The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
http://www.womenheart.org
CDC Information on Tobacco Use Health Risks
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco
Association of Women Surgeons
http://www.womensurgeons.org
ACCP Seaker's Kit
http://speakerskit.chestnet.org
STS Gender-Specific Guidelines for CABG
http://www.sts.org/doc/9848
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) Speech (June 2004)
http://www.ctsnet.org/file/bill_frist_speech.pdf
Nina Starr Braunwald, MD: The First Woman Heart Surgeon
Authored by her husband, Eugene Braunwald, MD
http://www.ctsnet.org/file/NinaBraunwaldByEugeneBraunwald.pdf
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
http://www.sts.org
American Associaion for Thoracic Surgery
http://www.aats.org
American College of Cardiology
http://acc.org
American College of Chest Physicians
http://chestnet.org
American College of Surgeons
http://www.facs.org
American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org
American Surgical Association
http://www.americansurgical.info
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
http://www.eacts.org
Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
http://www.stsa.org
Western Thoracic Surgical Association
http://www.westernthoracic.org
Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
http://www.TSRAnet.org
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Supplement: Women in Thoracic Surgery (2001)
http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/content/vol71/2_suppl/
Professional Satisfaction of Women Practicing Surgery: Results of a National Study, by A. End, M. Mittlboeck, H. Piza-Katzer, Arch Surg, Vol 139, 2004.
http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/139/11/1208.pdf
Experiences of Women in Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Gender Comparison, by C.M. Dresler, D.L. Padgett, S.E. Mackinnon, G.A. Patterson, Arch Surg 1996;131:1128-1134.
http://www.ctsnet.org/file/DreslerExperienceWinCTS.pdf
Women Advancing in Biomedical Careers, by V.W. Pinn, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000; 71:S1-2.
http://www.ctsnet.org/file/PinnArticle.pdf
Are you a cardiothoracic surgery resident? Visit the CTSNet Resident Section and the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
http://www.ctsnet.org/sections/residents/index.html
http://www.tsranet.org
View a list of women boarded by ABTS as of the year 2000.
http://www.ctsnet.org/file/ABTSwomen-cert-article.pdf
Order 'Women are Surgeons', a free video for teaching purposes.
http://www.tech-res-intl.com/ose/