Professional Development
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, USA, spoke with Drs. V. Seenu Reddy, a cardiothoracic surgeon...
With less than one month to go, the countdown to the landmark 40th EACTS Annual Meeting has begun! Together, we’ll celebrate our cardiothoracic community and look ahead to the future...
ISMICS 2027 Call for Abstracts is officially open — and this year, it means something more. 2027 marks the 30th anniversary of ISMICS. From our founding in Paris in 1997...
Join colleagues from across the cardiothoracic community at the SCTS Annual Meeting 2027, taking place March 21-23, 2027, at ICC Birmingham. The meeting will bring together clinicians, researchers, trainees, nurses,...
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...
A Columbia University cardiologist calls out a lack of diversity in respected medical journal editorial boards. His analysis demonstrates that as of October 2020, of fifty-one editorial board members at...
In this article, Loo et al demonstrate in a survey to the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association membership that only approximately 20% of trainees were accurate in estimating surgeon reimbursement, with...
This month’s update on the economical and general aspects of the ROOBY-FS trial. The conclusion (on no impact of de novo post-CABG AF on the incidence of stroke nor the...
In this important article published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery by Drs. Preventza et al, they report on the sex, racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular trials in the...
Use of anatomic abbreviations instead of numbers seems pro-intuitive …
...This is a research letter the looks at the investment that CMS has made in developing quality measures. It points out the limited value of many of them and discusses...
Performance of curative surgery for early stage cancer varied considerably among counties in the US, and was related to socioeconomic factors, availability of surgeons, and non-metropolitan status.
...Medicare claims data were reviewed for patients in Michigan who underwent inpatient surgery. Some patients were enrolled in prehabilitation programs consisting of home-based walking exercise, nutrition, smoking cessation, and stress...




