St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Chairperson: Daniel Thys, M.D.

CV Anesthesia: Zak Hillel, Ph.D., M.D.

Address: Department of Anesthesiology, 1111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025

Telephone: (212)523-2500 Fax: (212)523-3930

General Program Information

# of CA-4, 5: 2

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

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

Salary: $43,000

Minimum length of training: open

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 7

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

D. Thys Systolic and Diastolic LV Function, TEE

Z. Hillel Systolic and Diastolic LV Function, TEE

M. D'Souza Calcium Channel Blockers

R. Koorn Cerebral Ischemia

J. Castro Coagulation, Quality Assurance

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: every other week Type: Clinical, Research, Fellow presentation, Journal Club

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 2 meetings per year

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

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

Dedicated research time: for Clinical only - flexible; for Research only 5 day per week

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR

Critical care rotation: optional

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 650

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 100

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 0

# of major vascular cases per year: 0

Distribution of cardiac cases: 65% CABG, 34% Valves, 1% Congenital

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, mixed venous oximetry, Doppler coronary blood flow

Special features, requirements or comments about program: Emphasis on intraoperative TEE research as well as clinical applications.


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