| WELCOME FROM THE 19TH PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF CRYOSURGERY | WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT OF 19TH WORLD CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF CRYOSURGERY |
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Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am Haruo Isoda from the Brain & Mind Research Center at Nagoya University, Japan. It is a great honor and pleasure for me to become the 19th President of the International Society of Cryosurgery (ISC). I found that the frozen area created by liquid nitrogen showed low signal intensity on MR images in phantom and animal studies 30 years ago and thought that this phenomenon might be very efficient for estimating the extent of the area of cryonecrosis during cryosurgery. This research in the field of cryosurgery has led me to become the President. The meeting place of the 19th World Congress of ISC was not decided in the last congress meeting. However, I, as the 19th President of the ISC, decided to entrust the 19th Congress President for the 19th World Congress of ISC to Prof. Dr. Rimantas BENETIS, Head of Heart Center & Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. He is a very famous cardiac surgeon. He will host and organize the 19th World Congress of ISC. Here, I am deeply grateful for the efforts of Prof. Dr. Sumida, Prof. Dr. Bredikis, Dr. Prušinskas and Prof. Dr. Korpan in contributing to decide the host and the meeting place of the 19th World Congress of ISC. I am looking forward to meeting you all in Kaunas, Lithuania in 2017. |
Dear Colleagues,
We are proud and grateful for the ambitious possibility to organize 19th World Congress of International Society of Cryosurgery (ISC2017) in Kaunas. Use of Cryo techniques in cardiac surgery is well accepted and known in Kaunas Clinics, nowadays Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, since 1980, when prof. Jurgis Bredikis adopted widely this technique in cardiac arrhythmia surgery. Cryo techniques have been used successfully in thoracic surgery (oncology), otorhinolaryngology, gynecology. This years Congress program includes eight sessions: general, orthopedic, cryoimmunology, dermatology, renal-bladder and prostate, thoracic-bronchial, general surgery and experiment technology.
Kaunas is the second biggest city in tiny Baltic State - Lithuania, is ambitious and fast developing academic city, with great history and nice landscape.
We are welcoming all participants and guest to Kaunas, not only to share experience and knowledge using cryo techniques in medicine, but also to discover the history, traditions and culture of Kaunas and Lithuania. Use the chance to get a new ideas from the Congress and to discover Baltic states.
See you in Kaunas!
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 Haruo Isoda, MD, PhD. |
 Prof. Rimantas Benetis President of the 19th World Congress of International Society of Cryosurgery |
