The goals of the Endovascular Fellowship Program are:

• Training in advanced catheter and guidewire skills
• Performance of diagnostic arteriography with ability to selectively cannulte secondary and tertiary branches. This includes not only the lower extremity circulation but also the visceral circulation and brachiocephalic circulation
• Advanced angioplasty and stenting
• Proficiency with intravascular ultrasound for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• The fellow will become proficient in the repair of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms using a wide variety of devices
• The individual will learn a wide variety of thrombolytic techniques, within not only the arterial but the venous circulation as well as multimodal therapy

Our Mini-Fellowship offers a three month intensive training program designed to enhance the skills of the practicing vascular, cardiothoracic, or general surgeon.  Fellows will gain significant exposure to all diagnostic and therapeutic catheter-based vascular interventions. These procedures include diagnostic arteriography of all major vascular beds, carotid angioplasty/stenting, abdominal and thoracic aortic endografting, renal and mesenteric angioplasty/stenting, lower extremity and critical limb ischemia percutaneous revascularizations, IVC filter placement, and venous interventions. Past fellows have performed on average 100-200 procedures.

This is a multi-center training program, with cases being performed at multiple sites including Stanford University Medical Center, the VA Palo Alto, O’Connor Hospital, and Kaiser Santa Clara. Fellows will be trained exclusively by vascular surgeons with extensive experience in a wide range of endovascular techniques. Also new in Winter 2006 will be the opening of the Goodman Simulation Center at Stanford which will house an endovascular simulator. This will provide a substantial opportunity for the 3-month fellow to rehearse and refine many of the skills learned during the fellowship.

The Endovascular Mini-Fellowship Program is an activity conducted under the hospices of the Division of Vascular Surgery at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The Endovascular training offered will encompass both the body of knowledge relevant to the appropriate procedure selection and application, as well as, training in the technical aspects of endovascular procedures to ensure technical competence. Endovascular training will be provided under the guidance of our vascular surgeons, where they will serve as role models with expertise in both open and endovascular procedures. Our goal is to ensure that our trainees become proficient in the independent practice of endovascular surgery.

Short-term and long-term endovascular fellowships are offered.

Long-Term 

• A stay of at least 3 months
• The fellow will be completely enrolled in the service’s daily program and will after an initiation period of at least one month (scrubbing and assisting) be able to perform endovascular procedures as primary operator. The fellow will be actively participating in an endovascular research project
• Maximum of one fellow/period
• Training Fee: Euro 4000 per 3 month period

Short-Term

• A stay of  2-4 weeks
• Fellow will be allowed to follow cases, scrub in and actively assist during endovascular interventions
• Maximum of two fellows/period
• Training fee: €1000.00/week/participant