When you finish out a strong week on service with your PD and have matching scrub caps 🫡🔥 #YaleSurgery #ChiefYear

So impressed with Mary Pasquinelli’s work where she demonstrated that Sybil, an AI algorithm, can accurately predict 6-year #lungcancer risk from one baseline CT scan, in diverse cohorts, with minimal bias!! #WCLC25

This is such a beautiful paper

Couldn’t attend Annual Meeting in Seattle? Master Classes are available. The best in cardiothoracic surgery. P.S. if you registered for AM these courses are already yours…just log in.

I had the pleasure of presenting an oral presentation on Rheumatic heart disease in Africa, a key issue, at @AATS 2025 in Seattle earlier this year. Presentation can be found below. Huge shoutout to Shubh Patel Victory Effiom Kevin An & the team! aats.org/resources/prac…

Excited to share that my paper on 3D printing in cardiothoracic surgery in Africa just got published in the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. A huge thank you to the co-authors, supervisors and my mentors bjcvs.org/article/detail…

This #PeerReviewWeek, take time to learn how reviewing literature can benefit and shape the future of your career in #cardiothoracic surgery. Watch the video below and hear from Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS, Emile BACHA, Dawn Hui, and J. Hunter Mehaffey: aats.org/resources/aats… PeerReviewWeek

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📢 SIGAF CTSU JOURNAL MEETING ALERT! 🔥 TOPIC: How to Critically Appraise a Scientific Research Paper 📅 Date: 27th September 2025 🕓 Time: 4 PM WAT 📍 Meeting Link: shorturl.at/DfvTk 🔗 Register Here: shorturl.at/JT7Ef Join us for this interactive session.

I love working with Cardiothoracic Surgeons. They remind me that medicine is about teamwork + problem-solving under pressure. Confident yet humble, focused yet collaborative. They just get things done. 👏 The best part? Their whole team is like that.

It's all about the connections 😉 at our coronary anastomoses wet lab! Great hands-on learning with students, residents, and fellows, led by our favorite educator Ahmet Kilic, and chief CT fellow Emmanuel Robinson

Getting ready for the event? If you haven’t registered yet, do it now and set a reminder on your calendar!

Cardiovascular diseases are rising fast in Africa, often discovered only when surgery is the last hope. Yet 80% are preventable. Check your BP, eat healthy, stay active, avoid tobacco. Prevention is stronger than surgery. #WorldHeartDay# #AFAC#

Join us for an inspiring talk with Dr. Najah Adreak, MD, MSc Clinical Researcher, University of British Columbia 🇨🇦 🩺 Topic: Advancing Women’s Heart Health: Bridging Gaps in Cardiovascular Care 📅 Date: Sat, Nov 1st 2025 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM (GMT+1) 📍 Zoom us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Interested in finding a CT🫀🫁 Surgery Mentor and don’t know where to start? Join the Research Committee on 10/29 at 8PM EST for Part 2 of our webinar series where we will discuss this and more! See you there!

As someone with an MD doing a PhD in neuroscience, I can tell you this: the smartest people are all self-taught, even if they went to school.

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 The TSMA Research Committee has something HUGE coming your way! An opportunity for medical students & PIs nationwide to connect, collaborate, and create. 🗓️ Details dropping TOMORROW — stay tuned! 👀 #MedTwitter #CTsurgery #Research

Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Not sure there’s anything better than a good history lecture. Southern Thoracic Surgical Association

Our second-year fellows Anne O' Shea, MD and Uzma Rahman representing Johns Hopkins CT Surgery at the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA) 72nd Annual Meeting — supported by outstanding mentors Ahmet Kilic and Stephen. Hopkins bonds, stronger than ever! 💙🩺

Johns Hopkins Medicine students shining at Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA)'s 72nd Annual Meeting! Past, present, and future trainees mentored by Stephen and Ahmet Kilic