The Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons represents thoracic surgeons in Canada. We provide subspeciality clinical care for patients with a wide range of pulmonary, esophageal, and mediastinal diseases. Our patients suffer from complex benign and malignant diseases, and our training is therefore very broad. We educate students and residents. Our success in postgraduate surgical education is well known. Canadian trained thoracic surgeons have a world-wide reputation for clinical excellence and many of our former trainees hold thoracic surgical leadership positions throughout the world. The association is actively involved in clinical and laboratory research. We are also involved in health care planning issues such as thoracic surgical manpower, standards of practice, and delivery of thoracic surgical oncology services.
Pearson Lecturers
2008 - Peter Goldstraw, MD "History of TNM Staging in Cancer"
2007 - Joel Cooper, MD "History of Lung Transplantation"
2006 - Doug Mathisen, MD "Tracheal Surgery"
2005 - John Wong, MD "Esophagectomy for Cancer: A Proposal for International Best Practice"
2004 - Mark Orringer, MD "Transhiatal Esophagectomy – Evolution and Refinements"
2003 - Doug Wood, MD "Lung Volume Reduction Surgery: Results from the NETT and Outlook for the Future"
2002 - Robert Ginsberg, MD "Educating the Thoracic Surgeon: Past, Present and Future"
2001 - David Mulder, MD "Thoracic Trauma"
2000 - Philippe Dartevelle, MD "Surgery for Pulmonary Hypertension"
1999 - Jean Deslauriers, MD "Tracheo-Bronchoplasty in the Management of Lung Cancer"
1998 - F. Griffith Pearson, MD "The History of Esophageal Surgery in Canada