| Institution Name: | Vancouver General Hospital |
| Website: | https://www.vch.ca/en/location/vancouver-general-hospital |
| Faculty List Page on Website (optional, if different from above): | |
| ACGME Accredited? | No |
| Participates in SF Match? | No |
| Department Chair Name: | Jens Lohser |
| Department Chair Email: | jens.lohser@vch.ca |
| ACTA Fellowship Director Name: | Cyrus McEachern |
| ACTA Fellowship Director Email (for publication): | cyrus.mceachern@vch.ca |
| Address 1: | 899 w.12th avenue |
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| City: | Vancouver |
| State: | BC |
| Zip: | V5Z 1M9 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Phone: | (604) 875-4304 |
| Fax: | (604) 875-5209 |
| Number of Positions: | 1 |
| Clinical / Basic Research | No |
| Clinical / Clinical Research | Yes |
| Clinical Research only | No |
| Basic Research only | No |
| Comments: | Our institution is the primary referral center for major aortic surgery in the province of British Columbia. Fellows also have ample access to complex valve surgery (including MIS and robotic), ECMO initiation, electrophysiology ablations, and increasing exposure to structural heart interventions such as TAVI, Mitra Clips and LAA closure devices. |
| Annual Salary: | 91,710.67 (CAD) |
| Number of Fellows Completing Training in Previous 5 Years: | 5 |
| Conference Available to Fellows (frequency / description): | |
| Academic Fellow Activities – in the Previous 5 Years, Fellows were 1st or 2nd Author on: Abstracts | 5 |
| Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles: | |
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| QI Projects: | 3 |
| Total Number of Procedures: | 21,500 |
| Distribution of Cases/Number of CPB Procedures: | 690 |
| Number of Cardiac Procedures: | 700 |
| Number of off-CPB Cardiac Procedures: | 10 |
| Non-Cardiac Thoracic Procedures: | 712 |
| Heart, Lung and Heart/Lung Transplants”: | 77 (lung) |
| Major Vascular Procedures: | 159 |
| Operating Equipment Available: | Davinci Robot, MIS valve and mid-CAB program, ELSO Platinum-status ECMO infrastructure. |
| Program Coordinator Name: | Cyrus McEachern |
| Program Coordinator Phone: | 604-817-7430 |
| Program Coordinator Email: | cyrus.mceachern@vch.ca |
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