Related Links
WTS Webinar: Tips & Best Practices for Using LinkedIn
Dr. Mara Anotnoff, WTS’s Website Editor/Social Media Director, lead a live webinar in June of 2013 to provide WTS Leadership with tips and best practices for using LinkedIn.
The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
CDC Information on Tobacco Use Health Risks
STS Gender-Specific Guidelines for CABG
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) Speech (June 2004)
Nina Starr Braunwald, MD: The First Woman Heart Surgeon
Authored by her husband, Eugene Braunwald, MD
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
American Associaion for Thoracic Surgery
American College of Cardiology
American College of Cardiology – Women in Cardiology
American College of Chest Physicians
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Supplement: Women in Thoracic Surgery (2001)
Professional Satisfaction of Women Practicing Surgery: Results of a National Study, by A. End, M. Mittlboeck, H. Piza-Katzer, Arch Surg, Vol 139, 2004.
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.
Women Advancing in Biomedical Careers, by V.W. Pinn, in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000; 71:S1-2.
Are you a cardiothoracic surgery resident? Visit the CTSNet Resident Section and the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association
View a list of women boarded by ABTS as of the year 2000.
Order ‘Women are Surgeons’, a free video for teaching purposes.