CTSNet Podcasts

CTSNet Podcasts

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

Episodes

July 10, 2025 32 mins

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...

Mark as Played

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...

Mark as Played

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...

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 &...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Board Member Dr. Keith Naunheim, Vallee L. and Melba Willman Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, about artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiothoracic (CT) surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:31 Guest Preview, Dr. Naunheim

02:34 Clinic Notes via AI

04:41 Congenital Challenging Anatomy

06:47 Exposing Intr...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet JANS Editor Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas, a cardiac surgeon in the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, about surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:57 Dr. Marin-Cuartas Feature

02:28 SHURUI Robot Feasability

05:09 Touching as Diagnostic Test

0...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps the 33rd European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) annual meeting in Budapest.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:30 ESTS 2025 Conference

09:11 SHURUI Robot Study

10:04 Willard A. Fry

12:44 Transplant Recipient Pregnancy Outcomes

15:25 Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis

17:12 Warm Ischemic Intervals Effect

19:16 Extracorp Circulation vs Conventional

23:23 Femoral Cannula...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with cofounders Courtney Maxey-Jones and Connor Wasilnak about their charity, Global Outreach for Medical Equity and Development (GOMED), which exists to deliver essential medical supplies to underresourced regions.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:33 Surgical Instrument Donations

02:43 Adverse Outcomes in Surgery

10:05 Lymph Node NSCLC Study

12:45 Pleural Invasion by AI Anal...

Mark as Played

In this special one-year anniversary episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Michael Mack, medical director of cardiothoracic surgery at Baylor Scott and White Health System and chairman of the Baylor Plano Research Center in Texas, about the future of valve surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Introductions

01:18 Dr. Mack Background

03:41 Becoming a CT Surgeon

07:53 Path to Academic Surgery

10:19 Unconventional Thinki...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nina Fuller-Shavel, co-chair of the British Society for Integrative Oncology (BSIO) from 2021 to 2023 and current co-chair of the BSIO Clinical Practice and Education Committee, about integrative oncology.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:29 Integrative Medicine

09:13 Bar Dislocation, Pectus

10:53 Effective Circulating Volume Fraction

13:14 Repair vs Replacement, Edg...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Dibin Mohammed, a consultant at Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, about his WhatsApp group, Young CVTS Surgeons Kerala.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:22 CTSNet Updates

03:44 Dr. Mohammed Guest

05:20 Allogeneic Mitral Valve Transplant

08:45 Multiple vs Single Arterial Grafting

11:50 AI & Machine Learning in CT Surgery

17:57 3-Port vs 4-Port ...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning celebrates two years of the podcast and speaks with Dr. Joseph F. Sabik III, president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and chair of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, about the future of cardiothoracic surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:16 Dr. Sabik Guest

04:13 AATS 2025

20:26 Extended Sleeve Lobectomy Study

23:55 SQUAT Trial...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Cristiano Spadaccio, an attending cardiac surgeon and associate professor of surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio, USA, about totally tissue-engineered valves for tricuspid replacement.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:48 Tissue-Engineered Valves

05:48 Compensatory Sweating After BETS

10:05 5Y Outcomes TAVR vs SAVR

13:34 ChatGPT CT Surger...

Mark as Played
April 29, 2025 52 mins

In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Jose Fernandes from the Department of Clinical Perfusion at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:47 History

04:46 Basics

09:58 Circuit

14:09 Cannulation

22:44 Indications for Use

28:14 VV ECMO

32:18 VA ECMO

36:44 Monitoring

42:31 Complications

47:03 ECMO CPR

49:17 Trai...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, the Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, Edgewood, Kentucky, USA, about totally endoscopic cardiac surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:17 Minimal Access Bedside Cardiac

04:37 Lung Cancer, Histological Subtype

09:29 TAVR vs SAVR, AS & CAD

12:22 Biopros TVR Outcomes

15:48 Mitral Annula...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning examines the first-ever transcontinental uniportal thoracic surgery.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

01:26 100th Episode, Future

03:01 Transcontinental Uniportal Robotics

09:52 Infective Endo in Octogenerians

12:39 Kidney Replacement Therapy, Cardiac Outcomes

15:50 Stenotic Lesions Simulation

18:59 One-Lung Ventilation, Difficult Airway

21:06 Simplified Approach to Bentall Procedure

2...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Professor Robert Sneyd, Vice Chair of Aortic Dissection Awareness UK & Ireland, about the charity’s dedication to promoting awareness of aortic dissection.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:52 RLAAO Isolated MR Study

09:07 Early Outcomes Reop Aortic Root

11:39 Fallot and Its Variants

16:55 Low-Dose Warfarin, Mech AV

22:02 AVR w LIMA-LAD & AAR

23:40 Pulm Thromboend...

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Salim Aziz, thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and clinical professor at George Washington University, about computed tomography (CT) scan-negative type A dissection.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:57 Dr. Aziz Preview

02:01 Bringing International Colleagues to Centers

07:01 Ambulation Protocol ECMO

09:12 COPD Severity, Aortic Aneurysm

11:37 Robotic Mitral Repair L...

Mark as Played

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning recaps two presentations delivered at the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting 2025.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:57 "Teamship," Sir Woodward

09:23 Virtual Surgery Training, Dr. Ahmed

12:55 Upcoming Lung Surgery Trials

14:48 Needle Aspiration & Forceps Biopsy

17:26 Approaches to Clinical Trial Designs

22:10 Noninvasive Ventilation Ca...

March 25, 2025 49 mins

In this month’s episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Thomas D'Amico about VATS lobectomy.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:47 Background

04:11 Indications

04:51 Preoperative Assessment

07:12 Setup

08:21 Patient Positioning

11:26 Basics

13:36 D'Amico's Port Placement

16:46 Uniportal

22:03 Steps

22:44 Anterior-Posterior Order

25:45 Anatomy

26:45 Instruments

30:54 Pleural Dissection

31:33 Inferior Pulmonary ...

Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

    Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

    Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.

    Crime Junkie

    Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

    The Bobby Bones Show

    Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.