Estrera named Texas Surgical Society president
Anthony Estrera, MD, FACS, professor and Hazim J. Safi, MD, Distinguished Chair in the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, was introduced as the 106th president for the Texas Surgical Society at the 208th semi-annual spring meeting April 22-24 in Lubbock, Texas.
“It’s an honor just to be a member of the Texas Surgical Society, but when I found out that I was chosen as the president-elect, I was speechless,” Estrera said upon hearing upon his election in November 2020.
Hazim J. Safi, MD, founding chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery who served as the society’s 100th president in 2015, opened the meeting by presenting Estrera during the “President, Passing of the Gavel.”
Estrera joined the faculty at McGovern Medical School in 2000 before becoming chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery in 2020. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completed residency and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
Estrera was elected to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons in February and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the Debakey International Surgical Society, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.
He has been the medical director of the Cardiovascular Intermediate Care Unit and the co-program director of the renowned Houston Aortic Symposium since 2009. He also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, The Journal Aorta, and the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
The Texas Surgical Society stimulates and improves the science and art of surgery and evaluates the standards of the practice of medicine. Limited in number to 300 surgeons, the Texas Surgical Society meets twice per year at different locations throughout Texas.