Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to cordially invite you to attend the RAES-ESS 2023 International Joint Meeting, which will be held between 31 October and 03 November, at Crowne Plaza Hotel Bucharest, Romania.

We are beyond honoured to host, for the first time in Romania, the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Surgery. Its 25th edition will be proudly accompanied by our traditional national events: the 12th National Congress of the Romanian Association for Endoscopic Surgery and Other Interventional Techniques, the 14th Romanian Symposium of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, the 4th Romanian Symposium of Robotic Surgery.

The core theme that will connect the national and international medical communities, Reshaping MIS through education, provides the perfect setting for an exciting, thought provoking and stimulating event. Our goal is to design a scientific program that will initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue and will provide answers and, perhaps, solutions to the ongoing challenges of the present.

Embracing change, navigating the intricacies of innovation and fostering education have been on RAES’s agenda for the last 20 years. This RAES-ESS Joint Meeting is yet another opportunity to advance the field of MIS and extend the learning possibilities for the young generations of our specialties.

Without further ado, we look forward to welcoming you to Romania, a place of vivid, contrasting realities that we hope you will get a chance to discover and experience to the fullest.

Sincerely yours,