STS IG Live Series

Event
The First Five Years in Practice

Sep 16, 2025
Virtual
STS Webinar Series

Webinar
STS Webinar Series: Mobile Lung Cancer Screenings

This 30-minute session expands on the STS Roadmap to Mobile Lung Cancer Screenings and examines the intricacies of mobile cancer screening units and how they operate. The event is open to all interested in creating or expanding a mobile cancer screening initiative at their institution.
 

Moderator 

Elliot L. Servais, MD
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Burlington, MA

 

7 p.m. ET
STS Webinar Series

Webinar
Latin Lung Rounds: Infectious Thoracic Diseases

This webinar will review significant lung infections such as costicercosis, tuberculosis and hidatidosis. Our expert panel with US and LATAM speakers will go over controversial topics on these 3 diseases, including state-of-the-art management and different options in surgical approach.
1 p.m. ET
AQO 2025

Event
2025 Advances in Quality & Outcomes: A Data Managers Meeting

Discussions on valuable research and important clinical findings with the goal of improving data collection and patient outcomes.
Sep 25–26, 2025
San Antonio, TX
STS Webinar Series

Webinar
STS Webinar Series: Updates to the Treatment Landscape in NSCLC — Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant

This webinar will explore the evolving landscape of neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment for lung cancer. Oncologists and surgeon experts will highlight the latest data, including immunotherapy and targeted mutation strategies from ASCO and WCLC, and examine how these advances impact surgical decision-making, techniques, and patient outcomes. A live discussion will address key controversies, including the role of radiation and adjuvant therapy choices. 

Supported by AstraZeneca

Moderator

Joseph Shrager, MD
Stanford University 
Palo Alto, CA

7 p.m. ET
STS Leadership Institute banner

Event
STS Leadership Institute 2025-26

An opportunity for early and mid-career STS surgeon members to learn how to lead in and out of the OR.
Oct 16, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026
Zoom, Chicago, and New Orleans
Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference

Event
2025 STS/EACTS/LACES Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference

Dec 4–6, 2025
Lima, Peru
STS 2026 Teaching for Tomorrow Together Jan. 28 - Feb 1, New Orleans

Event
62nd STS Annual Meeting

The premier annual event in cardiothoracic surgery, unveiling never-before-seen science, techniques, and technology, and creating a forum to build lasting connections with colleagues.
Jan 29 – Feb 1, 2026
New Orleans, LA

Past Events and Webinars

early career journey webinars

Webinar
Early Career Journey: Pathway to STS Involvement and Leadership

Hear about the invaluable benefits of becoming an active and involved member of STS, your career journey partner. Involvement opportunities to be discussed include joining a task force or workforce, becoming an advocate on healthcare policy, and developing new tools and resources to improve patient care.

Webinar Series

Webinar
Latin Heart Rounds: Rounds on a Patient with Prosthetic Aortic Endocarditis

A Spanish-language webinar on current guidelines, indications, and preoperative imaging studies on patients with prosthetic aortic endocarditis
1 hr. 31 min.
2024 STS Workshop on Robotic Cardiac Surgery

Event
2024 STS Workshop on Robotic Cardiac Surgery

Hands-on team training in robotic mitral valve repair, coronary bypass, and more.
May 9–10, 2024
Peachtree Corners, GA
Webinar Series

Webinar
Robotic Bronchoscopy: Managing Sub-Centimeter Lung Cancer Tumors Together

In part two of the Robotic Thoracic Surgery webinar series, experts will discuss how a collaborative thoracic and pulmonary robotic approach is expanding thoracic oncology. Through increased lung cancer screening and incidental pulmonary nodule programs, the management of 8-10 mm pulmonary nodules in high-risk patients has come to the forefront, especially with the growing adoption of robotic navigational bronchoscopy and its associated greater precision. This webinar will explore best practices and current technology in the pulmonary and thoracic fields, as well as emerging therapies.

1 hr. 10 min.
STS Mock Oral Exam Course (seated panel of judges in lab coats)

Event
2024 STS Mock Oral Exam Course

Demystify the Oral Board Exam with STS Prep
Apr 16 – May 7, 2024
Virtual
Webinar Series

Webinar
Robotic Thoracic Surgery: How to Manage Emergencies and Difficult Cases

During this STS webinar, the first of two exploring robotic thoracic surgery, attendees will learn how to manage an airway injury and other challenging cases, when to control robotically versus conversion, and when to open before an emergency. The expert faculty will also discuss how to establish a simulation program at your institution.

Moderators

Jason M. Long, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Lana Y. Schumacher, MD
Tufts University
Boston, MA

1 hr. 1 min.