• SBE ISGE Joint Meeting - Sao Paulo September 2009
• XVIII Annual Congress March 2009 Pattaya,Thailand
• XVII Annual Meeting - Bari Italy
• ISGE Annual Meeting, Japan March 19-23 2007

Thank You - Ornella Sizzi, MD

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ISGE in moving on.

It is with both great enthusiasm and trepidation that I accept the challenge that the ISGE Board has given me by electing me as the new Editor of the Newsletter. I am fully aware I can not compete with the expertise and the writing capability of my predecessor professor Ray Garry. English mother-tongue, therefore I will direct my editing efforts towards something new.  I hope to create a different style of Newsletter by involving as many people as possible and with their help highlight the problems and achievements of endoscopy around the globe. As a woman I am aware of the masculine vision of surgery. I know what it is like to be different means. I know what it is like to have small hands when most instruments are designed ergonomically to fit the hand of a man.  I know what it is like to be overlooked when departmental decisions are being made. I also know that we all have our own individual problems and crosses to bare in our own countries, yet as a global organisation we can still use our personal experiences to help our international neighbours.  That is way my first act as your new editor has been to appoint some of the board members to be liaison officers between the ISGE Newsletter and the continents they represent. Their correspondence will help strengthen the like between ISGE and its affiliated societies and thus give greater voice to ISGE members working in the field of endoscopy around the world.  I would also like to see a special focus on developing countries. Members will be able to post their successes and their failures in promoting endoscopic surgery in their own regions as well as being able to request help. I hope to publicise their teaching programs and local courses.  Chief of Departments at Teaching Hospitals are encouraged to provide brief abstracts of their residents and fellows research projects. The Board Members who have volunteered to help me are Dr Carlos Petta who will represent Americas, Dr Michael East who represents Australia and Oceania, Prof Baskar Goolab for Africa, Prof Osama Shawki for Middle East and Dr Pravin Patel for Asia. Of course they will have to justify their roles by working hard to make the voice of their respective regions audible to everyone. I am positive that as a team we will succeed and in doing so we will accomplish what I believe is the reason d’être of our Society, to be the global voice of endoscopic gynecology and as such be a uniting force.
Another innovation is to be the creation of a small section within the Newsletter focusing upon new surgical techniques and new instrumentation. The new ISGE Online Scientific Journal  www.thetrocar.com and www.thetrocar.tv will give   members the opportunity to read  original articles written by experts from all over the globe and to watch and study videos showing cutting edge endoscopic techniques. Another unique innovation for our members will be an ‘Online Textbook of Gynecologic Endoscopy’. This is currently under construction and will provide a regularly updated manual of hysteroscopy and laparoscopy freely accessible to ISGE members and the members of Affiliated Societies.

ISGE in moving on.
In Sydney we held a very productive board meeting where new board members were welcomed and the meetings for 2011 finalised.
It was reported by our Conference Chairman, Ellis Downes, that all is in place for the ISGE/SLS Joint Meeting in New York, 1-4 September 2010. To date 800 registrants had been received. Currently there are 20 ISGE Board members who will be speaking at the conference. In addition there will be an ISGE meeting in Chennai, India, in March 25-27 2011 and the following year the ISGE Annual Meeting will be in Cairo, Egypt, September 2011 and will be held in conjunction with the Egyptian Society of Fertility and Sterility (EFSS).  The proposed title of the meeting is “Endoscopic Surgery and Infertility in the Land of the Pharaohs”.
During the Board Meeting our President Stefano Bettocchi confirmed to the Board that the Presidency would be transferred to Vice President Chuck Miller at the end of March 2011 and it was subsequently agreed that the Vice Presidential elections, and indeed the elections for the new Board, would be conducted around the ISGE meeting to be held in Cairo in September 2011. It was felt that particularly with the Vice Presidential election, it would be more appropriate to hold it when the majority of Board members could be present. It was also agreed that the General Assembly for 2011 would be held at the 2011 Cairo meeting.

Our finances are in excellent shape, as reported by our treasurer Duncan Turner. Our society is in a secure financial position and the prediction is that it will continue to improve. 
The board also resolved to complete discussions with a chosen organization to act as a professional ‘PCO’.  A letter of agreement will be signed off with  a  Netherland company named Global Conference Organizers (GCO), which will act as the external PCO of the ISGE. Its task will be to help in to promoting the Society and its meetings. The intention is for ISGE and GCO to set up a joint profit sharing venture. In addition GCO would provide assistance to the both the secretariat and the treasury as they are currently set up. GCO would also provide assistance to the website operators in developing our on-line educational activities.
 As you can see projects are moving along as the society looks towards the future. There is much work to do!