At the 2025 Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeons (ECS) Club Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Lorena Montes spoke with Dr. Patrick Perier, chairman of the ECS Club and staff surgeon at the Herz und Gefäss Klinik in Bad Neustadt, Germany, about minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.
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November 13, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Zara Shirazi, a congenital cardiac surgery post-fellow at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, about advancing pediatric cardiac surgery in Pakistan using what she learned from her fellowship in Austria.
November 12, 2025
In this final series installment, "Perfecting TAVR Removal | Skills Sharpening With Vince Gaudiani," cardiac surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor—Education Vince Gaudiani hosted roundtable discussions on the technical aspects of aortic valve replacement after TAVR.
November 11, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Marc Moon, Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Texas Heart Institute, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery section at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, about aortic dissection.
October 29, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS), spoke with Dr. Leah Backhus, vice president of WTS, about social events and networking opportunities at the WTS Annual Meeting.
October 22, 2025
In this video, Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) speaks with Dr. Tanisha Rajah about why the WTS Annual Meeting is important for trainees.
October 17, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Peyman Sardari Nia, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Maastricht University Medical Center, Netherlands, delivered a presentation titled “Beating Heart Redo Mitral Valve Repair With Neochords.”
October 16, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Marc Pelletier, division chief of cardiac surgery for the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, about patient blood management.
October 15, 2025
Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery, spoke with her colleagues Drs. Stephanie Chang and Amy Fiedler about the program highlights for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.
October 10, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. James Long, a thoracic surgeon at INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, delivered a presentation titled “Disruptive Innovation.”