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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1738-1747
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Report

Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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	Introduction

 
The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons was held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 29–31, 2001, with an attendance of 4,945 registrants, including spouses and exhibitors. The Scientific Sessions were attended by 1,248 members of all categories and 913 guests, including 233 residents, for a total of 2,162 physician attendees.

There were 1,029 registrants present at the Thirty-fourth Annual Postgraduate Course. The CCCETS Basic Science Lecture given by Joseph Vicante of Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was entitled "Tissue Engineering: A 21st Century Solution for Surgery Reconstruction." At the Postgraduate luncheon, The Honorable David Durenberger, Washington, DC, spoke on Washington’s impact on the development and use of technology within healthcare. Co-Chairs Andrew C. Fiore and G. Alexander Patterson and the members of the Committee on Postgraduate Education are to be commended for putting together an excellent program, which attracted a large number of attendees. The use of the IRIS-Audience Response System at the Postgraduate Course provided attendees with an opportunity to submit immediate feedback on a variety of questions. This information was both interesting and educationally insightful to the participants.

Continued this year on Tuesday morning were the Clinical Workshops. On Wednesday morning a series of Meet the Experts Sessions on selected topics was held. These were run concurrently with the popular How I Do It Breakfast Sessions. The J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper, "Surgical Repair of Extent II Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Evaluation of Morbidity and Mortality" was presented by Joseph S. Coselli and was coauthored by Scott A. LeMaire, Cuneyt Koksoy, Zachary C. Schmittling, and Lori D. Conklin. The Poster Sessions were continued this year and included three poster presentation sessions. Each poster was briefly presented by the author in a formal setting and then discussed by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]