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Organisation
The International Surgical Week ISW 2026 - the World's Congress of Surgery is the 51st congress of the International Society of Surgery ISS/SIC and the congress of the Integrated Societies (IATSIC, IASMEN, BSI and ISDS), Associated Societies and the Participating Societies.
ISW 2026 is jointly organized with the 34th International Congress of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery (AMCE).
Congress Presidents
 Ari Leppäniemi, Finland, President ISS/SIC and ISW 2026 Congress President |
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 Eduardo E. Montalvo Javé, Mexico, Congress President AMCE & LOC President |
Congress Vice Presidents
 Scott D'Amours, Australia (IATSIC) . |  Steven Wolf, USA (IASMEN) . |  Owen Ung, Australia (BSI) . |
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 Jamie Murphy, UK (ISDS) . |  Samuel Shuchleib, Mexico AMCE |
Scientific Program Committees
International Society of Surgery / Société Internationale de Chirurgie (ISS/SIC) - Council
Ari K. Leppäniemi, Finland President |  Alessandro Fichera, USA President Elect |  Cheng-Har Yip, Malaysia Immediate Past President |
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 Kenneth D. Boffard, South Africa Secretary-General |  Gerard M. Doherty, USA Treasurer General |  Sule Burger, South Africa Councillor-at-Large Social Media |
 Yoshihiro Kakeji, Japan Councillor-at-Large Scientific Program |  April C. Roslani, Malaysia Councillor-at-Large Membership |  Kelly McQueen, USA Councillor-at-Large Global Affairs |
 David Zonies, USA President IATSIC |  Ho-Seong Han, South Korea President IASMEN |  Ines Buccimazza, South Africa President BSI |
 Lorenzo Ferri, Canada President ISDS |  Michael G. Sarr, USA Secretary-Treasurer ISS Foundation (ex officio) |  Peter Vogelbach, Switzerland President Foundation for Global Surgical Care (ex officio) |
 Sherry Wren Editor in Chief WJS (ex-officio . . . |
Local Organizing Committee ISW 2026
 Eduardo E. Montalvo Javé, Congress President AMCE & President of LOC |  Ricardo Blas Azotla AMCE Executive Director, Member LOC ISW 2026 . |  Adolfo Cuendis Velázquez AMCE Member, LOC ISW 2026 . . |
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 Tomás Escalante Tattersfield AMCE Member LOC ISW 2026 . . |  Manuel Wilfrido Hidalgo Barraza, ALACE Executive Director, Member LOC ISW 2026 . |  Jesús Montoya Ramírez Past President AMCE, Member LOC ISW 2026 . |
 José Ignacio Díaz Pizarro Graf, Past President AMCE, Member LOC ISW 2026 |  Mauricio Sierra Salazar Member LOC ISW 2026 . |  Enrique Stoopen Margain AMCE Member, LOC ISW 2026 . |
 María Fernanda Torres Ruíz AMCE Member LOC ISW 2026 . |  Itzel Vela Sarmiento Member of LOC ISW 2026 . |  Carlos Zerrweck López AMCE Member of LOC ISW 2026 . |
Organizing Societies
Integrated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee of ISW 2026
Associated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee of ISW 2026
Participating Societies ISW 2026 and their Program Representatives
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