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AATS Week 2016 was a great success

Starting May 12 and 13 in New York City, more than 1,250 attendees took part in the AATS Aortic Symposium. The Friday Breakfast Sessions were particularly popular — Stump the Stars I: Open Surgery Cases, Stump the Stars II: Endovascular Cases, and Controversies in Aortic Surgery.

The week’s activities continued from May 14 - 18 at the AATS Annual Meeting in Baltimore. On hand were some 2,514 cardiothoracic surgeons and health care professionals, as well as residents, fellows, medical students and others in the field.

Program Highlights

Saturday Skills Courses:Combined Luncheon Speaker Denton A. Cooley, followed by hands-on sessions.

Sunday Postgraduate Symposia with Legends Luncheons featuring Leonard L. Bailey, Joel D. Cooper and John L. Ochsner.

New course: The Survival Guide for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Team aimed at residents, fellows and health care professionals, followed by a hands-on session.

Emerging Technologies & Techniques Fora: Adult Cardiac and General Thoracic

Surgical Ethics Course: Surgeons Solving Ethical Problems in Surgery — A day-long program focusing on ethical issues faced by surgeons, especially problems created by rapidly evolving technologies. Course chairs were Martin F. McKneally, University of Toronto and Robert M. Sade, Medical University of South Carolina.

VAD/ECMO Session

Masters of Surgery Video Sessions

AATS Learning Center — Located in the Exhibit Hall, the Center had nine stations of cutting-edge case videos of novel procedures and surgical techniques. Subject areas were: the “best” of the 2015 Mitral Conclave and 2016 Aortic Symposium, aortic surgery, congenital heart disease, esophagus and diaphragm, intracardiac masses, lung, mediastinum, and mitral valve surgery.

More Highlights @ The AATS Daily News 

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AATS Week 2016 was a great success

Starting May 12 and 13 in New York City, more than 1,250 attendees took part in the AATS Aortic Symposium. The Friday Breakfast Sessions were particularly popular — Stump the Stars I: Open Surgery Cases, Stump the Stars II: Endovascular Cases, and Controversies in Aortic Surgery.

The week’s activities continued from May 14 - 18 at the AATS Annual Meeting in Baltimore. On hand were some 2,514 cardiothoracic surgeons and health care professionals, as well as residents, fellows, medical students and others in the field.

Program Highlights

Saturday Skills Courses:Combined Luncheon Speaker Denton A. Cooley, followed by hands-on sessions.

Sunday Postgraduate Symposia with Legends Luncheons featuring Leonard L. Bailey, Joel D. Cooper and John L. Ochsner.

New course: The Survival Guide for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Team aimed at residents, fellows and health care professionals, followed by a hands-on session.

Emerging Technologies & Techniques Fora: Adult Cardiac and General Thoracic

Surgical Ethics Course: Surgeons Solving Ethical Problems in Surgery — A day-long program focusing on ethical issues faced by surgeons, especially problems created by rapidly evolving technologies. Course chairs were Martin F. McKneally, University of Toronto and Robert M. Sade, Medical University of South Carolina.

VAD/ECMO Session

Masters of Surgery Video Sessions

AATS Learning Center — Located in the Exhibit Hall, the Center had nine stations of cutting-edge case videos of novel procedures and surgical techniques. Subject areas were: the “best” of the 2015 Mitral Conclave and 2016 Aortic Symposium, aortic surgery, congenital heart disease, esophagus and diaphragm, intracardiac masses, lung, mediastinum, and mitral valve surgery.

More Highlights @ The AATS Daily News 

AATS Week 2016 was a great success

Starting May 12 and 13 in New York City, more than 1,250 attendees took part in the AATS Aortic Symposium. The Friday Breakfast Sessions were particularly popular — Stump the Stars I: Open Surgery Cases, Stump the Stars II: Endovascular Cases, and Controversies in Aortic Surgery.

The week’s activities continued from May 14 - 18 at the AATS Annual Meeting in Baltimore. On hand were some 2,514 cardiothoracic surgeons and health care professionals, as well as residents, fellows, medical students and others in the field.

Program Highlights

Saturday Skills Courses:Combined Luncheon Speaker Denton A. Cooley, followed by hands-on sessions.

Sunday Postgraduate Symposia with Legends Luncheons featuring Leonard L. Bailey, Joel D. Cooper and John L. Ochsner.

New course: The Survival Guide for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Team aimed at residents, fellows and health care professionals, followed by a hands-on session.

Emerging Technologies & Techniques Fora: Adult Cardiac and General Thoracic

Surgical Ethics Course: Surgeons Solving Ethical Problems in Surgery — A day-long program focusing on ethical issues faced by surgeons, especially problems created by rapidly evolving technologies. Course chairs were Martin F. McKneally, University of Toronto and Robert M. Sade, Medical University of South Carolina.

VAD/ECMO Session

Masters of Surgery Video Sessions

AATS Learning Center — Located in the Exhibit Hall, the Center had nine stations of cutting-edge case videos of novel procedures and surgical techniques. Subject areas were: the “best” of the 2015 Mitral Conclave and 2016 Aortic Symposium, aortic surgery, congenital heart disease, esophagus and diaphragm, intracardiac masses, lung, mediastinum, and mitral valve surgery.

More Highlights @ The AATS Daily News 

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