University of Minnesota

Chairperson: K. G. Belaui, MB,BS

CV Anesthesia: Chris Kehler, MD

Address: Department of Anesthesiology, 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC 294, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Telephone: (612)624-9990 Fax: (612)626-2363

General Program Information

# of CA-4, 5: 1 # of CA-3: 6

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

Responsibility: Clinical 50-100% Non-Clinical 0-50%

Salary: $43,400 (approx)

Minimum length of training: 12 months

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 3

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

Ilya Rubin

Robert L. Gauthier

Anton Rohan

Chris Kehler

Douglas E. Koehntop

Michael F. Sweeney

Paul Iaizzo

Michael Schmidt

George Bojanov

Ian Hasinoff

Academic Program

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

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1-2 meetings per year

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

Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds, Pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants

Dedicated research time: up to 2½ days per week

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR, specific rotation (duration 1 month)

Critical care rotation: optional (duration 1 month)

Formal course work available in: statistics, bioengineering

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

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 350

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 350

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 70

# of major vascular cases per year: 400

Distribution of cardiac cases: 60% CABG, 20% Valves, 20% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, continuous cardiac output, evoked potentials


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