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Welcoming UAB Surgery PGY3 Dr. Julia Nedimyer to the #UABCT 4/3 Pathway. Congrats Dr. Nedimyer! herb chen Benjamin Wei, MD TSRA WomenInThoracicSurg

Thrilled to welcome Dr. Venkateswaran as the chief of 🫀🫁 transplant and MCS at #UABCT UAB Surgery herb chen James davies UAB Cardiovascular Institute

Dr. Panayotis Vardas, associate professor in the UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has been invited to speak at the upcoming European Society for Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery (ESCVS) 2025 meeting. Vardas will present his talk on mitral annular calcification.

Congrats to UAB Surgery UAB Cardiovascular Institute assistant professor Kyle W Eudailey, MD for being awarded the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Dean’s Excellence Award for Service. He is 1 of 19 awardees at UAB Medicine for the 2025 Dean’s awards. Congrats Dr. Eudailey! herb chen James davies Anupam Agarwal #whyUABCT

Fantastic hands on mitral valve lab for didactics today. Thanks to Medtronic for the sponsorship and Panos N. Vardas for excellent teaching! Benjamin Wei, MD UAB Surgery TSRA #whyUABCT

It’s a Match! Thrilled to welcome Ezra Koh to our traditional 🫀🫁 surgery fellowship. Dr. Koh is currently a vascular surgery fellow at UTHealth Houston Heart & Vascular with an interest in aortic surgery #whyUABCT Benjamin Wei, MD TSRA The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Gearing up for #AATS25 AATS and looking forward to watching Marvi Tariq compete in the 🫀🫁 Resident Case Competition and supporting Drs. Hansen-Estruch and Sabin J. B. presenting in the Aortic Plenary! #whyUABCT Panos N. Vardas Robert Dabal Benjamin Wei, MD

Congrats to Drs. Robert Hollis, Daniel Chu, Kyle Eudailey, and Britney Corey on their recognition as 2025 UAB Heersink School of Medicine Dean's Excellence Award recipients! Help us congratulate them! 🎉 Read more about the awards here: bit.ly/4jyuzt8.

Looking forward to presenting our “Hail Mary” total endovascular stenting in iatrogenic TAAD case at the AATS #AATS25 Cardiothoracic Resident Case Report competition. Come see us at 6:30PM, Mini Theater 2! UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery UAB Surgery

📱 We are excited to introduce the #AATS2025 Social Media Ambassadors! These residents and medical students will cover all things #AATS2025. Click the photo below to find their accounts and follow along with their content. Congratulations, Ambassadors!

Our fearless leader Benjamin Wei, MD kicking off #AATS25 day 2 with his invited talk on “The Mesh Bomb: Management of recurrent hiatal hernia after mesh placement” at AATS #AATS25. Excellent tips on managing a difficult surgical pathology! UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery UAB Surgery UAB Cardiovascular Institute

Incredible talk by UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery advanced aortic fellow Sabin J. B. discussing negative impact of supraaortic head vessel false lumen communications on aortic remodeling—> up to 1cm growth rate/year. Selective use and close monitoring needed! AATS #AATS25 #AortaEd

Great #UABCT representation and lots of incredible learning at AATS #AATS25 annual meeting in beautiful Seattle! UAB Surgery UAB Cardiovascular Institute

Excellent job by UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery PGY6 fellow Dr. Hansen-Estruch presenting VQI data showing higher stroke rates with inominate artery treatment during proximal TEVAR. Staged revascularization protective UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery UAB Surgery AATS #AATS25

Starting Day 3 at #AATS25 AATS wth Dr. Gleason’s presentation on patient engagement technology and its positive impact: ⬆️ patient confidence, ⬇️ patient phone calls and ER visits. Great job! UAB Surgery Benjamin Wei, MD #whyUABCT

Congrats to UAB Heersink School of Medicine rising MS4 and future 🫀🫁 surgeon Benjamin Hambright on his poster on predicting home O2 requirement after lung resection at #AATS25 AATS UAB Surgery Benjamin Wei, MD #whyUABCT

UAB Medicine's Sasha Still, M.D., explains how a delayed diagnosis of #AorticDisease among women, who often present later and experience atypical symptoms, contributes to more complications and a higher mortality rate. 🎧 Listen here: brnw.ch/21wSq3S

So proud of our 🫁🔪 team for winning BEST PGY3 rotation for the 4th year (!) and Lani Clark winning the Outstanding APP award (chosen by senior residents UAB Surgery). Grateful for an incredible experience on our thoracic surgery service! Benjamin Wei, MD herb chen James davies

Congrats to graduating UAB Surgery residents and incoming UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery PGY6 fellows Marvi Tariq and Cozette Killian for their inspiring Chief Grand Rounds this morning on the future of 🫀 transplant and endovascular aortic repair 🩸 herb chen Benjamin Wei, MD #whyUABCT #AortaEd

With a Pneumothorax rate of 3.3% in the navigational bronchoscopy group & 28.3% in the transthoracic biopsy group, Navigational bronch might be new standard of care. The diagnostic accuracy of #navigationalbronchoscopy was noninferior to that of transthoracic needle biopsy