Duke University Medical Center

http://anesthesia.duke.edu/

Chair: Mark F. Newman, MD

Cardiothoracic/Cardiovascular Anesthesia Fellowship Director: Mark Stafford-Smith, MD, CM, FRCPC, FASE
Email: staff002@mc.duke.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Anesthesiology
Box 3094 DUMC

Durham, North Carolina 27710
USA
Telephone: 919-681-6944
Fax: 919-681-8993

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Request application; application available on website.

GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION

Number of Positions: 9

Positions Available 2010: 8
Positions Available 2011: 9

Type(s) of Fellowship Training Available:

Clinical / Basic Research
Clinical / Clinical Research

Clinical Responsibility: Clinical 80%; Non-clinical 20% (1st year)
Annual Salary: $53,256 = CA-5
Minimum Length of Training: 12 months
Number of CA-4/CA-5 Fellows Completing 12-24 Months Cardiothoracic/Cardiovascular Training in Previous 5 Years: 11

FACULTY

Andrew Shaw
Expertise: Genetics of Post-Operative Morbidity and Mortality, Acute Renal Failure, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Elliott Bennet-Guerrero
Expertise: Inflammation and Cardiothoracic Surgery

G. Burkhard Mackensen
Expertise: Neurocognitive and Neurologic Outcome, Critical Care Medicine and Fast Tracking

Ian Welsby
Expertise: Genetic Basis of Outcome, Perioperative Thrombosis/Hemostasis and Transfusion Blood Substitutes, Critical Care Medicine and Fast Tracking

Joseph P Mathew
Expertise: Neurocognitive and Neurologic Outcome, Genetic Basis of Outcome, TEE, Inflammation and Cardiothoracic Surgery

Katherine Grichnik
Expertise: Aging, Inflammation and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Analgesia Cardiac/Thoracic Surgery, Outcomes Research

Madhav Swaminathan
Expertise: Renal Outcome, Genetic Basis of Outcome, TEE, Critical Care Medicine and Fast Tracking

Mark F Newman
Expertise: Neurocognitive and Neurologic Outcome, Genetic Basis of Outcome, Aging

Mark Stafford-Smith
Expertise: Renal Outcome, Genetic Basis of Outcome, Perioperative Thrombosis/Hemostasis and Transfusion Blood Substitutes, Analgesia for Cardiac/Thoracic Surgery

Mihai Podgoreanu
Expertise: Genetic Basis of Outcome, Critical Care Medicine and Fast Tracking

Solomon Aronson
Expertise: Perioperative TEE

Steven E Hill
Expertise: Perioperative Thrombosis/Hemostatis and Transfusion Blood Substitutes, Critical Care Medicine and Fast Tracking

Percent of Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty with NBE Perioperative TEE Certification: 93

ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Fellow Conferences Frequency: 2-3 per week
Type: Clinical, Research, TEE Fellow Presentation
Extra-Institutional Educational Conference Support: 2 per year (presentation of fellows' abstracts)

In the Previous 5 Years, Fellows were 1st or 2nd Author On:

Abstracts: 98
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles: 44
Book Chapters: 10
Other Publications:

Comments:

Funding: Department/Institutional Funds, pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants, peer-review grants
Dedicated Research Time: 4 days per week (year 2), 1 day per week (year 1)
Echocardiography Instruction: Cardiology lab (3 weeks) and OR-based (7 weeks)
Critical Care Rotation: Duration 6 weeks
Formal Course Work Available in: Biostatistics, study design, outcomes research (optional year 2), Masters i
Maximum Time in Non-OR Activities: 3 months out of 12 total months in clinical year

CLINICAL PROGRAM

Number of Cardiac Procedures with CPB Per Year: 1800
Distribution of cases: 50% CABG, 35% Valves, 15% Congenital
Average Number of CPB Procedures Per Trainee Per Year:
Number of Cardiac Procedures off-CPB Per Year:
Distribution of cases: 25% of all CABG procedures
Average Number of off-CPB Procedures Per Trainee Per Year:
Number of Non-Cardiac Thoracic Cases Per Year: 1800
Number of Heart, Lung and Heart/Lung Transplants Per Year: 150
Number of Major Vascular Cases Per Year:

Operating Room Equipment Available: Transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, transcranial Doppler, mixed venous oximetry, continuous cardiac output, evoked potentials, cerebral blood flow/transcranial Doppler, near-infrared spectroscopy, jugular bulb saturation monitoring, computer recordkeeping, large accessible patient outcome database, bispectral analysis.