The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Global Cardiac Surgery Initiative STS Advocacy Robert Higgins, MD, MSHA Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD, LLM, FRCSC Luis D. Velazco Davila MD Bistra Zheleva 🫀❤️ Chip Bolman Victor Dayan Joe Bavaria, MD Team Heart Children's HeartLink EJCTS_ICVTS Patrick Myers J. Eulert-Grehn , MD Roberto Ribeiro Tamara Forrestal @vinck_e @GlobalARCH18 Emile BACHA Vinay Badhwar Alejandro Murillo, MD McMaster Cardiac Surgery Michigan CT Surgery Residency Weill Cornell Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgery Aspiring CT Surgeons @ASuarezPierre Hiba Ghandour Sugy Choi, PhD Woong-Han KIM World Heart Federation AHA Science Surgeons4UHC Mended Little Hearts amy verstappen Disty Pearson — Saurabh Gupta, MD MSc FRCSC Prof. Faustin NTIRENGANYA Krish Dewan AATS Journals CTSurgSocMedNetwork Adelina Mazhiqi Uma Parikh Marlee Sabatino @dukeHHproject Mayo Clinic Boston Children's IQIC AATS (54/56) And recognition of reverse/trickle-up innovation & co-development not to be underestimated. US healthcare = expensive, whereas #UHC models continue to seek cost reductions to improve efficiency. Pressing #GlobalCardiacSurgery costs in LMIC = pressing costs in HIC.#STS2020

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Global Cardiac Surgery Initiative STS Advocacy Robert Higgins, MD, MSHA Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD, LLM, FRCSC Luis D. Velazco Davila MD Bistra Zheleva 🫀❤️ Chip Bolman Victor Dayan Joe Bavaria, MD Team Heart Children's HeartLink EJCTS_ICVTS Patrick Myers J. Eulert-Grehn , MD Roberto Ribeiro Tamara Forrestal @vinck_e @GlobalARCH18 Emile BACHA Vinay Badhwar Alejandro Murillo, MD McMaster Cardiac Surgery Michigan CT Surgery Residency Weill Cornell Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgery Aspiring CT Surgeons @ASuarezPierre Hiba Ghandour Sugy Choi, PhD Woong-Han KIM World Heart Federation AHA Science Surgeons4UHC Mended Little Hearts amy verstappen Disty Pearson — Saurabh Gupta, MD MSc FRCSC Prof. Faustin NTIRENGANYA Krish Dewan AATS Journals CTSurgSocMedNetwork Adelina Mazhiqi Uma Parikh Marlee Sabatino @dukeHHproject Mayo Clinic Boston Children's IQIC AATS Fruitful individual #GlobalCardiacSurgery discussions at #STS2020 - hoping for platform at #AATS2020 & #STS2021. Much data in pipeline to make stronger arguments, but much left to answer. Much interest growing & experience to leverage, but inclusive professional platform needed.

Finally in print! Getting patients home sooner after minimally invasive heart valve surgery. Thanks to great surgeons and mentors at Rutgers RWJMedSchool Rutgers RWJMS Surgery #lennylee Mark Russo #anthonylemaire #hirohisaikegami Alexis K Okoh, MD Joshua C. Chao, MD, JD Anna Olds authors.elsevier.com/a/1eCIyovKVsPp

Graft survival after heart #transplant has improved 54% relative to 1989, despite a concurrent rise in pretransplant risk. Thank you The Annals of Thoracic Surgery! Grateful for mentors like #SokoSetoguchi Rutgers Institute for Health and Mark Russo Rutgers RWJMedSchool. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eHi-ovKVsmS

Leading up to the 2018 policy change in heart allocation, our findings summarize 30 years of progress in #transplant outcomes. Looking forward to learning where the last few years have taken us. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eHi-ovKVsmS #CTsurgery #thoracicsurgery #heartfailure #cardiotwitter

My first week of college, a professor arrived from Rwanda to speak with us about global health equity. His shared perspectives shaped the next 8 years of my academic life. RIP Dr. #PaulFarmer. It is a privilege to continue to learn from you.

IVY. LEAGUE. CHAMPS. The Crimson women capture the Ivy League Crown! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #GoCrimson #OneCrimson

The couples match worked! So glad to have matched with this incredible human, future wife, and boss surgeon!

Check out our new study, Neoadjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: Increased Use and Improved Optimal Outcomes: Journal of the American College of Surgeons journals.lww.com/journalacs/Abs… Video and CME credit available as well! Henry Pitt, MD H Richard Alexander Rutgers Cancer Institute Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS)

ECSTATIC. Cannot wait to begin training at Mass General Surgery. We did it.

We are pleased to introduce the new Mass General surgical intern class! A very warm welcome to the #MGHsurgery family to this outstanding group 🎉🎉🎉

#VisualAbstract from Sabatino et al #CME article on Thirty-Year Trends in Graft Survival After Heart Transplant: Modeled Analyses of a Transplant Registry: doi.org/10.1016/j.atho… #TSSMN #AnnalsImages Marlee Sabatino Mark Russo

Reunited with familiar faces in Bogotá, all thanks to my all-star co-intern and the MGH CT Surgery Residency Program team! Thank you for having me Fundación Cardioinfantil - LaCardio!

A bunch of amazing MGH future Cardiothoracic Surgeons hanging out with President Calhoon.

Our article can now be read freely online 👉 #OpenAccess (read-only) link: rdcu.be/diuKW (1/6) To summarize, a 🧵: ⚠️ Over ~30 years, we note increase of only 0.03 cardiac centers per million people 📶 Absolute numbers increased, but 🌐 population & 🫀 burden did, too