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DESCRIPTION:'What They Don’t Teach in Daylight: The 3:00 am Cardiac Surgery
  Curriculum'\n\n \n\nSpeaker: Dr. Joanna Chikwe\, MD\, FRCS\, FACC\n\nDr. 
 Chikwe is Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery\, and the Irina an
 d George Schaeffer Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai 
 Medical Center. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
 \n	\n	Dr. Chikwe’s clinical focus is robotic mitral repair. She leads a card
 iac surgery program that is ranked by U.S News and World Report among the 
 top 3 nationally\, and directs three affiliate cardiac surgery programs wi
 thin the Cedars-Sinai Health System. The heart and lung transplant program
 s\, the structural heart program and the robotic cardiac surgery program a
 re among the largest in the US. The department’s research is supported by 
 grants including four NIH R01 awards\, and encompasses translational scien
 ce\, comparative outcomes\, device development and multi-center clinical t
 rials.\n	\n	Dr. Chikwe’s research focuses on therapies for valvular heart di
 sease\, with over 250 peer reviewed publications including contributions i
 n the NEJM\, Lancet and JAMA. She is the national PI of the NHLBI sponsore
 d pivotal randomized PRIMARY trial with the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials
  Network. Dr. Chikwe is also editor of Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Re
 ports\, an editorial board member of JACC\, and JTCVS\, and co-Chair of th
 e American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.\n\nDr. Chikwe founded th
 e AATS Careers College and the Sir Magdi Yacoub Career Development Award t
 o support diversity in cardiothoracic surgery\; served as Chair of the AAT
 S Adult Cardiac Education Committee establishing the AATS Webinars series\
 ; Co-Chair of the AATS Evarts A. Graham Memorial Traveling Fellowship Comm
 ittee\; serves on the AATS Leadership Academy Committee and is author of t
 hree textbooks in multiple editions\, published by Oxford University Press
 .\n\nDr. Chikwe studied medicine at Oxford University after studying art f
 or two years in Florence\, Italy. She completed cardiac surgery residency 
 in the UK\, where she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surge
 ons (FRCS). She won the 2006 Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons Card
 iac Scholarship\, to undertake an advanced fellowship in mitral and aortic
  surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York\, where she subsequently join
 ed the faculty until 2019 when she was recruited to Cedars- Sinai\, Los An
 geles as the inaugural Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery. Jo r
 uns 10k daily\, and supports Norwich F.C. because there’s always hope.\n\n
 \nHybrid Event:\n\nIn-person location: MGH Osler Amphitheatre\, 6th floor\
 , Room A6-150\n\nZoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89994375921?pwd=JNHEo
 mW9dTpatb104XZf9ilAe58XPo.1\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Cardiac Surgery Grand Rounds > 91Ö±²¥ Stikeman Visiting Professorsh
 ip Day: Dr. Joanna Chikwe
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