This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to get involved with Pace4Life, a charity he supports that provides reconditioned pacemakers to Ghana.
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December 24, 2025
As the year ends, we’re highlighting the top podcast episodes from The Atrium and The Beat. However, be sure to check out the first two episodes of The Cardiac Recovery Room today! Keep reading to find out which episodes made the list, and please contact us if you’re interested in being a guest on any of our incredible podcasts.
December 23, 2025
Alessandro Tamburrini, a consultant thoracic surgeon, reflects on how Professor Peter Altman saved his life as a child with an advanced pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma through innovative treatment and surgery. Inspired by Altman’s compassion and expertise, Tamburrini dedicated his career to medicine, aiming to pay forward the second chance he received.
December 23, 2025
In this study, the authors report the long-term outcomes of the randomized phase II NEOpredict-Lung trial, which evaluates short-course neoadjuvant nivolumab with or without the LAG-3 inhibitor relatlimab in resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
December 23, 2025
As the end of 2025 approaches, CTSNet editors and staff are reflecting on the most popular content shared across CTSNet’s global platform. Read on to find out which video topped the list, who our leading contributor was, and other highlights.
December 18, 2025
In this exceptional interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
December 18, 2025
Mesfin Yana Dollar, who received life-saving heart surgery as a teenager in the United States, now collaborates with Dr. Jim Kauten, the surgeon who saved him, as a cardiac perfusionist at the Mayo Clinic. Together, they perform advanced open-heart surgeries and participate in medical missions to help patients in Ethiopia.
December 18, 2025
This retrospective study from a high-volume aortic center examined the surgical outcomes of endograft infection following thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) over a 35-year period. Among 2,220 patients undergoing descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic repair, 20 (0.9 percent) required surgery for endograft infection.
December 12, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Samer Nashef, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, about complications in cardiothoracic surgery.