Motherhood and Cardiothoracic Surgery

Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Blair Marshall of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, moderates a discussion on the experience of motherhood as a cardiothoracic surgeon. Dr Marshall is joined by Virginia Litle of Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, Andrea Wolf of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The panelists discuss the importance of having a support network, the joy they get from their careers and their families, and their own experiences in combining motherhood with cardiothoracic surgery.