Guest Interviews
This interview focuses on establishing a sustainable pediatric cardiac surgical program in Georgetown, Guyana. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Ali Mashadi, a medical student at the...
This interview focuses on advice for trainees and residents who are interested in the congenital route of cardiothoracic surgery. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting,...
This interview centers on a research paper titled “Mortality Risk and Cause of Death Associated With Removal of the Adult Thymus: Analysis of the U.S. Thymoma Population.” At the 2026...
This interview focuses on basic science research in cardiothoracic (CT) surgery. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Mujtaba Mubashir, a cardiothoracic fellow...
In this noteworthy interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco,...
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the...
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of...
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Dr. Joel Dunning recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, thoracic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, regarding his paper, Time to Surgery in...
In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Robert Cerfolio, Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at NYU Langone Health, about NYU Langone Health’s rise in...
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Kenneth Liao, professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support at Baylor College...
In this outstanding interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Todd Rosengart, professor and chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, about...
In this fascinating interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, discussing lifetime management of heart...
In this remarkable interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Maria Fareri...

