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The Hub—For Your Early Career Journey

The Hub is a new and exciting space at the Annual Meeting. Located next to the Exhibit Hall, The Hub will be the center of activity for programs, sessions, networking, and mentoring specifically for CT surgery trainees and early careerists. Visit The Hub to connect with your colleagues and refresh during the meeting! 

Programs in The Hub include: 

• Early Career Journey Roundtable discussions with STS Leadership
  • STS: Your Career Journey Partner
  • Trade Secrets for a Successful Career Journey
  • My Approach to Wellness
• STS Trainee Symposium: Professionalism Puzzles You May Encounter During Residency: How to Piece Together a Resolution
• Ask the Experts: How I Succeeded as an Early Career Surgeon
• STS and TSRA Trainee Luncheons
• STS Mentorship Program Meet-ups
• Presentations of Thoracic Surgery Foundation Research Award Recipients
• Early Career Insights with Dr. Leah Backhus (sponsored by AstraZeneca)
• STS Mentorship Program Meet-Ups
• Mock Oral Exam Course (A few spots are still available for anyone wishing to register)
• Looking to the Future Scholarship programming

View sessions and educational programs with an early career focus.

These sessions are suggested for a well-rounded journey through the meeting for trainees and early career surgeons, though you may also customize your own schedule. 

NEW!
Painting with a Purpose offers attendees a creative outlet and healing energy. Head to The Hub to help paint a mural that will be completed through meeting-goers' collected efforts and donated to Shriners Children's Hospital in Galveston, Texas, after the meeting.