
UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery
@ucsfctsurgery
World-renowned experts specializing in treating the diseases of the lung, heart, esophagus, and heart & lung transplantation.
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https://adultctsurgery.ucsf.edu/ 31-08-2021 21:35:26
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Big News‼️Starting March 2025, Dr. Marc Ruel will become our new Chief of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at UC San Francisco. He'll hold the Helen & Charles Schwab Distinguished Professorship + serve as Medical Director of Adult CT Surgery & Co-Director of the Heart & Vascular Center🥳




So proud of Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD and others on the ASA Committee on Professional Diversity who make the ASA Doctors Back to School (DBTS) event happen! The program provides hands-on exposure to medicine for students underrepresented in the medical fields. More: anesthesia.ucsf.edu/DBTS



.Krishan Soni & Interventional Fellow Ned Premyodhin performed the first coronary drug-eluting balloon angioplasty at UCSF Health (July 2024). This approach was approved by the FDA for use in the #US in 2024 and was used to treat a patient w/ significant in-stent restenosis.


Just an unreal birthday week UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery. 21 thoracic cases. Lung transplant, complex esophageal work, Pancoast tumor, sympathectomy. Robot, VATs, open. You name it. Thankful the incredible opportunities, the well wishes, and the delicious cake !! //


Grateful to be a part of the faculty for this amazing program. Congrats to all for completing the program! The Society of Thoracic Surgeons #STS2025 cc: Mara Antonoff, MD, FACS

🔥‼️ proud of our research team UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Health UCSF Surgery for this manuscript just published in JHLT looking at decreasing 🩸 loss in heart🫀transplant! jhltopen.org/article/S2950-…


‼️Introducing our latest UCSF Health video featuring UC San Francisco Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Amy Fiedler Amy G. Fiedler, MD. From giving life-changing calls to stopping & restarting the heart—her everyday work is nothing short of incredible. Watch now👇 #womeninmedicine #HeartSurgery 💙

‼️ We’re delighted to have Dr. Bianca Bromberger BiancaBromberger stay on at UC San Francisco as Assistant Professor of Surgery! After completing her fellowship, she will join our Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery team with expertise in ECMO, critical care & transplant🫁❤️🩹




‼️It's our pleasure to share that Dr. Melissa Coleman, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon (UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery) in our Department, has been appointed Associate Program Director of Curriculum in our General Surgery Residency Program UCSF GS Residency 🥳🥳


Proud, humbled, and honored to serve on the George W. Bush Presidential Center advisory council and have the opportunity to learn and grow from President Bush and countless other colleagues and friends as we continue on our leadership journey


Such a privilege to be at #ISHLT2025 in Boston this week sharing our experience at UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery recovering organs via commercial flight. Have met so many giants and love every minute I get to spend with this amazing lung transplant program !! //


‼️ Tomorrow, our very own Dr. Jasleen Kukreja—Director of the UC San Francisco Lung Transplant Program—will be in Boston presenting her talk, “No Lungs Left Behind: The UCSF Transplant Experience.”👇👇#UCSF

‼️Big news at UC San Francisco 💙 Dr. Amy G. Fiedler Amy G. Fiedler, MD, a Cardiac Surgeon and national leader advancing transplant, heart failure care & global health equity, has been named Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, effective July 1, 2025 🥳
