Temple University Hospital

Chairperson: Christer Carlsson, M.D., Ph.D.

CV Anesthesia: Neil W. Brister, M.D., Ph.D.

Address: Department of Anesthesia/Critical Care, 3401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140

Telephone: (215)707-3326 Fax: (215)707-8028

General Program Information

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

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

Responsibility: Clinical 80% Non-Clinical 20%

Salary: $40,000+

Minimum length of training: 6-12 months

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

Neil Brister Director, BP Control, CT Anesthesia

Rodger Barnette Director, Critical Care, Vit K., Coagulation

Scott Schartel Resident Education, Critical Care

Timothy J. O'Grady Pain Management

Maria Bartolozzi CT Anesthesia, Valve Surgery, Transplants

Bhaskar Deb CT Anesthesia, Critical Care, ARDS

Mark D. Brennan Thoracic Anesthesia, Lung Transplantation

Russell L. Levin CT Anesthesia

Edward H. Leonard CT Anesthesia

Michael Keresztury CT Anesthesia, Accelerated Recovery

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: ½ per week Type: Clinical, Fellow presentation

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

In last five years fellows were 1st and 2nd author on: 6 Abstracts, 2 Journal articles

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

Dedicated research time: 1-2 months per year

Echocardiography instruction: inside OR (duration ½ month)

Critical care rotation: required (duration 2 months)

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 2-3 months out of 12 total months

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 800

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 100

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

Distribution of cardiac cases: 60% CABG, 40% Valves

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, mixed venous oximetry

Special features, requirements or comments about program: Director of Cardiothoracic ICU. Strong Transplant Center.


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