Hernando Abaunza O., MD. FACS.
Executive Director, Colombian Association of Surgery
Past President Colombian chapter American College of Surgeons
Past Governor American College of Surgeons
Past Executive Director Latinamerican Federation of Surgery (FELAC)
Bogotá, Colombia

H. Randolph Bailey, MD, FACS
Vice Chair Surgery, The Methodist Hospital
Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Weil/Cornell Medical College
Member of the Board of Regents - American College of Surgeons
Houston, TX
USA

Richard H. Bell, MD, FACS
Assistant Executive Director
American Board of Surgery
Philadelphia, PA
USA

Desmond H. Birkett. MD, FACS
Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
USA

Henri Bismuth, MD, FACS
Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medecine Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris South University.
Honorary Consultant at the HepatoBiliary Center-Hôpital Paul Brousse-APHP
Villejuif, France

Dr. Italo Braghetto M., M.S., C.Ch
General Director Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile
Professor of Surgery
School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Mark P. Callery, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
President – American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
Boston, MA
USA

Carlo Caravaggi, MD
Milano University
Posgraduated in Endocrinology, University of Pavia
Member of the Task Force for Diabetic Foot, Italian Society of Endocrinology
Milan, Italy

Miguel Angel Carbajo, MD
Chairman Center of Excellence for the Study and Treatment of Obesity
Recoletas Campo Grande Hospital, Valladolid (Spain), President of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Endoscopic Surgery Association
Valladolid, Spain

Gustavo Carvalho, MD
Professor Federal University of Pernambuco.
Pernambuco, Brasil

Giacomo Clerici, MD
Interventional Diabetologist
Diabetology Section
Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diabetic Foot
Multimedica Sesto San Giovanni Policlinico, Milan
Milan, Italy

E. Patchen Dellinger, MD
Vice Chairman at University of Washington's Surgery Program
Department of Surgery
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA
USA

James A. Edney, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Chief of Surgical Oncology
Director, the Olson Comprehensive Breast Care Center
Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
USA

Laureano Fernández-Cruz, MD, FRCS Ed (Hon) FCRSI (Hon)
Professor of Surgery
University of Barcelona
Chief, Biliopancreatic Surgery and Pancreas Transplant Unit
Department of Surgery
Hospital Clinic and Provincial of Barcelona
Barcelona, españa

James W. Fleshman, MD, FACS
Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
USA

B Todd Heniford, MD
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Co-Director Carolinas Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery Program
Director, Carolinas Hernia Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charlotte, North Carolina
USA

Bernice Hecker, MD, MHA, FACC
Medical Director, Medicare
Seattle, WA (EUA)

William B. Inabnet, MD, FACS
Chief, Section of Endocrine Surgery
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
New York, NY
USA

Shukri Khuri, MD
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Surgical Services
Veteran Administration, Boston Health care
Boston, MA
USA

Prof. Seigo Kitano
President, Asia Endosurgery Task Force
Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery 1
Oita University
Oita Japan

Antonio M de Lacy Fortuny, MD
Chief Gastrointestinal Surgery Service
Hospital Clínic Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Kenneth L. Mattox, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Chief of Staff/Chief of Surgery
Ben Taub General Hospital
Houston, Texas
USA

Francis C. Nichols, MD, FACS
Consultant- Division of General Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester,MN
USA

Peter W.T. Pisters, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Departments of Surgical Oncology and Global Clinical Oncology Group
Houston, TX
USA

Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, FACS
Oliver H. Payne Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Surgeon-in-Chief, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
USA

Professeur Michel Prudhomme
Chairman Department of Digestive Surgery ans Surgical Oncology
University Hospital Center (CHU)
Caremeau, Nîmes
France

Peter Sagar, MD,
Consultant surgeon and honorary senior lecturer
The John Goligher Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery
The General Infirmary at Leeds
Leeds
United Kingdom

William Sanchez, MD
Chair Department of Surgery, Military Central Hospital
Nueva Granada Military University
Director FELAC Comission of Cancer
Bogotá, Colombia

Richard T. Schlinkert, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ
USA

Seymour Schwartz, MD, FACS
Past President of the American Board of Surgery, Past President of the American College of Surgeons, Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Rochester, NY
USA

 Ashok Shaha, MD, FACS
Attending Surgeon, Head and Neck Service
Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases
Professor of Surgery
Cornell University Medical College
New York, NY
USA

Clayton Shatney, MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery (Retired)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
USA

Joseph S. Solomkin, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Director of Research, Division of Trauma and Critical Care
Department of Surgery
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
USA

Luis Horacio Toledo-Pereyra, MD FACS
Professor of Surgery, Director of Research
Michigan State University
Kalamazoo, MI
USA

Richard P. Wenzel, MD
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine
Medical College of Virgina University
Richmond, VA
USA

Michael A West, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Surgery - University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
Chief of Surgery - San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA
USA

Ricardo Zugaib Abadía, MD    
General Surgery, Hospital Sirio Libanés
Coordinator of the Training Centre for Robotic Surgery
Sao Paulo, Brasil