development of the French guidelines for lung cancer staging. She has been a member of the scientific committee of the French research group, the Intergroupe Francophone de Cancérologie Thoracique (IFCT), from 2009 to 2013, and she is currently a member of the executive committee of IFCT. Virginie was also a member of the scientific committee of IASLC between 2005 and 2009, and of the scientific committee of several World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC). She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). xi