Publishing
The Friedburg team: (main pic) Matthias Siepe, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Franziska Lüder, Melanie Künzie, Jia-Lin Müller, Claudia Heilmann and Judy Gaillard; (inset) Josephine Menke
New Director for publishing EACTS has appointed Ash Merrifield (left) as Publications Director. Ash will oversee and build on the success of the Association’s hugely popular journals, the subscription-based European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the open access Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery. “I am delighted to have joined EACTS,” said Ash. “I look forward to working with the editorial teams to ensure that the EACTS publications portfolio continues to see growth, in reach and impact, year on year. Having spent eight years at two of the leading STM publishers and more recently at Radcliffe
Cardiology, I am looking forward to a new challenge and to supporting EACTS’ mission to lead the way in publishing high-quality research across the field of cardiac, thoracic and vascular interventions, helping to drive education and improve cardiothoracic outcomes in practice. “I would like to sincerely thank the team in Freiburg, Judy Gaillard, Dr. Franziska Lüder, Melanie Künzie, Josephine Menke and Lin Müller, for all their hard work and support of the journals over the years. I would also like to thank Dr. Lüder for providing such a smooth and thorough handover during the transition period. Their help and guidance in my initial few weeks has been invaluable. I think I can safely say, the team in Freidburg have all had a profound and lasting impact on the journals.”
EACTS, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), and the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) host online symposiums The first event was the 2021 STS/EACTS/ESTS Latin America Thoracic Surgery Symposium on 19 November. This was attended by 452 registrants from 71 countries. It offered new data and insights on managing patients with Covid, starting a lung cancer screening program, and treating patients with chest wall trauma, and boasted an internationally representative lineup of world-class faculty. The Covid-19 Pandemic: Thoracic Surgeons’ Perspective included a panel discussion and presenters offering insights on airway complications and case selection. Lung Cancer Screening: How and Why? addressed lack of resources and presented new research data. A Clash of the Titans debated lobectomy versus segmentectomy for earlystage non-small cell lung cancer.
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The second event was the 2021 STS/EACTS Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Symposium on 3 December. This was attended by 459 registrants representing 63 countries and featured video sessions interspersed with panel discussions. Surgeons demonstrated robotic mitral valve repair and minimally invasive repair with an annuloplasty ring. Another presentation explained transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). In the aortic valve arena, Joe Bavaria showed attendees the process for bicuspid aortic valve repair with an implanted ring, while the following presentation detailed minimally invasive valve-sparing aortic root replacement. Free digital archives of both symposia will be available in the STS Learning Center.
