Interventional Cardiology Fellowship | Division of …

Our Mission

Our goal is to train compassionate, life-long learners to problem solve, innovate, and advocate for patients. We focus on team collaboration, mentorship, adoption of new technology, and shared decision making with patients to cultivate an environment of learning at all levels.

The University of Washington Interventional Cardiology Fellowship is one of the leading programs for training physicians to perform high risk, complex coronary and structural interventions. Our wide patient referral base, access to cutting edge technologies and techniques, and dedicated world-renowned operators allow us to offer outstanding interventional training.

The experience at the University of Washington is unsurpassed, as one of the worlds premiere centers for treating patients with complex coronary artery disease and structural heart disease.

Fellows work closely with well-established leaders in the field, and develop a high level of autonomy for complex cases. The University of Washington Medical Center is a quaternary hub for the WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), and is the main campus for a five-hospital regional medical system. As such, the case complexity is high and the referral volume is large.

After their first-year of training, fellows have an expertise in evaluating and managing complex patients and are highly proficient in performing percutaneous coronary interventions for complex coronary disease, including expertise with advanced debulking, brachytherapy, invasive evaluation of coronary physiology, invasive coronary imaging, percutaneous ventricular assist devices, and management of complex vascular access. In their first year, fellows routinely perform over 400 PCIs as first-operator and have exposure to structural heart and chronic total occlusion interventions.

Our fellows participate in conferences within the division and nationally, are directly involved in clinical research, and are expected to complete scholarly projects during their fellowship, all of which prepare fellows to become leaders in academic medicine and clinical practice.

It is our goal to train future leaders in the field of interventional cardiology. In addition to clinical excellence, we place a strong emphasis on a history of scholastic achievement in our selection process. We expect our fellows to be academically productive over the course of their training and we provide opportunities to design, carry out, and publish original research. In addition to active clinical and basic science research within the Division of Cardiology, the University of Washington has a prominent School of Public Health, Bioengineering Department, and Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, and we promote forging strong interdepartmental research collaborations. Under the guidance of our fellowship research director, matriculating fellows will identify a faculty research mentor with whom they will work closely on a research project of their interest. Fellows will be provided 4 weeks of protected research time each year and will be eligible to receive funding for statistical support and travel stipends for presentations at national meetings.

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