Dr. Joel Dunning, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief, had the chance to speak with Dr. Mara Antonoff, president of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS) and Associate Professor and Program Director of Education at MD Anderson Cancer Center, about the vision for the upcoming WTS Annual Meeting.
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Professional Affairs
October 8, 2025
CTSNet is excited to present a video series from Mara Antonoff, MD, President of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS).
October 3, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Rui Li, a surgeon in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, delivered a presentation titled “Transapical Beating-Heart Septal Myectomy (TA-BSM) in Patients With Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.”
October 3, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Randall C. Sterling, a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Treatment and Recovery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “My Personal Journey With MCS: History and Milestones.”
September 30, 2025
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. John Puskas, professor of surgery at Emory University, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Wilton Looney Director at the Emory Carlyle Fraser Heart Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, about proximal coronary anastomosis.
September 29, 2025
CTSNet invites you to participate in one of three live learning roundtable discussions on the technical aspects of aortic valve replacement after TAVR.
September 29, 2025
On September 25, 2025, a group of esteemed cardiac surgeons gathered for a live webinar titled “Data-Driven Valve Selection for Younger AVR Patients,” presented by Artivion in collaboration with CTSNet.
September 26, 2025
At the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at NYU Langone Health, delivered a presentation titled “Robotic Carinal Resection With ECMO.”
September 26, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Andrew M. Acker, a cardiothoracic surgery resident at Penn Medicine, delivered a presentation titled “Impella 5.5 Is Safe in Small Ventricles.”
September 25, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Daniel Brockman, Professor of Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, London, England, and Matteo Rossanese, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, about performing cardiothoracic surgery in animals.