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.
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October 22, 2025
October 22, 2025
This video demonstrates the case of open cutdown cannulation of the right common carotid artery for cardiopulmonary bypass using the semi-Seldinger technique.
October 21, 2025
Renowned cardiac surgeons Ibrahim Sultan, MD, Malakh Shrestha, MBBS, Ph.D., Patrick Vargo, MD, and Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, joined together on October 14, 2025, for a new webinar titled “Rooted in Excellence—Evolving Strategies in Aortic Surgery.”
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 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.”
October 8, 2025
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.
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.”