Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network: Bringing Thoracic Surgery Scholarship to Twitter

A novel social networking group has been formed and is entitled, "The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network."  It is represented on Twitter by the handle, @TSSMN.  In addition, tweets are tagged with the #TSSMN hashtag.  This network is a collaboration among the major cardiothoracic surgery journals as well as delegates from each cardiothoracic surgery subspecialty, as listed below:

Adult cardiac surgery

• Edward Bender @ebender001
• Arie Blitz @ArieBlitzMD
• William Harris @wharrismd
• Maral Ouzounian @OuzounianMD

Congenital cardiac surgery

• Jeff Jacobs @jeffjacobs215
• Paul Kirshbom @PaulKirshbomMD 

General thoracic surgery

• Mara Antonoff @maraantonoff
• David Cooke @UCD_ChestHealth
• Brendon Stiles @BrendonStilesMD
• Tom Varghese @TomVargheseJr

CTSNet members are encouraged to subscribe to @TSSMN as well as to those delegates representing their subspecialty interests.  The tweets are open to all and participation is encouraged.