Coronary Conference Early Bird Registration Ends April 14
The 2022 STS Coronary Conference, June 4–5 in Ottawa, ON, Canada, will connect attendees with advanced educational content on the latest techniques for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. The agenda will feature didactic presentations, “How I Do It” video sessions, practical tips and tricks, and case-based panel discussions.
Presented by experts from around the globe, session topics will focus on the current state of revascularization, conduit selection and harvest, graft configuration, off- and on-pump CABG, endarterectomy, low ejection fraction, minimally invasive CABG, myocardial revascularization, CABG and fractional flow reserve, and postoperative medical therapy.
“This is the first STS conference entirely dedicated to advanced coronary artery surgery,” said program director Marc Ruel, MD, MPH, FRCSC, from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in Ontario, Canada. “It comes at the right time for cardiac surgeons, as so many new advances have taken place in coronary surgery over the last few years. The STS Coronary Conference will be very interactive and provide surgeons and trainees with practical tips and tools to enhance their skills, knowledge, and the overall care of their patients with coronary artery disease.”
Early bird discounts are available until April 14. For more information, see sts.org/coronaryconf.
It’s Time to Assemble a Team for CT Surgery Masters Showdown
Surgical residents are encouraged to find a partner and join the 2022 CT Surgery Masters Showdown, a Jeopardy-style competition of cognitive skills.
Two-person teams of residents will face off against one another in a test of knowledge in five cardiothoracic surgery categories—cardiac, congenital, thoracic, history of the specialty, and decision making. When a North American champion emerges, they’ll compete against the winning European team in a final competition at the 2023 STS Annual Meeting.
Registration opens June 1, and each individual participant will need to take an initial online qualifying exam. Visit sts.org/showdown for more information.
Annals Readers Favor Content on Unethical Research, Blood Management, Exercise Therapy
The most-downloaded articles on The Annals of Thoracic Surgery website in 2021 focused on a wide variety of topics, including ventricular septal defects, the aorta, unethical research studies, and mechanical heart valves.
Interestingly, one of the top articles—which highlights exercise therapy after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery—is among the most downloaded papers year after year. Others, such as the “Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management,” published in September 2021, demonstrate the continued importance of practice guidelines.
A subscription to The Annals is a benefit of STS membership. Log in to read any of these articles at annalsthoracicsurgery.org.
Coming Soon! Later this spring, the new open-access journal from STS—Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports—will issue a call for papers, which may include short-form original research related to clinical advances, current surgical methods, controversial topics and techniques, case and image reports, and more.
Visit www.journals.elsevier.com/annalsof-thoracic-surgery-short-reports to follow the updates.
Don’t Miss These Popular Podcast Episodes
The STS Surgical Hot Topics podcast generated 55,700 downloads in 2021, helped by the addition of a new series, “The Resilient Surgeon,” which features game changers in the wellness space who describe evidence-based practices and real-world strategies to help reduce burnout and achieve optimal performance. The popular “Same Surgeon, Different Light” podcast also returned in 2021 with a second season.
Of the 46 Surgical Hot Topics episodes published last year, the most downloaded were:
- Beyond the Abstract: Women in Thoracic Surgery Scholarship—Impact on Career Path and Interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery (June 30, 2021)
- The Resilient Surgeon: Dr. Robert Lustig (September 3, 2021)
- The Resilient Surgeon: Dr. Monique Valcour (July 9, 2021)
- The Resilient Surgeon: Wendy Wood (August 6, 2021)
- Same Surgeon, Different Light: Dr. Ourania Preventza (March 5, 2021)
Already in 2022, STS has published several podcast episodes, including “Same Surgeon, Different Light” interviews with Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD, MBA, Jacques Kpodonu, MD, Gail E. Darling, MD, Raja M. Flores, MD, Jennifer C. Romano, MD, MS, Sharon Ben-Or, MD, and Allan Pickens, MD. The final episode in Season 2 of Same Surgeon, featuring Edward P. Chen, MD, will air at the end of April.
Season 2 of The Resilient Surgeon will launch this summer.
All episodes are available at sts.org/podcast.