2026 International Career Development Exchange (ICDE) Participants
Veronica Afework Abera,
MD, FCS-ECSA —
African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer
Claudio Rotta Lucena, MD – Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO)
Clara Atieno Odhiambo, MD – College of Surgeons of East, Central, and South Africa (COSECSA)
Richard T. Spence, MD, MPH, FRCS, PhD —
Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology (CSSO)
Alsayed Shaker Shaeir, MD – Egyptian Society of Surgical Oncology (EGSSO)
Jaume Tur-Martínez, MD, PhD, MSc, CHU – European Society of Surgical (ESSO)
Fathimath Shihana Abdul Hameed, MBBS, MS, DNB, DrNB – Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO)
Shoji Kawakatsu, MD, PhD – Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Surgical (JSGS)
Chihwan ‘David’ Cha, MD, PhD – Korean Breast Cancer Society (KBCS)
Boram Lee, MD – Korean Society of Surgical Oncology (KSSO)
Adriana Cepeda Cardenas, MD – Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia (SMeO)
Han-Fang Cheng, MD – Taiwan Breast Cancer Society (TBCS)
Yaw Amankwah Boateng BDS, MDIP, MPhil, FGCS – West African College of Surgeons (WACS)
Haider Abid, MBBS , FCPS – From Pakistan, SSO Sponsored
Robert Garcia-Castillo, MD – From Panama, SSO Sponsored
2025 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Delfina Irina Bernardo Jacinto (Irina Jacinto), MD, on behalf of the African Organisation of Training and Research (AORTIC) traveled to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Cecília Araújo Carneiro Lima, MD, on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO), traveled to City of Hope in Duarte, California.
Seke Manase Ephraim Kazuma, BSc HB, MBCHB, MMED, FACS, FZCMS, on behalf of the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and South Africa, traveled to the University of South Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, South Carolina.
Danielle Bischof, MD, MHS, FRCSC, on behalf of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology (CSSO), traveled to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Mohamed Aly Abdelhameed, MD, on behalf of the Egyptian Society of Surgical Oncology (EGSSO) traveled to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
Abdullah Malik, MBChB, Mres, MRCSEd, on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) traveled to UT Southwestern Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas.
Anand Ebin Thomas, MBBS, MS, MCh, MRCS, FEBS, FACS, on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO), traveled to Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Nouha Hinnawi, MD, on behalf of the Israeli Society of Surgical Oncology (ISSO), traveled to Mount Sinai in New York, New York.
Taisuke Imamura, MD, PhD, on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JSGS), traveled to the University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, California.
Ji-Jung Jung, MD, MS, on behalf of the Korean Breast Cancer Society (KBCS), traveled to Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota.
So Hyun Kang, MD, on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology (KSSO), Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Luis Fernando Negrete Cervantes, MD, on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncología, A.C. (SMeO), traveled to Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey in Brunswick, New Jersey.
Zhu Jun Loh, MD, on behalf of the Taiwan Breast Cancer Society (TIBCS), traveled to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Funmilola Olanike Wuraola, MBBS, ChM, FWACS, on behalf of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS).
Ting-Chun Kuo, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO, SSO Awardee from Taipei, Taiwan, traveled to the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Gonzalo Javier Ziegler Rodriguez, MD, FACS, SSO Awardee from Lima, Peru, traveled to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
2024 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Luciana Mata da Silva, MD on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO) traveled to the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD.
Richa Todi, MCh on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO) traveled to the City of Hope in Duarte, CA.
Young-jin Lee, MD on behalf of the Korean Breast Cancer Society (KBCS) traveled to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL.
Pablo Serrano, MD, MSc, MPH on behalf of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology (CSSO) traveled to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.
Guglielmo Niccolo Piozzi, MD on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) traveled to the Lankenau Hospital, in Wynnewood, PA.
Madhu Narayana Basode, MD (2021 Recipient) on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO) visited the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
Eisuke Booka, MD on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (JSGS) traveled to Stanford University in Stanford, CA.
Ana Paulina Meléndez Fernández, MD on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia, AC (SMeO) traveled to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
Jeongshin An, MD, PhD on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology (KSSO) traveled to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
Felipe Fernándo Quezada Díaz, MD on behalf of SSO traveled to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA
2023 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Matheus Lôbo, MD on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO).
Jayakarth Rao, on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO).
Jeevan Geetha Sanjive, on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO).
Olivia Sgarbura, MD, PhD on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).
Jonathan Hammerschlag, MD on behalf of the Israeli Society of Surgical Oncology (ISSO).
Alfonso Torres Rojo, MD on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia, AC (SMeO).
Sungmin Park, MD, on behalf of the Korean Breast Cancer Society (KBCS).
Seung Yoon Yang, MD, MS on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology.
Satoshi Ogiso, MD, PhD, FACS on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (JSGS).
Sahar Bawazir, MD on behalf of the SSO, from Manyar Medical Centre Surabaya Hospital, Indonesia.
Muhammad Fahd Shah, MBBS, MRCS, FCPS on behalf of the SSO, from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Pakistan.
2022 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Mario Martins, PhD on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology (BSSO).
Kanuj Malik, McH Surgical Oncology on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO).
Hisham Mageed, MD, PhD on behalf of the Egyptian Society of Surgical Oncology (EGSSO).
Evan Jost, MD on behalf of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology (CSSO).
Agnes Annamaria, MD on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).
Muhammad Khalifa, MD on behalf of the Israeli Society of Surgical Oncology (ISSO).
Sergio Israel Aguilar Villanueva, MD on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia, AC (SMeO).
2020 International Career Development Exchange Participants (participation postponed to SSO 2021 due to COVID-19)
Gustavo Andreazza Laporte, PhD on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Galal Ghaly, MD on behalf of the Egyptian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Jayakarthik Yoganarasimha, MBBS, MS, DNB on behalf of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology.
Yaohui Wang, MD on behalf of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology.
2019 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Lillian Kumagai, MD on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Irfan Ul Islam Nasir, MBBS Lahore, Pakistan.
Pabel Miranda, MSc on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia.
Tomoki Makino, MD, PhD, on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery.
Gabrielle van Ramshorst, MD, PhD on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology.
Anand Govindarajan, MD on behalf of the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Sameer Gupta, MBBS, MS, MCh Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sung Uk Bae, MD, MS on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology.
Nishant Batta, MD on behalf of the Indian Society of Surgical Oncology.
2018 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Nereida Esparza-Arias, MD on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia.
Young Suk Park, MD on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology.
Hideya Kashihara, MD, PhD on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery.
Maheswaran Satishkumar, MBBS, MS, MCH on behalf of the Indian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Marcus Kodama, MD, MS on behalf of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Francis Zih, MD, MSc, FRSCS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Michael Kelly, BA, MBBCh, BOA (Hons. TCD), MRCSI, MCh on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology
Xiaopeng Hao, MD on behalf of the Chinese Society of Surgical Oncology.
2017 International Career Development Exchange Participants
Dorian Yarih Garcia Ortega, MD on behalf of the Sociedad Mexicana de Oncologia.
Yun-Suhk Suh, MD on behalf of the Korean Society of Surgical Oncology.
Nishi Masaaki, MD on behalf of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery.
Kailash Ramrao Surnare, MBBS, MS, DNB, MCh on behalf of the Indian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Wesley Andrade, MD on behalf the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology.
Kai Li, PhD on behalf of the Chinese Society of Surgical Oncology.
Franck Billmann, MD, PhD on behalf of the European Society of Surgical Oncology.
