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.