AATS Week 2014: Register by March 27 and Save!

AATS Week will provide the best science in the specialty, with a focus on accomplishing skills essential to becoming a master surgeon and educator. This will be a truly international experience where your skills can be retooled and your outlook on the specialty recharged.

2014 Aortic Symposium Highlights

View the full Symposium program here. 

Breakfast Sessions focusing on Controversies in Aortic Surgery

• Drs. Steven Lansman and Roberto Di Bartolomeo will discuss pros and cons of extending the classical repair for type A dissection with a descending endograft.
• Drs. D. Craig Miller and Hans-Joachim Schäfers will discuss re-implantation and remodeling for valve-sparing aortic root replacement.

Stump the Stars – Selected participants submission of diagnostically or technically challenging cases will be presented to faculty members and opened for discussion before the findings/outcomes are presented.

• Endovascular Cases, Moderators: Joseph E. Bavaria and Eric E. Roselli
• Open Surgery Cases, Moderators: Nicholas T. Kouchoukos and David Spielvogel

94th Annual Meeting Schedule and Highlights

View the full Annual Meeting program here. 

Saturday, April 26th

• Skills and Decision-Making Courses in all specialties
• Allied Health Personnel Symposium
• New Cardiothoracic Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support of Heart and Lung Course
• New Skills Luncheon from Delos M. Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, “The Development of a Surgeon”
• New General Surgery Residents and Medical Students Session
• New Surgical Ethics Course (in collaboration with University of Toronto)
• New Hands-On Sessions in all specialties (separate registration required)

Sunday, April 27th

• Postgraduate Symposia in all specialties, including critical care
• New Legends Lunches, featuring: Alain F. Carpentier, F. Griffith Pearson, and Aldo R. Castaneda (Please note that you must register for a Postgraduate Symposia on Sunday to attend the Legends Lunch.)
• Exhibit Hall Opening and Welcome Reception featuring the Learning Center, Resident and Allied Health Poster Competitions, and the Surgeon of the Future functional lab

Monday, April 28th

• Plenary and Simultaneous Scientific Abstract Sessions in all specialties
• Basic Science Lecture from Margaret Moore, CEO, Wellcoaches Corporation, "Organize Your Mind in the Operating Room"
• Presidential Address from David J. Sugarbaker, Brigham and Women's Hospital, "Clatity of Purpose and Focused Attention: The Essence of Excellence"
• Ethics Forum Luncheon "Can a Physician Ever Justifiably Euthanize a Severely Disabled Newborn" (separate registration required)
• 17th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum

Tuesday, April 29th

• Laboratory Research Fora
• Emerging Technologies and Techniques Forum
• New Video Session
• Plenary and Simultaneous Scientific Abstract Sessions
• Honored Guest Lecture from Rick Pitino, Head Coach, University of Louisville Men's Basketball Team, "The One-Day Contract"
• New Moderated Poster Competition in the Exhibit Hall

Wednesday, April 30th

• New Simultaneous Scientific Abstract Sessions
• New Masters of Surgery Video Session, Moderated Live
• Controversies in Cardiothoracic Surgery Sessions
• Collaborative Cardiac Care Sessions