GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education ( ACGME ) accredits the combined efforts of Baylor University Medical Center and Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital – Dallas for the nationally recognized fellowship programs . In fiscal year 2022 , active fellowship programs included cardiovascular disease , interventional cardiology , cardiac electrophysiology , advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation , vascular surgery , and cardiothoracic surgery .
CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY FELLOWSHIP
This ACGME-accredited program participates in the National Residency Match Program . Four positions are offered annually for three years of training in the clinical fellowship program . Training is broad-based and includes :
• Experience in the coronary care unit
• Cardiac surgical intensive care
• Cardiac catheterization lab
• Electrophysiology lab including the pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator implantation and programming
• Cardiac non-invasive lab
• Peripheral vascular lab
Fellows gain extensive experience in electrocardiography , echocardiography , rhythm monitoring , and both exercise and pharmacological stress testing .
Imaging experience includes :
• Peripheral vascular imaging
• Cardiac computed coronary angiography
• Magnetic resonance imaging ( 1.5 Tesla )
Fellows : 3rd Year : Justin Arunthamakun , MD Elie Dib , MD Kathleen Kopecky , MD , MS Ronak Rengarajan , MD
2nd Year : John Cochran , MD Travis DeSa , MD Srikant Patlolla , MD Sivakumar Sudhakaran , MD
Program Director : Michael Sills , MD
Associate Director : Jeffrey M . Schussler , MD , FACC , FSCAI
1st Year : James Blair , MD Milan Ravishankar , MD Brian Shipley , MD Patrick Strickland , MD
Incoming Fellows July 2022 : Jacob Reiss , MD Gulmohar Singh-Kucukarslan , MD William Sovic , MD Alexander Whitaker , MD
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