CTSNet Podcasts

CTSNet Podcasts

Discussions about the most relevant topics in cardiothoracic surgery from CTSNet, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network.

Episodes

October 9, 2025 49 mins

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning shares insights from his recent trip to Ghana.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

02:18 Ghana Mission Trip 

04:35 Failures of a Heart Surgeon  

09:27 JANS 1, Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity  

12:57 JANS 2, Utility of GERAADA Score  

14:41 JANS 3, Aortic Valve Neocuspidization  

17:33 JANS 4, Procedural Planning in Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy 

19:09 JANS 5, The Outlet Orifice Di...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Anders Jeppsson, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, about his paper on “Ticagrelor and Aspirin or Aspirin Alone After Coronary Surgery for Acute Coronary Syndrome,” published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

01:54 Ghana Mission Trip 

06:23 JANS 1, Pig-to-Human Transplant 

08:08 JANS...

September 30, 2025 47 mins

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. John Puskas, professor of surgery at Emory University, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Wilton Looney Director at the Emory Carlyle Fraser Heart Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, about proximal coronary anastomosis.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:44 About Dr. Puskas

03:35 Background & History

06:56 10 Commandments for PA

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Drs. Daniel Brockman, Professor of Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, London, England, and Matteo Rossanese, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery at The Royal Veterinary College, about performing cardiothoracic surgery in animals.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:44 Innovation Competition Results

07:18 JANS 1, Modified Bio-Bentall

08:45 JANS 2, Exte...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.

Chapters

00:00 Intro 01:54 JANS 1, Validation of SYNTAX 04:58 JANS 2, Long-Distance ECMO Bridge 09:05 JANS 3, Segmentectomies Made Easy 10:49 JANS 4, M...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Adanna Akujuo, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the surgical director of the Structural Heart Program at UVA Health University Medical Center, about the Voom Foundation and its trips to Africa.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:39 Dr. Akujuo, Medical Missions

21:57 JANS 1, Ticagrelor and Aspirin Coronary

25:20 JANS 2, Long-Term MVR Durability Model

27:37 JANS 3, Duration of D...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nicholas Smedira, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, about mitral valve-induced left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction with minimal septal hypertrophy.

Chapters 

00:00 Intro

02:25 JANS 1, Transcervical Robotic AVR

07:49 JANS 2, Post Cor-Knot vs Manual Tying

10:18 JANS 3, Valve Therapy vs Volume Reduction

12:55 JANS 4, Cardiac Early Extract...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Robert Cerfolio, Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at NYU Langone Health, about NYU Langone Health’s rise in hospital rankings.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:19 Best Hospitals Report

08:52 JANS 1, Physician Compensation

13:54 JANS 2, International Challenges

18:36 Career Center

19:40 JANS 3, Rib Fracture Guidelines

23:16 JANS 4, Endovasc Concepts & Dev...

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August 26, 2025 45 mins

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Agathe Seguin-Givelet, a thoracic surgeon at Ambroise Pare-Hartmann Hospital in France, about segmentectomy.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:09 Choosing CT Surgery

02:52 Background

05:23 Indications

10:20 Evidence & Key Trials

16:52 Preop Planning

20:42 Surgical Anatomy

23:14 Approaches

24:39 Step-by-Step

38:40 Pearls & Pitfalls

41:25 Postop Care & Compli...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Kenneth Liao, professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support at Baylor College of Medicine, about performing the world’s first adult robotic heart surgery in the United States using a subxiphoid approach.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:31 JANS 1, Endocarditis Guidelines

13:02 JANS 2, Hybrid vs Catheter

16:16...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Todd Rosengart, professor and chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, about his team performing the world’s first adult robotic heart surgery in the United States.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:27 JANS 1, On-Table Extubation

14:13 JANS 2, Intraop Broncho Biopsies

18:26 JANS 3, Stroke After Transplant

20:51 JANS 4, Pulm ...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Mara Antonoff, Associate Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Program Director for Education at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and President of Women in Thoracic Surgery, about chest tubes.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:21 JANS 1, Ross Long-Term Outcomes

04:12 JANS 2, Valve Replacement Pregnancy

07:09 JANS 3, Bronchopleural Fist...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Joseph Zacharias, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Lancashire Cardiac Center in Blackpool, England, about lifetime management of heart valve disease.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:13 Early Intervention, Disease Management

04:40 JANS 1, Sept on Placental Support

07:04 JANS 2, Surgeon Well-Being

09:41 JANS 3, Cardiac

10:58 JANS 4, PPM in SAVR

12:57 JANS 5,...

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In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Professor Pieter Kappetein, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Erasmus Medical Center and Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Medtronic, about the future of revascularization.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:47 Dr. Kappetein Background

04:19 Getting Into Research

05:36 Work Balance

06:35 Industry Role in Career

09:30 Status of Revascularization

12:20 S...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the New York Medical College, and Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center about performing the first successful ex utero intrapartum trea...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Daniel Goldstein, professor and vice chairman of Montefiore Health System in New York, USA, about the importance of mentorship.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:24 JANS 1, Cardiac

05:42 JANS 2, General

08:40 JANS 3, Cardiac

12:17 JANS 4, General

13:45 JANS 5, Cardiac

14:53 Video 1, Cardiac

16:48 Video 2, Thoracic

18:53 Video 3, Cardiac

20:29 Dr. Goldstein Interview

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Jay Pal, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Washington, about AI-assisted screening for rheumatic heart disease.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:17 JANS 1, Cardiac

05:15 JANS 2, Thoracic

07:01 JANS 3, Thoracic

09:41 JANS 4, Cardiac

12:14 JANS 5, Thoracic

13:37 Subvalvular Ring Excision, AVR

15:30 SCORE Technique, Rheu M Stenosis

18:43 VATS Intraperi L Pne...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Ari Wes, Partner at Peninsula Plastic Surgery and CEO and Cofounder of Orchid Surgical, about clinical surgery video production.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:46 Interview Preview

02:16 No Chest-Open Heart Transplant

05:07 NSCLC Time to Surgery

07:55 Impact of Preop Invasive Nodal Staging

11:04 Air Space Spread Impacts Adenocarcinoma

14:26 Intrapericard Pneum w Br...

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. David Kalfa, the incoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, about allogeneic mitral valve transplants.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:46 Interview Preview

02:54 MV Surgery After Failed Intervention

07:46 Tears Predict Outcomes After Hemi-Arch

10:32 Pain Catastrophizing Scale

14:27 ARR...

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June 24, 2025 41 mins

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Faisal Bakaeen, Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Center at the Cleveland Clinic, about radial artery harvesting.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:45 Dr. Bakaeen Background

05:26 Historical Timeline

06:40 Radial Artery Advantages

08:58 Anatomy

14:31 Patient Preparation &...

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