Motherhood and Cardiothoracic Surgery

Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Blair Marshall of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, moderates a discussion on the experience of motherhood as a cardiothoracic surgeon. Dr Marshall is joined by Virginia Litle of Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, Andrea Wolf of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The panelists discuss the importance of having a support network, the joy they get from their careers and their families, and their own experiences in combining motherhood with cardiothoracic surgery.<div>Learn more: https://www.ctsnet.org/article/motherhood-and-cardiothoracic-surgery</div

Humanitarian Cardiothoracic Surgery: How and Why I Do It

Filmed at the 2017 STS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, four cardiothoracic surgeons share why and how they have made humanitarian cardiothoracic surgery a part of their careers. Emily Farkas of the ThedaCare Appleton Heart Institute in Wisconsin, is joined by Kathleen Fenton of the William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance, Vinicius Nina of the Federal University of Maranh in Brazil, and Virginia Litle of the Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. Each panelist shares how they began providing and teaching cardiothoracic surgery in underserved areas, and they discuss the challenges to and rewards of making humanitarian work part of one’s career. They also share different ways that practicing surgeons and trainees can incorporate surgical volunteerism into their career or their training