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  • Addressing and Eliminating Unconscious Bias in CT surgery

    Monisha Sudarshan, n/a – Cleveland Clinic

    Career Development

  • Introduction

    Monisha Sudarshan, n/a – Cleveland Clinic

    Rian M. Hasson, MD, MPH, FACS – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    Education/Quality/Wellness

  • Defining Unconscious Bias, How Do We Identify It?

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    Career Development

  • The impact of unconscious bias on healthcare providers and our patients

    Siva Raja, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Career Development

  • What can the individual do about eliminating unconscious bias in our roles as educations, researchers, clinicians and surgeon leaders?

    Melanie Edwards, MD – IHA/St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor

    Career Development

  • What can an organization (health care institution/ professional society etc) do about eliminating unconscious bias? How do we promote inclusive leadership?

    Susan Moffatt-Bruce – Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

    Career Development

  • Panel Discussion

    Monisha Sudarshan, n/a – Cleveland Clinic

    Rian M. Hasson, MD, MPH, FACS – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    Siva Raja, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Education/Quality/Wellness

  • Adult Cardiac Abstracts

    Adult Cardiac

  • CABG with Multiarterial Grafting versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

    Valentino Bianco, DO MPH – UPMC

    Adult Cardiac

  • Does Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Mean Less Postoperative Pain?

    Sepideh Jahanian, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Adult Cardiac

  • Percutaneous thrombo-vegectomy as an alternative to immediate open heart surgery for tricuspid valve endocarditis: a multi-center experience.

    V. Seenu Reddy, MD MBA FACS – TriStar Cardiovascular Surgery

    Adult Cardiac

  • Prolonged Periods of Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion Are Safe During Elective Arch Surgery: A Report from the ARCH Database

    William B. Keeling, n/a – Emory University

    Adult Cardiac

  • Racial Disparities in Access to and Acuity of Presentation for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    Martha M. O McGilvray, MD – Washington University School of Medicine

    Adult Cardiac

  • Reoperative Aortic Root Replacement Following Index Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection Repair

    Albert J. Pedroza, MD – Stanford University

    Adult Cardiac

  • Restoration of Life Expectancy in All Age Groups After Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation

    Morgan Harloff, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • Robotic versus Open Mitral Valve Repair - Does Shorter Hospital Stay Lead to Lower Hospitalization Charges?

    Sri Harsha Patlolla, MBBS – Mayo Clinic

    Adult Cardiac

  • Sex-Related Differences in Outcomes after Proximal Aortic Surgery – Analysis of 1773 Consecutive Patients in a High-Volume Center

    Antonia van Kampen, MD – Leipzig Heart Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • Surgical Risk and Postoperative Outcomes of Aortic Valve Replacement With and Without Annular Enlargement

    Bo Yang, MD, PhD – University of Michigan Health System

    Adult Cardiac

  • The impact of hospital teaching status on outcomes after Type A Aortic Dissection: An Analysis of over 37,000 patients

    Edgar Aranda-Michel, PhD – UPMC/CMU

    Adult Cardiac

  • Unroofing of Anomalous Right Coronary Artery

    Qasim Al Abri, MD – Houston Methodist Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • ASCVTS at STS: Focus on OPCAB, FMR, ATAAD

    S. Chris Malaisrie, MD – Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University

    Song Wan, MD, FRCS – The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Yuichi Ueda, MD, Ph.D – Nara Prefectural Hospital Organization

    Adult Cardiac

  • Current techniques and insights in OPCAB for stable CAD: Experience from Asia

    Hirokuni Arai, MD, PhD – Tokyo Medical And Dental University

    Adult Cardiac

  • What can we learn from Asian experience in OPCAB

    Jennifer S. Lawton, MD – Johns Hopkins University

    Adult Cardiac

  • Reproducible secondary techniques in MV repair for functional MR: Experience from Asia

    Song Wan, MD, FRCS – The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Adult Cardiac

  • What can we learn from Asian experience in FMR

    Patrick M. McCarthy, MD – Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University

    Adult Cardiac

  • Indications and outcomes of total arch replacement for Acute type A aortic dissection: Experience from Asia

    Yutaka Okita, MD, PhD – Takatsuki General Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • Bronchoplasty and Arterioplasty: A Video Session

    General Thoracic

  • Atypical Bronchoplasty: Options for Creativity

    M. Blair Marshall, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • Robotic Sleeve techniques

    Bernard Park, MD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

    General Thoracic

  • Cardiopulmonary Failure Abstracts

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • 100 Total Artificial Hearts: Patient Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes at a High-Volume Transplant Center

    Philippe L. Tremblay, MSc MD FRCSC – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Appraisal Of Donation After Circulatory Death: How Far Could We Expand The Heart Donor Pool?

    Alejandro Suarez-Pierre, MD – University of Colorado

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Cardiovascular Mechanism of Donor Brain Death and Heart Recipient Survival

    Christopher Jensen, MD, MS – Duke University

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Exploring the Timing of Systemic Heparinization and Hemostatic Complications in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Failed to Wean from Cardiopulmonary Bypass

    Yu Jin – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Fuwai Hospital

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Progression of Aortic Valve Insufficiency During Fully Magnetically Levitated Centrifugal Versus Axial Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Support

    Fabian Jimenez Contreras, MMCi – Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Prolonged Allograft Ischemia Increases Short-Term Complications Among High and Low Volume Centers in Lung Transplantation

    Benjamin J. Wadowski, MD – NYU Langone Health

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Racial Disparities in COVID Mortality Persist in Heart Transplant Recipients: An Analysis of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Database

    Tiffany Calero, BS – University of Southern California

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • The HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Strategy to Bridge to Transplant: Outcomes in Over 1300 Patients

    Maxwell F. Kilcoyne, DO – Medical University of South Carolina

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • To Cannulate Or Not To Cannulate? Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) In Immunosuppressed Patients With COVID-19 Is High Risk But Not Futile, A Multicenter Study From The ORACLE Group

    Jennifer Doran, MD – University of Colorado Hospital

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Trans-Valvular Unloading Protects Against Both Pre and Post Reperfusion Injury in Preclinical Models of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Lija Swain, PhD – Tufts Medical Center

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Utilization of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Life Support for Acute Pulmonary Embolism Demonstrates Favorable Outcomes

    Erik J. Scott, MD – University of Virginia

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Challenging the Status Quo: Social Media in Cardiothoracic Surgery

    Mara B. Antonoff, MD – UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Thomas K. Varghese, Jr., MD, MS, FACS – University of Utah School of Medicine

    For Residents

    Career Development

  • Social Media as a Community Outreach Tool for Cardiothoracic Surgeons

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    For Residents

    Career Development

  • How Social Media is Changing the Face of Cardiothoracic Surgery

    Jessica Luc, MD – University of British Columbia

    For Residents

    Career Development

  • Online-Offline Balance in a Virtual World

    Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC – University of Manitoba/St. Boniface Hospital

    For Residents

    Career Development

  • Congenital Abstracts

    Congenital

  • Comparison of Intraoperative and Pre-Discharge Technical Performance Score by Anatomic Residua in Congenital Cardiac Surgery – Analysis of >6000 Consecutive Discharges

    Aditya Sengupta, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

    Congenital

  • Evolution of Pulmonary Valve Management During Complete Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot: a 14-year Experience

    Linda J. Schulte, MD – Washington University in St. Louis

    Congenital

  • Intraoperative Technical Performance Score Predicts Predischarge Transplant-Free Survival and Reinterventions Following Congenital Heart Surgery – Analysis of Consecutive Discharges for 9 Years

    Aditya Sengupta, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

    Congenital

  • Malnutrition is not Associated with Poor Surgical Outcomes in Children with Congenital Heart Disease Enrolled in a Comprehensive Perioperative Enhanced Recovery Program

    Israel A. Gaytan-Fuentes, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

    Congenital

  • Mitral Valve Operation after Tetralogy of Fallot Repair: Early and Late Outcomes

    Sepideh Jahanian, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Congenital

  • Optimal High Flow Regional Cerebral Perfusion in Aortic Arch Repair from the Perspective of Postoperative Renal Function

    Fumiaki Shikata, MD, PhD – Kitasato University School of Medicine

    Congenital

  • Variation in Patient and Procedural Characteristics Across Hospitals: An analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS CHSD)

    Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs, MD – University of Florida

    Congenital

  • Double Trouble: Strategies for Management of Morbidly Obese Patients with Advanced Heart Failure

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Bariatric Surgery Supported with Transvalvuar Pumps (Impella). A New Strategy for Morbidly Obese Patients to Get to Heart Transplantation

    Nicolas A. Brozzi, MD – Cleveland Clinic Florida

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Should we Reconsider BMI of 40 - 45 as a Contraindication for Heart Transplantation?

    Scott Silvestry, MD – Adventhealth Transplant Institute

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Destination Therapy n Morbidly Obese Patients - Indications & Outcomes

    Christopher Salerno, MD – University of Chicago

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • General Thoracic Abstracts

    General Thoracic

  • Impact of Gastric Ischemic Preconditioning on Quantitative Assessment of Gastric Conduit Perfusion during Esophagectomy: Propensity-score Matching Study

    Yoshitaka Ishikawa, MD – University of Michigan Health System

    General Thoracic

  • Sealing Effectiveness Of A Novel NHS-POx Based Patch: Aerostatic Experiments In A Dynamic Ex-Vivo Porcine Lung Model

    Bob Hermans – Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

    General Thoracic

  • Transbronchial Microwave Ablation of Lung Nodules in the Hybrid Operating Room – Mid-Term Follow Up of a Novel Technique

    Wing Yan Joyce Chan, MBBS – Prince of Wales Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • Implications and Management of Multiple Primary Cancers

    General Thoracic

  • Incidence and Epidemiology of MPLC

    Thomas Fabian, MD – Albany Medical College

    General Thoracic

  • Minimally Invasive CABG: Point Break

    Adult Cardiac

  • Present and Future of Minimally Invasive CABG Surgery

    Marc Ruel, MD, MPH – University of Ottawa Heart Institute

    Adult Cardiac

  • Overview of all the techniques available in minimally invasive CABG surgery

    Piroze Davierwala, MD, MS, MCh, FAHA – University of Toronto

    Adult Cardiac

  • How and Why to set up a Robotic MIDCABG program

    Nirav C. Patel, MD, – Lenox Hill Hospital

    Adult Cardiac

  • My experience with more than 2000 Robotic MIDCABG

    Francis P. Sutter, DO – Lankenau Medical Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • Robotic BITA harvesting

    Gianluca Torregrossa, MD, MEBCTS – Main Line Health

    Adult Cardiac

  • Role of Hybrid Revascularization: the Cardiologist point of view

    Roxana Mehran, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY

    Adult Cardiac

  • Direct Vision/Thoracoscopic BITA harvest

    Rodrigo Ribeiro de Souza, MD – UCSF

    Adult Cardiac

  • How to deploy bilateral thoracic arteries in MIDCABG

    Wouter Oosterlinck, MSc, PhD – KU Leuven

    Adult Cardiac

  • Incomplete revascularization at the time of multiarterial grafting. Are BITA the only thing we need?

    Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD – The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Adult Cardiac

  • The ideal path on transition from open chest CABG to multi arterial Robotic CABG

    John D. Puskas, MD – Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York

    Adult Cardiac

  • On Demand CT Education/Wellness/Quality

    Education/Quality/Wellness

  • Assessment of Financial Conflicts of Interest in Cardiothoracic Robotic Surgery Studies

    Manish M. Karamchandani, MD – Department of Surgery, Tufts Medical Center

    Education/Quality/Wellness

  • Global Makeup of Cardiothoracic Surgeons as Represented by Our Major Societies and Associations

    Barbara C S. Hamilton, MD, MAS – UCSF

    Education/Quality/Wellness

  • Perioperative neurological complications associated with cardiac surgery & critical care – how clear is the picture?

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Neuropathology of brain injury and strategies for early detection in cardiac surgery

    Jonathon P. Fanning, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FANZCA, FCICM – University of Queensland

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Neurovascular sequelae of Cardiac Surgery

    Steven Messé, MD – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvanna

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Neurovascular and cognitive sequelae of cardiac surgery

    Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC – University of Manitoba/St. Boniface Hospital

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Technical aspects and surgical approaches to minimising neurological complications

    Michael Vallely, PhD, FRACS – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Brain injury in ECMO: cardinal considerations for initiation and management

    Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS – Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Where to from here - the future of brain protection in cardiac surgery/intensive care

    Glenn Whitman, MD – Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Cardiopulmonary Failure

  • Rapid Fire Patient Safety Rounds: A New Paradigm for Safety Discourse

    Susan Moffatt-Bruce – Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

    Garrett Walsh, MD – The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

    Edgar Chedrawy – Dalhousie University

    Steven Harrington, MD MBA – Independent Healthcare Quality and Development Advisor

    Felix Orelaru, MD – St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor

    Kumari N. Adams, MD – St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Hospital

    Joel Bierer, MD – Dalhousie University

    Kristen Errico

    Christopher Feindel, MD,MSc – Toronto General Hospital

  • STS/SVS: Integration, Collaboration, and Innovation

    Anthony L. Estrera, MD – McGovern Medical School University of Texas Health Sciences Center/ Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute

    Grace J. Wang, MD, MSCE – Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    Adult Cardiac

  • Education: Training in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, a Traditional Perspective

    Marvin D. Atkins, Jr., MD – Houston Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Associates

    Adult Cardiac

  • Education: Training in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, an Integrated Perspective

    Jennifer Perri, MD, MBA – UCSF

    Adult Cardiac

  • Treating the Aorta Together: Models for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Collaboration

    Hiroo Takayama, MD, PhD – Columbia University Medical Center

    Virendra Patel, MD MPH – NYP-Columbia University Medical Center

    Adult Cardiac

  • On the Forefront: Endovascular TAAA Repair in Action (Case Presentations)

    A. Claire Watkins, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine

    Adult Cardiac

  • Sublobar Resection and Occult Nodal Disease

    General Thoracic

  • Expert Opinion on Large Database Research

    Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc – Emory University

    General Thoracic

  • Is there a Role for Completion Lobectomy for Clinical Stage Ia Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Occult Lymph Node Disease?

    Peter Kneuertz, MD – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    General Thoracic

  • Lobar Versus Sublobar Resection in Clinical Stage IA Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients with Occult N2 Disease

    Michelle Chan – Stanford University School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • Surgical Videos
  • Aortic Valve-Sparing Reconstruction of Marfanoid-Type Bicuspid Aortic Root Aneurysm

    Melissa Levack, MD – Vanderbilt University

    Adult Cardiac

  • Biventricular Repair of Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum, Hypoplastic Right Ventricle, and Ebstein's Anomaly -- A Surgical Challenge

    Alexander F. Merriman, MS – University of California, San Francisco

    Congenital

  • Infrared Thoracoscopic Pulmonary Segmentectomy For An Unpalpable Tumor With Intravenous Indocyanine Green Administration Using Preoperative Simulation

    Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD – Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital

    General Thoracic

  • Laryngotracheal Resection and Reconstruction Following Neoadjuvant BRAF Inhibition with Dabrafenib/Trametinib for Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma.

    Johnathan Kent, MD – University of Chicago

    General Thoracic

  • Left Paratracheal Paraganglioma Robotic Resection

    Facundo Iriarte – Fox Chase Cancer Center - TUH

    General Thoracic

  • Lung Base-Flipped Approach for a Robotic Subsegmentectomy of the Right Posterior-Basilar Segment (S10b)

    Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS – Shinshu University

    General Thoracic

  • Minimally Invasive Management of Dysphagia Lusoria secondary to Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery

    Robert D. Allman – East Carolina University

    General Thoracic

  • Neonatal Aortic Arch Reconstruction Using Non-Valved Femoral Vein Homograft: An Alternative to Conventional Arch Reconstruction for High-Risk Neonates

    Kyle G. Mitchell, MD – Division of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, University of Texas McGovern Medical School

    Congenital

  • Preoperative Imaging and Surgical Technique: How to Complete a Robotic-Assisted VATS Complex Basilar Segmentectomy

    Matthew L. Inra, MD – Lenox Hill Hospital - Northwell Health

    General Thoracic

  • Robot Assisted Right VATS Truncal Vagotomy for Marginal Ulcers Following Gastric Bypass Surgery

    Joseph P. Bethea – East Carolina University

    General Thoracic

  • Robotic Enucleation of an Intrapulmonary Solitary Fibrous Tumor Encasing the Pulmonary Artery

    Qiudong (Kevin) Chen, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    General Thoracic

  • Robotic Resection of Pulmonary Sequestration with Fluorescence Image-Guidance

    Benjamin Wei, MD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    General Thoracic

  • Robotic-Assisted Repair of Morgagni Hernia Using Pre-Peritoneal Mesh

    Garrett Klutts, MD – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

    General Thoracic

  • Teaching Posterior Approach for Robotic-Assisted Right Upper Lobectomy

    Robert James Cerfolio, MD, MBA, FACS, FACCP – NYU Langone

    General Thoracic

  • Totally 3D-Endoscopic Repair of Two-Chambered Right Ventricle

    Riku Kato – Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital

    Congenital

  • The Modern General Thoracic Surgery Outpatient Practice

    General Thoracic

  • Modern Informed Consent

    Robert Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS – University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • Prehabilitaiton

    Thomas K. Varghese, Jr., MD, MS, FACS – University of Utah School of Medicine

    General Thoracic

  • Smoking Cessation

    Matthew A. Steliga, MD – University of Arkansas

    General Thoracic

  • Virtual Visits

    David Tom Cooke, MD – University of California, Davis Medical Center

    General Thoracic