Program areas at Aats Foundation
Surgical investigator program - the surgical investigator program supports clinical and translational research by young cardiothoracic surgeons, including topics related to quality and outcomes research, and studies of new and innovative therapies, procedures, and technologies in cardiothoracic surgery.
Research scholarship - this scholarship supports early-career investigators committed to following an academic career in cardiothoracic surgery with a two-year grant used to pursue research, training, and clinical experience.
Medical student diversity scholarship - these scholarships support medical students planning to pursue a career in cardiothoracic surgery and who are from an underrepresented in medicine population. Underrepresented in medicine means those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.
To perform and carry out such other educational, scientific, and charitable functions and purposes of Aats such as: atricure fellowship, every heartbeat matters, ethicon china fellowship, intuitive surgical program, intuitive advanced lobectomy course, learn from the masters: a clinical program, medtronic chinese surgeons international training program, surgical investigator program, medtronic/jats, surgical robotics cardiac program, emerging thoracic surgical oncologist fellowship, graham traveling fellowship, research scholarship, surgical investigator program, summer internship program, aldo r. castaneda, cleveland clinic, denton cooley fellowship, f. griffith pearson fellowship, jack a. roth fellowship, lawrence h. cohn, marc de leval fellowship, timothy j. gardner, david j. sugarbaker memorial lectureship, magdi yacoub program, and william norwood program.