Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney was this year’s Honored Guest Speaker. In an informal panel setting with his cardiac surgeon, Alan Speir, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, and outgoing AATS President, Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Mr. Cheney recounted... »

Tuesday’s Plenary Session featured an examination of some of the most important issues facing cardiothoracic surgery today, from education, to cardiac imaging, to surgical strategies.

Addressing Training Gaps for Certification

Since 2000, the... »

David J. Sugarbaker, MD, became the 95th AATS President at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting on Tuesday evening. Active in many areas of the Association over the past decade, Dr. Sugarbaker plans to continue the tradition of excellence... »

Monday’s Congenital Heart Surgery Simultaneous Session addressed attempts to improve Tetralogy of Fallot repair and on using left ventricle assist device (LVAD) technology to treat children with a single functional ventricle, as well as studies to... »

In Monday’s General Thoracic Surgery Simultaneous Scientific Session, Mark K. Ferguson, MD, of the University of Chicago, presented a modified scoring system to predict major cardiovascular events after lung resection, which was developed using the... »

President Obama is proposing to cut more than $370 billion from the Medicare program over the next decade, a move aimed at reducing the federal deficit and putting the program on firmer financial... »

Please join us September 26-28, 2013 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile.

Course Directors:

David H. Adams, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center

Steven F. Bolling, MD

University of... »

Image-guided Drug Delivery in Cancer (R01)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), The National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)... »

AATS Evarts A. Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship

Now accepting applications – July 1st Deadline

The AATS Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship provides a one year opportunity for promising young... »

SAN FRANCISCO - Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery offered no advantages over on-pump CABG in any major end points at 1 year of follow-up in two major prospective randomized trials... »

State-of-the-art presentations on what’s new in the highly active area of aortic valve therapies, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, opened Saturday’s Adult Cardiac Skills and Decision... »

SAN FRANCISCO – The double-kissing crush approach to stenting an unprotected left main coronary artery at the distal bifurcation produced clearly better 1-year clinical outcomes than did an... »

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Competition among hospitals and between cardiology groups constitutes the greatest barrier to well-functioning regional networks for ST-elevation myocardial infarction therapy,... »