Pearls of wisdom by Ajay Kirtane on work-life balance Being a physician while embracing your identity and being the same person at home and at work. Be compassionate and have grace. For yourself in the first place. Cardiovascular Research Foundation #complications2024

Cardiovascular Research Foundation Margaret McEntegart Jasleen Tiwana Christopher Brown Allison Hall Brett Wanamaker Megha Prasad MD MS Jesse Kane, MD Sanjog Kalra Darshan Doshi, MD, MS Mitul P. Patel MountRainierNPS Absolutely phenomenal Cardiovascular Research Foundation #CompCourse24 education and training👍: content (all of it) should be mandatory (IMO) for initial Interventional Cardiology training as well as ongoing lifelong mental and technical knowledge and skills improvement 🤜🤛…

Airlift 7 arriving for the Watershed festival at the Gorge. Airlift partners with our colleagues at #CrowdRx to deliver emergency medical services for the summer concert season. #Savinglivestogether

Take a look at our article highlighting the “Seattle shawl” technique. A simple method for providing autograft protection during a Ross procedure! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

And we’re off! Kicking off our annual Community CTO Event UW Medicine following the Cardiovascular Research Foundation #CompCourse2024 in Seattle this weekend. Two days of live cases and group discussion of case failures. #journeytobetter Lorenzo Azzalini Kate Kearney Dr. Bill Lombardi

#CTO Palooza is happening 🌀 Two days, 9 live CTO cases, 8 operators. ⭐️ Building a community and growing together. 💪🏼 UWashington Heart Institute Kate Kearney Dr. Bill Lombardi

Easy case no problem... 😮🫠🙃#CTO UWashington Heart Institute #CompCourse2024 #CTOpalooza Lorenzo Azzalini Dr. Bill Lombardi Ricardo Santiago Yader Sandoval Sid Kanoun Schnur Stefan Harb Kate Kearney Rhian E. Davies DO MS Salman Allana, MD FACC FSCAI

So, while we’re advocating for systematic intravascular imaging in *ALL* PCIs, an official consensus document on bifurcation intervention — one of the most challenging lesion subsets — is recommending it only as a bailout… ⁉️ Really?? 🤔

Another successful #CTOpalooza partnership with Ricardo Santiago who visited UWashington Heart Institute and opened a previously failed RCA #CTO with reverse CART and #IVL. Happy patient & great interaction with the 70 visiting physicians. Dr. Bill Lombardi Kate Kearney

Congratulations to our UWashington Heart Institute friends Dr. Bill Lombardi Lorenzo Azzalini Kate Kearney for hosting a wonderful 2-day UW Community CTO event with 9 live cases ! Applaud your efforts to build community & educate! It was great to work and learn from you Ricardo Santiago Lindsey Cilia

A new academic year means Friday morning didactics are BACK. We were recently joined by Neal Chatterjee of UW Cardiology for an amazing heart dissection lab. No better way to start the day than identifying the tendon of Todaro with friends.

"A lot of women are surprised when they get diagnosed with heart disease," said UW Medicine's Dr. Ruchi Kapoor. UW Cardiology heart.org/en/news/2024/0…

A new study finds more evidence of a link between caffeine and heart disease, but "the jury is out regarding the long-term effects of high caffeine intake and cardiovascular events," says UW Cardiology Dr. Eugene Yang. Read: tinyurl.com/yaf6t24z

Elevate your career by joining the Washington ACC 2024 Annual Meeting on Sept 14! Network with leading healthcare professionals & explore cutting-edge cardiology insights. Register here: ow.ly/an2m50SUbge #Cardiology #Cardiology #WACC2024

Calling all ERAS 2024-2025 applicants! Our I6 program is hosting an open house with our current residents! Sign up here: forms.office.com/r/wngYUG1xvS Zoom invites will be sent early next week. We look forward to meeting you soon! #CTSurgery #ERAS

Excited for this webinar on MV Prosthesis today at 6 pm EST/3 pm Seattle time Nina Rashedi bit.ly/469uXZ9

.UW Cardiology faculty UW Medicine are offered a physician coaching program Better Together Physician Coaching this fall I interviewed founder Tyra Fainstad about her journey & peer-reviewed research guiding the approach Your well-being matters #BurnoutPrevention #coaching #mentalhealth #MedTwitter

Sept is #AFIB Awareness Month 💡 AF symptoms can vary ranging from asymptomatic or silent 🔕, to subtle loss of stamina😩, mental fog😶‍🌫️, to fatigue 🥱and shortness of breath🫁, and episodic palpitations 💓 🥵Stroke can be the first symptom of #AFIB American College of Cardiology #ACCEP Council

Thanks to Babak Nazer and Christian Ngo for hosting an ⚡️ electrifying ⚡️ journal club last night on PFA for afib.