A hearty welcome to @joshuachanmd! Excited to have you join the Emory Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Emory Heart Success team!!!! Here 6 days and already 2 heart transplants, 1 LVAD and 1 CABG!!!

Just finished the 5th LVAD in 24 hrs at Emory! First one started at midnight, and our last one was a 4th time redo. All thanks to leadership by Mani A Daneshmand and Divya Gupta, MD, an amazing HF group, and tremendous OR team!

news.emory.edu/stories/2022/1… Happy to work with this great team doing great work! Nice job Dr Tamer Attia, Emory Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory Heart Success, and Emory Healthcare!

Trans septal AngioVac for mitral endocarditis. Inoperable patient. Great tool for this situation. ⁦AngioDynamics, Inc.⁩

OMG!!!!!

PK Smith a great leader and educator. Proud to have been his resident and on his faculty.

John Haney, Assistant Professor of Surgery, will depart Duke as he becomes the next Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic Florida. We thank Dr. Haney for his lifelong (literally) dedication to Duke and wish him the best in this new opportunity! bit.ly/41Oidng

Truly end of an era! Congrats Jack! I know you will give @mayoclinic hell!

🔥JACC Journals #JACCHF our commentary on WHY, WHEN and HOW to use #LVAD in #HF. MRMehraMD Akshay Desai jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… WHY? Advanced #HF is defined by the transition from Neurohormonal➡️invasive LAPLACE therapeutics, for which #LVAD is the only scalable therapy 1/3

2/3 WHY? Survival prognosis in the "Base Case" of Advanced #HF: 6 mo- 2 yrs depending on phenotype #LVAD provides "years to life and life to years" 👉 >5 years median survival gain 👪 👉 a sustained doubling of functional capacity and #QOL 🚶‍♀️💃

3/3 WHEN to consider, HOW to COMMUNICATE to patients? 💡Use our Clinician's Aid (designed to be printed & used in primary care and cardiology clinics, ICUs, wards) 👉Personalized survival benefit estimate #HM3RS ➕ frailty,🍲 & psychosocial assmt helps shared decision making

Happy to share our work on mechanisms of VF in explanted human hearts. Thank you to Mani A Daneshmand for helping us with this endeavor. If you could also stop doing transplants at 3 AM, then I could get some sleep :-) tinyurl.com/2rbcbtfj Faisal Merchant Mikhael El-Chami

Best of luck to Yaron Barac, one of the four stellar editors of the fantastic Textbook of Transplantation and Mechanical Support for End-Stage Heart and Lung Disease, on his seminar at #UCARS2024 Exclusive seminar discount below!

New #VirtualTumorBoard | Experts from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University treat a young adult with metastatic #RenalCellCarcinoma and offer cytoreductive surgery, systemic treatment, genetic evaluation, and patient perspective in this unique case. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/ca… #TumorBoardTuesday #AACR24