Friends and colleagues are mourning cardiothoracic surgeon Domenico Pagano, MD, the onetime secretary-general of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), who died October 10 ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) - along with its charitable arm, The Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF), recently awarded $125,000 in fellowship grants to five standout cardiothoracic surgeons ...

Dr. Sophia Roberts, a cardiothoracic surgeon in training, recently joined her dad Dr. Harold Roberts, a surgeon with 30 years of experience, to assist in a heart surgery The gift of a board game ...

MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center has added Asad Shah, MD, and Timothy Lee, MD. Dr. Shah is a cardiothoracic surgeon with clinical interests in thoracic aortic ...

Kingsport, Tenn.-based Ballad Health’s Bristol Regional Medical Center fired cardiothoracic surgeon Nathan Smith, MD, after he offered and let the CEO of Bristol Regional make the first cut in a ...

The first time Mesfin Yana Dollar assisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying. He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in ...

Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

Dr. Africa Wallace, director of thoracic surgery at Capital Health, has been appointed as president of the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society (ECTSS), and is the first Black female to occupy the ...

The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery is dedicated to educating the next generation of cardiac and thoracic surgeons, which has culminated in a program whose success can be measured by the caliber of ...

Despite the challenges of working in a healthcare system in crisis, Kudzai Kanyepi has resisted the temptation to move abroad ...