CTSNet Podcasts

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Zhi Lin, Chief Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Division 1 at Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital of Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, and Dr. Oscar A. Flores Flores, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde in Guadalajara, Mexico, about The Heart Sapling Visiting Scholar Program.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:22 AATS, UAE Confe...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Frank Tamru, author of Power: A Memoir and owner of Frank Tamru Consultants LLC, about aortic valve technology throughout the years.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:51 New Website Preparation

02:53 AATS 2026 Overview

11:59 Video 1, Robotic Right-Sided MIDCAB

13:08 Video 2, Extra-Anatomic IAA Repair

14:29 Video 3, Double-Decker Procedure

16:38 Video 4, Aortic Disease Awar...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Zain Khalpey, an assistant attending surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, USA, adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, USA, and Chief Medical AI Officer, Chair of Applied Clinical AI, and Director of Applied Translational Artificial Research Institute (ATARI), AZ, USA, ...

In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Amanda Rea, a nurse practitioner and Lead of Advanced Practice and Clinical Program Manager in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Townson, MD, USA, spoke with Kali Dayton, a critical care nurse practitioner, host of the Walking Home From the ICU and Walking You Through the ICU podcasts, and CEO of Dayton ICU Consulting, a...

In this edition of the new CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation, and former Cardiac Surgery Clinical Nurse Specialist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA, USA, speaks with expert guest Rakesh Arora, Director of Cardiothoracic Critical Care an...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Adam Greenbaum, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine and Co-director of the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, about the groundbreaking percutaneous coronary artery bypass graft procedure he developed called the ventriculo-coronary transcatheter outward navigation and reentry (VECTOR) procedure.

Chapters

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This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Sameer Hirji, an associate surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, about a paper he presented on at the 62nd Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting titled “Concerning Trends Seen in Aortic Stenosis-Related Mortality: CDC WONDER.”

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

02:38 JANS 1, Female CT Surgeons NYT Article 

04:38 JANS 2, Biopros vs Mech SAVR >...

In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Professor Eric Lim, Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Imperial College London and Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK, about pleural sepsis.  

Chapters 

00:00 Intro 

00:30 Dr. Lim Background 

01:26 Why CT Surgery & Clinical Research? 

05:09 Definition & Overview 

07:50 Causes 

09:29 Clinical Presentations & Investig...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Shanda Blackmon, a thoracic surgeon and Professor of Surgery, as well as the Director of the Lung Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, about an article from The New York Times in which she was featured, titled “Female CT Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress.”

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

01:35 JANS 1, Fractured Sternal Wires Post-Surgery 

05:2...

In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Vicki Morton, Director of Clinical and Quality Outcomes at Providence Anesthesiology Associates in North Carolina, USA, spoke with Drs. Rakesh Arora, Director of Perioperative and Cardiac Critical Care and Research Director in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Rawn Salenger, Chief of C...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. John Forrest, a cardiologist and Director of both Interventional Cardiology and the Structural Heart Disease Program at Yale Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA, about a paper he authored titled “Six-Year Outcomes After Transcatheter vs Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low-Risk Patients With Aortic Stenosis,” published by the Journal of the American College of C...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, CTSNet JANS Editor and cardiac surgeon at the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at Leipzig Heart Centre University Hospital in Leipzig, SN, Germany; and Samuel Heuts, a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maastricht University Medical Center in Maastricht, LI, about a paper they authored titled “U...

In this first edition of the new CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the Essentials of Cardiac Surgical Resuscitation, and former Cardiac Surgery Clinical Nurse Specialist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA, USA, speaks with expert guest Barbara McLean, a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Spec...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Niv Ad, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, about the journal.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:04 JANS 1, Adverse Effects Statin Therapy

06:21 JANS 2, Mortality & Reintervention, Robotic MR

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In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Maninder Kalkat, a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in the Regional Department of Thoracic Surgery at University Hospital Birmingham, about extended resections.  

Chapters

00:00 Intro 

01:07 Inspiration & Areas of Interest 

03:23 Definition & Classification 

09:28 History 

10:16 Preop Considerations 

19:07 Operating Team Plan 

22:23 Fitness for Surge...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Puja Khaitan, thoracic consultant at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Founder and Congress Chair of the Emirates International Thoracic Surgery Congress, about thoracic surgery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:35 JANS 1, Therapy & Risk in Idiopathic Pulm Fibrosis

04:18 JANS 2, Sex-Related Treatment Effects

06:03...

In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Daniel Engelman, Medical Director of the Cardiac Surgical Critical Care & Inpatient Services at Baystate Health, Professor of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School—Baystate, and President of the ERAS Cardiac Society; and co-moderator Dr. Kevin Lobdell, Professor and Director of Regional Cardiovascular and Thoracic Quality, Education, and Resear...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Hani Shennib, a Clinical Professor of Vascular and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, USA, about catheters as a language.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:48 UK Thoracic Forum

06:11 JANS 1, Detecting AF Using Watch

07:44 JANS 2, End-to-End Anastomotic Stapler

09:24 JANS 3, Improving Patient Selection NSCLC

12:05 JANS 4, 5...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Louise Kenny, a consultant pediatric and adult congenital cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, about congenital heart transplants.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:24 JANS 1, VECTOR Procedure

07:38 JANS 2, Combined Inflation & Cooling

08:26 JANS 3, Caring for VIP Patients

11:43 JANS 4, Country Wealth & Min ...