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Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Journal Pre-proof Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons John C. Kerpan PII:
S0003-4975(20)30224-1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.02.003
Reference:
ATS 33497
To appear in:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Received Date: 18 February 2020
Please cite this article as: Kerpan JC, Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.02.003. This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. © 2020 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons More than 4100 surgeons, researchers, allied health care professionals, exhibitors, and others attended the STS 56th Annual Meeting, January 25-28, 2020, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in a variety of dynamic oral and hands-on educational sessions, learn about new products and services from exhibiting companies, network and build connections with their peers, and much more. The meeting began on Saturday morning with STS University courses, which allowed participants to practice various cardiothoracic surgery techniques with instruction from world-renowned experts. Twenty sessions focused on 10 topics, including a new course on cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The courses accommodated approximately 650 participants (more than 400 unique individuals). Tech-Con also was held on Saturday as a ticketed session of the Annual Meeting. More than 600 professional registrants heard about innovative techniques and approaches to solving clinical problems faced by adult cardiac and general thoracic surgeons. Highlights included new lunch and learn presentations from industry representatives, a keynote lecture on how to cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship in cardiothoracic surgery by Mark S. Cohen, MD, and Shark Tank presentations. Inventors pitched a soft robotic biventricular cardiac compression device for the treatment of acute heart failure syndrome, a chest drainage unit with an integrated carbon dioxide detector, catheters designed to stop brain damage during cardiac arrest, and a mixed-reality application for improving visualization in thoracic surgery. Following Saturday’s ticketed sessions, the Annual Meeting program for the next 3 days included more than 70 educational sessions with a mix of video-based presentations, scientific abstracts, and invited talks. Keynote Addresses Four keynote lectures were featured during plenary sessions on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The inaugural Vivien T. Thomas Lecture on Sunday honored the black laboratory supervisor who worked with surgeon Alfred Blalock, MD, to pioneer the pulmonary-tosubclavian anastomosis procedure. In his talk, “The Saga of Vivien Thomas: Discrimination, Segregation, and Bias,” Clyde W. Yancy, MD, emphasized why diversity and inclusion within the medical profession is essential to improving health outcomes. On Monday, Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, delivered his Presidential Address, “On Life, Leadership, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Later that day, Domenico Pagano, MD, FRCS(C-Th), FETCS, challenged the soundness of data that support the
practice of evidence-based medicine in the Thomas B. Ferguson Lecture, “M.E.G.A.: Make Evidence Great Again.” The meeting’s final keynote lecture was on Tuesday morning. In the C. Walton Lillehei Lecture, “Bumper Car Innovation of Heart Pumps and Mechanical Lungs,” Barley P. Griffith, MD, spoke about the remarkable achievements that have been made in heart pumps and oxygenators and explored possibilities for the future. Videos of all four keynote lectures are available on the Society’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/ThoracicSurgeons/videos. Outstanding Science Along with these distinguished invited lecturers, dozens of researchers presented at the meeting, sharing their scientific findings with eager audiences. Monday morning’s plenary session featured the three J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Papers, which were the top-rated abstracts in each discipline submitted for the meeting: Adult Cardiac Surgery—“Evaluating the Role of Failure to Rescue on Mortality after Cardiac Surgery”; General Thoracic Surgery—“Multi-institutional Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Intraoperative Molecular Imaging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”; and Congenital Heart Surgery—“National Landscape of Aortic Valve Replacement in Young and Middle-Aged Adults—Clarifying the Current and Potential Future Roles for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.” Additional noteworthy abstracts presented on Monday and Tuesday included the Richard E. Clark Memorial Papers, which utilized data from the STS National Database. The Adult Cardiac Surgery paper was “The Evolving Burden of Infective Endocarditis Due to Illicit Drug Use in the United States: An Analysis of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database,” the General Thoracic Surgery paper was “Contemporary Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery in the United States: Analysis of the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database,” and the Congenital Heart Surgery paper was “Diaphragm Paralysis following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: An STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database Study.” Joint Educational Sessions STS also collaborated with other professional medical organizations to plan educational sessions at the Annual Meeting, including: • • • • •
American College of Cardiology (Vivien T. Thomas Symposium: STS and ACC Diversity and Inclusion Efforts) American College of Chest Physicians (STS/CHEST: Optimizing Clinical Care for the Lung Cancer Patient—From Screening to Diagnosis and Treatment) Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/CATS: Surgery for Advanced Stage Cancer—When Is Out of Bounds Not Out of Bounds?) Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons (STS/CSCS: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery for the Pragmatic Idealist) European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (STS/EACTS: Bicuspid
• • • •
Aortic Valve Repair with Aortic Root Aneurysm—Techniques and Outcomes) European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/ESTS: Getting Out of Trouble— Rescue Surgery after Common Nightmare Situations) International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (STS/ISHLT Joint Symposium: Controversies in Thoracic Organ Failure) Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (STS/SCA: Cardiac and Thoracic Enhanced Recovery after Surgery) Society for Vascular Surgery (STS/SVS: What Would E. Stanley Crawford Think?)
Exhibits, Networking Opportunities While education is the primary reason why people attend the Annual Meeting, the opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the world also is a major benefit. At the Exhibit Hall opening reception on Sunday evening, attendees visited with more than 140 exhibiting companies and organizations, watched the international Jeopardy competition (during which the University of Michigan defeated Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin for the title), and listened to poster presenters discuss their research. Also on Sunday was the STS President’s Reception, attended by approximately 1,000 people. Held at Mardi Gras World, the event featured live music, Cajun cuisine, and an up-close look at elaborate parade floats. Annual Meeting Online Once again, the Society is offering the Annual Meeting Online product so that physicians can experience the dynamic educational offerings and earn CME credit from the comfort of their homes or offices. All meeting attendees receive the product for free, while non-attendees can purchase access. Annual Meeting Online features recordings of sessions from the live conference, including the keynote lectures, a thought-provoking session on transcatheter aortic valve replacement in low-risk patients, and how-to video sessions for each discipline. Up to 126.5 CME credits are available through January 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.sts.org/amonline. To see photos from the meeting and read the STS Meeting Bulletin newspaper, visit www.sts.org/annual-meeting-archive. New Officers, Directors Elected New STS officers and directors were elected during the Annual Membership (Business) Meeting on Monday, January 27. • • • •
President: Joseph A. Dearani, MD First Vice President: Sean C. Grondin, MD, MPH, FRCSC Second Vice President: John H. Calhoon, MD Public Director: Roger Newton, PhD, MS
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Directors-at-Large: Gregory P. Fontana, MD, Jennifer C. Romano, MD, and James S. Tweddell, MD
A full listing of the Society’s governance bodies can be found at www.sts.org/aboutsts/governance-and-leadership. At the Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, January 26, 46 new Active Members and 14 new International Members were approved for membership. A list of new members can be viewed at www.sts.org/new-members. Since the 2020 Annual Meeting, 130 Active Members, 44 International Members, 132 Candidate Members, 139 Pre-Candidate Members, and 127 Associate Members joined STS. The Society now has more than 7500 members. The success of the STS 56th Annual Meeting was due in large part to the exemplary commitment of the Workforce on Annual Meeting under the leadership of David Tom Cooke, MD (Workforce Chair), Andrew C. Chang, MD (Tech-Con Task Force CoChair), Ahmet Kilic, MD (STS University Task Force Co-Chair), Jennifer S. Lawton, MD (Program Task Force Vice Chair), Ibrahim Sultan, MD (Tech-Con Task Force CoChair), and Thomas K. Varghese Jr., MD, MS (STS University Task Force Co-Chair). The Society would like to thank the many member volunteers and their supportive families for their commitment to the specialty, as well as for the hard work and long hours they put in to develop and implement this highly successful meeting. The STS 57th Annual Meeting will be January 30-February 2, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Joseph F. Sabik, III, MD, Secretary
S0003-4975(20)30224-1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.02.003
Reference:
ATS 33497
To appear in:
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Received Date: 18 February 2020
Please cite this article as: Kerpan JC, Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.02.003. This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. © 2020 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons More than 4100 surgeons, researchers, allied health care professionals, exhibitors, and others attended the STS 56th Annual Meeting, January 25-28, 2020, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in a variety of dynamic oral and hands-on educational sessions, learn about new products and services from exhibiting companies, network and build connections with their peers, and much more. The meeting began on Saturday morning with STS University courses, which allowed participants to practice various cardiothoracic surgery techniques with instruction from world-renowned experts. Twenty sessions focused on 10 topics, including a new course on cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The courses accommodated approximately 650 participants (more than 400 unique individuals). Tech-Con also was held on Saturday as a ticketed session of the Annual Meeting. More than 600 professional registrants heard about innovative techniques and approaches to solving clinical problems faced by adult cardiac and general thoracic surgeons. Highlights included new lunch and learn presentations from industry representatives, a keynote lecture on how to cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship in cardiothoracic surgery by Mark S. Cohen, MD, and Shark Tank presentations. Inventors pitched a soft robotic biventricular cardiac compression device for the treatment of acute heart failure syndrome, a chest drainage unit with an integrated carbon dioxide detector, catheters designed to stop brain damage during cardiac arrest, and a mixed-reality application for improving visualization in thoracic surgery. Following Saturday’s ticketed sessions, the Annual Meeting program for the next 3 days included more than 70 educational sessions with a mix of video-based presentations, scientific abstracts, and invited talks. Keynote Addresses Four keynote lectures were featured during plenary sessions on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. The inaugural Vivien T. Thomas Lecture on Sunday honored the black laboratory supervisor who worked with surgeon Alfred Blalock, MD, to pioneer the pulmonary-tosubclavian anastomosis procedure. In his talk, “The Saga of Vivien Thomas: Discrimination, Segregation, and Bias,” Clyde W. Yancy, MD, emphasized why diversity and inclusion within the medical profession is essential to improving health outcomes. On Monday, Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, delivered his Presidential Address, “On Life, Leadership, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Later that day, Domenico Pagano, MD, FRCS(C-Th), FETCS, challenged the soundness of data that support the
practice of evidence-based medicine in the Thomas B. Ferguson Lecture, “M.E.G.A.: Make Evidence Great Again.” The meeting’s final keynote lecture was on Tuesday morning. In the C. Walton Lillehei Lecture, “Bumper Car Innovation of Heart Pumps and Mechanical Lungs,” Barley P. Griffith, MD, spoke about the remarkable achievements that have been made in heart pumps and oxygenators and explored possibilities for the future. Videos of all four keynote lectures are available on the Society’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/ThoracicSurgeons/videos. Outstanding Science Along with these distinguished invited lecturers, dozens of researchers presented at the meeting, sharing their scientific findings with eager audiences. Monday morning’s plenary session featured the three J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Papers, which were the top-rated abstracts in each discipline submitted for the meeting: Adult Cardiac Surgery—“Evaluating the Role of Failure to Rescue on Mortality after Cardiac Surgery”; General Thoracic Surgery—“Multi-institutional Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Intraoperative Molecular Imaging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”; and Congenital Heart Surgery—“National Landscape of Aortic Valve Replacement in Young and Middle-Aged Adults—Clarifying the Current and Potential Future Roles for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.” Additional noteworthy abstracts presented on Monday and Tuesday included the Richard E. Clark Memorial Papers, which utilized data from the STS National Database. The Adult Cardiac Surgery paper was “The Evolving Burden of Infective Endocarditis Due to Illicit Drug Use in the United States: An Analysis of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database,” the General Thoracic Surgery paper was “Contemporary Practice Patterns and Outcomes of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery in the United States: Analysis of the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database,” and the Congenital Heart Surgery paper was “Diaphragm Paralysis following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: An STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database Study.” Joint Educational Sessions STS also collaborated with other professional medical organizations to plan educational sessions at the Annual Meeting, including: • • • • •
American College of Cardiology (Vivien T. Thomas Symposium: STS and ACC Diversity and Inclusion Efforts) American College of Chest Physicians (STS/CHEST: Optimizing Clinical Care for the Lung Cancer Patient—From Screening to Diagnosis and Treatment) Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/CATS: Surgery for Advanced Stage Cancer—When Is Out of Bounds Not Out of Bounds?) Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons (STS/CSCS: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery for the Pragmatic Idealist) European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (STS/EACTS: Bicuspid
• • • •
Aortic Valve Repair with Aortic Root Aneurysm—Techniques and Outcomes) European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/ESTS: Getting Out of Trouble— Rescue Surgery after Common Nightmare Situations) International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (STS/ISHLT Joint Symposium: Controversies in Thoracic Organ Failure) Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (STS/SCA: Cardiac and Thoracic Enhanced Recovery after Surgery) Society for Vascular Surgery (STS/SVS: What Would E. Stanley Crawford Think?)
Exhibits, Networking Opportunities While education is the primary reason why people attend the Annual Meeting, the opportunity to connect with colleagues from around the world also is a major benefit. At the Exhibit Hall opening reception on Sunday evening, attendees visited with more than 140 exhibiting companies and organizations, watched the international Jeopardy competition (during which the University of Michigan defeated Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin for the title), and listened to poster presenters discuss their research. Also on Sunday was the STS President’s Reception, attended by approximately 1,000 people. Held at Mardi Gras World, the event featured live music, Cajun cuisine, and an up-close look at elaborate parade floats. Annual Meeting Online Once again, the Society is offering the Annual Meeting Online product so that physicians can experience the dynamic educational offerings and earn CME credit from the comfort of their homes or offices. All meeting attendees receive the product for free, while non-attendees can purchase access. Annual Meeting Online features recordings of sessions from the live conference, including the keynote lectures, a thought-provoking session on transcatheter aortic valve replacement in low-risk patients, and how-to video sessions for each discipline. Up to 126.5 CME credits are available through January 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.sts.org/amonline. To see photos from the meeting and read the STS Meeting Bulletin newspaper, visit www.sts.org/annual-meeting-archive. New Officers, Directors Elected New STS officers and directors were elected during the Annual Membership (Business) Meeting on Monday, January 27. • • • •
President: Joseph A. Dearani, MD First Vice President: Sean C. Grondin, MD, MPH, FRCSC Second Vice President: John H. Calhoon, MD Public Director: Roger Newton, PhD, MS
•
Directors-at-Large: Gregory P. Fontana, MD, Jennifer C. Romano, MD, and James S. Tweddell, MD
A full listing of the Society’s governance bodies can be found at www.sts.org/aboutsts/governance-and-leadership. At the Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, January 26, 46 new Active Members and 14 new International Members were approved for membership. A list of new members can be viewed at www.sts.org/new-members. Since the 2020 Annual Meeting, 130 Active Members, 44 International Members, 132 Candidate Members, 139 Pre-Candidate Members, and 127 Associate Members joined STS. The Society now has more than 7500 members. The success of the STS 56th Annual Meeting was due in large part to the exemplary commitment of the Workforce on Annual Meeting under the leadership of David Tom Cooke, MD (Workforce Chair), Andrew C. Chang, MD (Tech-Con Task Force CoChair), Ahmet Kilic, MD (STS University Task Force Co-Chair), Jennifer S. Lawton, MD (Program Task Force Vice Chair), Ibrahim Sultan, MD (Tech-Con Task Force CoChair), and Thomas K. Varghese Jr., MD, MS (STS University Task Force Co-Chair). The Society would like to thank the many member volunteers and their supportive families for their commitment to the specialty, as well as for the hard work and long hours they put in to develop and implement this highly successful meeting. The STS 57th Annual Meeting will be January 30-February 2, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Joseph F. Sabik, III, MD, Secretary