President

Giovanni Ferrante
1995 - 1996

Secretary-General

Detlev Branscheid
1993 - 2000

4th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Cordoba, Spain
October, 1996

President

Francisco Paris
1996 - 1997

Secretary-General

Detlev Branscheid
1993 - 2000

5th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Wrocław, Poland
September 24 - 27, 1997

President

Philippe Levasseur
1997 - 1998

Secretary-General

Detlev Branscheid
1993 - 2000

6th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Portorož, Slovenia
October 22 - 24, 1998

President

Tadeusz Orlowski
1998 - 1999

Secretary-General

Detlev Branscheid
1993 - 2000

7th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Nancy, France
October 21 - 23, 1999

President

Toni Lerut
1999 - 2000

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

7th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

London, United Kingdom
November 1 - 3, 2000

President

Heiki Toomes
2000 - 2001

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

9th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Lisbon, Portugal
September 16 - 19, 2001

President

Pierre Fuentes
2001 - 2002

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

10th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Istanbul, Turkey
October 26 - 28, 2002

President

Ion Bellenis
2002 - 2003

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

2nd EACTS / ESTS JOINT MEETING

Vienna, Austria
October 12 - 15, 2003

President

Tomasz Grodzki
2003 - 2004

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

11th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Zurich, Switzerland
March 26 - 27, 2004

President

Walter Weder
2004 - 2005

Secretary-General

Richard Berrisford
2000 - 2006

2nd Spring Meeting of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery

Athens, Greece
April 1 - 2, 2005

President

Semih Halezeroglu
2005 - 2006

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

3rd Spring Meeting of the ESTS

Cluj-Napoca, Romania
May 12 - 13, 2006

President

Richard Berrisford
2006 - 2007

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

15th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Leuven, Belgium
June 3 - 6, 2007

President

Gaetano Rocco
2007 - 2008

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

16th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Bologna, Italy
June 8 - 11, 2008

President

Laureano Molins
2008 - 2009

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

17th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Krakow, Poland
May 31 - June 3, 2009

President

Michael Mueller
2009 - 2010

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

18th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Valladolid, Spain
May 30 - June 2, 2010

President

Gunda Leschber
2010 - 2011

Secretary-General

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2006 - 2012

19th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Marseille, France
June 05 - 08, 2011

President

Pascal Thomas
2011 - 2012

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

20th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Essen, Germany
June 10 - 13, 2012

President

Dirk Van Raemdonck
2012 - 2013

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

21st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Birmingham, United Kingdom
May 26 - 29, 2013

President

Federico Venuta
2013 - 2014

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

22nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Copenhagen, Denmark
June 15 - 18, 2014

President

Alper Toker
2014 - 2015

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

23rd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Lisbon, Portugal
May 31 - June 3, 2015

President

Gonzalo Varela
2015 - 2016

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

24th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Naples, Italy
May 29 - June 1, 2016

President

Jaroslaw Kuzdzal
2016 - 2017

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

25th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Innsbruck, Austria
May 28 - 31, 2017

President

Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
2017- 2018

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

26th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 27 - 30, 2018

President

Gilbert Massard
2018- 2019

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

27th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Dublin, Ireland
June 9 - 12, 2019

President

Enrico Ruffini
2019 - 2020

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

1st ESTS Virtual Conference

October 2 - 3, 2020

President

Enrico Ruffini
2019 - 2021

Secretary-General

Alessandro Brunelli
2012 - 2021

29th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery – Virtual Meeting

June 20 - 22, 2021

President

Alessandro Brunelli
2021 - 2022

Secretary-General

Hasan Batirel
2022 - 2023

30th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery 

June 19 - 21, 2022

President

                                                                                                                     Isabelle Opitz
                                                                                                                       2022 - 2023

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Secretary-General

Hasan Batirel
2022 - 2023

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31st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery 

4 - 6 June 2023, Milano, Italy

President

Jozsef Furak

2023 - 2024

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Secretary-General

Hasan Batirel
2023 - 2024

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32nd ESTS Meeting

26 - 28 May 2024, Barcelona, Spain