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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 M. Wren, USA Editor in Chief WJS (ex-officio) |
Local Organizing Committee ISW 2026
 Eduardo E. Montalvo Javé, Congress President AMCE & President of LOC |  Alejandro Rossano Garcia AMCE Director of the Scientific Committee |  Adolfo Cuendis Velázquez AMCE Member LOC ISW 2026 |
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 Tomás Escalante Tattersfield AMCE 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 LOC ISW 2026 |  Carlos Zerrweck López Member LOC ISW 2026 |  Miguel D. Santana Domínguez AMCE Member LOC ISW 2026 |
 Marco Antonio García Puig AMCE Member LOC ISW 2026 |
Organizing Societies
Integrated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee
Christine Gaarder, Norway
David Zonies, USA
Timothy Hardcastle, South Africa
Jacqueline Jeruss, USA
Ipshita Prakash, Canada
Enrique Bargallo, Mexico
Alberto Sahagun, Mexico
Ines Buccimazza, South Africa
Kavitha Däster, Switzerland
Susanna Kauhanen, Finnland
Do Joong Park, South Korea
Ho-Seong Han, South Korea
Naomi Nakayama, Japan
José Ignacio Díaz-Pizarro Graf, Mexico
Lorenzo Ferri, Canada
James Oh Park, USA
Liana Tsikitis, USA
Italo Braghetto, Chile
Minoru Tanabe, Japan
Eduardo Montalvo, Mexico
Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Japan
Associated Societies of ISS/SIC and their Representatives in the Program Committee
Participating Societies and their Program Representatives
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Sulé Burger, South Africa
Yuki Julius Ng, Malaysia
Rocio Gonzalez, Mexico
Horst-Peter Becker, Germany
Kosala Somaratne, Sri Lanka
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Guest Societies and their Program Representatives
Richard Cohen, UK
Participating Societies of AMCE Congress
Carlos Zerrweck, Mexico
