Message From Patron

I am extremely happy that ATICON 2024, First Apollo Thoracic Intervention Conference is being organized by my good friend Dr. R Narasimhan in Chennai. Dr Narasimhan and I have been associated with Apollo Hospitals for a Long time.
Thoracic Endoscopy was initially done by rigid bronchoscope and oesophagoscope which had its own difficulty and complication.
With the advent of flexible bronchoscope, it has now becorhe much more comfortable for the bronchoscopist and the patient. It has almost completely replaced the rigid bronchoscope for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures like foreign body removal, dilatation and stenting. At present Rigid scopes are used in pediatric Bronchoscopy, Foreign, body removal. Other procedures like EBUS and Pleuroscopy, Thoracoscopy is frequently used.
In ATICON there is a mixture of Pulmonologist, Thoracic Surgeon, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiologist, Medical and Radiation Oncologist, Pathologist and Thoracic Anesthesiologist. Number of Pulmonologist and Thoracic Surgeons are increasing because of the stupendous increase in training programs all over the country.
In the field of Thoracic Surgery, minimally invasive procedures like VATS and RATS have taken over. We will certainly do our best in making the conference a Grand Success.

Prof. Rajan Santosham M.S., MCh., FRCS

Patron

Message from Organizing Chairman

Dear colleagues

This is a matter of great pride and privilege that departments of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai is hosting the ATICON (Apollo Thoracic Interventions Conference) 2024 in Chennai.
Department of Respiratory Medicine in Apollo Hospital is a vibrant department. The department has all the facilities that an international hospital can offer. We started humbly with a bronchoscopy unit and later on added facilities like thoracoscopy both rigid and flexible, stenting, EBUS, Cryobiopsies and Bronchial Thermoplasty. It was started by Dr. Raj B Singh and later many pulmonologists built it brick by brick and brought it to a level where we get referral for many challenging respiratory diseases. We also run post graduate courses for respiratory diseases and Fellowship for Interventional Pulmonology.
Our department would not have grown to this level if Professor Rajan Santosham the Doyen of Thoracic Surgery was not there to support us in any of our efforts to get the diagnosis. The second generation of Thoracic surgeons Dr. Rajeev and Dr. Ajay have started carrying forward the good work that was started by Dr. Rajan Santosham by doing complicated VATS and Robotic surgeries. The conference is aimed at enriching all practicing and budding pulmonologists along with ENT and Gastroenterologists the recent trends in medical science with regards to their fields. I am sure the scientific committee is busy preparing the list of topics and the workshop details so that the conference will be grand and enriching with good scientific content.

Dr. Narasimhan.R

Organizing Chairman

Message from Scientific Committee

Dear colleagues

Dear Colleagues, Faculty and Delegates, It gives me great pleasure to invite one and all to ATICON 2024 being held from 3 rd to 5 th May 2024 at Chennai, organized by the Department of Respiratory Medicine and Department of Thoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
There have been remarkable developments in the fields of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery and we have designed a program, so as to capture the essentials, in a nutshell!
Workshops, Talks ,Debates and Panel Discussions have been organized ,so as to engage everyone's interest!
Wishing everyone a knowledge filled and memorable experience at ATICON 2024.

Dr. Gayathri A.R

Scientific Committee Chairperson