CTSNet Podcasts
Discussions about the most relevant topics in cardiothoracic surgery from CTSNet, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network.
Episodes
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 163: Is the TAVR Heart Team About to Lose a Member?
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) heart team potentially losing a member. He explores the current composition of the TAVR heart team, proposed changes, the thoughts of cardiothoracic societies, and future actions regarding this issue.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:53 TAVR Heart Team
07:48 JANS 1, Base Editing of PCSK
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 162: Lifetime Management of Aortic Valve Disease
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Isaac George, CTSNet Board Member and Co-Director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center, Surgical Director of Structural Heart Disease, and Co-Director of the Mitral and Tricuspid Center at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian, NY, USA, about the lifetime management of aortic valve disease.
Chapters
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The Atrium: Multi-Spectrum Robotic Cardiac Surgery
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Husam Balkhy, Professor of Surgery and Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at the University of Chicago, IL, USA, about multi-spectrum robotic cardiac surgery.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:04 Why CT Surgery?
04:08 History
08:09 Benefits
10:00 Challenges
13:56 Multispectrum Robotic Surgery
16:15 Patie
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 161: Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Joseph Coselli, Executive Vice-Chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, the Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair, and a Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, about thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:21 JANS 1, Ethical Lead
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Hemodynamics and Atrial Fibrillation
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, engages in a conversation with Dr. Shuba Chatterjee, Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of Thoracic Surgical ICU and ECMO Program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, USA, and nurse practitioner Amanda Rea, Lead of Advanced P
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 160: Shifting Healthcare Policy in Surgery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Nikki Stamp, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mount Private Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, who also serves as an Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Australia, about shifting healthcare policy in surgery.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:45 ESTS 2026
02:01 Presidential Address
02:52 Keynote, Emerging Surgic
The Lifeline: Crisis Management After Minimally Invasive Cardiac Procedures
In this edition of the 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 T. Sloane Guy, Director of
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 159: Aortic Root Enlargement
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Bo Yang, a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon at the University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, about aortic root enlargement.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:37 JANS 1, WhatsApp for Patients
08:27 JANS 2, DCD Heart Transplant
11:07 JANS 3, TIGHT K Trial
13:18 JANS 4, RecoverHeart Calculator
15:57 Video 1, Self Co
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 158: JACC: Case Reports
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gilbert Tang, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC): Case Reports, professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, surgical director of the Structural Heart Program at Mount Sinai Health System, and the director of Structural Heart Educat
The Atrium: Distal Coronary Anastomosis
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Elan Burton, clinical associate professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Section Chief for Stanford Medicine Affiliates, about distal coronary anastomosis.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:08 Why CT Surgery?
03:01 Overview & History
05:02 Geometric Planning &
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 157: Failed Bioprostheses—The REPEAT Trial
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Enoch Akowuah, an academic consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Newcastle University and South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dr. Matthias Raschpichler, a cardiac surgeon at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany, about the REPEAT trial.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:21 JANS 1, NOBLE Trial
07:14 JANS 2, Ischemic Mitral Regurg MVR
08:58
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Are We Guessing at Bleeding?
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Dr. Rawn Salenger, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, spoke with Dr. Nadia Hensley, Associate Professor and Physician Advisor for Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at John Hopkins School of Medicine; Dr. Nawwar Al-Attar, consultant cardiac surgeon at NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital i
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 156: Ascending Stent Graft—ARISE III Trial
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Brad Leshnower, Director of Aortic Surgery at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA, USA, about the first implantation of the Gore Ascending Stent Graft in the ARISE III trial for the treatment of an acute type A dissection.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:26 New CTSNet Website
03:31 JANS 1, Thromboendarterectomy Fellowship
05:28
The Lifeline: Functional Hemodynamics in Postoperative Cardiothoracic Care
In this edition of the 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 Jan Headley, Principal at
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 155: Aortic Surgery and Long-Term Patient Follow-Up
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Andrea Steely, an Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, about aortic surgery and long-term patient follow-up.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:43 New CTSNet Website
02:36 AATS 2026
09:15 EJCTS News
10:15 Video 1, Left Ventriculo
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 154: The Heart Sapling Program and Minimally Invasive Surgery in China
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.
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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 153: Aortic Valve Technology Throughout the Years
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 152: Utilizing AI in Cardiothoracic Surgery
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 Re
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Early Mobility, Verticalization, and Delirium, Oh My!
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,
The Lifeline: Managing Arrest in Patients With tMCS
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 151: Percutaneous CABG Technique—The VECTOR Procedure
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 150: Concerning Trends Seen in Aortic Stenosis Related-Mortality
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:
The Atrium: Pleural Sepsis
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 Cl
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 149: Female CT Surgeons—Unlocking the Male Fortress
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, Fractur
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Optimizing the Preoperative Patient
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,
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 148: Six-Year Outcomes After TAVR vs SAVR in Low-Risk Patients
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 J
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 147: Updated 5-Year TAVR vs SAVR Outcomes in Low-Risk Patients
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, ab
The Lifeline: End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Cardiac Surgical Emergencies
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,
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 146: Insights Into the Innovations Journal
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
The Atrium: Extended Resections
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 145: Thoracic Surgery in the UAE
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,
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Patient Blood Management
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 Thor
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 144: Catheters as a Language—Status of Cardiovascular Treatment
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 Pati
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 143: DCD-HOPE Model for Congenital Heart Transplants
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
11:4
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 142: CKD and CSA-AKI–Addressing the Unmet Need in Cardiac Surgery
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. 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 Marlies Ostermann, consultant in critical care and nephrology at Guy's and
The Atrium: The Future of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Randolph Chitwood, retired cardiac surgeon and Founding Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, about the future of minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS).
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:58 Dr. Chitwood Background
04:20 Inspiration for MI
07:12 Reason for Mitral Valve Robotics
07:38 Strong Resi
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 141: The Ross Procedure in Adult Patients
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Drs. Jan Vojacek, a cardiac surgeon in the department of cardiac surgery at University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and president of the Czech Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, and Maral Ouzounian, cardiac surgeon and head of the division of cardiac surgery at the Peter Munk Cardiac Center, Toronto, Canada, and pre
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Attitudes About & Realities of ERAS Across the Globe
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, spoke with Drs. Kevin Lobdell, Professor and the Director of Regional Cardiovascular and Thora
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 140: Measuring the Wrong Parameters—JCOG0802
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Michael Lanuti, Director of Thoracic Oncology in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, and thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Lanuti’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and how he believes the wrong parameters we
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 139: The Case for Segmentectomy Over Lobectomy
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Gavin Wright, thoracic surgeon and Director of Surgical Oncology at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Australia, and thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about Dr. Wright’s thoughts on the JCOG0802 trial and why he prefers segmentectomy over lobectomy.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:59 JANS 1, Chest Tube Remova
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 138: CTSNet Summarized—The Best of 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning reflects on the most popular content of 2025 on CTSNet.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:15 Top Interview
03:52 Top Webinar
05:23 Top Clinical Video
06:24 Top JANS Article
07:01 Top Video Series
08:02 Top Contributor
08:59 Top Cardiac Procedures
12:14 Top Podcasts
17:02 JANS 1, Doctor Story
21:28 JANS 2, Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion
22:41 JANS 3, PCI vs
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 137: From Patient to Surgeon
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses how to get involved with Pace4Life, a charity he supports that provides reconditioned pacemakers to Ghana. He also previews upcoming podcast episodes and guests, including discussions on the Ross procedure guidelines and more interviews related to the JCOG0802 trial.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:31 JANS 1, Ethiopian Surgeon
07:08 J
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 136: 10-Year JCOG0802 Results
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Nasser Altorki, thoracic surgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and thoracic surgeon and CTSNet Senior Editor Leanne Ashrafian about the 10-year results from the JCOG0802 trial.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:56 JANS 1, Re-Repair vs Replacement
05:07 JANS 2, Mini Mitral Multicentre RCT
07:01 JANS 3, PERSEVERE Study
08:54 J
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Ten Things I Hate About ERAS
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 Alexander Gregory, a cardiovascular anesthesiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, and the Libin Cardiovascular Institute at the Cumming School of Me
The Atrium: Complications
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Dr. Samer Nashef, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, about complications in cardiothoracic surgery.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:34 Dr. Nashef Background
04:06 Results Monitoring
08:55 Common Complications
14:40 Mentality
19:18 Identifying Room for Improvement
21:25 Pattern of Response
22:47 Long-Term Com
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 135: Lung Volume Reduction
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, thoracic surgeon at the University Hospitals Leuven in Belgium, about lung volume reduction.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:41 Right to Repair, Robotics Re-Use
04:53 REPEAT Trial
06:30 JANS 1, PCI After CABG Randomized Trial
08:01 JANS 2, No-Touch vs Conventional Saph Veins
11:04 JANS 3, Sir Terence English &
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 134: Current State of Xenotransplantation
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Christopher McGregor, professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, about the current state of cardiac and kidney xenotransplantation.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:10 Sir Terence English
08:00 JANS 1, Cardiac Xenotransplantation
09:13 JANS 2, Coffee Consumption on AF
11:06 JANS 3, Environm
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 133: Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Guidelines
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Evgenij Potapov, a consultant senior surgeon and co-chairman of the mechanical circulatory support program in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the German Heart Center in Berlin, about the guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support (tCMS) in adult cardiac surgery.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:56
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 132: Surgical Treatment of Eisenmenger Syndrome
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Randas Batista, cardiac surgeon and founder of Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, about the surgical treatment of Eisenmenger syndrome.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:51 JANS 1, DAMSUN-HF Study
05:41 JANS 2, TAVR vs SAVR Guidelines
07:45 JANS 3, Myocardial Infarction After CABG
10:31 JANS 4, VAD Bridge-to-Transplant
12:27 New Recruit
The Cardiac Recovery Room: Cardiac Surgery Myths Busted—Separating Fact From Fiction
In this inaugural episode of CTSNet’s new podcast, 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, spoke with Drs. Rakesh Arora, Director of Perioperative and Ca
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 131: Advancing Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Pakistan
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Zara Shirazi, a congenital cardiac surgery post-fellow at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, about advancing pediatric cardiac surgery in Pakistan using what she learned from her fellowship in Austria.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:28 Vince TAVR Roundtables
03:05 Foreign Body, Case of the Month
03:49 JANS 1, Temporary
The Atrium: Aortic Dissection
In this episode of The Atrium, host Dr. Alice Copperwheat speaks with Marc Moon, Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Texas Heart Institute, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery section at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, about aortic dissection.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:33 About Dr. Moon
02:51 Overview
03:33 History
05:27 P
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 130: Turning Ideas Into Companies
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Liam Burns, CEO of Qaelon Medical, about turning ideas into companies.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:26 JANS 1, Ross Procedure Consensus Statement
13:59 JANS 2, Novel Anastomotic Device
16:03 JANS 3, Tracheobronchoplasty Disorders Analysis
18:32 JANS 4, Revasc Strategies Non-Acute Myocardial
20:22 JANS 5, EACTS Core Curriculum for Car
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 129: Using AI in Medical Writing
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing medical articles.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:56 Using AI in Medical Writing
09:07 JANS 1, AI-Writing Article
14:53 JANS 2, Kidney vs Lung Transplant Outcomes
17:04 JANS 3, Harvesting Tech on ITAG
18:56 JANS 4, Phase 2 NeoCOAST-2 Trial
23:01 Career Center
23:41 Video 1, TAVR E
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 128: The World's First Transcervical Robotic AVR Procedures
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Fraser Sutherland, a consultant cardiac surgeon at Ross Hall Hospital and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland, about the world’s first transcervical robotic aortic valve replacement (AVR) procedures.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:30 JANS 1, CABG After 60 Years
13:53 JANS 2, Endovascular Arch Repair
16:45 JANS 3, Imp
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 127: Patient Blood Management
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Marc Pelletier, division chief of cardiac surgery for the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, about patient blood management.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:45 EACTS 2025
07:19 JANS 1, HVD Management Guidelines
16:26 JANS 2, Low-Risk AVR Evidence
19:21 JANS 3, Warden Procedure Selection
20:36 JANS 4, Primary Repair o
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 126: Another Successful Experience in Ghana
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 125: Ticagrelor vs Aspirin Post-Coronary Surgery
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,
The Atrium: Proximal Coronary Anastomosis
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 & His
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 124: Veterinary vs Human Cardiothoracic Surgery
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, Modi
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 123: First In-Human BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart Implantation
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, Segmen
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 122: The Medical Mission Experience
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 Durabilit
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 121: Managing LVOT Obstruction With Minimal Septal Hypertrophy
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 120: Improving Institutional Processes and Metrics
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
The Atrium: Segmentectomy
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 & Pitf
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 119: The World's First Subxiphoid Robotic Heart Transplant
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:
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 118: Directing Novel Approaches in Surgery Programs
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 A
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 117: Chest Tube Management
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 Pregnanc
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 116: Lifetime Management of Heart Valve Disease
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
10:5
The Atrium: The Future of Revascularization
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 115: First Successful EXIT-to-Open Septectomy for HLHS
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 s
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 114: The Elements of Mentorship
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, Card
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 113: AI-Assisted Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 112: Clinical Surgery Video Production
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 Adenocarci
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 111: Allogeneic Mitral Valve Transplant
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 P
The Atrium: Radial Artery Harvesting
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 Ana
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 110: Artificial Intelligence in CT Surgery
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 Chal
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 109: SAVR vs TAVR
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 108: ESTS 2025 Recap
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
The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 107: Global Outreach for Medical Equity
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 Stud
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