Joel Dunning
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the UAE. They discussed the advantages...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright, thoracic surgeon and Director of Surgical Oncology at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Australia, and thoracic surgeon...
A multidisciplinary panel of lung cancer experts, facilitated by the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the European Respiratory Society, developed practical recommendations for assessing patients’ fitness for curative intent...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning reflects on the most popular content of 2025 on CTSNet. He discusses the top interview, the most popular webinar, and reveals...
As 2025 comes to an end, the CTSNet editor team reflected on another year of incredible cardiothoracic content. The Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and the senior editors handpicked a collection of...
A meta-analysis of nine studies involving 8,557 patients found that early chest tube removal after cardiac surgery was associated with a higher risk of pericardial effusion, although it resulted in...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to get involved with Pace4Life, a charity he supports that provides reconditioned pacemakers to Ghana. He also previews upcoming...
CTSNet is proud to produce high-quality podcasts, including The Beat, The Atrium, and the recently added, The Cardiac Recovery Room. As the year ends, we’re highlighting the top podcast episodes...
Alessandro Tamburrini, a consultant thoracic surgeon, reflects on how Professor Peter Altman saved his life as a child with an advanced pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma through innovative treatment and surgery. Inspired by...




