We are excited to announce Femi Oke as moderator for our WHA77 Side-Event.

Femi is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster & renowned for moderating highly engaging panels.

📍Register: globalsurgeryfoundation.org/wha2024

We can't wait to share our exciting lineup of panelists - soon.

This week, at the Toronto International ACHD Rounds, Dr. Mertens will discuss new echo techniques to assess intracardiac flow dynamics, myocardial stiffness, and applications of AI in CHD. Join us live at meet.goto.com/511869973 #ACHD Toronto ACHD Program SickKids Labatt Family Heart Centre Luc Mertens

If you attended our Conferences 101 event before #STS2024 , it only makes sense to the Manuscripts 101 after #AATS2024 !! Come learn from Jo Chikwe Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency how to turn that beautiful presentation into a peer-reviewed manuscript!

Congrats on the malaria milestone! Let's also boost surgical care access through USAID. More die annually from lack of surgery than from Malaria, TB, and HIV combined. #GlobalSurgery #Surgery4All The Global Surgery Foundation American College of Surgeons Association of Academic Global Surgery Global Health Council (GHC)

📢 Check this out and spread the word!

CCS Trainee Committee Canadian Global Surgery Trainees’ Alliance (CGSTA)

We are offering 3 scholarships for 🇨🇦 Med Students to do research in cardiac surgery labs this summer. Preference will be given to Women & Black and Indigenous students. Good luck!!! 💪💪💪 Temerty Medicine UofTCardio Unity Health Toronto CSCS AATS The Society of Thoracic Surgeons UofT Cardiac Surgery

As #AATS2024 wraps up and says goodbye to #Toronto , we’re excited to share some snapshots of the numerous presentations delivered by our own residents at UofT Cardiac Surgery. We’re immensely proud of the dedication and effort you’ve all put in!”

It was a privilege to have #AATS2024 down the street this year!

To start off, I may be biased but the aortic sessions were 👌🏽👌🏽😍😍

Highlights were aortic valve repair, Ross resurgence, Ozaki procedure, & addressing ⬆️ TAVR in young pts and valve-in-valve post-AVR🫀

Thank you Dominique Vervoort for your exceptional tweets over the last 3 days. Your coverage of all key sessions and events from Toronto #AATS2024 was 5 star. Your unwavering commitment to the coverage of all key scientific meetings on X is commendable. Keep it up.

And that’s a wrap!! Such a pleasure getting to present our work as a Late-Breaking Abstract at AATS and honoured to have received a Member for a Day Scholarship! Leaving feeling inspired by all of the advancement happening at UofT Cardiac Surgery and in CVSx around the globe 🫀

Twitter (X) may not be what it used to be, but one thing does not change: bringing the #CTSurgery community together 🌐.

#AATS2024 reached far and wide, and none of that is lied:

👀 16+ MILLION impressions

🤳 ~3,500 posts

👤 800+ users

🫶 1 shared goal

You are an inspiration Dominique Vervoort! I love how your track looks like a heart❤️!

So great to see the tremendous patient-family leadership THINK AORTA Global to #ThinkAorta , in 🇨🇦 & 🌐!

Patients & families are at the heart (and #aorta ) of optimal care, and collaboration & advocacy are 🔑 to a better, patient-centered future.

#AATS2024 Global ARCH Gareth Owens

That's all, folks!

#AATS2024 comes to an end here in Toronto 🇨🇦, after 4 exciting days filled with #CTSurgery insights & innovations by leaders and future leaders in the field.

See you in Seattle 🇺🇸 for #AATS2025 ?

'The Melody has a high rate of successful bridge .. After 2 years, close surveillance of the valve is necessary.'

Dr. Osami Honjo SickKids Labatt Family Heart Centre UofT Cardiac Surgery discusses the use of the Melody valve for mitral valve replacement in infants.

#AATS2024

'You want to think about the future.'

Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady WashU Cardiothoracic Surgery shares his approach and tips for the RAA pulmonary neovalve in #ToF .

#AATS2024

Dr. Vaughn Starnes Keck Medicine of USC discusses techniques to achieve durable congenital aortic valve repair:

🫶 Individualized approach

⬇️ Reduce total cumulative interventions over lifetime

🫀 Preserve ventricular function

#AATS2024

Really outstanding talk from Dr Patterson on recovering from disaster. We all carry the burden of guilt - and while reflection is incredibly productive to growth and improvement, healthy coping strategies are needed to be able to come back and fight another day.
#AATS2024

Handling team disasters - insights from Dr Patterson at #AATS2024 AATS.

Through the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons #Mentorship Program, Dr Awrad Nasralla and I have been working together for 3 years. Caught up @ #AATS2024
Proud that she is thriving at U of T Department of Surgery and will matriculate to @UofT Lung Tx Program. She’ll do amazing things!

sts.org/sts-mentorship…