Infant #HeartTx following donation after circ death using normothermic regional perfusion and distant transport, first reported case in North America. Read the #JTCVS TECH article by Beckerman, @TurekPedHearts et al: https://t.co/2f6BF3tHTu @benbryner @JacobNiall @SCasalinova

Decades ago, U-M's Dr. Robert Bartlett was on the life-saving team when Hannah Abraham was born and went into severe respiratory distress. Today, he handed Hannah her diploma as she graduated with her M.D./Ph.D. https://t.co/3UNo9R5Pnd #UMichMSTP #GoBlueMed

Duc Thinh Pham, MD, surgical director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, discusses the highly skilled clinical team members involved in caring for a patient throughout the https://t.co/uglAa3UDLw

First En bloc heart-liver in the books! Congrats to our liver and heart transplant teams. Great concerted effort. @NM_Transplant #NMtransplantstrong

Take a full look at a successful heart transplant with the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Cardiac Surgery team, led by Duc Thinh Pham, MD (@DTPham_CVSurg), and Benjamin S. Bryner, MD (@benbryner). Watch the full video:

“Transplant has historically been a therapy reserved for the most privileged of patients." Dr. Lisa McElroy, Assistant Professor of Surgery, aims to address why inequities exist in accessing organ transplant, & how to eliminate them. @DukeMedSchool | @LMcElroy23

@NMCardioVasc MCS director @VorovichHeartMD giving some guidance on living with a VAD. So needed. 💜

The first pediatric #DCD heart transplantation using ex-vivo perfusion. Let’s make sure we don’t leave children behind in the new era of DCD heart donation and transplantation! @JacobNiall 🔗: https://t.co/Zb8YGNVnBk

Duc Thinh Pham, MD (@DTPham_CVSurg), cardiac surgeon and surgical director of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Northwestern Medicine, discusses his passion for working in #CardiacSurgery and why he chose to practice medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

Yet another reason to join @NMSurgery @purplesurg Chicago named best big city in U.S. for sixth year in a row https://t.co/gUCi9vJcub via @crainschicago

Duke University School of Medicine is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s medical school rankings, Dean @MaryEKlotman & Vice Dean for Education Edward Buckley said Friday. Duke is the latest medical school to pull out of the annual rankings. https://t.co/cOU2tRO5Mm

Diversity is occurring rapidly… And we are committed to providing our patients with #EXCELLENT care. No matter what. #DiversityDrivesExcellence

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@TomVargheseJr @DrRebeccaHammon @IEMcElroy That’s not a very nimble governance model, though it is a common approach. May be time to re-think how that fails to help the society reflect its members rather than protecting the status quo.

The Latino Surgical Society (LSS) issues this statement to express solidarity w our thoracic surgery colleagues incl. surgical trainees & aspiring students. We share the disappointment in the remarks shared during the Presidential Address of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)

STS’s Board of Directors should be more prominent and should include substantive numbers of early career, underrepresented minority, community and academic surgeons. STS leadership should look like the body of surgeons we aspire to be, and the patients we serve.

While STS has necessarily distanced itself from this address, this should spur some substantive changes in the society.  The Nominating Committee who effectively decides the next year’s leadership should not just consist of the last 5 living STS presidents.

This stance from a leader and an inadequate response from our societies will just push talented people into fields where they feel more accepted: it’s our loss!

Surgeons don’t say “excellence is occurring rapidly” or “safety is occurring rapidly;” there’s always more work to do on these fronts!  And if we don’t work for them they won’t happen on their own.