10th Belgian Surgical Week 2009
Dear
Colleagues and Friends,
The Belgian Surgical Week, the
Annual Meeting organised by the Royal Belgian Society for Surgery (RBSS) in
collaboration with other Belgian surgical societies, is a great opportunity for
all surgeons practicing in Belgium
to exchange the most up-to-date scientific information, to see old friends and
to meet younger colleagues.
This year, we are celebrating the 10th
anniversary meeting that was started in parallel with the remarkable transformation
of our Society by the creation of different sections and committees to accommodate
surgeons dealing with all different surgical subspecialities. As a result the
Belgian Surgical Week has now become the largest surgical meeting in Belgium and we
hope that the 10th edition will reach the highest attendance ever.
The scientific theme of this year’s
meeting is entitled:
Surgeons
Collaborating in the Patient’s Best Interest
With this leading theme, we wish to
underline on the one hand the opportunity and the need for all surgeons to join
and participate in national studies, registries and databases in order to
gather information that may help to improve the outcome in our patients. On the
other hand we want to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between
surgeons from different (sub)specialities to combine surgical skills sometimes
necessary to complete complex operations in the best interest of our patients.
As you will see in the final programme, many presentations in the different
sessions organized by our sections and sister societies will touch upon this
topic.
For the first time, the Scientific
Prize (€ 3000) of the RBSS will be awarded to a junior RBSS member < 35
years first author amongst the five best submitted and presented abstracts.
At the opening ceremony, we will
have the pleasure to listen to a well known sportsman and an art-lover and to
welcome national and regional politicians. At the President’s symposium, the
new Collegium Chirurgicum Belgicum will be presented to the surgical community
followed by presidential address entitled: The Surgical Community: Reunited!
The social programme this year will
be special with a guided visit to the PMMK
Museum for Modern Art on Thursday 30
April, the Surgical Night with the gala dinner at the Ostend Queen on Friday 1
May, and a family boat trip on the North Sea
on Saturday 2 May.
We are looking forward to welcoming
you all in Ostend
on the occasion of the 10th Belgian Surgical Week!
Dirk
Van Raemdonck
President
Luc Michel Birgit
Carly
First Vice President Second
Vice President
Jan Lamote Martine
Antoine Philippe
Kolh
Secretary General Deputy Secretary
General Treasurer
Claude Bertrand Tobie Gys Hendrik
Van Damme
Scientific Secretary Scientific Secretary Editor-in-chief
Date
Date: From
29/04/2009
until
2/05/2009
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Venue
Venue:
Thermae Palace Hotel
Address:
Koningin Astridlaan 7
City:
8400 Oostende
Country:
Belgium
Website:http://www.thermaepalace.be/
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