{"id":36053,"date":"2023-01-23T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=36053"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:14:22","slug":"sts-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2023\/01\/23\/sts-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Valve Experts Reunite at STS Conference!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since 2020, the world’s leading heart valve experts gathered “in-person” this weekend for the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) in San Diego, California. The STS Conference brought together thousands of doctors, medical companies and researchers to discuss the latest advances in heart valve surgery and other cardiac conditions.<\/p>\n

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As Dr. Kevin Accola shared with me, “In the era of Post-COVID, this is the first meeting that we have gotten back together, face-to-face. There is a great exchange of information and new technologies. STS is a great meeting that I always attend.”<\/p>\n

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We Film 14 Educational Videos for Patients at STS!<\/h2>\n

For the HeartValveSurgery.com team, the first day at STS was all about filming educational videos to help patients. In total, we filmed 14 educational videos with world-renowned surgeons that specialize in heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n

Our day started bright-and-early as we interviewed Dr. Pavan Atluri<\/a>\u00a0with an insightful discussion about mitral valve disease.<\/p>\n

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I have to admit, we had a lot of fun during the video shoot.\u00a0 In the picture below, you will see Dr. Marc Gillinov<\/a>, Chairman of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, laughing during one of my bloopers.<\/p>\n

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Ready to see something that is wildly serendipitous?<\/p>\n

For the first time at STS… We experimented with the filming of real-time “Surgeon Q&A” videos that immediately responded to patient questions. In this video, Dr. Kevin Accola, a leading heart valve surgeon at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida<\/a>, answers a question from Amy Berger<\/a>, a patient in our community.<\/p>\n

So you know, Amy is scheduled to have aortic valve replacement with Dr. Accola tomorrow!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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