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103rd Annual Meeting
May 6 - 9, 2023 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The world's most prestigious thoracic surgery event. Grow your expertise, network with leading experts, and help build the future of thoracic surgery.
Welcome from our President and the Planning Committee
Welcome from our President and the Planning Committee
After a successful year back in-person in 2022, we look forward to welcoming all of you to the AATS 103rd Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, May 6-9, 2023. As a true testament to the excitement of being back together again, we have already received the highest number of abstract and case video submissions in AATS history! As you can see, the planning of a ground-breaking, highly engaging, and dynamic program is well underway.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a pioneering physician, oncologist, and author who has redefined our public discourse on human health, medicine, and science. A profoundly influential voice in the scientific community, he is best known for his books, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which earned him the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene: An Intimate History which won international awards and was recognized by the Washington Post and The New York Times as one of the most influential books of 2016. Most recently he has released, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human published in October 2022.
Judy Woodruff
Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the Senior Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, after serving for 11 years as its Anchor and Managing Editor. During 2023 and 2024, she is undertaking a reporting project, “America at a Crossroads,” to better understand the country’s political divide. She has covered politics and other news for more than four decades at CNN, NBC, and PBS.
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