Announcing the TSRA executive committee for 2023-2024. David Blitzer Anna Olds Jason Han Sameer Hirji Irbaz Hameed, MD Chi Chi Do-Nguyen, DO Ray Strobel, MD, MSc Faaz Ashraf Christina L. Costantino Rohun Bhagat Garrett Coyan

Introducing the new TSRA board, three new webinar recordings, and more! In our September '23 newsletter: mailchi.mp/upmc/sept2023-… Justin Robinson William Frankel Faaz Ashraf

The November '23 newsletter is out now! ONE week left to submit your nominations for our prestigious teaching awards and applications for our travel fellowships! Also, read about our upcoming journal club: Lifetime Management of Aortic Stenosis: mailchi.mp/upmc/nov2023

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Pyongsoo Yoon, UPMC Cardiac surgeon for winning the national 2024 TSRA Socrates award.

I6 resident Faaz Ashraf presents “Development and Validation of a Low-cost, High Fidelity Simulation Model for Robotic Internal Mammary Artery Harvest”. Faaz Ashraf

Dr Luciana Da Foseca Da Silva and i6 resident Faaz Ashraf present “Ebsteins Anomaly Variant With Anterior Leaflet Displacement” at #STS2024 UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute Faaz Ashraf

I6 resident Faaz Ashraf presents: ‘The Cone repair Allows Right Ventricle Rehabilitation with Excellent Tricuspid Valve Function Following the Starnes Procedure’ at #AATS2024 this morning. Faaz Ashraf UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

Sign up to be an author for our next publication "Indications and Guidelines in Cardiothoracic Surgery"! We are looking for a few more trainee/faculty author pairs. More information: docs.google.com/document/d/1st… Chapter Sign-Ups: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Trainee authors must be in

I had a great time while presenting our novel Light-Pipe FRESH 3D bioprinting technology to the scientific community at #TERMIS2024. Many thanks to the organizers Nasim Annabi and Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, and also to my PI @RegenBio for the opportunity to share our research.

Welcome to the new TSRA Executive Committee for 2024-2025! Sameer Hirji Irbaz Hameed, MD, PhD Anna Olds Ray Strobel, MD, MSc Alex Nissen @chichidonguyen Faaz Ashraf John T. Kennedy III Rohun Bhagat David Blitzer Justin Robinson @ Eliza Hompe @ Jay Patel

Recently Published! 📢 The Cone repair Allows Right Ventricle Rehabilitation with Excellent Tricuspid Valve Function Following the Starnes Procedure. Tarek Alsaied Laura Seese pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39181444/

Following the #Starnes procedure, the #Conerepair allows for the competency of the #tricuspidvalve and functionalization of the #rightventricle sustained at midterm follow-up 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39181444/ Faaz Ashraf Laura Seese Tarek Alsaied UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute AATS #JTCVS

Syed Faaz Ashraf, Luciana Fonseca da Silva UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh et al found that the cone repair allows right ventricle rehabilitation with excellent tricuspid valve function following the Starnes procedure. The article is currently open to all in #JTCVS: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv…

Exposure technique for the circumflex artery territory in robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting Click here for 📽️: annalscts.com/article/view/1… Faaz Ashraf Laura Seese Catalin Toma, MD UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute #AnnalsCTS #MinimallyInvasive #CABG

Affordable simulation model to practice internal mammary artery harvest serves as a valuable training tool for future cardiac surgeons 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39473044/ Faaz Ashraf Laura Seese Irsa Hasan Innovations Journal #CoronaryArteryBypass #MinimallyInvasive

#TechniquesTuesday: Surgeons at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh published a case report on a 17-month-old female with Ebstein anomaly variant with anterior leaflet displacement. Read more in #JTCVS Techniques: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjtc… Luciana Fonseca da Silva Irsa Hasan Pitt Cardiothoracic Surgery Department

Case report of 17-month old with presence of an Ebstein anomaly variant with apical displacement of anterior and inferior leaflets 🔗/📽️: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11… Faaz Ashraf Irsa Hasan UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh AATS #JTCVS #Ebstein #EbsteinAnomaly #casereport

Dr. Faaz Ashraf presents: Evaluation of 3D Bioprinted Pulsatile Conduits Engineered Using Human Stem-Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes in a Murine Model at #AATS2025 Seattle Convention Center | Summit, Room 443-444 Saturday 5/3/25 @ 12pm AATS UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute UPMC Physician Resources Faaz Ashraf