AATS 96th Annual Meeting

May 14-18, 2016
Baltimore, MD

President & Annual Meeting Chair
Joseph S. Coselli

Annual Meeting Co-Chairs
Charles D. Fraser
David R. Jones

View Preliminary Program, Speakers, Presentations and Full Abstracts

The 96th Annual Meeting is a five-day program of state-of-the-art presentations by renowned experts. Attendees will enhance their knowledge and skills in a wide-range of subjects including general and specialized cardiac surgery, emerging technologies, congenital heart disease, critical care and aortic/endovascular surgery.

Don’t miss this year’s exciting program including:

Saturday Skills Courses featuring Combined Luncheon Speaker: Denton A. Cooley, followed by Hands-On Sessions

Sunday Postgraduate Symposia with Legends Luncheons featuring Joel D. Cooper and John L. Ochsner

New: Survival Guide for the Cardiothoracic Surgical Team course following by a Hands-On Session (Available to Residents, Fellows and Health Care Professionals Only)

Presidential Address: Competition: Perspiration to Inspiration “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam”, Joseph S. Coselli, Baylor College of Medicine

Basic Science Lecture: Stopping Incurable Cancers through Eliminating their Anti-Oxidative Defenses, James D. Watson, a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher who is credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.

Honored Guest Lecture: Brian Kelly, Notre Dame Head Football Coach and a veteran of 23 seasons as a collegiate head coach. Brian Kelly brings a championship tradition to his fifth year as the 29th head football coach at the University of Notre Dame.

Emerging Technologies & Techniques For: Adult Cardiac and General Thoracic

VAD/ECMO SessionMasters of Surgery: Video Sessions

AATS Learning Center: Featuring cutting-edge case videos of novel procedures and surgical techniques.