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Organizers
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. It brings together ISS/SIC, its Integrated Societies (IATSIC, IASMEN, BSI, and ISDS), Associated Societies, and Participating Societies.
ISW 2026 is organized in partnership 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
International Society of Surgery ISS/SIC
Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía Endoscópica
Integrated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee
The International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care
Christine Gaarder, Norway
David Zonies, USA
Timothy Hardcastle, South Africa
Breast Surgery International
Jacqueline Jeruss, USA
Ipshita Prakash, Canada
Enrique Bargallo, Mexico
Alberto Sahagun, Mexico
Ines Buccimazza, South Africa
Kavitha Däster, Switzerland
The International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition
Do Joong Park, South Korea
Ho-Seong Han, South Korea
Naomi Nakayama, Japan
José Ignacio Díaz-Pizarro Graf, Mexico
International Society for Digestive Surgery
Lorenzo Ferri, Canada
James Oh Park, USA
Associated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee
Participating Societies and their Program Representatives
The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Ronald Stewart, USA
The Ambroise Paré International Military Surgery Forum
Horst-Peter Becker, Germany
Federación Latinoamericana de Cirugía
Natan Zundel, USA
Felipe Cantú, Mexico
Estuardo Behrens, USA
José Rodriguez, Mexico
International Society for Burn Injuries
David Greenhalgh, USA
The American College of Surgeons
Beth H. Sutton, USA
Association of Women Surgeons
Christine Laronga, USA
Danielle Walsh, USA
International Association of Student Surgical Societies
Sulé Burger, South Africa
Yuki Julius Ng, Malaysia
Rocio Gonzalez, Mexico
Guest Societies and their Program Representatives
Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery
Tahmina Banu, Bangladesh
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Taylor S. Riall, USA
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - ICOSET
David O’Regan, UK
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
Richard Cohen, UK
The G4 Alliance
Neil R. Wetzig, Australia