International Society of Surgery

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The International Society of Surgery (ISS), French Société Internationale de Chirurgie (SIC), is an international surgical society.

history

The Société Internationale de Chirurgie was sponsored in 1902 on the initiative of the Belgian surgeon Antoine Depage and his colleagues. After the establishment of the company based in Belgium, the first international surgical meeting took place in Brussels in 1905 and was chaired by the Swiss surgeon Theodor Kocher.

After the Second World War, with the participation of surgeons not only from Europe, but also from North and South America and from Asia and Australia, the organization gradually grew stronger.

The Society's journal, the World Journal of Surgery , was first published in 1977 and is now under the direction of John Hunter. In 1979 the ISS / SIC headquarters were relocated from Brussels to Basel , Switzerland. Other ISS surgical societies then followed as integrated societies: the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES) in 1979 (at the San Francisco Congress), the International Association for Surgery in Trauma and Intensive Surgical Medicine (IATSIC) in 1989 (at the congress in Toronto), the International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition (IASMEN) in 1993 (at the congress in Hong Kong), Breast Surgery International (BSI) in 1999 (at the congress in Vienna), the International Society for Digestive Surgery (ISDS) - founded as CICD in 1969 - in Adelaide in 2009, and the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP) joined the Helsinki Congress in 2013.