Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program 

Overview

Core training Comprehensive interventional training is provided to two applicants during a fourth year of training, which provides experience in over 350 percutaneous coronary interventions, including angioplasty and stenting, intravascular ultrasound, pressure wire and other adjunctive devices such as rotablator, cutting balloon, embolic protection, intraaortic balloon pump and the use of investigational agents and technology for the performance of intravascular revascularization. In addition to excellence in the procedural aspects of intervention, our fellows gain ample experience in the pre and post-procedural care of their interventional patients, and will perfect their skills in diagnostic cardiac catheterization.

Ancillary training Additional peripheral interventional training is currently provided as an elective externship rotation through the Arkansas Heart Hospital, during the second half of the training year. Our UAMS Interventional Peripheral program will be starting in 2005 in conjunction with interventional radiology. In addition, we are in the process of expanding our non-coronary cardiac interventional initiative from septal ablations and PFO closure procedures to valvuloplasty and investigational left atrial appendage exclusion.

Research Our program is committed to academic excellence and thrives with opportunities for our trainees. Our fellows have exposure to one of the most dedicated and enthusiastic clinical research programs in the nation with a census of more than 20 active clinical trials, including studies in angiogenesis, novel pharmacological strategies, drug-eluting stents and other device technologies.  Interested fellows will have the opportunity to get involved in a world-class basic research program.

Curriculum Procedural training is supplemented by a comprehensive lectures series that reviews an extended core curriculum of interventional cardiology topics and a weekly case-based conference. Our fellows also benefit from our Division’s active visiting professor program.

ACGME Accreditation:
Fully accredited since 2002

Duration:
1 year

Key Faculty
Joe K Bissett, MD
Rajesh Sachdeva, MD 

Adjunct Professors (with their main affiliation)
Robert Morrow, MD  Arkansas Children Hospital
Bruce Murphy, MD    Arkansas Heart Hospital
Franco Romeo, MD   University of Rome

Main Teaching Facilities:

—University Hospital: the primary teaching hospital of The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine; with a tradition of excellence in the management of cardiovascular disease endorsed by high ranks in national cardiology QA benchmarking initiatives such as CRUSADE and the UHC (University Hospital Consortium)

—John L. McClellan VA Hospital: the Little Rock station of the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System:  the main cardiology regional VA referral center with one of the busiest cardiac catheterization laboratories in the VA system.

Number of Positions:
2 per year

For more information, please contact :

Fellowship Program Coordinator
Miranda Morris Bisbeee
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
4301 West Markham, Slot 532
Little Rock, AR 72205-7199
(501) 686-7882

Applications for the program are accepted from July 1 through October 1.

Application: Download application (PDF Format)