Professional Development

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THVGreece 2026 | When Surgery Still Matters: Aortic Valve

July 9, 2026 | Apostolos Roubelakis…

This session features leading surgeons discussing various aspects of the aortic valve at the Transcatheter Heart Valves Greece (THVGreece) 2026 conference. Please note that all presentations are delivered in Greek. The first presentation, “Failed TAVI...

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ASAIO 2026 | Celsior Cold Storage and Myocardial Edema in DCD Heart Donation

September 18, 2026

This session features Rishav Bhattacharya from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA, presenting on “Celsior Cold Storage Attenuates Myocardial Edema in...

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The 40th EACTS Annual Meeting Is Calling – Be Sure to Register Your Place Today!

September 16, 2026 | Marianna Mast

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...

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ISMICS 2027 Call for Abstracts—Now Open!

September 14, 2026 | Marianna Mast

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...

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Save the Date – SCTS Annual Meeting 2027

August 21, 2026

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,...

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Cardiothoracic Surgery Mock Oral Examinations: A Single Institution’s 5-Year Experience

August 1, 2019 | Jessica Luc

Corsini et al examined the results of a single-institution’s 5-year experience of cardiothoracic surgery mock oral examinations. They demonstrate that this time- and labor-intensive exercise where trainees verbalize and practice...

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Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery: An Interview With Gail Darling

July 25, 2019 | Vaibhav Gupta…

In this Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery interview, Vaibhav Gupta of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, speaks with Gail Darling, Professor of Surgery and the Crest Family Chair in...

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2019 Scholar Metrics Released Friday, July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 | Wei-Guo Ma

Google Scholar has released the 2019 version of Scholar Metrics just now. This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google...

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Tips for Building a Practice in Early Career

July 11, 2019 | Mara Antonoff

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Filmed at the 2019 STS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, moderates a discussion on the...

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JTCVS September Editorial (To Launch New Open Access Journals)

July 11, 2019 | Wei-Guo Ma

Later this year, AATS will launch two new open access journals, JTCVS Open and JTCVS Techniques, to provide authors with additional options to publish high-quality information of importance to thoracic...

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Shared Mental Model in VATS Lobectomy

July 2, 2019 | Rene Petersen

Since the introduction of video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy more than 25 years ago, the focus for thoracic surgeons has been to enhance the surgeon’s technical skills. This has been implemented with...

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Practicing for Emergencies in the Cath Lab: The REACT Protocol

July 1, 2019 | Joel Dunning

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This is a video on how the authors are working as a team to improve the outcomes of people who arrest or have an acute emergency in the catheterization laboratory...

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Ethical Standards for Cardiothoracic Surgeons’ Participation in Social Media

June 28, 2019 | Wei-Guo Ma

Social media offers enormous potential benefits for both care providers and patients, because the platform allows for the dissemination and gathering of information and has the innate ability to network...