The 8th Annual Live Tele Workshop on Surgery of the Aortic Root was scheduled for the 3rd and 4th December 2005. Dr. Jai S Raman, Associate Prof. of Surgery, Director of Research, Department Of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Chicago, USA, Prof. Robbin G Cohen, Associate, Prof. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA and Prof. A Sampath Kumar, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi were our Guest Faculty.