The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

Chairperson: John J. Savarese, M.D.

CV Anesthesia: Gregg S. Hartman, M.D.

Address: Department of Anesthesiology, 525 East 68th Street, A-1018,

New York, NY 10021

Telephone: (212)746-2787 Fax: (212)746-8563

General Program Information

# of CA-4, 5: 2 # of CA-3: 3

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

Responsibility: Clinical: variable Non-Clinical: variable

Salary: variable

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 2/yr

# CA-3 residents completing 12 months cardiovascular training in last five years: 2-4/yr

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

Stephen J. Thomas New Drugs, Policies

Paul Heerdt Right Heart Function

Doreen Wray NM Blockers, Heparin

Fun-Sun Yao TEE

Mathias Bruefach, III TEE

Onofrio Patafio ICU

Ralph Slepian Thoracic

Pavel Illner Cardioplegia

Bobby Chang ICU

Greg Kerr ICU, Vascular

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 1-2 per week Type: Clinical, Research, Journal Club, TEE

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1 meeting per year

Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds, Pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants, Peer-review grants

Dedicated research time: variable

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR, specific rotation (duration 2 months)

Critical care rotation: optional

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 2 months out of 12 total months

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 1,400

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 350

# of major vascular cases per year: 300

Distribution of cardiac cases: 70% CABG, 20% Valves, 10% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, transcranial Doppler


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