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Thursday, January 28, 2027 – Sunday, January 31, 2027 @ 7:00 am – 7:00 pm – The STS Annual Meeting is the preeminent event in cardiothoracic surgery, offering more translational science and hands-on activities than...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
A five-year-old girl, weighing 15.8 kg, with a functional single ventricle (hypoplastic left heart syndrome secondary to aortic and mitral valvular atresia), was referred for a completion Fontan procedure. Her...
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,...
In this insightful interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine, about...
Heart transplants from donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors are well-established for adults in the United Kingdom, but extending this practice to pediatric heart transplants has been slow and difficult...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Husam Balkhy, Professor of Surgery and the Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at University of...
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...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Tom D’Amico, professor and vice chairman of surgery and chief medical officer of the Duke Cancer Institute, about oligometastatic...
At the 2024 Women in Thoracic Surgery Inaugural Annual Conference, CTSNet interviewed some of the most accomplished women in cardiothoracic surgery from around the globe. Stay tuned for more interviews...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Vinay Badhwar, the current vice president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), about his groundbreaking achievement in...
This retrospective cohort study investigated the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in neonates with transposition of the great arteries at a single center from 2009 to 2024. A total...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. He discusses Dr. Jennifer Romano’s presidential address, remarks from...







