Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

Chairperson: Anthony Ivankovich, M.D.

CV Anesthesia: Christopher O'Connor, M.D.

Address: 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612

Telephone: (312)942-6504 Fax: (312)942-8858

General Program Information

# of CA-3: 1-2 # of CA-4, 5: 1-2

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

Responsibility: variable

Salary: $37,375 (CA-3)

Minimum length of training: 6 months

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

# CA-3 residents completing 12 months cardiovascular training in last five years: 1

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

Christopher O'Connor Aortic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, TEE

Kenneth Tuman Outcomes Studies, Vascular Surgery, Coagulation

David Rothenberg Vascular Surgery, Critical Care

Catherine Kierney Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care

Steven Barnes Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care

Lynn White Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Douglas Brown Adult Cardiac and Vascular

Timothy Starck Adult Cardiac and Vascular

Abdel Ganzouri Adult Cardiac and Vascular

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 4 per week Type: Clinical, Research, Fellow presentation, Journal Club

Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1 meeting per year

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

Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds

Dedicated research time: variable

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR

Critical care rotation: optional

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

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 900

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 150

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 45

# of major vascular cases per year: 150

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

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


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