In recent years, a number of invited lectureships have become integral to our annual September CATS Meeting held in conjunction with the CSF.
- Since an agreement signed in 2018, STS has funded a speaker to attend our CATS Meeting.
- For 2020-24, an agreement was struck with the ESTS to fund a lecturer at both the CATS annual meeting and the ESTS annual meeting.
- CATS also has its own invited lectureships, which continue to grow.
| Year | Lecturer | Lectureship | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cassivi, Stephen | Pearson Lecture | Building Teams Builds Quality in Thoracic Surgery: Lessons Learned From a Canadian Upbringing |
| 2025 | Smilek, Daniel | Wellness Lecture | Sharpening Attention for Optimal Performance and Wellbeing |
| 2025 | Edwards, Melanie | STS/Sean C. Grondin Memorial Lecture | Are We There Yet? The Uneven Road to Equity for Women in Surgery |
| 2025 | Dickie, John | President's Lecture | President's Lecture |
| 2024 | D'Sousa, Desmond | President's Invited Lecturer | Contrast of Robotics Between US and Canada |
| 2024 | Benoit Pages, Pierre | ESTS Invited Lecturer | 3D Reconstruction and Lung Modeling in Robotic Segmentectomy |
| 2024 | Hill, Janice | EDIA Invited Lecturer | Acknowledging and Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being in Patient Care |
| 2024 | Reisenauer, Janani | STS Invited Lecturer | |
| 2023 | Darling, Gail | President's Lecture | The Importance of Human Connection |
| 2023 | Optiz, Isabelle | ESTS Invited Lecturer | Pancoast – SWOT chemoRT vs chemoIO, Surgical Considerations |
| 2023 | Huang, James | STS Invited Lecturer | Managing Multiple Primary Lung Cancers |
| 2023 | Okereke, Ikenna | EDIA Invited Lecturer | Fostering Mentorship, Engaging Marginalized Groups in Medicine |
| 2023 | Lemaire, Jane | Sean C. Grondin Memorial Lecture | Coffee Conversation - Physician Wellness and Mental Illness in Surgeons |
| 2023 | Grimminck, Rachel | Sean C. Grondin Memorial Lecture | Coffee Conversation - Physician Wellness and Mental Illness in Surgeons |
| 2022 | Dockstator, Mark | EDIA Invited Lecturer | Starting the conversation, what CATS can do to improve Indigenous health |
| 2022 | Aigner, Clemens | ESTS Invited Lecturer | Surgical Management of Advanced Lung Cancer |
| 2022 | Molena, Daniela | STS Invited Lecturer | Immunotherapy in the Management of Esophageal Cancer |
| 2022 | Ashraf, Nouman | President's Invited Lecturer | Expanding leadership (EDIA) - Leader as Learner: Creating a Learning Culture that Enables Cultural Fluency |
| 2021 | Seely, Andrew | President's Lecture | President Practice Changing Ideas in Surgery and Research & Thoracic Surgery |
| 2021 | Ruffini, Enrico | ESTS Invited | The TNM staging system of thymic tumors: a drive to optimal therapeutic management |
| 2021 | Cooke, David | STS Invited | Improving Healthcare Through Diversity – Thoracic Surgeons as Change Agents |
| 2019 | Mulder, David | President’s Invited Lecturer | |
| 2019 | Brunelli, Alex | ESTS Invited | European innovations in thoracic surgery |
| 2019 | Coulson, Yolanda | STS Invited | The evolution of sentinel lymph node mapping in lung cancer |
| 2018 | Grondin, Sean | President's Lecture | 5D Leadership |
| 2018 | Low, Donald | President’s Invited Lecturer | Standardized Clinical Pathways and ERAS Protocols: Are they Enough to Keep Surgeons Relevant in the Management of Esophageal Cancer? |
| 2018 | Mathisen, Douglas | Royal College Gallie Lecture | Surgeon Scientist in an Era of Declining Revenues, RVS’s and Work Hours |
| 2018 | Dunning, Joel | ESTS Invited | The New Era of Thoracic Surgery |
| 2018 | Blackmon, Shonda | STS Invited | Small bowel interposition |
| 2017 | Sihoe, Allan | President's Invited Lecturer | New Concepts in Thoracic Surgery / When East Meets West in Thoracic Surgery |
| 2016 | Bethune, Drew | President's Lecture | |
| 2015 | Valliere, Eric | President's Invited Lectureship | Advances in Management of Lung Cancer |