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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Niv Ad, Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery" and... More
February 19, 2026
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Puja Khaitan, thoracic consultant at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Founder and Congress Chair of the Emirates International Thoracic Surgery Congress, about thoracic surgery in the United Arab Emirates.
February 12, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Hani Shennib, a Clinical Professor of Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, USA, about catheters as a language.
February 5, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Louise Kenny about congenital heart transplants.
January 29, 2026
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Daniel Engelman and Marlies Ostermann about chronic kidney disease and cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury.
January 22, 2026
In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Jan Vojacek and Maral Ouzounian about the EACTS expert consensus statement on the Ross procedure in adult patients.
January 15, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Michael Lanuti and Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Lanuti’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and how he believes the wrong parameters were measured.
January 8, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Wright’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and why he prefers segmentectomy over lobectomy.
January 2, 2026
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning reflects on the most popular content of 2025 on CTSNet.
December 26, 2025
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.
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.