31st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery 2023

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Program Committee it is a great pleasure to invite you to the 31st ESTS meeting next June 4th to
6th in Milan, Italy.

After successfully reuniting our ESTS community last year in The Hague, we are happy that for largest proportion of our members normality has come back to their lives and herewith many educational and scientific activities of our Society.

This year we celebrate a very special anniversary which is the 30th founding year of our Organization. Over the past three decades, ESTS has become the largest general thoracic surgery society worldwide – recognized and acknowledged as such by our members and many other sister societies worldwide.

This year we will meet in Milan, the capital of fashion and luxury, but also a vibrant city from a cultural point of view. The ESTS venue, the Fiera Milano City (MiCo), is the historical seat of the Milan Fair. The Board of Directors and the Program Committee have been working hard to develop a fantastic and comprehensive program after a facelift of our meeting structure and a renaissance of our Training Village, which was first inaugurated in Dublin. Our field is developing fast these days
with many new exciting results in the field of thoracic oncology but also lung transplantation and treatment of end-stage lung diseases, all these areas will be covered within our program – so don’t miss it! The Local Organizing Committee has put together a terrific social program as well so that you will have plenty of opportunities for networking with old friends and make new contacts in a fun environment!

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am grateful for the incredible honor to serve as the 31st President of ESTS and to welcome you as such together with my colleagues from the Program Committee and Board of Directors for an incredible experience in “Milan 2023-Nothing like ESTS”