Program Director: Henry E. Kim, M.D., MPH Division Head: W. Douglas Weaver, M.D., F.A.C.C. Program Manager: Tracey R. Hatchett, thatche1@hfhs.org
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
We now participate in the ERAS application process, starting with the 2007 cardiology fellowship match.
For more information: (313) 916-2871
About the Program
The cardiovascular division believes that patient care, teaching and research are all essential missions, and the cardiology fellowship program underscores these missions with a three-year fellowship designed to provide excellent training in all aspects of modern cardiology. Fourth year positions in cardiovascular research, and fourth and fifth year positions in interventional cardiology, electro-physiology, research and transplantation are also available.
Years of training: 3
Number of Positions: 6
Over 30 full-time faculty members who staff Henry Ford Hospital, the suburban outpatient centers and the basic research facility
Clinical Cardiology Training
Inpatient service includes a superb 16-bed coronary
care unit, a four-bed step down unit, and a large cardiology inpatient
service, with 32 telemetry units among the 60-plus non-intensive care beds
Cardiology consult service provides care for the Henry
Ford Hospital Emergency Department Cardiac Clinical Decision Unit as well as
the hospital medical and surgical services
Busy outpatient clinics serving a base population of more than 4.1 million people in southeast Michigan, with excellent exposure to complex valvular disease, cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias
Invasive Training
More than 600 bypass surgeries, 100 valvular cases and
20 heart transplants yearly
Three new all-digital cardiac catherization
laboratories built in 2001
More than 1,000 percutaneous interventsions performed
yearly, as well as over 200 myocardial biopsies
As of 2000, 10 percent of interventional
procedures were: diagnostic angiography and primary angioplasty for acute
myocardial infarction
Experimental programs in intracoronary Doppler, intravascular ultrasound, intracoronary pressure measurements
Noninvasive Training
Complete training in the following areas with more than 15,000 studies performed annually:
Stress echocardiography, nuclear imaging including
SPECT Tc99m-Sestamibi and gated blood pool studies with nuclear licensure
Ambulatory Holter ECG, event, and heart rate
variability monitoring
Stress electrocardiography and metabolic stress
testing
Pacemaker evaluation and follow-up
Electrophysiology Training
State of the art electrophysiology facilities
completed in 2000
500 invasive electrophysiology studies performed annually; excellent exposure to consultative EP, pacemaker insertion and evaluation, ICD implantation and noninvasive evaluation and tilt-table testing
Heart Failure Training
Active cardiac heart failure inpatient service
Advanced intensive care hemodynamic training
Pre-transplant evaluation
Post-transplant immunosuppressive management
Myocardial biopsy interpretation
Management of implanted ventricular assist devices and forms of artificial hearts
Fellow Education and Research
Active teaching agenda provides interaction with
medical students, residents and nursing staff in the hospital, as well as
frequent visiting scholars from all over the world
Five cardiology conferences presented weekly,
including three designed specifically for the fellows' education
Daily teaching sessions with small groups, including
faculty, on every rotation
Extensive and vigorous research leading to over 50
published articles per year in peer-reviewed journals and 50 presentations
annually at national and international meetings
Cardiology fellows were authors of 10 to 15
publications per year and presented at four national and international
meetings in 1999 and 2000
Fellows provided with time and faculty mentors for
research
One month to plan and develop future projects
40 percent of fellows choose blocks of research time
from three to twelve months
In-depth computer training in databasing, spreadsheets, graphical analysis and presentation programs
Interventional Fellowship Training
Two-year interventional program for three fellows,
involving in-depth experience in coronary intervention including primary
angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
Expanding interventional training to include
peripheral and carotid angioplasty
Fellows enjoy Associate Staff privileges, maintain their own follow-up clinics, and serve as rounding attendings on the coronary intensive care and inpatient cardiology services for limited time blocks each year
