{"id":3710,"date":"2011-02-02T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:30:52","slug":"sts-convention-san-diego-adam-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/02\/02\/sts-convention-san-diego-adam-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Moly! The 47th Annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons Convention!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years after heart valve surgery, I find myself taking incredible steps on this journey of patient education, patient research and patient empowerment.<\/p>\n

Last February, I was encouraged to exhibit at the annual meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons<\/em>. During a tour of the East Carolina Heart Institute<\/a>, Dr. Randolph Chitwood said to me, “Adam – You’re doing some great work. You should go to STS so the other surgeons can learn about your book and websites.”<\/p>\n

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\nMe and Monica (My Sister) After Setting Up Our Booth<\/p>\n

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At the time, I didn’t know what the acronym “STS” stood for. But, as you can see in these pictures, I took Dr. Chitwood’s advice.<\/p>\n

Prior to STS, I had never been to a medical convention. As the event approached, I quickly became overwhelmed. Luckily, Monica, my sister, has been to many conventions and she agreed to help plan the event — which took us 3 months.<\/p>\n

Without Monica, I think the convention could have been a complete disaster. Instead, the event was amazing! Over the next few weeks, I’m going to post highlights from this incredible convention.<\/p>\n

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\nFilming With Dr. Richard J. Shemin<\/p>\n

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I think a key highlight for our patient and caregiver community will be the “Surgeon Video Blogs”. (Yes! I took your questions from “Any Questions For The World’s Leading Heart Valve Surgeons?” and asked them directly to the surgeons.)<\/p>\n

That said… Stay tuned!!!<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}