Patricia JoyNumann United States

Monday, 20 April 2026

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10:30 12:00	ISW 2026 OPENING CEREMONY ISS/SIC 112 Kenneth D.Boffard Master of Ceremony South Africa María FernandaTorres-Ruiz Master of Ceremony Mexico WELCOME ADDRESS CONGRESS PRESIDENT AMCE 112-2 Eduardo E.Montalvo Jave Speaker Mexico WELCOME ADDRESS SECRETARY OF HEALTH 112-3 DavidKershenobich Speaker Mexico ISS/SIC PRESIDENTIAL LECTURE/ADDRESS 112-4 Ari K.Leppäniemi Speaker Finland MARTIN ALLGÖWER LECTURE: WORLD CHANGING-THINKERS AND INNOVATORS 112-5 Ewen M.Harrison Speaker United Kingdom Room: Terrazza B-C (Floor 7)
13:30 15:00	YOUNG BREAST CANCER 1 BSI 125 InesBuccimazza Moderator South Africa Juan EnriqueBargallo Rocha Moderator Mexico BREAST CANCER IN PREGNANCY 125-1 Jacqueline SaraJeruss Speaker United States GENETIC MUTATIONS: HOW MUCH RISK IN EACH? 125-2 Sergio IsraelAguilar Villanueva Speaker Mexico RISK-REDUCING SURGERY: WHEN AND WHAT 125-3 Elisa R.Port Speaker United States HORMONAL THERAPIES: BIRTH CONTROL; HRT 125-4 VershaPleasant Speaker United States Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)	GLOBAL POLITICS AND GLOBAL FUNDING FOR SURGICAL INITIATIVES ISS/SIC / G4 165 Miliard BeyeneDerbew Moderator Ethiopia Neil RobertWetzig Moderator Australia A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO FINANCING NATIONAL SURGICAL PLANS? 165-1 KeePark Speaker United States THE ROLE OF THE GLOBAL SURGERY FOUNDATION (GSF) IN PROMOTING AND FUNDING SURGICAL HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING INITIATIVES 165-2 GeoffIbotson Speaker Switzerland NO ECONOMY NO HEALTH, OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND ? 165-3 Juan CarlosPuyana Speaker Ireland Room: Camelias (Floor 6)
15:30 17:00	YOUNG BREAST CANCER 2 BSI 126 AlbertoSahagun Moderator Mexico Jacqueline SaraJeruss Moderator United States ONCOFERTILITY 126-1 Jacqueline SaraJeruss Speaker United States MANAGING SIDE-EFFECTS OF ADJUVANT ENDOCRINE THERAPY 126-2 RobinShaw Dulin Speaker Mexico SEXUAL HEALTH AFTER BREAST CANCER THERAPY 126-3 Cintia MaríaSepúlveda Rivera Speaker Mexico PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUPPORT AND SURVIVAL ISSUES 126-4 MonicaRamirez-Orozco Speaker Mexico Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)	DATA-DRIVEN QUALITY INITIATIVES IN LMIC'S ISS/SIC / G4 166 AntonioRamos De La Medina Moderator Mexico Neil RobertWetzig Moderator Australia A LOW COST PERIOPERATIVE REGISTRY TO DRIVE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN ETHIOPIA 166-1 NabeelZafar Speaker United States CLOSING THE SURGICAL DATA GAP: LESSONS FROM THE WHO OPERATIVE ENCOUNTER MODULE PILOT 166-2 ChristopherDodgion Speaker United States PATIENT PERCEPTIONS, TRUST IN QI INITIATIVES IN LMICS 166-3 NobhojitRoy Speaker Rwanda Room: Camelias (Floor 6)

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

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07:15 08:15	SHAPING THE FUTURE OF ACADEMIC GLOBAL SURGERY: ACCREDITATION, CAREERS, AND COMMUNITY ISS/SIC / AAGS 261 ChristopherDodgion Chair United States KristinLong Chair United States FIRESIDE CHAT 1: PROGRAM ACCREDITATION IN GLOBAL SURGERY 261-1 MosesIsiagi Speaker South Africa SanjayKrishnaswami Moderator United States ElijahRiddle Panelist United States FIRESIDE CHAT 2: CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN ACADEMIC GLOBAL SURGERY 261-2 Patricia JoyNumann Speaker United States KatayounMadani Moderator United States BarnabasAlayande Panelist Rwanda Room: Camelias (Floor 6)
08:30 10:00	ADVANCED BREAST CANCER BSI 222 Cheng-HarYip Moderator Malaysia GregorioQuintero Beuló Moderator Mexico INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER: DO’S AND DON’T’S 222-1 PoojaRamakant Speaker India RECONSTRUCTIVE OPTIONS IN LABC: WHEN AND HOW? 222-2 AdeyizaMomoh Speaker United States MANAGING RECURRENCES: BREAST/ CHESTWALL AND AXILLA 222-3 EsmeraldaRomero Speaker Mexico MDT CASE DISCUSSION: INTEGRATING THERAPY 222-4 Jose AntonioAvalos Campos Speaker Mexico César GuadalupeRocha Áviles Speaker Mexico Gerardo AndrésMontalvo Domínguez Speaker Mexico JaimeCorona Rivera Speaker Mexico Christoph JohannesTausch Panelist Switzerland PaulaCabrera Galeana Panelist Mexico TadahikoShien Panelist Japan Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)	STRENGTHENING TRAUMACARE GLOBALLY: THE 20-YEAR IATSIC - WHO COLLABORATION IATSIC / G4 / ISS/SIC 262 AdamGyedu Moderator Ghana Charles N.Mock Moderator United States ChristineGaarder Moderator Norway WHO'S TRAUMA CARE WORK 262-1 LeeWallis Speaker Switzerland IATSIC-WHO TRAINING MATERIALS 262-2 ChristineGaarder Speaker Norway GUIDELINES FOR ESSENTIAL TRAUMA CARE 262-3 Charles N.Mock Speaker United States TRAUMA INTAKE FORM 262-4 AdamGyedu Speaker Ghana UPDATING THE SURGICAL SAFETY CHECKLIST 262-5 NobhojitRoy Speaker Rwanda Room: Camelias (Floor 6)
10:30 12:00	DE-ESCALATION OF CARE IN MANAGEMENT OF BREAST DISEASES BSI / AWS 223 Juan EnriqueBargallo Rocha Moderator Mexico SusanPories Moderator United States TARGETED AXILLARY DISSECTION (FOLLOWING NEOADJUVANT SYSTEMIC THERAPY FOR (HER2+ OR TNBC) OR UPFRONT SURGERY IN HORMONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE) FOR CN1 DISEASE 223-1 KandaceMcguire Speaker United States OMISSION OF RADIATION POST BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY 223-2 NereidaEsparza Arias Speaker Mexico OMISSION OF SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY FOR INVASIVE BREAST CANCER (SOUND, NAUTILUS, SOAPET, BOOG 2013-08, INSEMA) 223-3 HelenJohnson Speaker United States ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE FOR DCIS (COMET TRIAL, LORD, LORIS) 223-4 Nancy LynnGantt Speaker United States OMISSION OF BREAST SURGERY IN EARLY BREAST CANCER 223-5 MarkBasik Speaker Canada Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)	REAL WORLD CONCERNS FOR GLOBAL SURGERY ISS/SIC 263 Ari K.Leppäniemi Moderator Finland HEALTH SYSTEM PROVISION FOR INJURY CARE IN LMICS 263-1 JustineDavies Speaker United Kingdom VISION FROM THE PAN AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY 263-2 Juan CarlosPuyana Speaker Ireland THE ANESTHESIOLOGY GAP IN LMICs: WORKFORCE, RESOURCES AND OUTCOMES 263-3 KellyMcqueen Speaker United States RECOGNITION AND RESPONDING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS: PERSON-CENTRED TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH 263-4 LeanneVan Rooy Speaker South Africa Room: Camelias (Floor 6)
15:30 17:00	DEBATES BSI 226 Jacqueline SaraJeruss Moderator United States NereidaEsparza Arias Moderator Mexico SURGERY IN STAGE IV DISEASE FOR: Gaurav Agarwal; AGAINST: Mark Basik 226-1 GauravAgarwal Speaker India MarkBasik Speaker Canada PATIENTS WITH MULTIFOCAL AND MULTIPLE SYNCHROUS TUMOURS ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY FOR: Elisa Port; AGAINST: Ipshita Prakash 226-2 Elisa R.Port Speaker United States IpshitaPrakash Speaker Canada TAILORING BREAST CANCER SCREENING FOR WOMEN AT AVERAGE LIFETIME RISK TO PATIENTS RISK FOR: Stephanie Wong; AGAINST: Lourdes Santos Aragon 226-3 Lourdes NoemiSantos Aragon Speaker Mexico StephanieWong Speaker Canada Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

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08:30 10:00	PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS UMBERTO VERONESI LECTURE BSI 322 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BSI 322-1 InesBuccimazza Speaker South Africa Sharon Wing WaiChan Introducer Hong Kong, China UMBERTO VERONESI LECTURE: BREAST CANCER BIOLOGY: A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE BSI 322-2 InesBuccimazza Introducer South Africa Rajendra A.Badwe Lecturer India Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)
10:30 12:00	ISS/SIC US CHAPTER LECTURE OF THE ACS ISS/SIC / US CHAPTER 323 Annabel E.Barber Introducer United States NO SYSTEM, NO SAFETY: TRAUMA SURGERY, PREPAREDNESS AND GLOBAL GAPS 323-1 ChristineGaarder Lecturer Norway Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)		HOW AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION COULD BE STRUCTURED ISS/SIC / ICOSET 363 DaraO'Keeffe Moderator Ireland STRUCTURES AND GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 363-1 AmitJoshi Speaker United States HISTORY OF ICOSET— MISSION AND VISION 363-2 AdrianAnthony Speaker Australia INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL EDUCATION ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT SPECTRUM 363-3 RondiKauffmann Speaker United States PANEL DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE FLOOR 363-4 Room: Camelias (Floor 6)		FREE PAPER SESSION - BREAST SURGERY BSI 3103 CarlosRobles Vidal Moderator Mexico Christoph JohannesTausch Moderator Switzerland INTEGRATING PERSONAL, HEREDITARY, AND POLYGENIC PROFILES VIA DEEP LEARNING-BASED RISK ESTIMATION FOR PRECLINICAL BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS 3103-01 SaturninoDomínguez Speaker Panama “THE TRIPLE TROUBLE” -VIRAL MARKER POSITIVITY, TUMOR AGGRESSIVENESS, AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS IN BREAST CANCER 3103-02 BharathShivalingaiah Speaker India THE ASSOCIATION OF BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) AND HEIGHT WITH ONCOTYPE DX SCORES IN WOMEN WITH HORMONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE HER 2 NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER IN THE NYC METROPOLITAN AREA 3103-03 GeorgiaSyrnioti Speaker United States THE IMPACT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF SECOND PRIMARY TUMORS IN WOMEN TREATED FOR BREAST CANCER: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS 3103-04 Ambrogio PLondero Speaker Italy INFLUENCE OF GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT ON TREATMENT DECISIONS IN ELDERLY BREAST CANCER PATIENTS 3103-05 Ambrogio PLondero Speaker Italy MINIMALLY INVASIVE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION (RFA) THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER 3103-08 UhiToh Speaker Japan CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HER2-LOW BREAST CANCER COMPARED TO HER2-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER 3103-09 Cheng-HarYip Speaker Malaysia ENDOSCOPIC BREAST SURGERY FOR PERSONALIZATION OF BREAST CANCER TREATMENT 3103-11 KojiYamashita Speaker Japan RE-SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY IN PATIENTS WITH IPSILATERAL BREAST CANCER RECURRENCE AFTER BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY 3103-12 ZhiboShao Speaker China Room: Monterrey A-C (Floor1)
13:30 15:00	SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREAST SURGEON: MEET THE EXPERTS / COUNCIL MEETING BSI 325 SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREAST SURGEON: MEET THE EXPERTS BSI 325-1 InesBuccimazza Panelist South Africa IpshitaPrakash Panelist Canada Jacqueline SaraJeruss Panelist United States KavithaDaester Panelist Switzerland Mee-HoongSee Panelist Malaysia MichaelDouek Panelist United Kingdom Owen AllanUng Panelist Australia PoojaRamakant Panelist India SandraKrishnan Panelist Australia Sharon Wing WaiChan Panelist Hong Kong, China Susanna Minna CeciliaKauhanen Panelist Finland TadahikoShien Panelist Japan WHY BECOME A BREAST SURGEON? BSI 325-2 KavithaDaester Speaker Switzerland PANEL DISCUSSION 325-3 COUNCIL MEETING BSI 325-4 Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)			LET'S TALK ABOUT BLENDING IN OR STANDING OUT: A SURGEON'S LIFE AWS / ISS/SIC 355 Gabriela AlejandraBuerba Moderator Mexico KandaceMcguire Moderator United States HOW TO BECOME A SURGEON IN AN LMIC (TRAINING PATHWAYS, COSTS OF CERTIFICATIONS) 355-1 AgnetaOdera Speaker Kenya SUPPORTING LACTATING WOMEN SURGEONS / TRAINEES (TIME TO PUMP, LACTATION ROOMS, REFRIGERATORS) 355-2 DevonFreudenberger Speaker United States MANAGING CHILDREN AS A PHYSICIAN PARENT 355-3 ZipporahGathuya Speaker Kenya TEAM SPORT: CRITICAL ROLE OF ANESTHESIA IN THE PERIOPERATIVE WORKFOCE 355-4 HazelSonkwe Speaker Zambia GLOBAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR COMMUNICATING, CONNECTING AND BUILDING EACH OTHER UP 355-5 ItzamaraMartain Speaker Mexico Room: Arco Iris (Floor 6)
15:30 17:00	DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS IN SURGERY AWS 356 Cheng-HarYip Moderator Malaysia SimoneBetchen Moderator United States WHEN PATIENTS PERCEIVE TOXICITY OF TREATMENT OUTWEIGHS BENEFIT OF TREATMENT 356-1 SusanPories Speaker United States DISCUSS WHEN LIMITED RESOURCES AND PATIENT FACTORS (CO-MORBIDITIES, SMOKING, OBESITY, SUPPORT) IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO PERFORM SURGERY AS DESIRED 356-2 FernandaLage Lima Dantas Speaker Brazil HOW TO DISCUSS PATIENT GOALS TO TAILOR TREATMENT AT END OF LIFE OR PALLIATIVE CARE 356-3 April CamillaRoslani Speaker Malaysia ETHICS - MANAGING A PATIENT WHO IS VULNERABLE (NOT COMPETENT, DOESN'T HAVE CAPACITY, NOT TRAINED SUCH AS CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL DEFECTS IN LMIC 356-4 AgnetaOdera Speaker Kenya THE SURGEON'S VOICE: LEVERAGING NARRATIVE MEDICINE FOR POWERFUL ADVOCACY AND DEEPER PATIENT UNDERSTANDING 356-5 CorneliaGriggs Speaker United States Room: Arco Iris (Floor 6)

Thursday, 23 April 2026

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08:30 10:00	COST-EFFECTIVENESS AND CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF BENIGN BREAST DISORDERS BSI 422 GregorioQuintero Beuló Moderator Mexico Sharon Wing WaiChan Moderator Hong Kong, China GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS 422-1 AntonioMaffuz Aziz Speaker Mexico HIGH RISK LESIONS: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH 422-2 StephanieWong Speaker Canada CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF FIBRO-EPITHELIAL LESIONS 422-3 PoojaRamakant Speaker India BREAST ABSCESS AND MAMMARY FISTULA: CURRENT MANAGEMENT 422-4 Owen AllanUng Speaker Australia Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)
10:30 12:00	GLOBAL HEALTH: CLOSING THE GAP: INTERNATIONAL BREAST TUMOR BOARD BSI / AWS 423 IpshitaPrakash Moderator Canada MEXICO 423-1 AlejandroAlfaro G Speaker Mexico INDIA 423-2 PoojaRamakant Speaker India USA 423-3 KristalynGallagher Speaker United States EUROPE 423-4 Christoph JohannesTausch Speaker Switzerland SOUTH AFRICA 423-5 InesBuccimazza Speaker South Africa Room: Molino Rey B (Floor 5)