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Minutes IAES Business Meeting – Uppsala. The Business Meeting was called to order by the President Shiro Noguchi at 9.30 a.m. After brief introduction the President distributed the minutes of the 2001 Brussels Business Meeting to the assembled members. These minutes were approved and accepted. The President presented the Membership Report congratulating the Association Members on their co-operation in recruiting 72 new members, enlarging the Association to a total membership of 423. It was suggested that all members should continue this recruitment campaign. The new members elected to the IAES since the 1999 Vienna meeting were: Australia – David Merenstein, Peter Vujovic, Stephen Gerad Farrell, William Roh Johnson, Austria – Rupert Promegger, China – Shenming Wang, Denmark – Beng Ahringberg Kald, Germany – Cornelia ME Dotzenrath, Klaus-Martin Schulte, Thomas J Musholt, Tomas Steinmüller, Holland – Hendrik Jacob Bonjér, Japan – Daishu Miura, Hideo Kurihara, Hiroya Kitano, Kazuo Suzuki, Naoyoshi Onoda, Shinya Kobayashi, Tetsuro Ishikawa, Tetsuya Hirano, India – Anjan Dasgupta, Pradeep Purushottam Sharma, Italy – Maurizio Iacobone, Kenya – John Adieng Adwok, Lithuania – Virgilijus Beiša, Poland – Stanislaw Cichon, Saudi Arabia – Hussam M Bin Yousef, Serbia – Ivan Markovic, Ivan Paunovic, Radan Dzodic, Sweden – Catharina Ihre-Lundgren, Claes Juhlin, Switzerland – Thomas Clerici, Singapore – W Keat Cheah, South Korea – Chung-Soo Chun, Hang Seok Chang, Hyun Jin Cho, Jeong-Soo Kim, Jung Han Yoon, Jung-Hyun Yang, Kuk-Hwan Kwon, Kweon Cheon Kim, Nam-Hyuk Lee, Sehwan Han, Suck Joon Hong, Sung Hoo Jung, Sung Jun Park, Woong Youn Chung, Young Jong Jegal, Young-Jin Suh, Taiwan – Hurng-Sheng Wu, Hwa-Tzong Chern, Shih-Hsin Tu, Tzu-Chieh Chao, Turkey – Hasan Aydede, Uganda – Fualal Jane Odubu, Ukraine – Nicolai Hulchiy, United Kingdom – Argiris Asderakis, David Ralph Chadwick, Fausto Palazzo, Jonathan Armstrong, Jonathan GH Hubbard, Raducu Mihai, United States of America – Carmen Solorzano, Electron Kebebew, Fiemu Nwariaku, Lawrence Kim, Leigh Neumayer, Philip D Schneider, Richard Goldstein, Sareh Parangi, Shelby H Burkey. Memberships of Drs Richard EC Collins and Jisk Heslinga were reactivated. The Financial Report was then presented by the Secretary/Treasurer, Dr Göran Åkerström. It was noted that financial situation of the IAES was strong with assets amounting to 30 089 US dollars. The Financial Report was approved by the members. On behalf of the Program and Publication Committee (Drs Noguchi, van Heerden, Wheeler and Åkerström) the Secretary presented the Program Report. A total of 213 abstracts were considered for the 2004 IAES meeting with 39 papers accepted for oral presentation and 103 posters for display of which 8 were chosen for discussion. The number of abstracts submitted represented a significant increase from previous years (2001 – 199, 1999 – 152, 1997 – 127). An announcement concerning Travel Awards, suggested by the Executive Committee, was made and it was agreed to make travel awards each of 500 USD. The number of travel awards exceeded that of previous meetings to allow a number of younger surgeons to attend and thereby be able to maintain the planned program of the Uppsala meeting. The awarded surgeons were: Marcin Barczynski, Mukhta Baxi, Laurent Brunaud, Sergiy Cherenko, Lawrence Kim, Yevgeniya Kushchayeva, Geeta Lal, Kevin Lye, Fualal Jane Odubu, Rajagopalan Ramasubbu, Nikhil Singh, Mark Sywak and Rasa Zarnegar. The John Farndon Travel Award was granted by Mrs Chris Farndon to Dr Amit Agarwal. In association with this tribute also the ten deceased members were remembered: Drs Witold Rudowski, Sten Tibblin, John R Farndon, Joseph Jarvis Shepherd, David R Sloane, Marcel Desmet, Leonard Rosoff, Paul Lo Gerfo, Knud Lockwood and Peter Tondelli. The members stood in silence as a mark of respect. Malcolm Wheeler reported the very successful 7th International Postgraduate Course in Endocrine Surgery held in Saint Jean de Luz, France, September, 2002 with Charles Proye as local organiser. Unfortunately the Postgraduate Course planned for Turkey September 2004 had to be cancelled due to few registrants most likely due to political uncertainty in the region. A request was made to assembled members to establish an IAES Charitable Foundation to help young surgeons to participate in courses in endocrine surgery. Malcolm Wheeler reported that such Foundation could be established within ISS funds without legal costs or taxation and without legal obligations to ISS, and with the IAES funds clearly separated from that of ISS. Money for this Foundation could be given by IAES members or others, and after application be used for IAES postgraduate courses or other training courses in endocrine surgery. Jacques Marescaux and IRCAD will for 2005 provide altogether 5 scholarships covering all other expenses for IRCAD courses in endocrine surgery if travel expenses can be paid by the IAES Foundation. The establishment of this Foundation was accepted by the IAES members. President Noguchi then presented the Nominating Committee report thanking Sten Lennquist, Barbara Kinder, Takao Obara, Nick Dudley, Paolo Miccoli, and Henning Dralle for their terms of office as Council Members. Suggested new Council Members were Quan-Yang Duh, Chen-hsen Lee, Hiroshi Takami, Janice Pasieka, Bo Wängberg and Jean-Francois Henry. It was suggested that the President-Elect should be Henning Dralle, new Secretary/Treasurer Gerard Doherty, and Council Coordinator Göran Åkerström. There were no other suggestions and nominations were approved by the members. At this point the Secretary/Treasurer greeted the new President Malcolm Wheeler and the new Secretary/Treasurer Gerard Doherty. As there was no other item on the agenda the meeting was adjourned at 10.10 a.m. |
