Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Chairperson: F. George Estafanous, M.D.

CV Anesthesia: Norman J. Starr, M.D.

Address: Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, 9500 Euclid Avenue G3, Cleveland, OH 44195

Telephone: (216)444-4325 Fax: (216)445-2536

General Program Information

Fellowship Positions Available: 15

Type of fellowship training available: Clinical only, Clinical/Basic Science, Clinical/Clinical Research

Responsibility: Clinical 80% Non-Clinical 20%

Salary: $40,000 1st year, $50,000 2nd year

Minimum length of training: 12 - 24 month program available.

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 70

# CA-3 residents completing 12 months cardiovascular training in last five years: 10

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty	Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise
John Apostolakis	Basic Research
Darryl Atwell	Basic Research, Thoracic Anesthesia
Allan Bashour	Intensive Care
Paula Bokesch	Pediatrics/Basic Research, CNS
P ierre de Villiers Fawzy G. Estafanous	Hemodilution, Hypertension, Heart rate Variability
Charles Hearn	Echocardiography, Intensive Care, Pain Management
Steven Insler	Intensive Care, Clinical Outcomes
Colleen Koch	Echocardiography, Gender, Troponin
Erik Kraenzler	Thoracic Anesthesia, Education
Michael Licina	Echocardiography, Quality Assurance
Emad Mossad	Pediatric, Echocardiography for Congenital
Julie Niezgoda	Pediatric
Michael O'Connor	Intensive Care, Education
Robert Savage	Echocardiography
Norman J. Starr	Administration, Clinical Outcomes
Lee Wallace	Hemodilution, Basic Research
Jean-Pierre Yared	Intensive Care, Clinical Outcomes, Coagulation

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 2 per week Type: Clinical, Research, Fellow presentation, Journal Club

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 2 per year

In last five years fellows were 1st and 2nd author on: 5 Abstracts, 3 Journal articles

Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds

Dedicated research time: arranged on an individual basis

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR, specific rotation (6 weeks)

Critical care rotation: 1 month

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 3 months out of 12 total months

Thoracic Anesthesia: 1 month

Congenital Heart Surgery: 1 month

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 4,500

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year:1,300

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 130

# of major vascular cases per year: 200

Distribution of cardiac cases: 50% CABG, 35% Valves, 11% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available:transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, transcranial Doppler, mixed venous oximetry, continuous cardiac output