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University of California, Los Angeles
Chairperson: Jure Marijic, MD CV Anesthesia: Jure Marijic, MD E-mail: jmarijic@mednet.ucla.edu Address: Department of Anesthesiology, Box 951778, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1778 Telephone: Fax: (310)825-8608 General Program Information# of CA-4, 5: 2 Type of fellowship training available: Clinical only, Clinical/Clinical Research Responsibility: Clinical 60% Non-Clinical 40% Salary: $48,300 Minimum length of training: 12 months # of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 11 FacultyCardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise Aman Mahajan, MD: Pulmonary Vascular Regulation Jure Marijic, MD: Coronary Vascular Regulation Lorraine N. Weiss, MD: Congenital Heart Disease Michael J. Sopher, MD: Organ Transplantation Ibrahim M. El-Magharbel, MD: Ischemic heart disease Fariba Foroushani, MD: Intraoperative echocardiography Academic ProgramFellow conferences: 2 per week Type: Clinical, Fellow presentation, Journal Club Extra-institutional educational conference support: 1-2 meetings per year In last five years fellows were 1st and 2nd author on Abstracts and book chapters. Funding: Dept/Institutional Funds, Pharmaceutical/equipment industry grants Dedicated research time: by individual arrangement Echocardiography instruction: inside OR and specific rotation (duration 3 months) Critical care rotation: optional Formal course work available in: by arrangement on an individual basis Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 6 months out of 12 total months Clinical Program# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 800; 40% congenital; 10% transplant # of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 200 # of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 100 (heart), 25 (lung), 2 (heart/lung) # of major vascular cases per year: 50 Distribution of cardiac cases: 20% CABG, 30% Valves, 60% Congenital Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, transcranial Doppler, mixed venous oximetry, continuous cardiac output, evoked potentials, cerebral blood flow/transcranial Doppler, Nitric Oxide chemiluminescent analyzer.
Special features, requirements or comments about
program: Extensive experience in complex pediatric
congenital cardiothoracic cases, use of intraoperative TEE, thoracic epidural anesthesia for adult and pediatric cardiothoracic
patients. Adequate clinical research opportunities. Educational stipend of $1,000/fellow/year. We provide additional electives in
adult liver transplant anesthesia and critical care for those fellows desiring this experience. If the pursuit of an original
research project is desired, additional time (minimum of 6 months) is required.
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