Advanced Echocardiography Imaging (Non-ACGME) Fellowship and Multi-Modality Imaging Clinical Post-Doctoral Fellowship

[Prerequisite: completion of an ACGME cardiovascular disease three-year fellowship]

The Stanford Cardiovascular Imaging section offers a dedicated one-year non-ACGME Advanced Echocardiography Imaging fellowship program focused on structural echocardiography and cardiac MRI.

This Advanced Echocardiography Imaging fellowship is designed to provide advanced echo training and fulfill the COCATS requirements for level III certification. The Stanford Echo lab currently performs over 30,000 studies annually, including transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress exams. Fellowship experience includes training in 3D imaging, strain, and contrast echocardiography. Fellows also have concentrated exposure to interventional echo, including the use of transesophageal echo (TEE) and intracardiac echo (ICE) for the guidance of transcatheter structural interventions. Structural interventions currently offered at Stanford include transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER), transcatheter valve replacement, paravalvular regurgitation repair, left atrial appendage occlusion, atrial and ventricular septal defect closure, and exposure to multiple clinical trial devices.

The fellowship also includes clinical training in multimodality imaging, including dedicated time with cardiac MRI (CMR). The CMR curriculum allows investigation to wide array of pathology including, ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, myocardial perfusion stress study, T1/T2 map, regurgitant quantification, 4-D flow study, and adult congenital heart disease.  Opportunities for further exposure to coronary CTA, cardiac CT, nuclear cardiology, and PET are also available.

Although this is a clinical fellowship, development of and/or contribution to a wide array of research project focused on advanced imaging is encouraged. Additional scholarship includes presentations for weekly clinical meetings and teaching of the general cardiology core fellows.

[Prerequisite: completion of an ACGME cardiovascular disease three-year fellowship]

The Stanford Cardiovascular Imaging section also offers a dedicated one-year clinical postdoctoral fellowship program focused primarily on cardiac MRI/CT. Fellows will participate in the clinical CMR and CCT programs, and will participate in clinical translational imaging research.

The Multi-Modality Imaging Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow appointment is an academically oriented training program offering COCATS level II-III training in CT, MRI, and advanced echocardiography including structural echo. The Stanford Advanced imaging program currently performs over 1600 cardiac MRI studies annually and 2200 cardiac CT scans. The CMR curriculum allows investigation to wide array of pathology including, ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, stress myocardial perfusion imaging, T1/T2 mapping, regurgitant quantification, 4-D flow study, and adult congenital heart disease. Cardiac CT includes CAC/coronary CT scans and opportunities to be involved in structural CT. Opportunities for further exposure to nuclear cardiology and PET are also available.

The Clinical Postdoctoral Fellows are expected to participate in cardiac imaging research activities, including study design, data organization and analysis, and manuscript writing for publication and presentation at national meetings. Additional scholarship includes presentations for weekly clinical meetings and teaching of the general cardiology core fellows.