Cardiology

Fellows rotate through five areas of clinical service on a monthly basis:

• The Echocardiography Lab features state-of-the-art imaging equipment including transthoracic, transesophageal, fetal, stress and intravascular ultrasound imaging
  
• The Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention Program has a national reputation for excellence in pediatric diagnostic and interventional procedures and ongoing clinical trials
  
• The Electrophysiology Program provides comprehensive noninvasive and invasive pediatric monitoring. It is currently involved in several multicenter pediatric catheter ablation trials.
  
• The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit is the only such unit in a five-state region with a high volume of specialized and complex cases treated by a faculty double-boarded in pediatric cardiology and pediatric intensive care
  
• The Ward Service rotation exposes the fellow to cardiovascular in-patient care and both in- and outpatient cardiac consultations.

Cardiology fellows also have 12 to 16 months of research training. They have the opportunity to advance pediatric cardiovascular medicine through clinical and laboratory research making the most of the resources available to them through the University of Cincinnati’s many programs.

An active collaboration between the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Molecular Cardiovascular Biology provides a unique opportunity for interested fellows to further their understanding of cardiac malformations. A National Institutes of Health training grant allows the divisions to offer a fourth year of research training to promising trainees with serious interests in molecular research.

Fellows also attend weekly conferences, where a wide range of topics are presented by Heart Institute faculty and invited guests. Division conferences for fellows and faculty, as well as surgical disposition conferences, are also held weekly.

The Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center provides an additional fourth year of training for qualified and motivated fellows. Fourth-year trainees will have successfully completed three years of pediatric cardiology training and will have demonstrated aptitude for a career in academic medicine. Training during the fourth year provides skills, knowledge and experience for a successful clinical, academic and research career.

One-year opportunities are available in:

• Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  Contact: Gary Webb, MD (gary.webb@cchmc.org)
  
• Cardiac Catheterization / Intervention
  Contact: Russel Hirsch, MD (russel.hirsh@cchmc.org)
  
• Cardiac Intensive Care
  Contact: David Nelson, MD, PhD (david.nelson@cchmc.org)
  
• Electrophysiology
  Contact: Timothy Knilans, MD (timothy.knilans@cchmc.org)
  
• Fetal Cardiology
  Contact: Erik Michelfelder, MD (erik.michelfelder@cchmc.org)
  
• Heart Failure / Transplant
  Contact: John Lynn Jefferies, MD (john.jefferies@cchmc.org)
  
• Imaging / echocardiography,
  Contact: Tom Kimball, MD (tom.kimball@cchmc.org)
  
• Molecular Cardiovascular Genetics
  Contact: D. Woodrow Benson, MD, PhD (woody.benson@cchmc.org)
  
• Preventive cardiology
  Contact: Elaine Urbina, MD (elaine.urbina@cchmc.org)

Inquiries for fourth-year positions may be made through either Robert Spicer, MD, or through the individual subsection directors as listed above.