{"id":40278,"date":"2025-03-06T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=40278"},"modified":"2025-03-08T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:15:23","slug":"ross-procedure-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/03\/06\/ross-procedure-training\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW 3PM EST START TIME: Join Me LIVE In A Ross Procedure Training Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ready to experience something extraordinary?<\/p>\n

This Friday, March 7, I will attend a live Ross Procedure Training Course taught by Dr. Vaughn Starnes<\/a>, the Surgeon-in-Chief at Keck Medicine of USC.\u00a0 (So you know, Dr. Starnes performed a Ross Procedure<\/a> on me in 2005.\u00a0 Since then, nearly 20 years later, my heart is perfect. I’ve had no re-operations. I am not on any medications or blood thinners. And, I am SCUBA diving again with my son<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the fun part… Using Facebook Live, I’m going to broadcast several key moments from Dr. Starnes’ upcoming training that will include a “Wet Lab” in which cardiac surgeons practice the Ross Procedure using an actual pig heart.<\/p>\n

To join me for this live event at Facebook, click here at 3pm EST on Friday, March 7.<\/a><\/p>\n

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How Can You Join Me On Facebook Live?<\/h2>\n

To join me, simply visit the HeartValveSurgery.com Facebook Page at 3pm EST, Friday, March 7.\u00a0 Throughout that time, I will intermittently “Go Live” to educate the patients in our community about aortic valve disease, their treatment options, the Ross Procedure and more.<\/p>\n

Click here to join me for this special event at Facebook at 3pm EST on Friday, March 7.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks Dr. Starnes, Dr. Baker, USC and LifeNet Health<\/h2>\n

Many thanks to Dr. Starnes, Dr. Baker, Keck Medicine of USC, and the LifeNet Health team for including me in this special educational event!<\/p>\n

So you know, LifeNet Health is a very unique company that cryopreserves human pulmonary valves<\/a> which are used during the Ross Procedure.<\/p>\n

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If you didn’t know… During the Ross Procedure, a patient’s disease aortic valve is replaced.\u00a0 Then, the patient’s pulmonary valve is switched into the aortic position. Lastly, a donor pulmonary valve, like the one shown above from LifeNet Health, is positioned in the patient’s pulmonary position.<\/p>\n

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