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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: CABG of Today and Tomorrow
Faisal Bakaeen, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Bakaeen is Professor of Surgery at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Surgical Director of the Coronary Center at the Cleveland Clinic.
He is the Co-Chair of the AATS Adult Cardiac Clinical Practice and Standards Committee.
Jennifer Lawton, Johns Hopkins Univerity
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD, is the Richard B. Darnall Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Director of Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, and Cardiac Surgeon – in – Charge, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.
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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: Deep Dive into the Aortic Root
Maral Ouzounian, Toronto General Hospital
Dr. Maral Ouzounian is Head of the Division of Cardiovascular at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. She is the Munk Chair in Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics and the Antonio & Helga DeGasperis Chair in Clinical Trials and Outcome Studies at University Health Network.
Her clinical and academic interests are in the understanding and management of valvular and aortic diseases including aortic root reconstruction and valve repair, the Ross procedure, and the surgical treatment of complex aortic aneurysms and dissections. She has published over 250 papers in the field and is an author on multiple guidelines and position statements.
She is the Chair of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Adult Cardiac Education Committee and serves on the AATS Membership, Leadership Academy, and Scholarship committees. Dr. Ouzounian was the Chair of the Adult Cardiac Program for the 102nd and 104th Scientific Meetings of the AATS and serves on the program committee for the AATS Aortic Symposium.
Y. Joseph Woo, Stanford University
Joseph Woo, M.D. serves as the Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. He received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he also conducted his postgraduate surgical training in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery as well as a postdoctoral research fellowship developing novel molecular strategies for attenuating myocardial ischemic injury. Dr. Woo has an active clinical practice of 300 pump cases/year focusing on complex cardiac valve repair, aortic surgery, cardiopulmonary transplantation, and minimally-invasive surgery, and has advanced these fields by developing several innovative operations. Dr. Woo currently runs an NIH R01-funded basic science research lab studying stem cells, angiogenesis, tissue engineering, and valvular biomechanics and has held continuous NIH funding since 2004. He has also served as PI for several clinical device trials as well as translational scientific clinical trials entailing administration of stem cells during coronary artery bypass grafting and LVAD implantation. He has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Nationally, Dr. Woo serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: Mitral Valve Clinic - Case Based Learning
David Adams, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader in the field of mitral valve reconstruction, and leads a specialized team that performs over 400 mitral valve operations per year. He is a co-author of the acclaimed valve textbook, Carpentier’s Reconstructive Valve Surgery, and has co-invented multiple valve repair prostheses used throughout the world. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Adams was the 99th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
Anelechi Anyanwu, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
Dr. Anyanwu is Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His clinical interests include mitral valve surgery, reoperative surgery, and surgery for heart-failure. Dr. Anyanwu has served the AATS in various roles, including serving on the Program Committee for prior Mitral Conclave and Annual Meetings. He currently serves on the AATS Board.
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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Congenital Masterclass - Part I: Pulmonary Artery Disease
Carlos Mery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Mery is a congenital heart surgeon at Dell Children’s Medical Center and Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. He is Associate Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care and Associate Chief of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery. He serves as the Surgical Director for the Single Ventricle Program, Coronary Anomalies Program, and Heart Failure, VAD, and Transplant Program. Dr. Mery is also Director of the Health Transformation and Design Program, a Heart Center-wide initiative that seeks to improve and redesign the care of patients with congenital heart disease using principles of patient-centered and value-based health care. This program encompasses all the outcomes measurement, quality improvement, clinical research, health transformation, and clinical innovation initiatives for the Heart Center under the same umbrella.
Dr. Mery specializes in the surgical management of children and adults with congenital heart disease, with particular interest in patients with single ventricle disease and coronary artery anomalies. His academic interests include outcomes research, value-based health care transformation, and the early development of medical technology.
Dr. Mery received his medical degree from Tecnologico De Monterrey, Mexico and his master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his general surgery residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School and clinical fellowships in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Virginia and congenital heart surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine. He also completed research fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición in Mexico, and a surgical innovation fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Mery has written more than 170 journal articles or book chapters and is the editor of a review book in cardiothoracic surgery and a handbook in congenital heart disease.
David Winlaw, David Winlaw, MBBS MD FRACS
David Winlaw is a congenital cardiac surgeon who works at The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. His interests include neonatal cardiac surgery, outcomes of the single ventricle pathway, genetics of congenital heart disease and bioengineering.
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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Thoracic Masterclass: Esophagectomy
Stephen Yang, MD, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Stephen C. Yang, MD is Professor of Surgery and Medical Oncology, and the Arthur B. and Patricia B. Modell Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He is Vice-Chair of Professional Development for the Department of Surgery. His teaching, research and clinical service awards include: 1996 Johns Hopkins William F. Rienhoff Award for research; 1997 AATS Andrew Morrow Research Scholar; 2004 MCV Outstanding Alumnus Award; 2006 TSDA Socrates Award; 2006 STS J. Maxwell Chamberlain Award; 2008 Johns Hopkins Dean’s Award as Clinical Teacher of the Year; 2017 STSA Urschel-Mavroudis Spirit Award; 2018 Medical School Graduation Marshall; inductee of The Johns Hopkins Distinguished Teaching Society, AOA Honor Society at MCV, and ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.
His clinical interests in general thoracic surgery, with emphasis in lung and esophageal cancer biology/survivorship, pectus repair, robotics surgery, geriatric thoracic surgery and enhancing the educational paradigm for medical students, residents and junior faculty. He had developed novel techniques in lung transplantation with cadaveric lobar transplantation, and in robotic surgery.
Elected to the ABTS in 2014, he serves as Examination Chair and Editor-in-Chief of SESATS XIII and appointed to Chair the Council to develop Entrustable Professional Activities for CT surgery. He is President of the STSA, and immediate past Chair of the the Medical Student Education Committee for the ACS. In 2019, he was elected to the ACGME RRC for Thoracic Surgery, and President-Elect of the TSDA. He is the JTCVS Associate Editor for the education section.
Though an empty nester now that his three children have flown the coop (and off the payroll!), he lives with his wife Marivic of 38 year in Hunt Valley, MD, and enjoys playing lounge piano music, country club tennis, “Chopped” cooking, taking care of his puppy Milo, and ballroom dancing, winner of the 2017 Dancing with the Hopkins Stars.
Yaron Shargall, St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
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7:00AM - 9:00AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Thoracic Masterclass: Lung Cancer
Brendon Stiles, Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. Brendon Stiles is the Professor and Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Montefiore Health System, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Stiles is also the Associate Director of Surgical Services for the NCI-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Stiles’ expertise is in minimally invasive, targeted surgical management of lung cancer, neoadjuvant trials, and in translational lung cancer research. He is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, Co-Chair of the AATS Foundation Advisory Council, and International Director of the Board of the ESTS.
M. Blair Marshall, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Dr. Marshall is the Michael A. Bell Family Distinguished Chair in Healthcare Innovation at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She is known for her expertise in robotic and other minimally invasive thoracic procedures, surgical coaching, and the development of simulators. She is also the editor of Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
AATS/CHSS Congenital Masterclass Part II: Pulmonary Vein Disease
Robert Jaquiss, Children's Medical Center
RDB "Jake" Jaquiss is Chief of Congenital Heart Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Center at Children's Health System of Texas in Dallas and Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. After graduating from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, he did all of his post-graduate training in surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and congenital heart surgery at Washington University in St. Louis.
Emile Bacha, NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Emile Bacha is a US board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Bacha is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and currently the Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of Congenital Heart Surgery at NYP/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Komansky-Weill-Cornell Children’s. Prior to that, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bacha received his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He completed his surgical residency at MGH and Emory, followed by a research fellowship at the Hopital Marie-Lannelongue of Paris-Sud University. He then completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at MGH in 1989. He has been supported by grants from the NIH, AATS, and TSFRE. Dr. Bacha is one of the early developers of the "hybrid stage I" procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is also the principal developer of a widely accepted technical competency metric for pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Bacha has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past-Associate Editor of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and a member of the AATS, STS, the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), the ACC and ACS. He currently serves as the Treasurer for the AATS and as Secretary of the CHSS.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: All Things Arch and Beyond
Thoralf Sundt, Harvard University
Thoralf M. Sundt, III, M.D.
Thor Sundt, MD, is the Churchill Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He co-directs the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at MGH, and has been appointed the Director of the Cardiac Surgery Clinical Service for Mass General Brigham.
Dr. Sundt's clinical focus has been on surgery for the correction of acquired cardiovascular conditions in adults. He is an internationally recognized thought-leader on thoracic aortic diseases, having written and lectured extensively on the subject. He is also widely recognized as an expert in reparative procedures for valvular heart disease as well as the use of arterial conduits to improve the long term durability of coronary bypass procedures.
His research interests have ranged from organ transplantation to the genetics and genomics of bicuspid aortic valve disease. He has received funding by the National Institutes of Health, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Mayo Foundation for this work. Most recently, he collaborated with investigators in the disciplines of human factors and systems engineering to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery. On a national level, he was the first chair of the Workforce on Patient Safety for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
He has served in numerous executive roles, including surgical director for cardiac transplantation at Washington University in St. Louis, surgical director of the Thoracic Aortic and Marfan Clinic at the Mayo Clinic and vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Sundt is a Past-President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.Duke Cameron, Johns Hopkins Univerity
Duke Cameron is an adult and pediatric cardiac surgeon with special interest in aortic disease and connective tissue disorders. At the Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017 to 2023, he recently returned to Johns Hopkins, where he began his cardiac surgery career in 1984. He is a former president of the AATS.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: CABG in Heart Failure
Dawn Hui, University of Texas Health San Antonio
Dawn Hui, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio, is an adult cardiac surgeon with a clinical focus on aortic surgery, multi-arterial coronary bypass grafting, and structural heart interventions. A board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Hui obtained her medical degree and general surgery residency at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, followed by cardiothoracic surgical training at The University of Southern California. She also serves as Associate Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency program and is the faculty advisor for the CT Surgery Interest group at the School of Medicine. Her research interests include clinical outcomes and translational research.
Dr. Hui serves on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (as Associated Editor), Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.
Michael Acker, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Michael Acker, MD is the Julian Johnson Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine. He also serves as Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of the Penn Medicine Heart and Vascular Center. Dr. Acker received his medical degree from the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and completed his general surgery residency at Penn and cardiothoracic residency at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Acker’s surgical practice focuses on patients with end-stage heart failure, coronary artery disease and valvular disease—with special expertise in mitral valve repair for advanced myxomatous disease or patients with end-stage heart failure. He is a leader in using mechanical assist devices as a bridge to transplantation or permanent therapy. At the Perelman School of Medicine, he has been recognized with the Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award in 2002 and the Alfred Stengel Health System Champion Award in 2013. Dr. Acker has been recognized annually in Philadelphia magazine’s Top Docs issue from 2002 through 2021, listed as one of America’s Top Doctors in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012–2021, and annually in Best Doctors in America from 2003 through 2020.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: Decision Making in Mitral Valve Surgery
Clifford Barlow, Southampton
Mr Barlow completed his medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and was trained in cardiothoracic surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was subsequently Transplant Fellow in Heart and Lung transplantation at Stanford University, California, USA.
After returning to the UK, Mr Barlow joined Southampton General Hospital as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon in 2000, focussing entirely on adult cardiac surgery after 2007. He has performed over 6000 heart operations since 2000 and has one of the largest practices in the UK, performing over 300 major heart operations a year. He undertakes all the major adult cardiac heart operations including coronary artery bypass surgery and valve replacement surgery. He has a particular interest in mitral valve repair surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery with a focus on individual patient focussed conduit choice, redo-surgery for both heart valve and coronary disease and quality control for all cardiac surgery.
Mr Barlow has one of the three largest practices in the UK with a particularly complex case mix and consistently outstanding survival outcomes.
Mr Barlow leadership roles include being unit Representative, Meeting Secretary and serving on the Executive of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland (SCTS). He is Cardiac Surgical Lead for the Wessex Cardiac Network and Representative for Cardiothoracic Surgery for South Central England with the Royal College of Surgeons Professional Affairs Board. He is on the Intercollegiate Cardiothoracic Examination Board Committee for the FRCS final cardiothoracic examination. Mr Barlow is the first International Chair of the Membership Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Structural Heart Masterclass: Aortic Valve
Isaac George, NYPH-Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Isaac George, MD joined NewYork Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in the Department of Surgery in July of 2001 as a resident in general surgery following his graduation from Duke University School of Medicine. Prior to receiving his MD, Dr. George completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. Dr. George also completed a fellowship program in cardiothoracic surgery in 2011 as well as a fellowship program in interventional cardiology in 2012. In July, 2012 Dr. George became an Assistant Professor of Surgery and later an Associate Professor of Surgery.
Dr. George is currently the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is one of the few physicians in the world trained in both cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology. Dr. George is board certified in thoracic (cardiac) surgery and general surgery. He performs all types of open and reoperative adult cardiac surgery (aortic, mitral and tricuspid valve surgery, aortic aneurysm surgery, coronary bypass grafting, robotic surgery) with a particular interest in complex valvular and aortic disease.
Katherine Harrington, Baylor scott and white health, The Heart Hospital
Dr. Katherine Harrington is a cardiac surgeon having graduated from Stanford School of Medicine in 2007. To date, she has performed approximately 2,500 cardiac surgeries, of which 2,000 involved heart valve procedures. She regularly performs surgery at Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano. Dr. Katherine Harrington specializes in the treatment of thoracic aortic disease (aneurysms and dissections), aortic and mitral valve disease, and coronary artery bypass grafting. She has a special interest in bicuspid aortic valves and aortic valve repair. She focuses on endovascular and minimally invasive treatment options. In addition, she has extensive training and experience in transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
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Moderators:
Isaac George, NYPH-Columbia University Medical Center
Katherine Harrington, Baylor scott and white health, The Heart Hospital
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Moderators:
Isaac George, NYPH-Columbia University Medical Center
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Thoracic Masterclass: Chest Wall
Gaetano Rocco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Rocco received his medical degree from the University of Milan in Italy (1985). After general (1990) and thoracic (1995) surgery residencies at the University of Milan, Dr. Rocco completed a visiting residency and clinical fellowship in advanced general thoracic surgery at the Mayo Clinic(1996-1997).Dr. Rocco has served on the surgical faculty of E. Morelli Regional Hospital, in Sondalo, Italy (1988-1999), and as a Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals of the University of Sheffield, England (2000-2004).From 2004 to 2018, Dr. Rocco served as the Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Chair of the Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology at the National Cancer Institute “G. Pascale” Foundation in Italy. In 2018, Dr. Rocco joined the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering as an Attending and Member in the Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, and as a Full Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.Dr. Rocco has been the Editor of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and co-Editor of Shields’ General Thoracic Surgery textbook. Dr. Rocco is a past President of the ESTS and served as Director of Education and Treasurer of the same organization. He co-founded the ESTS School of Thoracic Surgery in 2007.Dr. Rocco’s research has been funded by the Italian Ministry of Health and the Italian Association for Cancer Research, among other places. He has authored or co-authored over 420 peer-reviewed articles, wrote several textbook chapters, played a lead role in 25-plus clinical trials, and given more than 300 invited lectures around the world.
Betty Tong, Duke University
Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Her clinical interests are in lung cancer screening, surgical management of thoracic malignancies such as lung cancer and soft tissue sarcoma of the chest, and video assisted thoracic surgery. Her research interests are centered in the area of health services research, and include the study of disparities in thoracic surgical patients, and patient preferences and decision making in the management of thoracic disease.
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9:30AM - 11:30AM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Thoracic Masterclass: Technology for Planning and Localization
Douglas Wood, University of Washington
Dr. Douglas E. Wood is The Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington where he was previously Professor and Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research as well as the Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Wood received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and trained in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Wood is the Chair of the Lung Screening Guidelines Panel for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), Vice-Chair of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Panel for the NCCN, and Vice-Chair of the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable. Notably, Dr. Wood was the chair for the NCCN Lung Cancer Screening Panel which developed and published the first clinical guidelines for lung cancer screening. Dr. Wood helped lead an effort to change lung cancer screening policy at the national level, resulting in lung cancer screening recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Taskforce and from Medicare. Most recently, Dr. Wood has partnered in an international project led by the World Economic Forum and the Lung Cancer Collaborative to advance and prioritize lung cancer care worldwide, including broader utilization of early detection. This initiative is currently being evaluated by the World Health Organization for consideration of a global health priority, or “Best Buy”.
Dr. Wood served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for over 20 years, completing a 5-year term as Secretary of the Society, and was the President of STS in 2013 - 2014. Dr. Wood served as a Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and as Chair of the ACGME Residency Review Committee Committee for Thoracic Surgery (RRC-Thoracic). Dr. Wood recently served as President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation and President of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNet).
Nuria Novoa, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda
Dr. Nuria M. Novoa qualified as thoracic surgeon in 1994 at the Gregorio Marañon University Hospital in Madrid, Spain. Later, obtained her Ph.D degree in 2001 at the University of Salamanca. She had been there, in Salamanca, where she developed most of her carrier until her recent move to Madrid in 2023 to lead the department. Involved in clinical and research activities, she has published more than 150 papers and is actively reviewing for multiple national and international journals. Since 2005, she had been involved in the academic field working at the University of Salamanca. In 2018, she was accredited as Associated Professor. Her interest in the academic filed, brought her into the Learning Affairs committee within the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) where she was appointed Director of Education in 2021, further, she has been elected as President of the Society in June 2024. Her dynamic and active spirit was behind her interest and participation in multiple societies and activities but, her focus has been, is and will be the patient as the center of all her clinical, research and educational activities.
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12:00PM - 1:30PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum: Clinical / Translational
James Yun, Cleveland Clinic Miller Heart and Vascular Institute
Staff Cardiac Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic
Program Director, I6 Residency and Thoracic Fellowships
Betty Tong, Duke University
Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Her clinical interests are in lung cancer screening, surgical management of thoracic malignancies such as lung cancer and soft tissue sarcoma of the chest, and video assisted thoracic surgery. Her research interests are centered in the area of health services research, and include the study of disparities in thoracic surgical patients, and patient preferences and decision making in the management of thoracic disease.
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Moderators:
James Yun, Cleveland Clinic Miller Heart and Vascular Institute
Betty Tong, Duke University
Adult Cardiac Congenital Thoracic Perioperative Care Structural Heart -
Moderators:
James Yun, Cleveland Clinic Miller Heart and Vascular Institute
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12:00PM - 1:00PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Industry Lunch Symposia
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12:30PM - 1:30PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit, Room 437-439
Thoracic Legends Luncheon with G. Alexander Patterson | Pre-Registration Required
David Jones, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Biography: David R. Jones, MD
Dr. Jones graduated Phi Beta Kappa from West Virginia University and received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine where he was AOA. He completed his Thoracic Surgery Residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. In 1999, Dr. Jones joined the faculty at the University of Virginia where he became Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department. In 2013 Dr. Jones was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Chief of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Jones is Professor & Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Executive Vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at MSKCC. He is also the Co-Director of the Fiona and Stanly Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research. He is the current Secretary of the AATS and Chair of the AATS-MSKCC Thoracic Surgery Oncology Group (TSOG) for clinical trials. Dr. Jones is Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is recent past Chair of the NIH/NCI Tumor Progression and Metastasis (TPM) study section and currently serves on the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors. He serves on numerous national and international committees related to thoracic surgical research and clinical care.
Dr. Jones’s research focuses on mechanisms and drivers of metastases in lung cancer. His research has been funded by the NIH/NCI, Department of Defense, and the AACR. He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-PI on over 35 funded grants and currently holds 2 R01 awards from the NCI. He has published over 380 papers and has written over 35 book chapters. He was an early adopter of VATS anatomic resections and minimally-invasive esophagectomies and performs the majority of his operations using these minimally-invasive approaches.
Isabelle Opitz, University Hospital Zurich
Professor Isabelle Opitz is Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chair of the Lung Cancer Center, and Member of both the Robotic and the Transplant Center Board at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She is Professor/Ordinaria for Thoracic Surgery at the University of Zurich. Her clinical areas of expertise are the surgical treatment of lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and lung transplantation.
She has received several national and international awards for her research. She is Past President and Past Treasurer of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. For this society, she also works as a member of the Steering Committee of the Working Group Robotic, organizing the newly founded ESTS Robotic School and the Clinical Trials Working Group, implementing the Thoracic European Surgical Trials (TEST) Clinical Trials Platform.She is International Director of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeryand serves in their Thoracic Education Committee and the Thoracic Clinical Practice Standards Committee. She will be co-chair of IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer 2025 and is a member of the ESMO 2025 scientific committee.
Alec Patterson, Washington University - St. Louis
Editor in Chief AATS Journals
Joseph Brancroft Professor of Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Masterclass: Problem Solving in Mitral Valve Surgery
Aubrey Galloway, NYU Langone Health
Aubrey C. Galloway, M.D.
Dr. Galloway is the Seymour Cohn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine-NYU Langone Healthand, and Director of the Mitral Valve Repair Program. He attended Tulane School of Medicine, did his General Surgery Residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center, a research fellowship with Dr. Judan Folkman at Boston Children's Hospital, and his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at NYU Medical Center with Dr.Frank Spener. He joined the NYU faculty in 1985. Dr. Galloway is recognized as an expert in surgery in mitral valve repair and was an early developer of minimally invasive techniques for valve surgery. He has a long history clinical and translational research, invented several valve repair and replacement devices, and has published over 250 manuscripts. He was director of the cardiothoracic surgery residence program at NYU for 11 years and was Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery for 15 years (2006-2021). He is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Surgeons, the American Heart Association, the American Surgical Association and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons,
Joanna Chikwe, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Chikwe is Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and the Irina and George Schaeffer Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles which is currently ranked by U.S News and World Report among the top 3 programs nationally, thanks to deep expertise in heart and lung transplantation, structural heart, and robotic cardiac surgery. Dr. Chikwe’s clinical focus is robotic mitral valve repair.
Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Chikwe’s research encompasses the interface between interventional and surgical therapies for valvular heart and coronary artery disease, with over 250 peer reviewed publications including contributions in The New England Journal of Medicine andThe Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is Principal Investigator of the NHLBI pivotal randomized trial of Percutaneous or surgical Repair In Mitral prolapse And Regurgitation in patients >65 Years PRIMARY trial ( NCT05051033) sponsored by the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network.
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Advanced Aortic Valve Surgical Techniques
Eric Roselli, Cleveland Clinic
Eric E. Roselli, MD, is Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director of the Aorta Center, and on the teaching faculty at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Roselli is an active member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and has served as a chairman and member of the program committee for multiple national and international meetings, and co-authored practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases. He has won several teaching awards and is the activity director for the Tall Rounds® graduate education program and podcast.
He has authored or co-authored over 250 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals on root, arch, and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and dissection, endovascular surgery, reoperations, aortic valve disease, cardiac tumors, atrial fibrillation and transcatheter device development.
Dr Roselli's research is focused on thoracic aortic dissection and aneurysms, and aortic valve and multi-valve disease. Specifically, his projects are directed at improving and developing safer and less invasive approaches to treat patients with these problems. He currently serves as the principal investigator and co-investigator for several device trials and holds several patents for novel devices to treat aortic disease. He regularly presents his work at medical and surgical conferences worldwide.
Douglas Johnston, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr Johnston received his undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Classics from Dartmouth College, and subsequently his MD from Harvard Medical School where he was a Harvard National Scholar. He completed general surgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and cardiothoracic surgery training at the Cleveland Clinic, where he joined the staff in 2008. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Dr Johnston’s clinical and research interests are in the areas of aortic valve and root disease, minimally invasive valve operations, complex reoperative heart surgery, health care quality and outcomes, and education for surgical teams.
As Program Director for Thoracic Surgery Residency and Advanced Fellowships, Dr Johnston oversees the largest training program for cardiothoracic surgeons in the US. He is a two-time recipient of the Bruce W Lytle Surgical Educator Award. In addition to training the next generation of surgeons, Dr Johnston is passionate about the importance of training medical teams to function well in situations of high stress and anxiety which are a necessary part of the practice of medicine. He collaborates with thought leaders from military special operations, sports, and the arts to re-imagine the training of 21st century leaders in surgery.
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: Niche Operations
Craig Baker, University of Southern California
Craig J. Baker, MD, received his medical degree from Georgetown University, followed by seven years of general surgery training at the University of Southern California. While at USC, Dr. Baker spent two years in the cardiothoracic research laboratory, where he co-authored numerous papers on reperfusion injury, lung transplantation, beating heart surgery, living lobar lung transplantation and pediatric cardiac surgery.
After a three-year cardiothoracic residency at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Dr. Baker accepted a fellowship in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. While at Children’s Hospital, Dr. Baker had the privilege of working under the direction of renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Vaughn Starnes, MD. The following year, Dr. Baker accepted a position in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Baker is currently the chief of the division of cardiac surgery at the Keck School of Medicine. He also serves as vice chair of surgical education and directs the cardiothoracic surgery training program. Dr. Baker has achieved national recognition for his involvement in cardiothoracic education. He has developed a comprehensive educational curriculum, including a highly structured simulation training program. In 2017, after 20 years at USC, Dr. Baker was appointed as chief of the division of cardiac surgery.
Sandhya Balaram, Weill Cornell Medicine
Sandhya K. Balaram, MD, PhD, FACS is Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Balaram graduated from from an accelerated combined BA/MD program at the University of Missouri in 1993. In 2000, she completed her general surgery training and two dedicated research years at Creighton University. During this time, she was awarded a PhD for her basic science research in the immunologic aspects of vascular biology and atherosclerosis. She subsequently completed her cardiothoracic residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
In New York, she completed a minimally invasive fellowship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital that focused on robotic and alternative cardiothoracic surgical approaches. She remained on staff at what became Mount Sinai Morningside, where she practiced for 19 years. She previously served as Associate Professor of Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine and the Director of Quality and Performance Improvement for the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. She helped lead her department to a STS Three-Star Rating for CABG for several years. In 2022, she became chief of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYP-Brooklyn Methodist, with a strong focus on excellence in comprehensive patient-centered cardiac surgical care and outcomes.
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Adult Cardiac Scientific Session: The Ideal Conduit Choice and Configuration for CABG
Marco Zenati, Harvard Medical School
Dr Zenati is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery Laboratory. Dr Zenati's research in Cardiac Surgery has been continuously funded by the NIH for 20 years. Dr Zenati is the recipient of the Alexis Carrel and of the ISHLT‘s Philp K. Caves International Awards and Chairs the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) Study Section of the NIH. Dr Zenati has led multiple randomized clinical trials, including the REGROUP trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01850082 published in 2019 in The New England Journal of Medicine). Dr Zenati is a pioneer of minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery and performed the U.S.-first beating-heart robotic coronary bypass surgery in 2000. Dr Zenati has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Medical Robotics and Bionics. Board certified in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Dr. Zenati attended Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy and began his graduate medical training at the University of Verona, Italy with a research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Following a 3-year cardiothoracic surgery and thoracic transplant clinical fellowship, in 1996 Dr Zenati joined the faculty of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh as Founder and Director of the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Program and established in 1998 one of the world’s first robotic surgical programs. In 2010 Dr Zenati was recruited to Boston as Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the VA and associate surgeon in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
David Glineur, Eastern Health
Trained in Brussels under the mentoring of G El Khoury
Robotic program director in Brussels and Ottawa
Chief of CV institute St john's Newfoundland
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Congenital Scientific Session: Atrioventricular Septal Defects
Osami Honjo, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto
Dr. Osami Honjo is a staff cardiovascular surgeon in The Hospital for Sick Children, adult congenital cardiovascular surgeon in Toronto General Hospital, and a professor of surgery in the University of Toronto. Dr. Honjo is the surgical director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, and a senior associate scientist in Translational Medicine in the Research Institute. Dr. Honjo holds the Watson Family Chair in Cardiovascular Science since 2019. Dr. Honjo specializes in neonatal and complex paediatric cardiac surgeries, surgeries for single ventricles, and mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation. Dr. Honjo obtained multiple national research grants for ex-vivo heart perfusion and development of mechanical support for failing single ventricle patients, and has authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific publications.
Douglas Overbey, Duke University
Congenital Heart Surgeon
Duke University
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Perioperative Care Scientific Session: Year in Review
Rakesh Arora, Cleveland University Hospitals
Dr. Arora pursued his Medical Doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1996. His commitment to his field led him to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he completed his Cardiac Surgery Residency. It was during this time that he demonstrated his exceptional dedication by also completing a Doctorate of Philosophy in the Department of Anatomy/Neurobiology in the field of neurocardiology. His commitment to learning and pushing the boundaries of his field continued with two further years of training at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, where he became the first Cardiac Surgeon in Canada to also complete a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in 2006.
In 2022, Dr. Arora joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery in the Harrington Heart Vascular Institute (HHVI) at the University Hospitals as the Director of Perioperative and Cardiac Critical Care. He is presently a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University, holds Dr. Alan H. Markowitz, MD, endowed Chair for Cardiac Surgery at University Hospitals. He is also the director of clinical research for the cardiac surgery division with the Harrington HV. His personal research interests have concentrated on enhancing the recovery and care of critically ill cardiac patients. He has a specific focus on delirium and frailty in older adults undergoing cardiovascular surgery. He has received funding from the CIHR, HSFC and the Canadian Frailty Network. Dr. Arora has over 290 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and is an internationally invited speaker for his team’s clinical and research endeavours.
Michael Grant, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Michael C. Grant is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he works clinically as a dual fellowship-trained Critical Care Intensivist and Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist. Dr. Grant’s primary research interests include the application of systems thinking and systems engineering to perioperative medicine, quality improvement and multidisciplinary program development.
Michael is the Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Surgical ICU, Director of Clinical Operations for the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and the Institutional Director of Anesthesiology for the Enhanced Recovery Program at Johns Hopkins, where he has overseen the installation of more than a dozen care pathways across numerous surgical service lines, with special interest in Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS).
He is actively engaged nationally and internationally through a number of groups, including the ERAS® Cardiac and ERAS® International Societies. To date, Dr. Grant has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications, participated in numerous guidelines development efforts and delivered more than 100 national and international grand rounds, presentations and lectures.
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Moderators:
Rakesh Arora, Cleveland University Hospitals
Michael Grant, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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Moderators:
Rakesh Arora, Cleveland University Hospitals
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Structural Heart Scientific Session: Optimizing Aortic Valve Replacement in 2025
Wilson Szeto, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Julian Johnson II Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Chief, Cardiovascular Surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Vice Chief of Clinical Operations and Quality
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
Philadelphia, PA, USA
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1:30PM - 2:45PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Thoracic Innovation: Novel Paradigms in Thoracic Surgical Oncology (non-CME)
Walter Weder, Thoraxchirurgie Bethanien
Walter Weder is Professor of Surgery and former Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Switzerland. Currently he works at Thoracic Surgery Clinic Bethanien, Zuerich. He was educated at the Medical School of the University of Zurich and at Stanford University, graduated in Zürich and became a thoracic surgeon after his surgical training at USZ and a Research Fellowship in Lung Transplantation at Washington University (Joel D. Cooper), St. Louis, U.S.
He is member of many national and international medical societies, including AATS, ESTS, IASLC, EACTS, ESMO, STS, ISHLT and ERS.
Professor Walter Weder is also the founding president of the Swiss Society of Thoracic Surgery, the Lung transplant group of Swisstransplant and the former president of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) and board member of ETOP. He was visiting professor of Harvard Boston, MSKCC in NYC and Shanghai chest hospital.
In 1992, Professor Walter Weder performed the first lung transplantation in Switzerland and in 1994 the first thoracoscopic lung volume reduction procedure worldwide. In 2004, he started a robotic surgery program for mediastinal disease and lung cancer. Over the years, his research activity focused on thoracic malignancies, especially malignant mesothelioma and locally advanced lung cancer, as well as emphysema surgery and lungtransplantation.
He is an author of over 500 peer-reviewed scientific publications.Sudish Murthy, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Sudish Murthy holds the Daniel and Karen Lee Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery, is the Section Head of General Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of the Center of Major Airway Disease, and Associate Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program. He is a Thoracic Surgeon in the Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery at The Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic and a Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Murthy is over 10,000 operations throughout his lengthy and distinguished career.
Education and Training: Dr. Murthy earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a PhD in pathology from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. At Columbia, he received the Janeway Prize for top achievement in his graduating class, the Robert F. Loeb Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine, the Merck Award for outstanding scholarship, and several other awards.
Dr. Murthy completed an internship and a residency in surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard University, Boston. He continued there for a residency in cardiothoracic surgery. As a Harvard University Clinical Fellow, he was selected as the Whitman Traveling Scholar and served as the surgical emissary for Harvard Medical School in the Department of Esophageal Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital Medical Center at the University of Hong Kong.
Publications and Speaking: Dr. Murthy is a dedicated researcher and prolific writer. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed medical journals and more than a dozen chapters in medical textbooks. His research interests include lung cancer, lung transplant and emphysema
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3:00PM - 5:30PM PDT Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Plenary Session
David Jones, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Biography: David R. Jones, MD
Dr. Jones graduated Phi Beta Kappa from West Virginia University and received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine where he was AOA. He completed his Thoracic Surgery Residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. In 1999, Dr. Jones joined the faculty at the University of Virginia where he became Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department. In 2013 Dr. Jones was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Chief of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Jones is Professor & Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Executive Vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at MSKCC. He is also the Co-Director of the Fiona and Stanly Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research. He is the current Secretary of the AATS and Chair of the AATS-MSKCC Thoracic Surgery Oncology Group (TSOG) for clinical trials. Dr. Jones is Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is recent past Chair of the NIH/NCI Tumor Progression and Metastasis (TPM) study section and currently serves on the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors. He serves on numerous national and international committees related to thoracic surgical research and clinical care.
Dr. Jones’s research focuses on mechanisms and drivers of metastases in lung cancer. His research has been funded by the NIH/NCI, Department of Defense, and the AACR. He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-PI on over 35 funded grants and currently holds 2 R01 awards from the NCI. He has published over 380 papers and has written over 35 book chapters. He was an early adopter of VATS anatomic resections and minimally-invasive esophagectomies and performs the majority of his operations using these minimally-invasive approaches.
Rosemary Kelly, University of Minnesota
Rosemary Kelly, MD currently serves as the Secretary of the AATS. She is the C. Walton and Richard C. Lillehei Professor and Executive Vice-Chair of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. She completed medical school at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and General surgery training at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center. She completed Thoracic surgery residency at the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Division. She is Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency and Vice-Chair of Clinical Faculty Development for the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. In addition, she is Chief of the Heart and Vascular Service Line for M Health Fairview.
Dr. Kelly is actively involved in basic and translational research. Her basic science work uses in vitro and in vivo models of chronically ischemic myocardium to study molecular and physiologic recovery following revascularization as well as in response to cell based reparative therapies. Clinically, she has been involved in numerous trials in coronary revascularization and lung transplantation. She participated in the CARP, RAVE, REGROUP, and VALOR trials, serving on the Executive Committees for RAVE and REGROUP. She also participated in ex vivo lung organ preservation INSPIRE and EXPAND trials. For the AATS, Dr. Kelly has served on the Membership Committee for 6 years and as Chair for two years. She is a current member of the AATS Foundation Board, the Leadership Academy Board, Publications Committee and Cardiothoracic Residents Committee. In these roles, she strives to improve educational experiences and professional opportunities for the next generations of cardiothoracic surgeons.
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Moderators:
David Jones, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rosemary Kelly, University of Minnesota
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Moderators:
David Jones, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center