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PK Smith a great leader and educator. Proud to have been his resident and on his faculty.

John Haney, Assistant Professor of Surgery, will depart Duke as he becomes the next Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic Florida. We thank Dr. Haney for his lifelong (literally) dedication to Duke and wish him the best in this new opportunity! bit.ly/41Oidng

Truly end of an era! Congrats Jack! I know you will give @mayoclinic hell!

🔥JACC Journals #JACCHF our commentary on WHY, WHEN and HOW to use #LVAD in #HF. @MRMehraMD Akshay Desai jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… WHY? Advanced #HF is defined by the transition from Neurohormonal➡️invasive LAPLACE therapeutics, for which #LVAD is the only scalable therapy 1/3

2/3 WHY? Survival prognosis in the "Base Case" of Advanced #HF: 6 mo- 2 yrs depending on phenotype #LVAD provides "years to life and life to years" 👉 >5 years median survival gain 👪 👉 a sustained doubling of functional capacity and #QOL 🚶‍♀️💃

3/3 WHEN to consider, HOW to COMMUNICATE to patients? 💡Use our Clinician's Aid (designed to be printed & used in primary care and cardiology clinics, ICUs, wards) 👉Personalized survival benefit estimate #HM3RS ➕ frailty,🍲 & psychosocial assmt helps shared decision making

Happy to share our work on mechanisms of VF in explanted human hearts. Thank you to Mani A Daneshmand for helping us with this endeavor. If you could also stop doing transplants at 3 AM, then I could get some sleep :-) tinyurl.com/2rbcbtfj Faisal Merchant Mikhael El-Chami

New #VirtualTumorBoard | Experts from Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University treat a young adult with metastatic #RenalCellCarcinoma and offer cytoreductive surgery, systemic treatment, genetic evaluation, and patient perspective in this unique case. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/ca… #TumorBoardTuesday #AACR24

Wrapped up our BrioHealth Solutions Core Training with Mani A Daneshmand and Divya Gupta, MD! Will be 1 of only 8 programs kicking off this groundbreaking clinical trial of a new MagLev LVAD system!

First BrioVAD in the U.S. just done at Emory by Mani A Daneshmand! Exciting to see a new MagLev LVAD available for patients. news.emory.edu/stories/2024/1…

This month, we initiated a new Lung Transplant Consult Clinic at Emory Saint Joseph Hospital to enhance access for Georgia residents. #EmorySaintJosephHospital #LungTransplant #GeorgiaAccess

Great job Joshua Chan, MD and his lab. 2 presentations at the 51st meeting of Western Thoracic Surgical Association!

ishlt.org/event-calendar… Joshua Preston is one of 5 finalist for the ISHLT Early Career Scientist Award - will be presenting our work on heart transplant PGD metabolomics!

Clinical adaptation of Organ Care System (OCS) Heart device for DBD donors with a dedicated recovery team is associated with expanded donor criteria, longer transport distance and excellent post-transplant outcomes Josef Stehlik Yasuhiro Shudo @PARAGPATELMD ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Now out in Journal of Cardiac Failure: A prospective, multi-center registry of Impella 5.5 in HF-CS: 🔗bit.ly/4j8h171 🔑 Treatment with Impella 5.5 alone vs. multiple MCSD associated with ⬆️ survival and ⬇️complications 🔑 Patients bridged to HRT have 94% survival at 12- months