Joel Dunning
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dunning, a cardiothoracic surgeon at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, UK, engaged in a discussion with Dr. Bo Yang, a...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Aamir Amin, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK, about humanoid robots and artificial...
The video begins with an interview featuring thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning and Dr. Leanne Ashrafian, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom, interviewing the...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery...
This video demonstrates a right upper lobectomy. Although there is never a perfect case, the authors believe they are doing many things correctly with this technique. First, this is a...
This is the case of a sixty-eight-year-old man who had an acute aortic dissection 10 years previously and had quite a small prosthetic aortic tube grafted onto a relatively large...
This fifty-five-year-old, 125 kg patient had a previous aortic valve replacement and presented with endocarditis with heart failure with a CVP of 30. It was determined unsafe to give antegrade...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the recently published MARS 2 trial, an AATS consensus document on management of subsolid lung nodules, and the long-term...
This video shows the case of a forty-year-old man who presented with a large 6 cm pear-shaped dilated aortic root. He was offered valve sparing root replacement or a mechanical...
This is a video of a sixty-five-year-old man who presented with atrial fibrillation, a critical LAD lesion, and heart failure with severe aortic regurgitation and a root dilated to 48...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses a new cardiothoracic surgery conference in Iraq and his insights on the newest surgical robot technology. Joel also talks...
Dr. Vince Gaudiani introduces his series on different techniques for aortic root reconstruction. The patient is a sixty-year-old man who presented with collapse and was found to have a 7...







