So proud of mentees & future 🫀 stars Grace Lee & Veronica Chan, taking over #CCCongress with their research and CCS Have a Heart Bursary, respectively. 🇨🇦, take note!

What an honour and privilege to have worked with Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai and co-authors on this ESC/EACTS versus ACC/AHA guideline comparison for the management of aortic stenosis 🫀🩺 Dr. Derrick Tam thank you for believing in this paper through its innumerable drafts

Excited, grateful and proud of this >1 year collaborative effort to write a ESC/EACTS vs ACC/AHA guideline comparison on the management of aortic stenosis with Dr. Derrick Tam Jo Chikwe Harindra Wijeysundera Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai 🫀 doi.org/10.1093/eurhea…

Encouraging to see that our #GlobalCardiacSurgery article was among Top 5 "Most Talked About Articles From 2022" in #JACCAdvances JACC Journals. The 🌐 gaps remain enormous. Expanding the discourse and 📶 awareness will help move the #HealthPolicy needle. Read #OpenAccess 👇

Truly an amazing team and one of the kindest supervisors to work with! Very proud of this meta analysis on the link between OSA and cerebral small vessel disease 💤🧠

"If you don't think this is a problem, something is wrong." Thank you, Prof. Fuster, for highlighting our data on inequities in access to #GlobalCardiacSurgery. #ACC23 #WCCardio Read more JACC Journals: jacc.org/doi/abs/10.101… Read more AATS Journals: jtcvs.org/article/S0022-…

Another surreal moment: thank you American College of Cardiology for featuring our EHJ article on European vs American guidelines for the management of severe aortic stenosis 🫀🩺 …and for this lovely article summary! acc.org/Latest-in-Card…

⚡️A fantastic and much-needed opportunity for students from underrepresented backgrounds to get involved in cardiac surgery research! ⚡️🫀

After STICH(ES) & REVIVED, #STICH3C & STICH3.0 International Consortium seek to address the remaining equipoise in CABG vs. state-of-the-art PCI in severe CAD + iLVSD. Dr. Stephen Fremes University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery illustrates the power of 🌐 collaboration to advance #CTSurgery. #EACTS2023

Congratulations to our outstanding University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery University of Toronto resident Dr. Derrick Tam who won the Paul Cartier award & Dr. Stephen Fremes who won the 1st CSCS Achievement Award bestowed by CSCS prez Ansar Hassan . Two amazing humans and surgeons. Bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #CCC2023

Now available! OR logbooks with all proceeds to #globalsurg and care. Order & follow FlowLeaflets adult & cong #cardio, #gensurg, #OB, #ophtho, more soon. bobby yanagawa Dominique Vervoort Maral Ouzounian CTSNet TSRA CCS CCS Trainee Committee AATS ED

As #AATS2024 wraps up and says goodbye to #Toronto, we’re excited to share some snapshots of the numerous presentations delivered by our own residents at University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery. We’re immensely proud of the dedication and effort you’ve all put in!”

One weekend, our residents & fellows take over #AATS2024; the next, they 🏃‍♀️ various distances Toronto Marathon. 👏 to everyone showing up in the 🌧, incl. Drs. Mimi Deng & Sachiko Kadowaki going the distance (42k) and Drs. Grace Lee & Julia Fayanne Chen with need for speed (10k).

Globally, only 8% of cardiac surgeons are women. Underrepresentation exists across country income groups, albeit with correlation with #GNI per capita and the #GGGI. Read our work, spearheaded by Aliya Izumi & Grace Lee, #OpenAccess EJCTS_ICVTS: academic.oup.com/ejcts/advance-…

A pleasure to host amazing girls from Havergal College at Unity Health Toronto for the Next Woman Surgeon program 🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀 Inspirational talks by Mimi Deng Dinela Rushani Grace Lee ✊✊✊ Temerty Medicine Office of Inclusion & Diversity (OID), Temerty Med WomenInThoracicSurg AATS CSCS

The Havergal College girls worked hard - suturing, CPR, ER - learned and had fun 🤩 We planted a seed. We saw many sparks. Many young surgeons in the making Unity Health Toronto Temerty Medicine Office of Inclusion & Diversity (OID), Temerty Med 🔥🔥🔥Grace Lee Garrick Mok AATS WomenInThoracicSurg

Congratulations to all Toronto trainees presenting their original research at this year’s national cardiac surgery CSCS Bigelow Research competition. Strong work!! 💪🏼🙌🏼 U of T Department of Surgery Temerty Medicine Malak Elbatarny University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery

Really enjoyed having residents from across the country submit abstracts and present their research at Bigelow Research competition - now part of CSCS Spring meeting. Congrats to Dr. Terry Yau and the judges for a tour de force and congrats to all who presented!!

Thank you to our trainees for all their hard work and congrats for many successes!!! Research awards, graduations & medical school acceptances!!! 🚀🚀🚀 Malak Elbatarny Subodh Verma University of Toronto Cardiac Surgery Unity Health Toronto Temerty Medicine