Dear Colleagues,
I am honored to write to you this letter as the 22nd President of the prestigious International Society of Cryosurgery.
The field of cryosurgery is achieving increasing interest around the world due to new scientific data and innovative therapeutic devices and modalities. To date, Cryosurgery is applied also as cryoablation, percutaneous and intralesional cryotherapy, and targeted cryoablation therapy all of which are changing the traditional pathways in surgery and medicine and are improving and saving many lives around the world.
Since the conception of the ISC in 1972, the main goal of the notable members of our society, physicians and scientists, is to share knowledge and to proceed in improving surgical techniques and treatment modalities for the benefit of the patients around the world. In all of the ISC meetings cutting edge presentations were the trigger to further and future discoveries, advancements, improvements and implementation of new ideas and concepts in our dynamic field. This is the essence of our society.
In addition, our society has provided throughout the years a dynamic social base for friendship which generated fruitful collaborations between the members by exchanging information and brainstorming, thus enabling noteworthy scientific partnerships, basic and clinical research and publications in high standard peer- review journals.
My goals as a president are to further strengthen our society, to enlarge the circles in which our society will be influential and involved, to augment the number of active members and to establish a scientific data base in which updated scientific and clinical work which is executed by the members in our vibrant field will be accessible.
The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of our society which is a notable milestone.
Each of you is a dominant and respected leader in the field of cryosurgery and you have invested time and effort to share knowledge and to proceed in improving surgical techniques and treatment modalities in our vibrant field.
Therefore, I am approaching you as notable representative of your country to share efforts to augment the number of active members of our society. I will deeply appreciate if you could forward to me names, affiliation and e-mails of colleagues, physicians and scientists, in your country that are involved in the field of cryosurgery and will be interested to join our society and take an active part in our dynamic field.
Please enter our society website http://isc.csimit.cn/ which will enable you to find details of the numerous and various activities of our society throughout the last 50 years.
I am looking forward to collaborate with each of you and together we shall continue to develop the International Society of Cryosurgery by outstanding and break though scientific work combined with unforgettable social friendship and gathering.
"Ice for Life"
Keep well and safe,
With respect,
Prof. Yaron Har-Shai MD
22nd President of the ISC