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Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital Graduate Medical Education
INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY FELLOWSHIP
Program Director : Ravi Vallabhan , MD , FACC , FSCAI
Fellow : Clay Barbin , MD Incoming Fellow July 2020 : Anas Hamadeh , MD
This one-year ACGME-accredited training program accepts one fellow annually . The program offers a broad-based learning experience in all aspects of interventional cardiology with clinical training in coronary interventional procedures , peripheral interventions , valvular heart interventions , and structural heart procedures . Experience and training in a longitudinal ambulatory clinic are also included as part of the fellowship . Advanced percutaneous interventions include balloon angioplasty , coronary stenting , CTO interventions , intravascular ultrasound , rotational atherectomy , thrombectomy , distal protection devices , IVUS , and pressure wire evaluation . In addition to carotid and peripheral interventions , valvular heart interventions include TAVR , percutaneous mitral valve repair and mitral balloon valvuloplasty . Structural heart interventions consist of ASD , PFO , PDA , and LAA closures . The Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas cardiac catheterization laboratory performs more than 4,500 diagnostic cardiac procedures and more than 1,600 coronary interventions annually .
CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY FELLOWSHIP
Program Director : Manish D . Assar , MD , FACC , FHRS
Fellow : Joshua Rutland , MD
One fellow is accepted every two years into this Baylor University Medical Center and Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas fellowship , which fulfills the two-year ACGME requirement . Key to the program is that it takes place at a quaternary referral center for the Southwest United States . Thus , it provides fellows with rigorous diagnostic and procedural exposure and refines electrophysiology skills that also enhance the outpatient management of patients . Involvement in clinical research and scientific publications is required . Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas has a total of four electrophysiology suites ( EP ) where the EP fellows have the opportunity to observe and learn from more than 4,000 cases that are performed annually . These include advanced procedures ranging from cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation , laser lead extraction of devices , and ischemic VT ablations using CARTO and ESI
mapping systems . To encourage a well-rounded electrophysiologist ’ s skill set , the fellow is continually exposed to clinical evaluation and indications for tests and procedures in conjunction with history and physical exams supervised by an attending physician .
ADVANCED HEART FAILURE AND CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION FELLOWSHIP
Program Director : Parag Kale , MD , FACC , FHFSA
Fellows : Amit Alam , MD ; Joshua Coney , MD Ahmed Seliem , MD Incoming Fellows July 2020 : Venugopal Bhattad , MD ; Arpan Patel , MD ; Nishi Patel , MD
This fellowship program accepts one to three fellows every year for one year of clinical training in all medical phases of cardiac transplantation and advanced circulatory support . This includes procedural training in cardiac biopsy , IVUS and percutaneous hemodynamic support devices . Since inception , Baylor University Medical Center has completed more than 615 heart transplants and has been heralded as one of the premier solid organ transplantation centers in the nation . The fellowship is supported by cardiovascular surgeons and transplant cardiologists .
VASCULAR SURGERY FELLOWSHIP
Program Director : Stephen Hohmann , MD , FACS
Vascular Fellows : Ashlee Vinyard , MD Christopher Henry , MD Incoming Fellows July 2020 : Lauren Beliveau , MD ; Gabriel Gonzalez , MD
Fifty years ago , pre-eminent vascular surgeon , Jesse Thompson , MD , launched only the second Vascular Surgery Fellowship in the country at Baylor University Medical Center , helping train and advance what was at the time a burgeoning surgical subspecialty . Since coming under the Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas banner , the fellowship has grown in prestige alongside the entire hospital ’ s vascular services offerings and volumes . Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas celebrated the program ’ s 55th anniversary in 2020 . More than 120 fellows have graduated from the program and gone on to provide vascular surgical care to patients the world over . Quality and service excellence have always been hallmarks of the vascular specialists on the hospital medical staff , in addition to a commitment to offering advanced treatment options in vascular surgery that are not always widely available .