It’s not too late to join us next week in beautiful Montreal for #ELIXR24! We are so excited to host an all star international faculty for a forward looking 2-day brainstorm about how we can achieve better outcomes for patients with early-stage lung cancer. Have a look at the

Calling all WTS members! Join our Cardiothoracic Surgeon Support Group on Zoom every first Tuesday of the month from 5-6 PM CT. To register and review the guidelines, please log into your member profile at:wtsnet.org/user-portal/   #WTS #CTSurgeon #WomenInMedicine #SupportGroup

Dr Vabhav Gupta presented at Western Thoracic Surgical Association #WTSA2024 on Surgeon-Led Point-Of-Care UltraSound-guided THORacic (POCUS THOR) Biopsy. Will this be a future paradigm for providing care efficiently and resourcefully? Biniam Kidane U of M Rady Faculty CancerCare Manitoba

Congratulations to our outstanding VGH MIS thoracic fellow Dr Gino Bizjak Gomez on completing his training! Your expertise and dedication will make a real difference in the lives of your patients. Best wishes for a successful and rewarding career! University of British Columbia Vancouver Coastal Health #vatslam

1/How can we reduce wait times for biopsies & get patients with #lungcancer to treatment faster, especially in this era of #precision therapy? Vaibhav Gupta, MD, PhD presenting at the Samson Award session on practice-changing QI work we have been doing HSC Winnipeg U of M Rady Faculty #WTSA2024

HSC Foundation CancerCare Manitoba Cdn Lung Association Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Manitoba Lung Association Doctors Manitoba Lung Cancer Canada Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons U of M Rady Faculty 3/wait times⬆️ for every type of biopsy. From crisis was born innovation. Starting with 1 surgeon with EBUS/EUS & #POCUS experience, we started POCUS lung biopsies. With safety & good yield, we expanded to other surgeons. We’ve done more than 200 cases with good yield #wtsa2024

Great low-cost & easy-to-implement innovation from the Winnipeg Thoracic Surgery Group HSC Winnipeg to facilitate diagnosis and reduce wait times for thoracic cancer patients. Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons Western Thoracic Surgical Association AATS ESTS EACTS The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgical Club Canadian Thoracic Society

Secure your spot at the WTS Inaugural Annual Conference on September 5-6, 2024, at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA. Early registration rate is available until July 31, 2024: bit.ly/4dSUMjC   #WTS #WTSConference2024 #WomeninMedicine

Dr. Srinivas Kodaganur Biniam Kidane HSC Winnipeg U of M Rady Faculty Canadian Partnership Against Cancer Cdn Lung Association Manitoba Lung Association CancerCare Manitoba Shared Health HSC Foundation CHEST IASLC American Thoracic Society (ATS) ESTS These biopsies can be done in under 10 mins with minimal equipment, and require even less surgeon time if clinic assistance available. Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons Western Thoracic Surgical Association

Another incredible line up of national and international speakers for the 2024 Canadian Surgery Forum! #MeetTheSpeaker: Dr. Jaap Bonjer will make the trek from the Netherlands to deliver the CAGS MIS Eric Poulin Lecture in Manitoba. Join us at #CSF2024: buff.ly/44Uip6O

Register for #CSF2024 for an incredible scientific program AND an epic social lineup! We're thrilled Indigenous comedian/actor Paul Rabliauskas will be our host at the CSF Soiree. 🤩 Get ready for a night of laughs, learning, and lasting memories! ➡️ buff.ly/44Uip6O

Are you a general or thoracic surgeon looking to develop your skills with a world-class team of thoracic surgeons? Please consider submitting an application to our fellowship program by September 1st, 2024 for positions starting July 2025 and January 2026! mcgill.ca/thoracic/fello…

All of our graduates have gone on to excellent faculty positions all over the world thanks to unparalleled exposure to complex thoracic and upper GI surgical case volume, research, and multi-D care! It’s an experience where you will be afforded guided supervision but with

Take a look to these incredible working opportunities with a world-class team of very talented thoracic surgeons. Surgery, science and fun in Montreal! Jonathan Spicer MD PhD Lorenzo Ferri MD PhD Sara Najmeh jonathan Cools

#MeetTheSpeaker Ready to be amazed?🤖 Dr. Desmond D'Souza of Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Surgery Dept. is bringing the future to #CSF2024 in his Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons President's Lecture, diving into the latest in robotic-assisted thoracic surgery and robotic shape-sensing bronchoscopy. buff.ly/3SCFQxe

Check our latest paper by Dr. Wang on mechanisms of lung protection using 10C donor lung preservation - 10C is now standard of care at our center and many others and allow much extended (at least 24h) graft preservation Ajmera Transplant Centre UHN sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Do not miss this session ISDE.net !!! 6 high volume esophageal centres across the Globe will compete for the “ISDE Esophageal Leaking Cup”

Can PROs predict complications & challenges to recovery after thoracic surgery? Can they help us target/tailor supports? We believe so! More work needed! Thanks to U of M Rady Faculty BSc Med program for supporting Eagan Peters work #tssmn #lcsm ESTS academic.oup.com/ejcts/article-…

We prospectively collected PRO at first visit & at each following visit in more than 500 #patients ⬇️preop PRO was independently associated with complications. This supports the notion that patients know what they need➡️we just need to listen better & earlier #tssmn

This is an extremely important work from Biniam Kidane and team confirming in another setting that #PROs are predicting complications better than traditional objective preop parameters. Same results in our UK population here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/… #LCSM ESTS IASLC