Uppsala April 28, 2004 Dear IAES Member, We are now rapidly approaching the time for the IAES Uppsala Conference in June 13-17, 2004. This meeting will have the most excellent program, with interesting lectures, symposia, and luncheon sessions. A number of high-quality papers will be presented in free-paper sessions, and in the poster session. See www.akademikonferens.uu.se/iaes. The meeting will have very high attendance. Although it is late for registration to the Uppsala meeting, you are still welcome to a few remaining places, and you can contact the Secretary-treasurer (below) if you would like to attend. Preparations are now made for the next IAES meeting, which will be at the World Congress of Surgery in Durban August 21-25, 2005. The IAES President for this Conference will be Malcolm Wheeler, and the Secretary-treasurer will be Gerard Doherty. The IAES Durban program is outlined and will soon become available for our members at the IAES website. Highlights of the Durban program will be a Peter Heimann lecture by Jacques Marescaux “Information age and surgery: from virtual reality to robotic surgery.” There will be State of the Art lectures by Rob Udelsman “Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy”, and by Oliver Gimm “Genetic diagnosis of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma – influence on clinical management”. Jon van Heerden will give an interesting historical lecture. There will be two IAES symposia, “Thyroid”, and “Primary hyperparathyroidism”, and a joint IAES/ISS symposium on “Pancreatic tumors”. Luncheon panels will discuss “Adrenal tumors”, and “MEN 1 syndrome”, and there will be a Luncheon Video session on “Endocrine surgical procedures”. Yoshihiro Tominaga will run a How I do it-session, moderated by Matthias Rothmund, with the title “Surgical management of secondary hyperparathyroidism. The Durban program appears really promising, and we hope many IAES members will attend the meeting. The time to submit abstracts to the Durban meeting is getting closer (deadline December 15, 2004), and we hope our members, as in previous years, will make serious efforts to prepare high quality presentations for this meeting. Travel awards will be available for younger surgeons with accepted presentations, and these may be applied for already before the Conference. There will also be prizes for the best poster presentations. It has become very apparent that great commitment of our members has made the biannual IAES/ISS meetings of exceptional value for all endocrine surgeons, and these meetings have certainly contributed to raise the quality of endocrine surgery as clinical discipline. As active endocrine surgeon it is evident that one should not miss the IAES meetings. What we have to do for the future is to raise the interest among younger surgeons to become members of our association, and to visit the meetings and take part in discussions. The next IAES Postgraduate course in Endocrine Surgery will be in Belek/ Antalaya, Turkey, September 19-23, 2004. A broschure of the course is enclosed with this letter, and you can visit the conference site at www.iaescourse2004.com. We look forward to meet with many of you in Uppsala June 2004 and in Durban August 2005.
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