Annual Meeting

CSF 2024 Program

CSF 2024

The 2024 Canadian Surgery Forum is taking place September 25-28, 2024 in the multicultural Winnipeg, MB.

CSF Registration
Link to draft CATS Program (updated regularly)
Highlights include:
- Robotics Sessions with Invited Speakers: Dr. Pierre Benoit Pages, Dr. Hamik Soukiasian, Dr. Desmond D’Sousa, as well as panel of Canadian experts led by Dr. Wael Hanna
- CATS Debates between the Canadian experts
- Positive Deviance Seminar
- Wellness Session with Invited Speakers from WellDoc Canada: Dr. Huma Ali and Dr. Frankie Fraulin
- EDIA Session: Patient Experience, CPAC Work on Screening, and Access to Surgical Care
- CATS- CAGS Joint Session
- CATS Research Abstracts
- CBD Implementation
- CATS Cup

CSF 2023 Highlights

CSF Program 2023

This year’s Canadian Surgery Forum took place 2023- September 20-23, The Fairmont Hotel & Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC (CATS Program)

Drs. Jane Lamaire and Rachael Grimminck, Sean Grondin Memorial Lecturers, with Dr. Gail Darling

Dr. Ikenna Okereke, EDIA Invited Lecturer, with Dr. Shona Smith

Dr. Gail Darling receiving the gavel from Dr. John Dickie.

Dr. Isabelle Opitz, ESTS Invited Speaker with Dr. Cheryl Ho

Dr. Uzair Jogiat, Duranceau Resident Research Award

Dr. Richard Inculet, Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Robert Zeldin Lifetime Achievement Award

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Program Archives

Past CATS Annual Meetings and Programs

CATS Conference	Year	Dates	City	Province	Program
1st Annual Meeting	1998	September 1	Montreal	Quebec
2nd Annual Meeting	1999	September 24-25	Montreal	Quebec
3th Annual Meeting	2000	June 2-3	Toronto	Ontario
4th Annual Meeting	2001	September 7-9	Quebec City	Quebec
5th Annual Meeting	2002	September 20-21	London	Ontario
6th Annual Meeting	2003	September 19-20	Vancouver	British Columbia
7th Annual Meeting	2004	September 10-11	Ottawa	Ontario
8th Annual Meeting	2005	September 9-10	Montreal	Quebec
9th Annual Meeting	2006	September 8-10	Calgary	Alberta
10th Annual Meeting	2007	September 7-9	Toronto	Ontario
11th Annual Meeting	2008	September 11-13	Halifax	Nova Scotia
12th Annual Meeting	2009	September 11-13	Victoria	British Columbia
13th Annual Meeting	2010	September 2-5	Quebec City	Quebec
14th Annual Meeting	2011	September 15-18	London	Ontario	2011 Program
15th Annual Meeting	2012	September 13-16	Calgary	Alberta	2012 Program
16th Annual Meeting	2013	September 19-22	Ottawa	Ontario	2013 Program
17th Annual Meeting	2014	September 18-20	Vancouver	British Columbia	2014 Program
18th Annual Meeting	2015	September 16-20	Quebec City	Quebec	2015 Program
19th Annual Meeting	2016	September 8-10	Toronto	Ontario	2016 Program
20th Annual Meeting	2017	September 12-14	Victoria	British Columbia	2017 Program
21st Annual Meeting	2018	September 13-15	St. John’s	Newfoundland	2018 Program
22nd Annual Meeting	2019	September 5-7	Montréal	Québec	2019 Program
	2020	September 24-26			Cancelled due to COVID-19
23rd Annual Meeting	2021	September 21-24	Virtual		2021 Program
24th Annual Meeting	2022	September 15-17	Toronto	Ontario	2022 Program
25th Annual Meeting	2023	September 20-23	Vancouver	British Columbia
26th Annual Meeting	2024	September 25-28	Winnipeg	Manitoba
27th Annual Meeting	2025	September 13-22	Montreal	Quebec

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Recent CATS Invited Lecturers

Year	Speaker	Lecture	Title
2023	Dr. Isabelle Opitz	ESTS Invited Speaker	Role of Surgery in the Management of Multiple Mesothelioma
2023	Dr. James Huang	STS Invited Lecturer	Managing Multiple Primary Lung Cancers
2023	Dr. Nasser Altorki	Pearson Lecture	Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Esophageal Cancer
2023	Dr. Ikenna Okereke	EDIA Invited Lecturer	Fostering Mentorship, Engaging Marginalized Groups in Medicine
2023	Dr. Jane Lemaire & Dr. Rachel Grimminck	Dr. Sean Grondin Memorial Lecture	A Coffee Conversation - Physician Wellness and Mental Illness in Surgeons
2022	Dr. Thomas Waddell	Pearson Lecture	Multimodality Management of Pulmonary Metastases
2022	Dr. Nouman Ashraf	President's Lecture	Leader as Learner: Creating a Learning Culture that Enables Cultural Fluency
2022	Dr. Daniela Molena	STS Invited	Immunotherapy in the Management of Esophageal Cancer
2022	Dr. Clemens Aigner	ESTS Invited Speaker	Surgical Management of Advanced Lung Cancer
2021	Dr. Garrett Walsh	Pearson Lecture (2020)	Paying homage to my Canadian surgical training and mentors after 30 years of a Thoracic oncology practice
2021	Dr. Andrew Seely	President's Lecture	Practice Changing Ideas in Surgery and Research
2021	Dr. Enrico Ruffini	ESTS Invited	The TNM staging system of thymic tumors: a drive to optimal therapeutic management
2021	Dr. David Tom Cooke	STS Invited	Improving Healthcare Through Diversity – Thoracic Surgeons as Change Agents
2021	Dr. Valerie Rusch	Pearson Lecture	Advances in Lung Cancer Care
2019	Dr. David Mulder	President’s Invited Lecturer
2019	Dr. Shaf Keshavjee	Pearson Lecture
2019	Dr. Alessandro (Alex) Brunelli	ESTS Invited	European innovations in thoracic surgery
2019	Dr. Yolanda Coulson	STS Invited	The evolution of sentinel lymph node mapping in lung cancer
2018	Dr. Sean Grondin	President's Lecture	5D Leadership
2018	Dr. Donald Low	President’s Invited Lecturer	Standardized Clinical Pathways and ERAS Protocols: Are they Enough to Keep Surgeons Relevant in the Management of Esophageal Cancer?
2018	Dr. Douglas Mathisen	Royal College Gallie Lecture	Surgeon Scientist in an Era of Declining Revenues, RVS’s and Work Hours
2018	Dr. Joel Dunning	ESTS Invited	The New Era of Thoracic Surgery
2018	Dr. Shonda Blackmon	STS Invited	Small bowel interposition
2017	Dr. Alan Sihoe	President's Invited Lecturer	New Concepts in Thoracic Surgery / When East Meets West in Thoracic Surgery
2017	Dr. John Mitchell	Pearson Lecture	Surgical Infections of the Chest
2016	Dr. Drew Bethune	President's Lecture
2016	Dr. Keith Neinheim	Pearson Lecture	Advances in Management of Lung Cancer / Thoracoscopic Sublobar Resections
2016	Dr. Eric Vallieres	President's Invited Lectureship	Advances in Management of Lung Cancer
2015	Dr. Gaetano Rocco	Pearson Lecture