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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1681-1687
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Report

Thirty-eighth annual meeting, the society of thoracic surgeons

	Introduction

 
The Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons was held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 28–30, 2002, with an attendance of 4,548 registrants, including spouses and exhibitors. The Scientific Sessions were attended by 1,146 members of all categories and 863 guests, including 236 residents, for a total of 2,023 physician attendees.

There were 891 registrants present at the first STS/AATS Tech-Con Meeting. The CCCETS Basic Science Lecture given by Thomas Jackson of Hershey, Pennsylvania, was entitled "Applications of Thin Film Transistors." Co-Chairs Bruce W. Lytle and Michael J. Mack and the members of the STS/AATS Tech-Con 2002 Committee are to be commended for putting together an excellent program, which attracted a large number of attendees.

Continued this year on Tuesday morning were the Meet the Experts Sessions. These were run concurrently with the popular Technical Sessions—How I Do It. On Wednesday morning a series of Clinical Workshops on selected topics was held. The J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper, "Outcomes After Esophagogastrectomy: A Ten Year Prospective Cohort," was presented by Stephen H. Bailey and was co-authored by David A. Bull, David H. Harpole, Jeffrey J. Rentz, Leigh A. Neumayer, Theodore N. Pappas, and Shukri F. Khuri. The Poster Sessions were made using Digital Interactive Poster Presentation (DIPP) technology. There were three poster presentation sessions. Each poster was briefly presented by the author in a formal setting and then discussed by the attendees. These sessions and the new DIPP presentations were extremely popular and were judged by the participants and attendees as being a valuable component of the Annual Meeting program. On Tuesday evening, the Annual Movie Night featured 10 outstanding films. There was active discussion of these films and the procedures which they covered. The success of these sessions and . . . [Full Text of this Article]