We have great pleasure in welcoming you all to the APSS Annual Meeting 2022 with live operative surgical course.

The pandemic has thrown the world into disarray and has snatched the opportunity of having a face to face annual meeting in Kolkata. With the emerging Omicron variant of COVID-19, travel will continue to be a challenge for our members due to differing travel advisories and quarantine requirements of countries in our region. APSS has stood up to this challenge with the plan for a hybrid meeting in Coimbatore from 10th-12th June 2022. To make the meeting more absorbing and educative, a live operative surgery course has been embedded into the annual meeting along with the usual symposia, debates and academic lectures. There will also be ample opportunity for our members to present their work in free paper sessions.

We still hope that the COVID challenge will fade away and travel and face to face participation will be possible in June. For those who can be with us in person, we promise the best of hospitality and academics and for those who will join us virtually we assure a program richly filled with interesting sessions.

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon.

            Prof. S. Rajasekaran                                       Dr. Saumyajit Basu                      Dr. Ram Chaddha                Dr. Ajoy Prasad Shetty T
              President - APSS                                          Organising Secretary               Organising Secretary           Scientific Committee Chair
Organising Chairman - APSS 2022