Elizabeth Stephens
Welcome to this two-part CTSNet series “What Can Adult and Congenital Surgeons Learn From One Another–Parts I and II.” CTSNet organized two roundtables featuring several giants in the field of adult and cardiac heart surgery...
Drs Amy Fiedler, Elizabeth Stephens, Hugh Auchincloss, Gregory Pattakos, and Kristin Sell-Dottin share their tips and tricks for thriving during residency and fellowship, and discuss the different training pathways available...
In a discussion filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, a panel of current cardiothoracic surgery residents share their tips and tricks for thriving during residency and...
Led by Dr. Raphael Bueno (Program Director and Associate Division Chief of Thoracic Surgery), Dr. R. Morton Bolman, III (Chief of Cardiac Surgery), Dr. Pedro Del Nido (Chair of Cardiac...
It was a clear, cool fall morning of my first year in medical school. I had remembered that we were scheduled to have a special guest for our 8 AM...
Introduction The current “traditional” method for training cardiothoracic surgeons (five years of general surgery and two-three years of thoracic) dates back 80 years to a time in which the specialty...



