Prizes and Awards

1. ESTS – JACS (Japanese Association of Chest Surgery) Award – 1000 EUR
This prize is offered to the best abstract by an ESTS member from an Asian Institute.

O – 076 THE NUMBER OF METASTATIC LYMPH NODES IS MORE PREDICTIVE OF PROGNOSIS THAN THE LOCATION-BASED PATHOLOGICAL N STAGE IN RESECTED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER Winner: Qiuyuan Li, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China

Presented by: Professor Ichiro Yoshino, President JACS

2. ESTS – DGT Travel Grant – 1000 EUR
This grant is offered by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie (DGT) and was created to support a member of ESTS from a low- to middle-income-country, who is below the age of 40 and is the first author of an abstract.

P-002 PARSIMONIOUS EUROLUNG RISK MODEL TO PREDICT POSTOPERATIVE CARDIOPULMONARY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY: EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF THE BRAZILIAN REGISTRY OF LUNG CANCER
Winner: Paula Duarte, Clinical Hospital of Sao Paolo, Brazil

Presented by: Dr Katrin Welcker, President DGT

3. ESTS – Dutch Society for Lung Surgery Travel Grant – 1000 EUR
This grant is offered by the Dutch Society for Lung Surgery and was created to support a young abstract presenter from a low-middle income country.

O-033 LONG-TERM PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES OF ROBOTIC-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY VERSUS VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY FOR LUNG CANCER: A LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY
Winner: Xing Wei, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Chengdu, China

Presented by: Dr Frits van den Wildenberg, on behalf of the Dutch Society for Lung Surgery

4. ESTS – FSTCVS Travel Grant – 1000 EUR
This grant is offered by the French Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. It will be offered to the best oral presentation of clinical work by an author below the age of 35 from a low-middle-income country.

O-079 INFLUENCE OF PLEURAL INVASION ON SURVIVAL IN 8TH EDITION PT3-4 N0M0 NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER: A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING STUDY BASED ON THE SEER REGISTRY
Winner: Wenqiang Zhang, Charite Hospital Thoracic Surgery, Potsdam, Germany

Presented by: Prof Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, FSTCVS

1. THE ESTS MASTER CUP FOR THE BEST SCORING TEAM - Scholarships for the ESTS School of Thoracic Surgery Knowledge Track Course of 2024 will be awarded to each of the Three Trainees of the Winning Team
TEAM EUROPE:
Estelle Bodart (Brussels/BE)
Filippo Tommaso Gallina (Rome/IT)
Jonathan Schumacher (Zürich/CH)
 
2. ESTS Award for the best audience performer - A free registration for the 2024 School of Thoracic Surgery OR a free registration to 2024 Annual Meeting
Winner: Theodorus Papasotiropoulos (Zürich/CH)

3. ESTS Award for the second best audience performer - A free registration for the 2024 Medical Writing Course OR a free registration to 2024 Annual Meeting
Winner: Gian-Marco Monsch (Zürich/CH)

4. ESTS Award for the third best audience performer - A free registration to 2024 Annual Meeting
 Winner: Valentin Noyez (Mechelen/BE)

Nurse Symposium award

1. Symposium for Nurses – 500 EUR for Best Presentations
Symposium for Nurses – 500 EUR for Best Presentations These prizes are offered for the best oral presentation in the Symposium for Nurses & Allied Health Professionals.

CHEST TUBE MANAGEMENT IN OUR ENHANCED RECOVERY PROTOCOL FOR LUNG CANCER SURGERY

Winner: Johnny Moons (Leuven / BE)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

ESTS awards

1. ESTS – Junior Poster Prize - Complimentary registration to the 32nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, 2024
This prize is offered for the best poster presentation.

P-011 A REAL WORLD CASE MATCHED COMPARISON OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE SEGMENTECTOMY AND LOBECTOMY FOR PERIPHERAL STAGE IA1-2 NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC)

Winner: Amr Rushwan (Leeds / UK)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

2. ESTS Biology Fellowship
A Research Fellowship award offered to young scientists and clinicians to visit a Research Unit at a Department of Thoracic Surgery with the aim of acquiring an insight and special knowledge of clinical or translational research concepts or techniques not available at the home institution. The home institution will benefit from the research training when the applicant returns, leading to research developments and activities.
The award comes courtesy of Astra Zeneca.

Winner: René Novysedlák (Prague / CZ)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

3. ESTS – Grillo Prize – 1000 EUR
The prize is offered to the best overall abstract in the sessions “Experimental/Innovative Techniques” and is named after our deceased honorary member Hermes Grillo (Boston). The prize was initially awarded in 2009 by Professor Douglas Mathisen of the Massachusetts General Hospital, a colleague and friend of Professor Hermes Grillo.

O-007 TRAINING SIMULATOR EFFICACY IN DEVELOPING THORACIC AND GENERAL SURGICAL SKILLS IN AN ACADEMIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM: A PILOT STUDY

Winner: Andrea Imperatori (Vareses / IT)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

4. ESTS – Young Investigator Award – 2000 EUR
To stimulate research, ESTS has instituted a prize for the best presentation on topics of clinical or experimental research in the field of thoracic surgery by an ESTS member below the age of 35.

O-041 GENETIC PROFILES AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT EXPRESSION OF PRIMARY OLIGOMETASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER AND CORRESPONDING BRAIN METASTASES

Winner: Raphael S. Werner (Zurich / CH)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

5. ESTS – Brompton Prize – 2000 EUR
The Brompton Prize is offered for the best thoracic presentation by an ESTS member, first author, at the Brompton Session and comes courtesy of the Trustees of the fund initiated by Professor Peter Goldstraw. It is an annual prize instituted at the 8th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery held in London November 2000.

B-019 PROFILING IMMUNOEFFICIENCY ACROSS BLOOD AND TISSUE DISCLOSES PREDICTIVE POWER IN SURGICALLY RESECTED NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) SEGMENTECTOMY VERSUS LOBECTOMY FOR PT1C PN0 R0 NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC)

Winner: Giovanni Bocchialini (Parma / IT)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President

Winners to be contacted and asked to go to ESTS Booth for presentation.

Presentation by Jozsef Furak, ESTS President and Rene Petersen, Director of Annual Meeting.

6.  ESTS – Poster Prize – 500 EUR
This prize is offered for the best poster presentation

P-016 FEASIBILITY OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-DERIVED SURGICAL MARGIN ASSESSMENT IN EX-VIVO PORCINE SUBLOBAR LUNG RESECTION MODEL

Winner: Shinsuke Kitazawa (Toronto / CA)
Presented by: Marcello Migliore, Session Chair

7.  ESTS-AATS Foundation Excellence Award – 2000 EUR
This prize is offered by the AATS Foundation and awarded for the best overall scientific contribution in Pulmonary Neoplastic I / Pulmonary Neoplastic II /Pulmonary Neoplastic III sessions

O-050 DOES SUBLOBAR RESECTION UNDERSTAGE PATIENTS WITH 1.5-2CM CLINICAL IA2 NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER?

Winner: Jorge Humberto Rodriguez-Quintero ( New York / US)
Presented by: Yolanda Colson AATS, Rene Petersen ESTS

Industry awards

1. ESTS-Medela Poiseuille Award for Drainology for the Best Abstract/Presentation in the Field of Drainology – 2000 EUR

O-059 POST OPERATIVE DAY 1 (POD 1) DISCHARGE FOLLOWING THORACOSCOPIC ANATOMICAL LUNG RESECTION IN THE GROWING ERA OF SUBLOBAR RESECTION: A SINGLE CENTER ENHANCED RECOVERY AFTER SURGERY (ERAS) EXPERIENCE

Winner: Karel Pfeuty (Saint-Brieuc / FR)
Presented by: Jozsef Furak, ESTS President