TRAUMA2025 accredited by the Panhellenic Medical Association, European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS) was held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 3 to 5 April 2025. The Forum brought together a large number of surgeons, doctors, students, medical technicians, military surgeons and all those involved in the evacuation, transport, resuscitation and final rescue of seriously injured persons. The countries of the Balkans and Southeast Europe are potentially exposed to the same and simultaneous impacts of natural disasters and adverse social events. The idea to unite countries in the region, which have similar geographical, historical, economic and educational policies, came from our Greek friends, the leaders of the Hellenic Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery (HSTES) Konstantinos Fortounis, Pantelis Vassiliu and the famous American surgeon of Greek origin George Velmahos, a professor at Harvard Medical School. The aim is to unite the countries of Southeast Europe in a single system for protection and response in mass accidents. The Forum was marked by a lively multinational discussion on the topic of trauma, surgical approaches in trauma, organization of medical centers, education in this field, mass accidents and the capacities of medical systems and other participants for triage, transport, resuscitation and final surgical care. Experts in the field of civil surgery and military surgeons participated: Mehmet Eryilmaz – Turkey, Arda Isik – Turkey, Tayfun Yucel – Turkey, Boris Kessel – Israel, Krstina Doklestić Vasiliev – Serbia, April Mendoza – USA, Maeyane Stevens (Steve) Moeng – South Africa, Juan Carlos Puyana – USA, Marius Ciurea – Romania, Agron Dogjani – Albania, Chrysanthos Georgiou – Cyprus, Demetrios Pyrros – Greece, Barak Levit – Israel and others.
The next meeting of the TRAUMA2025 will be held within the framework of the 12th World Congress of Emergency Surgery (WSES 2025) in Antalya, Turkey, from 21-25 October 2025.