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  • Welcome and introduction – Dr. Douglas Wood (USA) and Dr. Steven D. Wexner (USA)

  • Time for a change: women leading in cardiothoracic surgery – Dr. Leah Backhus (USA)

  • The National and Global impact of “Women in Thoracic Surgery”  – Dr. Lauren C. Kane (USA)

  • Women in thoracic surgery: European perspectives – Dr. Cecilia Pompili (UK)

  • Realities and challenges for female cardiothoracic surgeons: an African perspective – Dr. Susan Vosloo (South Africa)

  • Women in thoracic surgery: Asian perspective – Dr. Aki K Kobayashi (Japan)     

  • Women in thoracic surgery: perspectives from South America – Dr. Paula Ugalde (Brazil)

  • From female surgical resident to academic leaders: challenges and pathways forward – Dr. Gunda Leschber (Germany)

  • Discussion – All faculty moderated by Dr. Douglas Wood (USA)
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Dr. Douglas E. Wood MD, FACS, FRCSEd, The Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Washington, Thoracic surgeon, Cancer researcher, Advocate for lung cancer early detection, UW Medicine, USA Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Leah Backhus MD, MPH, FACS, Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University; Thoracic Surgeon, Stanford Hospital; Chief of Thoracic Surgery, VA Palo Alto Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Lauren Kane President of Women in Thoracic Surgery, The Heart Center at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, USA Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Aki K. Kobayashi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Japan Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Gunda Leschber Head of Deparment of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Cancer Surgery at the Evangelical Lung Hospital Berlin, Past President of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery, Past President German Society of Thoracic Surgery Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Cecilia Pompili MD, PhD, FHEA, FACS, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Verona, Italy and Visiting Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Paula Ugalde Associate Thoracic Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Susan Vosloo Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr. Steven D. Wexner MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Surgery, Past Vice Chair, Board of Regents, American College of Surgeons, Director, Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center and Chair, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, USA Colorectal Surgery
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