Mission

The mission of our program is to develop highly competent and ethical practitioners and leaders in clinic and academic interventional cardiology. We strive to promote excellence in education and patient care by providing outstanding clinical training in the setting of a rich academic environment.

Program Aims

The aims for the interventional cardiology fellowship are listed below:

• To train interventional cardiologists who provide expertise in diagnosis and management of adult patients with coronary artery disease.
• To train interventional cardiologists who provide expertise in invasive percutaneous approaches for the diagnosis and interventional treatment of coronary artery disease.
• To train interventional cardiologists who will have the basic skill sets to diagnose and manage adult patients with peripheral arterial disease and structural heart disease.
• To provide the interventional cardiology training fellow with opportunity to develop into educators in the field of interventional cardiology and to serve as a valuable resource in their community.
• To graduate interventional cardiologists who can successfully incorporate scholarly activity into their evidence-based practice.
• To graduate interventional cardiologists who can successfully incorporate principles of quality assessment and improvement projects focused on improving patient outcomes that will nurture collegial collaborative efforts across professional boundaries that lasts well beyond fellowship training.

Goals and Objectives

Interventional cardiology fellows are expected to perform both diagnostic cardiac catheterizations, as well as all manner of percutaneous coronary interventions independently after completing the fellowship program. Fellows will also learn to recognize and promptly treat all complications resulting from percutaneous coronary interventions.

Fellows are expected to take an active role in the area of research. For more detailed requirements see the research section of the curriculum.

After completing the program, the operator will be able to perform coronary angioplasty, stenting, atherectomy, IVUS, coronary pressure wire measurements, thrombectomy, distal protection devices and will be able to use multiple vascular closure devices. In addition, fellows will be afforded the opportunity to learn about the utilization and delivery of novel generation drug-eluting stents and peripheral/structural interventions.