Creativity That Leaves a Trace

‘‘Creativity that leaves a trace,’’ is a quote cited by the renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Tirone David at the 2019 Annual American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Inaugural Sugarbaker Memorial Lecture. This was a truly exceptional talk and will soon be published. AATS president and globally recognized mitral surgeon Dr. David Adams spoke of the importance of a great team, and invited the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) to the 2019 AATS Mitral Conclave in New York and the 2019 AATS Annual Meeting in Toronto. Dr. Randall Martin, past president of ASE, presided over the first joint AATS/ASE sessions. CASE has not only grown to focus on echocardiography and multimodality cardiovascular imaging, but now our focus is on the multidisciplinary team, which includes cardiac surgeons. There is absolutely no doubt that the cardiologists, anesthesiologists, sonographers, imagers of all types, specialty clinic coordinators, researchers, interventionalists, and surgeons are now all on the same team. We have only one goal . the best possible patient care. This can be accomplished by creative thinking from all members of the