Dr. Anthony L. Estrera appointed to the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for 2022-2025.
Congratulations are in order for Anthony Estrera, MD, who has recently been elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. His term as Director-at-Large runs from 2022-2025. Holder of the Hazim J. Safi, MD, Distinguished Chair…
Celebrating our Thoracic Surgery Fellow Graduates – Al Rstum & Bostock
Congratulations to Zainulabdeen Al Rstum, MD and Ian Bostock, MD who recently completed thoracic surgery fellowship training at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. These two individuals proceed into the field of…
Congratulations to our Thoracic Surgery Fellows, Vahram Ornekian & Peter White
Congratulations to Vahram Ornekian, MD and Peter White, MD who recently completed thoracic surgery fellowship training at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. These two individuals proceed into the field of thoracic…
Sandhu highlighted as the featured article for adult cardiac articles in JTCVS
Harleen Sandhu, MD, MPH Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Research and Development with the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at McGovern Medical School, has recently been featured in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS), highlighted as…
Hazim J. Safi, MD Honored with a Festschrift
On the morning of Wednesday, March 4, 2020, founding chair and professor of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at McGovern Medical School, Hazim J. Safi, MD, was presented with a Festschrift, a German term defined as “a book or journal published…
February Case of the Month: Open Repair of descending thoracic aortic aneurysm is preferred in patients younger than 50 years
Naveed U. Saqib, MD, Hunter Ray MD, Gordon Martin MD and Hazim J. Safi MD Introduction: Acute Aortic dissection (AAD) remains the most common aortic emergency and results from intimal tear in the layers of the aorta. Without appropriate and…
STS2020 Round-Up
On January 25th to 28th, 2020, over 4,000 medical professionals from over 65 countries around the world gathered in New Orleans to attend the Society of Thoracic Surgery 56th Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Several members from Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery…
Tanaka & Akers Selected for Annals of Thoracic Surgery Cover
Research published by integrated vascular surgery resident, Akiko Tanaka, MD along with the illustrated figure by Chris Akers were selected as the cover feature for the January 2020 issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Tanaka’s paper, “Intraoperative Intercostal Nerve…
2019 Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Graduation Celebration
We are pleased to announce the recent graduation of Juan Abreu, MD and Ravi Rajaram, MD from the thoracic surgery training program that partners the academic medical organizations of MD Anderson Cancer Center and Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery…
“Global Perspectives on Cardiothoracic, Cardiovascular, and Cardiac Surgical Trainings”, a summary
“It’s interesting that we all end up doing the same thing, but how we get there is very different depending on what country we are from,” says cardiac surgeon, Tom C. Nguyen, MD of McGovern Medical School at University of…