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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:1090-1091
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Report

2004 Meeting Southern Thoracic Surgical Association

The Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association was held at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel in Cancun, Mexico, November 4–6, 2004. The President was D. Glenn Pennington, MD (Johnson City, TN). Officers elected for 2005 are: President, Irving L. Kron, MD (Charlottesville, VA); President-Elect, Ross Ungerleider, MD (Portland, OR); and Vice President, Joseph Coselli, MD (Houston, TX). Also, elected this year was Councilor, Keith Naunheim, MD (St. Louis, MO). The following applicants were elected to membership:

John C. Alexander

Hackensack, NJ

Bradley Scott Allen

Houston, TX

Saeed A. Ally

Port Arthur, TX

Richard C. Anderson

Peoria, IL

Arie Blitz

New Orleans, LA

Mark Lawrence Blucher

St. Louis, MO

Andrea Jean Carpenter

San Antonio, TX

Stephen Cassivi

Rochester, MN

Edward Po-Chung Chen

Atlanta, GA

William E. Cohn

Houston, TX

Lucas Collazo

Annandale, VA

Kathleen N. Fenton

Omaha, NE

Seth Daniel Force

Atlanta, GA

William Gordon

Pontiac, MI

Peter Gruber

Philadelphia, PA

Baron Hamman

Dallas, TX

Thomas V. Hoang

Dallas, TX

Ward Houck

Los Angeles, CA

Vigneshwar Kasirajan

Richmond, VA

Antoine Keller

LaFayette, LA

Saeid Khansarinia

Atlanta, GA

Jonathan Kiev

Richmond, VA

Edward Kincaid

Winston-Salem, NC

Brian E. Kogon

Atlanta, GA

King F. Kwong

Baltimore, MD

Richard Lee

St. Louis, MO

James M. Levett

Cedar Rapids, IA

Mitchell Magee

Dallas, TX

Michael Mauney

St. Louis, MO

R. Brent New

Cape Girardeau, MO

Patrick Eugene Parrino

New Orleans, LA

Billy D. Parsons

Texarkana, TX

Peter Pastuszko

Oklahoma City, OK

Arjun Pennathur

Nashville, TN

Robert S. Poston

Baltimore, MD

John Daniel Puskas

Atlanta, GA

David Christopher Rice

Houston, TX

Pierantonio Russo

Columbia, MO

Craig H. Selzman

Chapel Hill, NC

Jon-Cecil Martin Walkes

Houston, TX

Michael Thomas Weaver

New Orleans, LA

The President's Award for best scientific paper at the 2003 meeting was presented to Robert J. Cerfolio, MD for the paper he presented entitled "The Accuracy of PET-CT Compared to PET Alone for the Staging of Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer." In addition, the 2003 Hawley H. Seiler, MD Resident Award was presented to Brian T. Bethea, MD for his paper and presentation entitled, "Results of Aortic Valve-Sparing Operations: Experience With the Remodeling and Reimplantation Procedures in 65 Patients."

The Fifty-second Annual Meeting will be held at the Disney Yacht and Beach Club in Orlando, Florida, November 10-12, 2005. Co-Chairs of the 2005 Program Committee are Daniel L. Miller, MD, and David H. Harpole, Jr, MD. Co-Chairs of the 2005 Postgraduate Committee are Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, and David R. Jones, MD. Chair of the 2005 Membership Committee is Richard L. Prager, MD.

John H. Calhoon, MD

Secretary/Treasurer

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