Second Joint Meeting of the
Congenital Heart Surgeons Society and
The European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association

September 10-12, 2008
Warsaw, Poland

The Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society (CHSS) recently changed the name of the John W. Kirklin Fellowship Endowment Fund to the John W Kirklin/David A. Ashburn Fellowship Endowment Fund. This change was made in recognition of Dr. David Ashburn, the very first Kirklin Fellow, who was tragically killed when his flight crashed on June 4, 2007 after procuring a donor organ for transplantation. The Kirklin/Ashburn Fellowship Fund will continue to be used to support the CHSS Data Center Research Fellow.

2009 Kirklin Fellow
CHSS is seeking applicants for the 2009 Kirklin Fellow. More information...

CHSS Anomalous Coronary Survey
CHSS is initiating a multi-institutional investigation focusing on Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery (AAOCA). The goal of the first phase of the CHSS multi-institutional study is to characterize current practices and attitudes concerning the diagnosis and management of this group of anomalies. We will use these responses as preliminary data for a grant submission to study these patients prospectively and longitudinally.  A very straightforward survey instrument has been created by Dr. Julie Davis and her colleagues at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in collaboration with the CHSS Research Committee and AAOCA Working Group.  Please open the link below, which is an 18 question survey about AAOCA.  Print a sufficient number of copies of the survey instrument so that, in addition to completing the questionnaire yourself, you can distribute print copies to all of the cardiologists and nurse practitioners at your center who manage patients with congenital heart disease. Please urge all of your colleagues to participate. It will only take a few minutes to answer the questions, and the power of the data will be proportional to the number of respondents.

http://www.chss.org/multimedia/files/2007/CHSS07-AAOCA-Questionnaire.doc

Completed surveys should be sent to:

Marshall L. Jacobs MD
Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Erie Avenue at Front Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134

CHSS Summer Retreat
The purpose of the CHSS Summer Retreat at the Chicago Hilton on August 26th and 27th, 2005 was to address the important issue of resident/fellow education in the context of the initiatives leading to an organized ACGME approved congenital heart surgery fellowship supported by the Residency Review Committee and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. More...