Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas began offering
a one-year cardiothoracic surgical fellowship for heart
transplantation and mechanical circulatory support
in 2013. Patient care and case management occurs in
the intensive care unit, the hospital setting, and in the
outpatient clinic. Training includes the preoperative
evaluation of transplant recipients, surgical technique
of transplantation, post-operative management in the
intensive care unit, acute care management, operations
on post-transplant complications, and exposure to the
process of research in the field of transplantation. Baylor
University Medical Center offers a rigorous program and
the fellow becomes increasingly involved in the intensive
care unit management of the patient which is complex,
as well as the surgical responsibilities related to heart
transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.
Program Director:
Gonzo Gonzalez-Stawinski, MD
Chief of Heart Transplantation and
Mechanical Circulatory Support and
Fellowship Program Director
Faculty Surgeons:
Brian Lima, MD
J.C. MacHannaford, MD
Aldo Rafael, MD
Faculty Heart Failure Cardiologists:
Shelley Hall, MD – Chief of Transplant Cardiology and
Mechanical Support/Heart Failure
HEART TRANSPLANT AND MECHANICAL
CIRCULATORY SUPPORT SURGICAL
FELLOWSHIP
Amarinder Bindra, MD
Parag Kale, MD
Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory
Support Surgical Fellow:
Samuel Jacob, MD
With more than a half-century old tradition of advancing this surgical sub-specialty, a total of
100 quality fellows have graduated from the program and advanced to provide outstanding
patient care throughout the nation and even internationally.
Stephen Hohmann, MD, FACS
Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program Director, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
VASCULAR SURGERY FELLOWSHIP
Program Director:
Stephen Hohmann, MD, FACS
Faculty: Vascular Fellows:
Hung B. Chu, MD
John F. Eidt, MD
Dennis R. Gable, MD
Brad R. Grimsley, MD
John C. Kedora, MD
Gregory J. Pearl, MD
William P. Shutze, MD
Bertram Smith, MD
Javier Vasquez, MD Pouria Parsa, MD
Anthony Rios, MD
Besem Beteck, MD
Kristyn Mannoia, MD
Incoming Fellows
July 2017:
Robert Corn, MD
Arash Shirvani, 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 at Dallas,
helping train and advance what was at the time a burgeoning
surgical subspecialty. Since coming under the Baylor Hamilton
Heart and Vascular Hospital banner, the Vascular Surgery
Fellowship has grown in prestige alongside the entire hospital’s
vascular services offerings and volumes. Baylor Hamilton
Heart and Vascular Hospital proudly celebrated the 50th
anniversary of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship in fiscal year
2015. More than 100 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 Baylor Hamilton
Heart and Vascular Hospital medical staff, in addition to a
commitment to offer advanced tre atment options in vascular
surgery that are not always widely available.
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