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.
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Professional Affairs
September 24, 2025
In this engaging interview, Dr. Amr Alsalakawy, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Aswan Heart Center and Research, Magdi Yacoub Foundation, spoke with Dr. Magdi Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart and Lung Institute at the Imperial College London, and Founder and Director of Research at the Harefield Heart Science Center, Magdi Yacoub Institute, about the Aswan technique for common arterial trunk repair.
September 19, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Martin Cook, chief executive officer and cofounder of VenstraMedical, presented on “Development and Chronic Animal Implantation of the VenstraMedical Transcatheter pVAD System.”
September 12, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Moninder Bhabra, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at New Cross Hospital, delivered a presentation titled “Mitral Valve Surgery.”
September 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Adanna Akujuo, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the surgical director of the Structural Heart Program at UVA Health University Medical Center, about the Voom Foundation and its trips to Africa.
September 5, 2025
In the final installment of the CTSNet video series, Cardiac Surgical Arrest—An International Conversation, Nurse Educator Jill Ley, founder of Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation, was joined in a webinar panel discussion by clinical care providers from the United Kingdom and the Unites States.
September 5, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Professor Mahmoud Loubani, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, delivered a presentation titled “Coronary Artery Revascularization: Trials Update.”
September 5, 2025
At the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 2025 Annual Conference, Dr. Clauden Louis, cardiothoracic surgeon at the Cardiothoracic Surgery BayCare Medical System in Florida, gave a presentation titled “The Aortic Pulsatility Index Is Associated With Increased Prognostic Implications of Survival at 24 Hours Post VA-ECMO Decannulation and Survival to Discharge From Hospital.”
September 4, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nicholas Smedira, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, about mitral valve-induced left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction with minimal septal hypertrophy.
August 29, 2025
At the 2024 Birmingham Review Course, Dr. Will Moody, a consultant cardiologist in imaging and inherited cardiovascular conditions at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, delivered a presentation titled “Etiology, Definition, and Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation, Including Evidence for Intervention.”