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Message from the President
November/December 2008
Dear LATS member colleagues,
We are glad to contact you to share some good news.
First of all, we would like to invite you once again to take part in the next XIII LATS Congress in Gramado, Brazil, April 30 – May 3, 2009.
We want to highlight some points about our XIII LATS Meeting:
Much hard work has been done by the Local Organizing Committee coordinated by its chairman, Ana Luiza Maia to get a very good organization of the meeting. You can find detailed information on the congress website. The “Program at a Glance” and many other interesting announcements have already been included. Please, visit the XIII LATS Meeting website at: www.lats2009.com.br
The Scientific Committee under the coordination of its chairman, Hans Graf has elaborated a complete and attractive Program that involves outstanding Foreign and Latin American speakers. The most important clinical and basic aspects of thyroid physiopathology and diseases will be addressed.
A Pre-Congress Meeting, the Kocher Centennial Conference, focused on Thyroid Surgery will be held on April 30th to celebrate 100 years of the Nobel Prize received by Dr. Kocher. This Meeting is being supported by the Brazilian Society of Head and Neck Surgery and is directly related to Thyroid Surgery with the participation of surgeons, thyroidologists and other specialists.
Please note that there are special discounts for our XIII LATS Congress until deadlines January and March 2009.
LATS is offering 30 Travel Grants (TG, 300.00 USD each) for LATS members. The conditions to apply for a TG are:
a. to be a member of LATS (not in debt)
b. to be younger than 40 years
c. to present the work at the XIII LATS Meeting, as first author
d. The work presented must have been done totally in Latin America.
Remember, you cannot be a beneficiary of LATS Travel Grants and Young Prize as well as preferential discounts on registration fees if you are in debt with the Society.
I would like to inform you that LATS General Assembly is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 2nd at 18.00 PM. Any member may require amendments/modifications of LATS bylaws through a letter to the LATS Secretary at least one month before the General Assembly.
One of the issues to be discussed in the Assembly will be the venue of the XIV LATS meeting in 2011. LATS members are invited to present a city/country for the XIV LATS Meeting at the Assembly. Regarding to this point, our bylaws dictate the following:
IX- LATS CONGRESS
Sec. 24. The LATS Congress will create the necessary conditions to get information, change of ideas and connections between the investigators involved on thyroid research.
Sec. 25. The meeting will be realized every two year in a Latin American city, except those years in which the International Thyroid Congress takes place. The Executive Committee may change the year and the city if it is necessary for any reason. The LATS Congress must not be realized simultaneously with other international meeting.
Sec. 26. The local organizing committee will be indicated by the LATS Executive Council and should be formed preferentially by LATS members living in the host country.
Sec. 27. The LATS Executive Committee will indicate the program organizing committee
It gives us great pleasure to announce that many new LATS members have been accepted since the last LATS Assembly (May 2007) to present by the LATS Secretary to join our Society and whose approval must be ratified by the next 2009 assembly of LATS.
Finally, we would like to remind you of the incoming event:
ATA National Thyroid Cancer Workshop II
Frontiers in Thyroid Cancer: ATA Guidelines in Clinical Practice
23-24, January 2009
Loews Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida
www.thyroid.org
Our very best wishes to all of you for 2009, extensive to your families.
HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
FELIZ ANO NOVO !!!
FELIZ AÑO NUEVO !!!
Guillermo Juvenal
LATS PresidentHans Graf
LATS President-Elect
Ana Maria Masini-Repiso
LATS SecretaryEduardo Tomimori
LATS Treasurer
