Thank you, Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, for visiting Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships and sharing your invaluable expertise in lung transplantation at the David M. Underwood Lecture. Your insights and innovations inspire our pursuit of excellence in thoracic surgery.

Congratulations to Dr. Mahnoor Zia Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting her video "Enhancing Conduit Straightness: Novel Pleural Closure Technique in Robotic Ivor Lewis Esophagectomy" for presentation at AATS Annual Meeting 2025 AATS !

It was incredible hearing Dr. Jennifer Doudna at #STS2025! Her groundbreaking discovery of CRISPR continues to revolutionize science and medicine. Gained valuable insights into the future of gene editing and its potential impact on our field. #CRISPR #Innovation #ThoracicSurgery

Congratulations to Dr. Tomasso Cambiaghi Houston Methodist CV Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting his paper "Impact of intraoperative C-arm 3D imaging on the diagnostic yield of robotic shape sensing navigation transbronchial biopsy" accepted for publication Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports!

Watch the robot-assisted left upper lobe trisegmentectomy as part of our video-based curriculum Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships youtu.be/5mnDTiF_uyM?si… via YouTube

Congratulations to Dr. Tommaso Cambiaghi Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training Houston Methodist for publishing his paper "Impact of Intraoperative C-arm 3D imaging on diagnostic yield of Robotic Shape-sensing navigation transbronchial biopsy! Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.atss…

Congratulations to Priya Arunachalam Priya Arunachalam, MD, MBA, MEng Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting her paper "Surgical Resection of a Single Colorectal Lung Metastasis is Associated with Best Survival" Journal of Surgical Research! Excellent work!

Patients with single metastatic colorectal cancer to lung should have evaluation by a thoracic surgeon for surgical resection! Congratulations to Priya Arunachalam, MD, MBA, MEng Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for her publication in Journal of Surgical Research ! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kyo2578XloAl

Congratulations to Dr. Anuj Shah DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training Houston Methodist MD for getting his manuscript " Using Vizient Database for Benchmarking Pulmonary Resection Outcomes for publication in Journal of Thoracic Disease!

Congratulations to Samar Semaan and Jerry Xiao Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting their paper "Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Repair of Pericardial Hernia in a Heart Transplant Patient." accepted for publication Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports !

Congratulations to Mahnoor Zia Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for her presentation "Enhancing Conduit Straightness: Novel Pleural Closure Technique in Robotic Ivory Lewis Esophagectomy"! at #AATS2025 !

Congratulations to Samar Semaan and Rodrigo Jacobucci Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting their video "Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Repair of a Type III hiatal hernia using EndoFLIP as a Bougie" accepted for presentation at ACS Clinical Congress 2025!

Congratulations to Parth Malaviya EnMedStudents and Anuj Shah DeBakey CV Education - World Class CV Training Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting their video "Shape-sensing Robotic Bronchoscopy in Lateral Decubitus Position for Precise Lung Nodule Localization and Resection." accepted for presentation at ACS CC2025!

Congratulations to Kendall Howard Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting his video "Optimizing Robotic Left Upper lobe Trisegmentectomy: Enhancing Precision with EndoLeader and ICG Anography" for presentation at ACS CC2025!

Congratulations to Steven Ellen Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting his video "Robotic Enucleation of Esophageal Mass using Suture Manipulation" accepted for presentation at ACS CC2025!

We are very excited to have our study from Division of Thoracic Surgery Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships "Distensibility Index measured after Toupet fundoplication is associated with Long-Term Dysphagia" accepted for publication in Surgical Endoscopy !

Congratulations to Samar Semaan and Dr. Kendall Howard Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting their abstract "Age is Just a Number: Outcomes of Robotic Hiatal Hernia Repair in Octogenarians" accepted for oral presentation at #STSA2025 Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) meeting!

Congratulations to Dr. Madhivanan Elango Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships for getting his study "Increased Adoption of Robotic Lobectomy and Improved Outcomes: Evidence from the Nationwide Readmission Database." accepted for presentation at #STSA2025 Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) !

Congratulations to Dr. Anuj Shah Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships Houston Methodist CV for getting his manuscript "Factors associated with next day discharge after pulmonary lobectomy." accepted for publication Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports !

Check out our publication "Using Vizient database for benchmarking pulmonary resection outcomes" by Anuj Shah Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Surgery Residency & Fellowships Houston Methodist CV Great way to keep track of outcomes if your hospital has Vizient, Inc. jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/1…