AATS Meeting Update
CTSnet Adult Cardiac Editorial Board
Development update
Please excuse the delay in reporting to you the minutes of the meeting of May 5th ATS meeting. We had a good turnout with representatives at the meeting including Drs. Thurani, Silvestry, Disesa, Garcia, Ferdinand, Banbury, Bridges, and Savage. The portal was introduced and we made final decisions as to the appearance and hope to go live with this quite soon. There are still a number of issues behind the scenes that need to be resolved, but are close to completion. At this meeting, a number of issues were covered, including new ideas and the potential to create more assignments. Dr. Silvestry has made great strides working on clinical algorithms and we hope to have the first clinical algorithm available to put up with the portal page when it goes live. Dr. Thurani has been working on pulling clinical cases and we hope to reactivate what has become a somewhat dormant area.
The Expert’s Technique Section continues to grow slowly. We periodically receive submissions and post the worthy submissions as accepted. We have also had a number of video submissions lately. At the meeting I asked people to commit to particular areas of interest. Dr. Silvestry will continue to do the clinical algorithms; Dr. Thourani will continue to do the clinical cases. Dr. Disesa expressed interest in creating a repository of pictures with graphs and charts that can be used for presentations to the hospital administration or other parties elucidating facts about issues relevant to adult cardiac surgery. Dr. Banbury expressed interest in approaching issues of evidence based in conjunction with Dr. Bridges.
I will be sending out a more formal survey to all the members of the editorial board to see what areas might interest them for active participation. At this time we are going to start re-organizing the editorial board based on participation and activities, removing people who have not participated in seeking to add new members interested in participating in the activities of CTSNet.