I am honored to join the amazing team Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency! 🎉

I am so lucky to have the best mentor! You have helped shape me as a physician and surgeon in so many ways. Thank you Sara Pereira MD for your continued encouragement, support and advice!

Thank you Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 for providing me with the guidance to succeed as I pursue my career in Cardiothoracic surgery. I’m so grateful for your mentorship, support and encouragement. I feel so lucky to have such an amazing mentor!

One week s/p #Match2024 and we're still so excited for all the future surgeons! 🫀We wanted to take the time to highlight our AMAZING TSMA leadership team members who matched🫁 We are so proud to have you as part of the TSMA team, and wish you all the best in this next chapter!

We are so proud to announce that our team is the first in Arizona to use cutting-edge fluorescent imaging technology in cardiac surgery! This innovative tool, SpyPhi, allows us to utilize real-time 4K imaging at 60fps to evaluate and locate arteries that may be buried in fat,

🫀🫁Attention all 2023-2024 integrated CT surgery residency applicants! TSMA is conducting a study analyzing the significance of completing away rotations in matching I6 programs. Please share your experience with us by completing this short survey: tinyurl.com/7vz57tua

🚨 Join us TONIGHT for the next installment of our Bread and Butter Case Series! Explore Lung Resection: Lobectomy for Lung Cancer 🫁 with Robert Van Haren, MD from UC College of Medicine. Sign up now at tinyurl.com/TSMA-Lobectomy! #ThoracicSurgery

Congratulations Sara Pereira MD!

Such an honor the know Dr. Sara Pereira MD! Thanks for always cheering us all on! We love you!

This should be great — not to be missed! Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency TSMA Zach Brennan

You’re the best Sara Pereira MD! Miss you tons and so glad we could catch up while I was in town! ❤️ Such a surprise to luckily catch up with the great Brian Mitzman and so many others from the amazing UofU CT Surgery team while in Utah.

Inspired by Jennifer Romano and her incredible presidential address. Thank you for your leadership and for reminding us all to give each other and ourselves grace. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. #STS2025

Had a wonderful weekend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons with my team Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency! Loved celebrating everyone’s accomplishments and excellent presentations. #STS2025 Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai

Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 inspirational speech at #ASC2025 with metaphor of the Bison 🦬 only animal that walks into the bad weather, rather than away from the storm. Keep scratching with grit to ride the storms! . Assoc4AcademicSurgery Society of University Surgeons (SUS) UofUSurgery University of Utah Health University of Utah

Submit your abstracts by tomorrow for the chance to present at our 4th Annual TSMA Research Competition and at the AATS!

Thank you Laura DiChiacchio, MD, PhD for organizing a wonderful skills lab!