On this episode of Advances in Care , host Erin Welsh and Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia discuss the highlights of Dr. Smith’s 40+ year career as a cardiac surgeon and how the culture of Columbia has been a catalyst for innovation in cardiac care. Dr. Smith describes the excitement of helping to pioneer the institution’s heart transplant program in the 1980s, when it was just one of only three hospitals in the country practicing heart transplantation. Dr. Smith also explains how a unique collaboration with Columbia’s cardiology team led to the first of several groundbreaking trials, called PARTNER (Placement of AoRTic TraNscatheteR Valve), which paved the way for a monumental treatment for aortic stenosis — the most common heart valve disease that is lethal if left untreated. During the trial, Dr. Smith worked closely with Dr. Martin B. Leon, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Chief Innovation Officer and the Director of the Cardiovascular Data Science Center for the Division of Cardiology. Their findings elevated TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement, to eventually become the gold-standard for aortic stenosis patients at all levels of illness severity and surgical risk. Today, an experienced team of specialists at Columbia treat TAVR patients with a combination of advancements including advanced replacement valve materials, three-dimensional and ECG imaging, and a personalized approach to cardiac care. Finally, Dr. Smith shares his thoughts on new frontiers of cardiac surgery, like the challenge of repairing the mitral and tricuspid valves, and the promising application of robotic surgery for complex, high-risk operations. He reflects on life after he retires from operating, and shares his observations of how NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia have evolved in the decades since he began his residency. For more information visit nyp.org/Advances…
Website of the Sydney, Australia, chapter of CocoaHeads.
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At last weeks Sydney CocoaHeads, barely 24 hours after WatchKit was released, I thought it would be a good idea to demo a little app I wrote to control a wifi-controlled light globe from LIFX. It went surprisingly ok! Hope you enjoy it. For those wondering about the NDA, we tend to agree with Ray Wenderlich and Craig Hockenberry, that “Since the Ap…
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At the 2014 August CocoaHeads meetup in Sydney we were verty fortunate to have Manuel Chakravarty give us a talk titled “Swift—Adopting functional programming”. Manuel is an internationally renowned expert on functional programming based here in Sydney. Manuel is this year’s program chair of ICFP (The International Conference on Functional Programm…
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CocoaHeads new injection Lawrence Lomax not only has the third best name after Max Power and Scott Speed, he gave a great talk titled “Super! Awesome! Functional! Reactive! with ReactiveCocoa!”. Apparently it’s something to do with cats.Von markaufflick
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Craig Stanford walks us through the basics of layer masking – using a monochromatic CALayer as as content mask for another CALayer. Music: What’s that Sound, by 20 Riverside from the Podsafe Music Network.Von markaufflick
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Introduction to Instruments by AnthonyEgerton. Introduction to Instruments Presentation, recorded at Cocoaheads Sydney 13th September 2012.Von markaufflick
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At the March Sydney CocoaHeads Cameron Barrie (@whalec) gave a great talk on his approach to custom UIKit interface development. Forgive us for the poor quality audio and video – our technology for that month was a Logitech webcam.Von markaufflick
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