April 2025 Meetings – Contact the Coordinating Center For Registration Link
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
MSTCVS General Thoracic Surgeon Only In-Person Dinner Meeting
6:30pm-9:00pm
Lyon Meadows Conference Center
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
53200 Grand River Ave
New Hudson, MI 48165
Tentative Meeting Agenda
- Phase of Care Mortality Analysis: Refining the Form & Case Review
Publications Committee Update: Review of Publication Policy, Current Membership, and Outstanding Data Requests
Strategic Planning: The Future of MSTCVS QC General Thoracic Participation
April 25 and 26, 2025
Registration is Open – Please contact the Coordinating Center for Registration Link
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Grand Rapids Airport
4747 28th Street SE
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
Friday, April 25, 2025
MSTCVS Quality Collaborative Data Manager Meeting
Adult Cardiac
Focus on New Data Manager Topics – Optional for Data Managers with Over 2 Years Experience in MSTCVS Participation
10:00am-4:00pm
MSTCVS Quality Adult Cardiac Committee Meeting (Surgeon Only)
6:30pm-10:00pm
Saturday, April 26, 2025
MSTCVS Quality Collaborative Meeting
Adult Cardiac Data Review
10:00am-4:00pm
Externally Funded Quality Improvement Initiatives Workgroup Meeting
8:00am-8:50am
General Thoracic Surgeon Committee Meeting (Surgeon Only)
9:00am-9:50am
There will be a virtual option for this meeting. Please register and we will send the link.
Advanced Practice Provider Meeting
8:30am-9:30am
PERForm Registry Breakout
10:00am-12:00pm
“Perfusion P4P points” are only awarded for their attendance at the PERForm/perfusion session(s). However, perfusionists are always invited and encouraged to attend the MSTCVS Quality Collaborative meeting.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 – Virtual Meeting
MSTCVS QC General Thoracic Data Manager Meeting – Virtual
12:30pm-2:30pm
August 14-17, 2025
Park Place Hotel & Conference Center
300 East State Street
Traverse City, Michigan 49684

November 14 and 15, 2025
Updated Location
Suburban Showplace – Novi, Mi
February 2025 Meeting Agenda and Articles
February 22, 2025 – Meeting Agenda
Articles
Long-Term Survival Benefit of Surgical Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Mitral Surgery
Irbaz Hameed, MD
Concomitant Surgical Ablation in Paroxysmal vs Persistent Atrial Fibrillation During Mitral Surgery
Ali Darehzereshki, MD
Atrial Fibrillation Management During Surgical vs Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc
Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation during mitral-valve surgery
A Marc Gillinov, MD
Predictors and Risk of Pacemaker Implantation After the Cox-Maze IV Procedure
Jason O. Robertson, MD
Left Atrial Appendage Patency at Cardioversion After Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Intervention
Michael W. Cullen, MD
Long-Term Imaging and Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion With AtriClip
Adnan Ahmed MD
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion during Cardiac Surgery to Prevent Stroke
Richard P Whitlock, MD, PhD
Surgical Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Improves Long-Term Survival: A Multicenter Analysis
Alexander Iribarne, MD, MS
November 2024 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
November 15-16, 2024 – Agenda
August 2024 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
August 15-18, 2024 – Agenda
Articles
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Vinay Badhwar, MD
- The Cox-Maze procedure – What lesions and why
Martha M.O. McGilvray, MSt, MD, MPHS
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, MD, PhD
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database – 2023 Update on Procedure Data and Research
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, MD, PhD
- Concomitant Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MS - Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation is associated with improved survival compared with appendage obliteration alone – An analysis of 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries
J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MS
May 2024 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
May 18, 2024 – Agenda
Articles
- Cardiac Surgery after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Trends and Outcomes
Michael Bowdish, MD - Multi-Arterial versus Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten Year Follow-up of One Million Patients
Joseph F. Sabik III, MD - Concomitant Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MS - Anticoagulation After Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement: Are We Following the Guidelines?
Ying Huang, MD, PhD - Contemporary outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement in patients referred for a transcatheter approach
Stephane Leung Wai Sang, MD - Expert Systematic Review on the Choice of Conduits for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Endorsed by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD
February 2024 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
February 10, 2024 – Agenda
Articles
- ERAS Cardiac society turnkey order set for patient blood management: Proceedings from the ATS ERAS Conclave 2023
Rawn Salenger, MD - Expert systematic review on the choice of conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting: endorsed by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
Mario Gaudino, MD - Multi-Arterial versus Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery_Ten Year Follow-up of One Million Patients
Joseph F. Sabik III, MD - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, MD
November 2023 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
August 2023 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
August 3-6, 2023 Meeting Agenda
Articles
April 2023 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
Articles
- Incidence and Impact of a Single-Unit Red Blood Cell Transfusion: Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database 2010-2019
Natalia Ivascu Girardi, MD - Perioperative Anemia and Transfusions and Late Mortality in Coronary Artery Bypass Patients
Thomas A. Schwann, MD, MBA - Anticoagulation After Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement: Are We Following the Guidelines?
Ying Huang, MD, PhD - Bilateral Internal Thoracic Arteries Improve10-Year Outcomes of Coronary ArteryBypass Grafting
Fabio Barili, MD - Long-Term Survival of Multiple Versus Single Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting in Elderly Patients
Justin Ren, MD - The Boundaries of Professionalism in Surgery
Richard L. Prager, MD
February 2023 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
Articles
- Multiple Arterial Graft Use in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Surgeon Perspective vs Practice
Ana K. Velez, MD
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists/American Society of Extracorporeal Technology Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention of Adult Cardiac Surgery–Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Jeremiah R. Brown, PhD, MS
- Risk Factors for Readmission After Pulmonary Lobectomy: A Quality Collaborative Study
Nathan M. Mollberg, DO
November 2022 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
Articles
- Using urinary biomarkers to reduce acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery
Daniel T. Engelman, MD
August 2022 – Meeting Agenda
May 2022 – Meeting Agenda
February 2022 – Meeting Agenda
August 2021 – Meeting Agenda and Articles
Articles
- The 30-Year Influence of a Regional Consortium on Quality Improvement in Cardiac Surgery
- Pre-operative glycaemic control and long-term survival in diabetic patients after coronary artery bypass grafting
- STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management
- Failure to Rescue: A New Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Metric for Cardiac Surgery
- Failure to rescue: variation in mortality after cardiac surgery
- CMS exploring expanded coverage of low-dose CT lung cancer screening
- Adjuvant Nivolumab in Resected Esophageal or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
- Adequate Lymphadenectomy as a Quality Measure in Esophageal Cancer: Is there an Association with Treatment Approach?