A 19-year-old man from California was reunited with the surgeon who performed his heart transplant, the third organ he had replaced in his young life. Joseph Sanchez and Dr. Michael Ma, of Stanford ...

"Anything that you can do to leverage technology to minimize the variability in surgery eliminates the skill gap so that novice surgeons may become as technically gifted as the intermediate surgeon or ...

UAB Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor and Thoracic Residency Program Director Benjamin Wei, M.D., has created educational video content to help patients, medical students, and surgery trainees learn ...

On a bright day in May 1953, American surgeon John Gibbon performed the first ever successful open-heart operation with a heart-lung machine, which he and his wife Mary had developed. This ...

In this video, Stanford cardiothoracic surgeons share their insights and experience performing the world’s first beating heart transplant using a donor heart from circulatory (cardiac) death, ...