Business Meeting

Minutes IAES Business Meeting – Montreal, Canada

09.30 a.m. Tuesday August 28, 2007

Introduction

The IAES Business Meeting was called to order by our President Henning Dralle at 9:35 AM. We would like to thank Janice Pasieka for all her hard work and dedication for this meeting. It has been a great success.

2005 Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the 2005 Executive Committee Meeting and the Business Meeting were distributed to all the members. There was an error in the 2005 minutes that should have read “election of all members should be democratic.” These minutes were then approved and accepted.

Membership Report

President Dralle presented the membership report congratulating our members in recruiting 33 new members since our last meeting in South Africa. We still have a number of new members that have incomplete applications. It is important for sponsors to make sure the application is complete when forwarding to Dr. Doherty. Please remember to complete the application thoroughly.

The new members elected to the IAES since August of 2005 were:

Since the last meeting we have had five deaths. Oliver Beahrs, Robert Hickey, Claude Organ, Charles Proye and Richard Welbourn. A moment of silence was observed for them. A few memories of Professor Proye were presented by President Dralle. Charles was always inviting young surgeons to his institution. They were very important to him. He made the first French Department nearly exclusively endocrine surgery. He quickly introduced new activities to the practice, such as intraoperative nuclear detection, hormone assays, laparoscopy, surgery for morbid obesity and pancreatic islet cell transplantation. He was a tremendous physician. We will miss him dearly.

Program Committee Report

We had 253 submitted abstracts for the meeting this year. Acceptance rate is 15.64% for free papers. The overall acceptance rate is 33.99%. The council feels this is too low. We are rejecting abstracts we would like to hear. At our next meeting in Australia, our new President Goran Akerstrom will plan different ways to add more accepted abstracts. We accepted three times as many poster presentations. You can submit manuscripts for the posters presentations.

Financial Report

The financial report was reviewed and approved. We currently have $99,015.86 in our society. We will be receiving $25,000.00 from Medtronic, and $5,000.00 from Novartis for helping sponsor our meeting. This helped us defray the cost of the banquet. It is 10% higher than the Durban Meeting. We will also be receiving money from the ISS for membership dues and for the number of seats filled in each session. Our sessions so far have been standing room only. The IAES has the biggest session of all the societies.

Unfortunately, we still have a few outstanding bills for this meeting. The ISS would like to increase the membership dues in order to keep registration for each member at a low cost. The ISS sets the registration costs. We know there would be an increase in attendance if the registration was at a lower cost.

Travel Awards

Congratulations to our travel award winners. We congratulate them for submitting an abstract. Next year we hope to give out more awards and have three designated awards. The John Farndon Award, Charles Proye Award and the Selwyn Taylor Award.

The travel awards winners are:

Maricn Barczynski – Poland – Oral Paper
Elizabeth Fialkowski – USA – Oral Paper
Giuseppe Ippolito – France – Oral Paper
Akiko Kawamata – Japan – Oral Paper
Andreas Kiriakopoulos – Greece – Poster Exhibit
Ivan Markovic – Yugoslavia – Poster Discussion
PV Pradeep – India – Oral Paper
Patsy Soon – Australia – Oral Paper
Peter Stalberg – Sweden – Oral Paper
Frank Weber – Germany – Oral Paper

Nominating Committee

President Dralle announced nominations for President-Elect, Council-Coordinator and one council member. It was unanimously voted that our next President Elect will be Leigh Delbridge and our Council Coordinator will be Henning Dralle, for two years. Our new Council Member will be Rob Parkyn from Australia. Dr. Jacques Marescaux has completed his term on the council. President Dralle thanked him for his many contributions.

At the next meeting, there will be nominations for six new council members. President Dralle congratulated all the officers and council for all of their assistance this past year.

IAES Governance and Constitutional Revisions

President Dralle discussed having constitution revisions – (Please see attached handout) The council selected Janice Pasieka to organize a group including non-council members to evaluate the current governance structure of the IAES, and ways that the structure might be modified to reflect the mature nature of the IAES. This would likely require constitutional changes.

Potential changes that would be common to other societies of this size and stability include having separate Program Committee and Travel Award Committee. Please contact Janice if you would like to assist her with this committee. We anticipate having the proposals at the next Executive Committee Meeting in Australia.

IAES Postgraduate Course

Dr. Jan Zedenius announced the meeting of the 9th Postgraduate Meeting in Endocrine Surgery. It will be held in Gotland, Sweden August 24-28, 2008. We hope you will be able to attend.

World Journal of Surgery

Dr. John Hunter from the World Journal of Surgery has committed to publish each year an issue of WJS on evidence-based endocrine surgery topics. This year, the issue will focus on benign goiter edited by Leigh Delbridge.

Membership Information

This year the IAES has produced program booklets for the meeting that include a membership roster. If there are any corrections, please email them to [email protected].

Adelaide Meeting 2009

Dr. Rob Parkyn discussed the plans for the next meeting of the IAES. It will be in Adelaide, Australia September 6-12, 2009. The IAES hotel will be the Sebel Playford Hotel. We have several different possibilities for the banquet. The hotel is adjacent to the Congress Center. We hope everyone plans to attend. There is a lot to see and do in Adelaide.

We would like to thank Medtronic and Novartis for their wonderful support.

The business meeting was adjourned at 10:15AM.