Introduction - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2024

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 3rd annual Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery. Best of the Best 2024. We are super excited to have everyone from all over the world finally coming together. To share what we missed around the world because so much was presented everywhere and we couldn't see it all. This is where it happens. This is where we all come together, and we always try to make fun out of it by having it into a contest, but we know that what we're watching here today are the best of the best already. We're just having some fun with some brackets to, to see if we can make it a contest. So, I am Todd Ponsky. Who else do we have? I'm Cecilia Gena. I'm Brittany Levy. So welcome everybody. Um, we are very excited for today. We have 10 societies, so we have AAP, ABSA, ABS, CAPS, IPSA, Iberica, IPEC, IPSA, PAS, and WAApps, and we are going to see them each competing for being the best of the best. And, but before we start, um, I'm going to explain, uh, how this will work. In your screen, you have the chat box that is below the screen, so please answer any questions, put everything that's there, we can uh ask that to the presenter, so please um write as much questions as you want, then you have, you will have the polls on the right of the. Screen and we are going to have 4 heats, so we have the 10 societies divided into 4 heats. Each one will have 4 or 5 presentations, and the idea is to see the presentations, ask questions, and then you get to vote which one is the best of the best.