Ho-Seong Han, South Korea
President IASMEN

President's Message

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues

 

I am so honored and privileged to be elected as President of IASMEN during ISW 2024 which was held in KL, Malaysia. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Previous President, Professor Steven Wolf, for his remarkable contributions and dedication to IASMEN and ISS/SIC. Succeeding previous presidents and leadership, I hope to contribute to the further development of IASMEN as much as possible.

 

The purpose of our society is to make progress for the improvement of patients’ outcome through scientific research, clinical practice, and education in the field of surgical metabolism and nutrition.

IASMEN, affiliated with ISW, is held every two years, and provides an opportunity for up-to-date knowledge and experiences obtained from clinical research and practices. One of the hottest topics in recent IASMEN scientific programs has been ERAS.  ERAS, which enables early recovery from perioperative stress, is surely based on the concept of surgical metabolism and nutrition itself. The advent of ERAS protocol has revolutionized perioperative management dramatically.  Another topic of note is active nutritional intervention for improvement on outcomes of the patients. It has been recognized that nutritional therapy plays a crucial role in controlling inflammation and influences short-term prognosis, and long-term prognosis of patients. And sarcopenia and frailty are also important fields of interest in our society. Besides, there are many interesting topics related to surgical metabolism and nutrition.

 

Surgical metabolism and nutrition have the potential to dramatically change the future of medicine and clinical practice. Knowing metabolism and nutrition is just as important and meaningful as practicing good surgical techniques for surgeons. Please join us and open up the future of surgical medicine together. As a president of IASMEN, I hope that more medical professionals will take an interest in us and contribute to this society.