and an innovative suture device which eliminates knot tying in cardiac surgery). He was co-appointed as Professor at Research Institute for Biomedical Science and Engineering at The University of Tokyo in 2017.
He has been actively involved in the academic and social activities of major medical societies as a Board Member, such as Japan Surgical Society, Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Circulation Society and Japanese Society for Transplantation. He is also a member of many world-leading societies, such as AATS, STS, EACTS, ISHLT, TTS and ASCVTS.
Y. Joseph Woo, Stanford University
Joseph Woo, M.D. serves as the Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he also conducted his postgraduate surgical training in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery as well as a postdoctoral research fellowship developing novel molecular strategies for attenuating myocardial ischemic injury. Dr. Woo has an active clinical practice of over 300 pump cases/year focusing on complex mitral and aortic valve repair, thoracic aortic surgery, cardiopulmonary transplantation, and adult congenital heart surgery, and has advanced these fields by developing several innovative operations. Currently funded via two NIH R01 grants on which he serves as principal investigator, Dr. Woo leads a basic science research lab studying stem cells, angiogenesis, tissue engineering, and valvular biomechanics and has held continuous NIH funding since 2004. He has also served as PI for several clinical device trials as well as translational scientific clinical trials entailing administration of stem cells during coronary artery bypass grafting and LVAD implantation. He has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications. He serves as the American Association for Thoracic Surgery President-Elect.
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Tetralogy of Fallot, PA-VSD-MAPCAs
Kisaburo Sakamoto, Kyoto University Hospital
「Recent post」
Chairman of the Directors’ Board
of Shizuoka Prefectural Hospital Organization(PHO),
Director of Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children’s Hospital(SCH) in Shizuoka PHO,
Consultant surgeon of the department of cardiovascular(CV) surgery
in Mt. Fuji SCH in Japan
Domestic activity
#) Clinical professor of Kyoto University and Hamamatsu University
#) Part-time clinical professor of Shimane University (part-time)
#) Part-time clinical professor of Yamanashi University (part-time)
#) Representative Director of Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Japan
#) Vice-president (former president) of Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
#) Former Director of Japanese Association for Thoracic surgery
#) Former Director of Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery
#) Former Director of Kansai Thoracic Surgical Association
International activity
#) Founding president of Asian Association for Pediatric and Cardiology Heart Surgery (AAPCHS)
#) Member of American Association for of Thoracic Surgery
#) Member of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
#) Member of European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
#) Founding & Active Member (former councilour) of World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS)
#) Member of Asian Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons
#) Honorary International Member of Indian Association for Thoracic Surgery
Sitaram Emani, Boston Children's Hospital
Sitaram Emani is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Complex Biventricular Repair Program at Boston Children's Hosptial.
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Beyond Lung Cancer: Other Thoracic Malignancies
Alan Sihoe, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital
Selected Offices Held (currently active):
International Director, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
Secretary General, Asia Thoracoscopic Surgery Education Platform (ATEP)
Council Member, Asian Society for Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS)
Council Member, Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery (HKSMAS)
Specialist Advisor, Hong Kong Society of Medical Oncology
Dr Sihoe received his medical training at the University of Cambridge, and after working in Scotland and England, he returned to practice Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hong Kong and China, with a special interest in minimally invasive Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS). He was Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Hong Kong and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital before recently moving to private practice in Hong Kong. Dr Sihoe is currently Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the CUHK Medical Center in Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital.
He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference abstracts and book chapters in the international literature. His work in thoracic surgery and clinical research has won multiple awards – including from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). In 2018, Dr Sihoe was the recipient of the Medical Sciences Technical Award (2nd Class) from the Chinese Medical Association. In 2023, he received the Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award in Surgery from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). Dr Sihoe recently stepped down from over a decade of service as the Thoracic Surgery Editor for Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Asian Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Annals.
Korkut Bostanci, Marmara University Hospital
Professor KORKUT BOSTANCI, MD, PhD, FEBTS
Korkut Bostanci is a professor of thoracic surgery from Istanbul, Turkey.
He graduated from Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faculty in 1994. After finishing his residency at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department of the same institute, he became a thoracic surgeon in 2000.
Currently, he is working as the Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery at Marmara University School of Medicine. His areas of interest are VATS procedures, chest wall surgery, and lung volume reduction. He is the Thoracic Domain Chair of EACTS (The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery).
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Closing Remarks
Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Thomas A. D’Amico is a graduate of Harvard University (BA) and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (MD). He received training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. After completing a Fellowship in Thoracic Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. D’Amico joined the faculty at Duke University Medical Center in 1996. He is currently the Gary Hock Endowed Professor, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, and Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program of the Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. D’Amico is in leadership positions in the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, including the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the Ethics Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Finally, he is the active in the NCCN, as a member of NCCN Board of Directors and Guidelines Steering Committee, the Chair of the Quality and Outcomes Committee, as well as a member of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committees and co-chair of the Esophageal Cancer Guidelines Committee.
Matthew Bott, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Bott is a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. After completing an undergraduate degree at Duke University, he went on to medical school at the University of Virginia and then a general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center. During his residency he took part in a research fellowship at MSK which investigated genomic pertubations in malignant pleural mesothelioma. Following his completion of cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, he joined the faculty of MSKCC and currently has a practice focused on thoracic surgical oncology. He is currently the surgical director of endobronchial therapies and co-leads MSK's robotic bronchoscopy program. He also has an active basic and translational research program which explores cellular responses to therapy in lung cancer.