Fresh off the press! 📰 2024 Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery newsletter, highlighting rankings for Stanford Health Care🏥, new endowed professors & faculty leadership appts 😃, global health mission and activities 🌏, #research grants and awards🔬🏆, and more! Read: ow.ly/NI2c50R5SMQ

🎉Congrats to Dr Billie-Jean Martin & collaborators on their funding thru Wellcome Leap, which aims 2 accelerate breakthroughs 4 global health! She will co-lead a study looking @ biomarkers in peri-op monitoring of surgical patients in low-resource setting ow.ly/ZEZK50QO7i4

Steven Spielberg has finally spoken.

I highly recommend you watch this

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS on being named the Thelma & Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery! 🫁 She has been building innovative programs & achieving significant milestones at Stanford Medicine VA Palo Alto HCS & leading the next gen of trainees. ow.ly/ovh150QO5Pm

Just did a lingular segmentectomy using technique of inflating lingual while deflating rest of LUL for demarcation. I learned this from a video by a now Houston, formerly Mayo, well known chest surgeon. We don’t have the fluorescing dye though (too expensive). Shanda Blackmon, MD

Particularly nice view from my backyard today. Sisters in the Cascades.

“.Performing this first robotic-assisted MIDCAB paves the way for more patients at the Palo Alto VA to experience its benefits,” says Dr. Elan Burton, who performed the surgery at the VA Palo Alto HCS.🏥 ow.ly/vWSj50Qiy7r

One of the pioneers of transplantation surgery/immunosuppression has passed: theguardian.com/science/2024/j…
I remember the respect Starzl had for his work. Hugely impactful clinical introduction of cyclosporine.

🔬To explore women's career progression in academic #CTSurgery related to #research productivity, researchers analyzed women in faculty positions at inst w/training prgrms. Led by Kiah Williams, Jack Boyd, Natalie Lui Leah Backhus MD MPH FACS, et. al @StandfordCVI ow.ly/50RB50QhyOS

🔓 Open access!

Does Sustained Reduction of Functional Mitral Regurgitation Impact Survival?

Read the Seminars article by Watt, Bolling, et al: doi.org/10.1053/j.semt…

#JTCVS AATS Tessa M. F. Watt, MD Alex Brescia

The new valves are even more expensive. They are successfully pushing the same tripe for TAVR valves to very receptive cardiologists.

Worked in Med Sci 2 and ate there in 1970’s. I’m that old.

I thought the same thing. It is stressful protecting a golden parachute

My first chief resident when I was an intern in Denver. Very impressive guy. Warm regards to him.

Every day

Yup, me.

Only before going on bypass.

Small incision, remove the offending sternal band, PCI if needed

I know I’m old, but does no one go to the OR these days on the exam (acute abdomen) alone? Serious question from CT surgeon who hasn’t done Gen Surg since 1980’s

CT Surgery Resident Showdown is a game-show competition where their knowledge will be tested in five cardiothoracic surgery categories The winning North American team faces the European team in January 2024 #ctsurgery #residentshowdown #uthealthsa #Jeopardy #sanantoniotx