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Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Announcements
View full Saturday and Sunday programs online: www.aats.org/annualmeeting. Sunday Symposia Legends Luncheon Renowned cardiothoracic surgeons will share their experiences during the interactive Legends Luncheons on Sunday at each of the Postgraduate Symposia. This is a unique opportunity to hear from the true pioneers in cardiothoracic surgery. Legends Luncheon Speakers Magdi Yacoub, Imperial College, London Jean Deslauriers, IUCPQ, Canada
Analyze outcomes research and clinical research networks Assess the structure and components of a grant Identify extramural program and funding opportunities— NCI and NHLBI Understand the steps to becoming an NIH investigator The deadline for registration is Friday, February 6, 2013. For additional information on the workshop program, housing, and to register, please visit www.aats.org.
You must be registered for a Sunday Postgraduate Symposia to attend the Legends Luncheons.
2015 AATS Leadership Academy Applications
Saturday and Sunday Registration Covers All Courses/ Symposium for the Day
Friday, April 24, 2015, Seattle, WA For current and future CTS Division Chiefs/Department Chairs (Immediately prior to the AATS Annual Meeting)
When you register for the Saturday course and Sunday symposia, you will be able to attend any of the courses or symposia taking place on that day. You will be asked to select a main course or symposia each day so that you can receive the related syllabi. Registration and Housing for the Annual Meeting will open in December. For more information, please visit www.aats.org/annualmeeting.
2015 AATS Grant Writing Workshop March 6, 2015, Bethesda, MD Organized by the AATS Scientific Affairs and Government Relations Committee, the 2015 AATS Grant Writing Workshop will take place on Friday, March 6, 2015, at the Doubletree Bethesda in Bethesda, MD (9 miles from Washington, DC). This full-day program is designed for all levels of academic cardiothoracic surgeons interested in applying for grants. The workshop will provide attendees with a better understanding of the complex nature of preparing and submitting grant proposals along with the techniques required to ensure submissions are of the highest quality. Through a didactic session, interactive panel discussions and a mock study session, attendees will work with well-known leaders in cardiothoracic surgery and NIH Staff to achieve the following: Create career development and training grants
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Journals Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2448
The 2015 AATS Leadership Academy is an intensive, didactic, and interactive program for up to 20 surgeons who have demonstrated significant promise as potential future division chiefs or who have recently assumed the role of division chief. The goal of this program is to provide participants with the administrative, interpersonal, mentoring, and negotiating skills necessary to serve successfully as a division chief while also offering an opportunity to network with well-known thoracic surgical leaders who might subsequently serve as personal mentors after the conclusion of the program. For additional information regarding the Academy, please visit www.aats.org. Interested applicants should meet the following qualifications before applying: Achieved the rank of Associate Professor Active/successful clinical surgeon Evidence of local institutional and/or state/regional leadership ability Evidence of academic productivity including peerreviewed publications and presentations at regional or national scientific meetings Funded research is preferable but not essential Applications for consideration must be submitted electronically at www.aats.org by November 30, 2014. Participants will be selected by the Leadership Academy Committee and notified no later than February 5, 2015.
Readers who found the articles in this issue interesting may also like to read these papers that can be found in recent and future issues of our sister publications, Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery!
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery c November 2014
Announcements
GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY Thoracic Oncology: Seminars: Current Readings: Management of N2 Disease for Lung Cancer—Dennis Wigle. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):67-70. Current Readings: Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer—Phillip Boiselle. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Winter;25(4):323-7. Current Readings: Blood-based Biomarkers for Lung Cancer—William Rom. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Winter;25(4):328-34. State of the Art: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Immunotherapy—Nagashree Seetharamu. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014 Spring; 26(1):26-35. News and Views: Novel induction therapies for pleural mesothelioma—Marc de Perrot. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Present status of lymph node mapping for lung cancer—Yolonda Colson. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: The new Lung Cancer Adenocarcinoma: Classification and prognosis what the surgeon should know—Prasad Adusumilli. Expected publication December 2014. Current Readings: Ablation techniques for Pulmonary Mestastases—Robert Suh. Expected publication December 2014. Other Thoracic Surgical Papers: Seminars: Current Readings: The Role of Stenting in Tracheobronchial Disease—Faiz Bhora. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):71-5. Current Readings: Uniportal VATS—David Zeltsman (expected publication December 2014). Op Techs: Management of Midesophageal or Epiphrenic Diverticulum—Rishindra Reddy. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):2-17.
Localization techniques for small lung nodules—Eric Grogan. Expected publication November 2014. Repair of Pectus Excavatum: minimally invasive approach— Donald Nuss. Expected publication December 2014. Repair of Pectus Excavatum: open approach—John Kucharczuk. Expected publication December 2014. ACQUIRED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES Coronary Artery Disease: Seminars: News and Views: Editorials on Multiple Arterial Grafting by Brian Buxton and Stephen Fremes. Expected publication December 2014. Discussion in Cardiothoracic Treatment and Care: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting – John Puskas, Harold Lazar, Michael Mack, Joseph Sabik, David Taggart. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014 Spring;26(1):75-94. News and Views: Role of PCI in the Treatment of Left Main Coronary Disease—A. P. Kappetein. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Post-CABG antiplatelet therapy—Victor Ferraris. Expected publication December 2014. Op Techs: Repair of Postinfarct Ventricular Septal Defect: Anterior Apical Ventricular Septal Defect—John Conte. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):96-114. Repair of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect: Posterior Inferior Ventricular Septal Defect—Thomas Gleason. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):115-26. VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: Seminars: Current Readings: David Procedure and Aortic Valve Sparing Surgery—Tirone David. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease—Y. Joseph Woo. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring; 26(1)36-43. Current Readings: Status of Surgical Treatment for Endocarditis—John Byrne. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):53-66.
Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hiatus Hernia Repair—Phillip Carrott. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):18-29.
News and Views: Early Intervention in the Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation—Rakesh Suri. Expected Publication October 2014.
Navigational bronchoscopy—Otis Rickman. Expected publication November 2014.
News and Views: CorValve Trial—Michael Reardon. Expected publication December 2014.
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Announcements
Op Techs: Hybrid Staged repair of extensive Thoracoabdominal aneurysms—Ravi Ghanta. Expected publication November 2014. Trans-catheter MV repair—Gorav Ailawadi. Expected publication November 2014. Aortic Disease: Seminars: State of the Art: Current Understandings and Approach to the Management of Aortic Intramural Hematoma—Thoralf Sundt. Expected publication October 2014. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Seminars: Current Readings: Adult Congenital Surgery: Long Term Management of Successful Management in the Pediatric Population—Jeffrey Jacobs. Expected publication October 2014.
News and Views: Mechanical Circulatory Assist Device Development at the Texas Heart Institute—O. Howard Frazier. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):4-13. Op Techs: Heart Transplantation after Left Ventricular Assist Device— Carmelo Milano. Expected publication November 2014. Bilateral lung transplantation—evolution to simplify— Mani Daneshmand. Expected publication November 2014. Ambulatory ECMO, VV, VA, and VV-VA—Charles Hoopes. Expected publication November 2014. Techniques for DCD Organ Procurement—Pankaj Saxena. Expected publication December 2014. VA ECMO techniques, peripheral and central for cardiogenic shock—Ashok Babu. Expected publication December 2014.
Op Techs MRI in decision making for complex Bivalve repairs and 3D models—Shi-Joon Yoo. Expected Publication December 2014.
Non-sternotomy approaches to LVAD Placement—Left Thoracotomy—Simon Maltais. Expected publication December 2014.
Valve Sparing Konno and HOCM in Kids—Pascal Vouhe. Expected publication December 2014.
Non-sternotomy approaches to LVAD placement—Left subcostal and right mini-thoracotomy— Anelechi Anyanwu. Expected publication December 2014.
Alternative Techniques for the Fontan Operation—Kirk Kanter. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring; 19(1)64-79. Heart Transplant: Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease—Jonathan Chen. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1)30-46. Implantation of HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device in Pediatric Population—Vivek Rao. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):80-95. CARDIOPULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION AND MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT Seminars: News and Views: The 1000th VAD, The Great Rivalry, and the Grand Experiment of the Texas Medical Center—Todd Rosengart. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Sping;26(1):1-3.
The AATS Graham Foundation In Its 41st Year, the AATS Graham Foundation Announces New Specialty Programs
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EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY AND BASIC SCIENCE Seminars: State of the Art: The Promise and Challenges of Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy—Richard Weisel. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):44-52. CARDIOTHORACIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING Seminars: News and Views: Integrated Surgical Residency Initiative: Implications For Cardiothoracic Surgery—John Ikonomidis and Editorial Commentary—Ara Vaporciyan. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):14-26. Discussion in Cardiothoracic Treatment and Care: Manpower—Richard Shemin, David Fullerton, John Ikonomidis, John Mayer, Cameron Wright. Expected publication December 2014.
Over the past year, new fellowship programs for international professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students have been developed that provide specialized educational and training opportunities.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery c November 2014
View full Saturday and Sunday programs online: www.aats.org/annualmeeting. Sunday Symposia Legends Luncheon Renowned cardiothoracic surgeons will share their experiences during the interactive Legends Luncheons on Sunday at each of the Postgraduate Symposia. This is a unique opportunity to hear from the true pioneers in cardiothoracic surgery. Legends Luncheon Speakers Magdi Yacoub, Imperial College, London Jean Deslauriers, IUCPQ, Canada
Analyze outcomes research and clinical research networks Assess the structure and components of a grant Identify extramural program and funding opportunities— NCI and NHLBI Understand the steps to becoming an NIH investigator The deadline for registration is Friday, February 6, 2013. For additional information on the workshop program, housing, and to register, please visit www.aats.org.
You must be registered for a Sunday Postgraduate Symposia to attend the Legends Luncheons.
2015 AATS Leadership Academy Applications
Saturday and Sunday Registration Covers All Courses/ Symposium for the Day
Friday, April 24, 2015, Seattle, WA For current and future CTS Division Chiefs/Department Chairs (Immediately prior to the AATS Annual Meeting)
When you register for the Saturday course and Sunday symposia, you will be able to attend any of the courses or symposia taking place on that day. You will be asked to select a main course or symposia each day so that you can receive the related syllabi. Registration and Housing for the Annual Meeting will open in December. For more information, please visit www.aats.org/annualmeeting.
2015 AATS Grant Writing Workshop March 6, 2015, Bethesda, MD Organized by the AATS Scientific Affairs and Government Relations Committee, the 2015 AATS Grant Writing Workshop will take place on Friday, March 6, 2015, at the Doubletree Bethesda in Bethesda, MD (9 miles from Washington, DC). This full-day program is designed for all levels of academic cardiothoracic surgeons interested in applying for grants. The workshop will provide attendees with a better understanding of the complex nature of preparing and submitting grant proposals along with the techniques required to ensure submissions are of the highest quality. Through a didactic session, interactive panel discussions and a mock study session, attendees will work with well-known leaders in cardiothoracic surgery and NIH Staff to achieve the following: Create career development and training grants
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Journals Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2448
The 2015 AATS Leadership Academy is an intensive, didactic, and interactive program for up to 20 surgeons who have demonstrated significant promise as potential future division chiefs or who have recently assumed the role of division chief. The goal of this program is to provide participants with the administrative, interpersonal, mentoring, and negotiating skills necessary to serve successfully as a division chief while also offering an opportunity to network with well-known thoracic surgical leaders who might subsequently serve as personal mentors after the conclusion of the program. For additional information regarding the Academy, please visit www.aats.org. Interested applicants should meet the following qualifications before applying: Achieved the rank of Associate Professor Active/successful clinical surgeon Evidence of local institutional and/or state/regional leadership ability Evidence of academic productivity including peerreviewed publications and presentations at regional or national scientific meetings Funded research is preferable but not essential Applications for consideration must be submitted electronically at www.aats.org by November 30, 2014. Participants will be selected by the Leadership Academy Committee and notified no later than February 5, 2015.
Readers who found the articles in this issue interesting may also like to read these papers that can be found in recent and future issues of our sister publications, Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery!
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery c November 2014
Announcements
GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY Thoracic Oncology: Seminars: Current Readings: Management of N2 Disease for Lung Cancer—Dennis Wigle. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):67-70. Current Readings: Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer—Phillip Boiselle. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Winter;25(4):323-7. Current Readings: Blood-based Biomarkers for Lung Cancer—William Rom. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Winter;25(4):328-34. State of the Art: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Immunotherapy—Nagashree Seetharamu. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014 Spring; 26(1):26-35. News and Views: Novel induction therapies for pleural mesothelioma—Marc de Perrot. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Present status of lymph node mapping for lung cancer—Yolonda Colson. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: The new Lung Cancer Adenocarcinoma: Classification and prognosis what the surgeon should know—Prasad Adusumilli. Expected publication December 2014. Current Readings: Ablation techniques for Pulmonary Mestastases—Robert Suh. Expected publication December 2014. Other Thoracic Surgical Papers: Seminars: Current Readings: The Role of Stenting in Tracheobronchial Disease—Faiz Bhora. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):71-5. Current Readings: Uniportal VATS—David Zeltsman (expected publication December 2014). Op Techs: Management of Midesophageal or Epiphrenic Diverticulum—Rishindra Reddy. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):2-17.
Localization techniques for small lung nodules—Eric Grogan. Expected publication November 2014. Repair of Pectus Excavatum: minimally invasive approach— Donald Nuss. Expected publication December 2014. Repair of Pectus Excavatum: open approach—John Kucharczuk. Expected publication December 2014. ACQUIRED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES Coronary Artery Disease: Seminars: News and Views: Editorials on Multiple Arterial Grafting by Brian Buxton and Stephen Fremes. Expected publication December 2014. Discussion in Cardiothoracic Treatment and Care: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting – John Puskas, Harold Lazar, Michael Mack, Joseph Sabik, David Taggart. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014 Spring;26(1):75-94. News and Views: Role of PCI in the Treatment of Left Main Coronary Disease—A. P. Kappetein. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Post-CABG antiplatelet therapy—Victor Ferraris. Expected publication December 2014. Op Techs: Repair of Postinfarct Ventricular Septal Defect: Anterior Apical Ventricular Septal Defect—John Conte. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):96-114. Repair of Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect: Posterior Inferior Ventricular Septal Defect—Thomas Gleason. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):115-26. VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: Seminars: Current Readings: David Procedure and Aortic Valve Sparing Surgery—Tirone David. Expected publication December 2014. State of the Art: Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease—Y. Joseph Woo. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring; 26(1)36-43. Current Readings: Status of Surgical Treatment for Endocarditis—John Byrne. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):53-66.
Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hiatus Hernia Repair—Phillip Carrott. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):18-29.
News and Views: Early Intervention in the Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation—Rakesh Suri. Expected Publication October 2014.
Navigational bronchoscopy—Otis Rickman. Expected publication November 2014.
News and Views: CorValve Trial—Michael Reardon. Expected publication December 2014.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery c Volume 148, Number 5
2449
Announcements
Op Techs: Hybrid Staged repair of extensive Thoracoabdominal aneurysms—Ravi Ghanta. Expected publication November 2014. Trans-catheter MV repair—Gorav Ailawadi. Expected publication November 2014. Aortic Disease: Seminars: State of the Art: Current Understandings and Approach to the Management of Aortic Intramural Hematoma—Thoralf Sundt. Expected publication October 2014. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Seminars: Current Readings: Adult Congenital Surgery: Long Term Management of Successful Management in the Pediatric Population—Jeffrey Jacobs. Expected publication October 2014.
News and Views: Mechanical Circulatory Assist Device Development at the Texas Heart Institute—O. Howard Frazier. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):4-13. Op Techs: Heart Transplantation after Left Ventricular Assist Device— Carmelo Milano. Expected publication November 2014. Bilateral lung transplantation—evolution to simplify— Mani Daneshmand. Expected publication November 2014. Ambulatory ECMO, VV, VA, and VV-VA—Charles Hoopes. Expected publication November 2014. Techniques for DCD Organ Procurement—Pankaj Saxena. Expected publication December 2014. VA ECMO techniques, peripheral and central for cardiogenic shock—Ashok Babu. Expected publication December 2014.
Op Techs MRI in decision making for complex Bivalve repairs and 3D models—Shi-Joon Yoo. Expected Publication December 2014.
Non-sternotomy approaches to LVAD Placement—Left Thoracotomy—Simon Maltais. Expected publication December 2014.
Valve Sparing Konno and HOCM in Kids—Pascal Vouhe. Expected publication December 2014.
Non-sternotomy approaches to LVAD placement—Left subcostal and right mini-thoracotomy— Anelechi Anyanwu. Expected publication December 2014.
Alternative Techniques for the Fontan Operation—Kirk Kanter. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring; 19(1)64-79. Heart Transplant: Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease—Jonathan Chen. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1)30-46. Implantation of HeartWare Left Ventricular Assist Device in Pediatric Population—Vivek Rao. Oper Tech Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;19(1):80-95. CARDIOPULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION AND MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT Seminars: News and Views: The 1000th VAD, The Great Rivalry, and the Grand Experiment of the Texas Medical Center—Todd Rosengart. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Sping;26(1):1-3.
The AATS Graham Foundation In Its 41st Year, the AATS Graham Foundation Announces New Specialty Programs
2450
EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY AND BASIC SCIENCE Seminars: State of the Art: The Promise and Challenges of Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy—Richard Weisel. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):44-52. CARDIOTHORACIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING Seminars: News and Views: Integrated Surgical Residency Initiative: Implications For Cardiothoracic Surgery—John Ikonomidis and Editorial Commentary—Ara Vaporciyan. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Spring;26(1):14-26. Discussion in Cardiothoracic Treatment and Care: Manpower—Richard Shemin, David Fullerton, John Ikonomidis, John Mayer, Cameron Wright. Expected publication December 2014.
Over the past year, new fellowship programs for international professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students have been developed that provide specialized educational and training opportunities.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery c November 2014