Dominique Vervoort
At the 61st STS Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Watch for more interviews from the meeting in the coming weeks. At the...
As a part of the 2023 joint international conference of the African Academy for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons, Dr. Dominique...
Health is a basic human right. In its constitution, the World Health Organization (WHO) states that “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental...
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a leading and growing form of cardiovascular disease worldwide. VHD presents in many forms, but its epidemiology is predominantly driven by chronic noncommunicable disease origins—calcific...
Haiti is home to over 11 million people and is facing a growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Currently, about 29 percent of all deaths in Haiti are from CVD,...
Background Six billion people lack access to safe, timely, and affordable cardiac surgical care (1). More than thirty million people live with rheumatic heart disease (RHD) worldwide (2). Congenital heart...
Global Variation in Training Accreditation Cardiac surgery training is subject to vast global variation in pathways and scope as reflected by differences in terminology (i.e., cardiac surgery, cardiovascular surgery, and...
Welcome to the new CTSNet Global portal! Formerly known as CTSNet’s Surgical Volunteerism portal, the new CTSNet Global portal has been expanded to provide a wider range of information regarding...
CTSNet hosted a live event, co-moderated by David Cooke, MD, of UC Davis Health and Jacques Kpodonu, MD, of Harvard Medical School and joined by an esteemed panel of international...
CTSNet hosted a global live event addressing the widespread disparities in accessing cardiothoracic surgical care, which the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into even sharper relief. Co-moderators David Cooke, MD, of...
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has not left anyone untouched. By the end of June 2020, over 10 million people were confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19,...
Traditionally, global health has concerned itself about infectious diseases and maternal and child health, disregarding access to surgical services when needed for the world’s population (1). In 2015, the Lancet...










