Yale University School of Medicine

Website: http://gasnet.med.yale.edu/local/yale/

Chairperson: Roberta L. Hines, M.D.
Email: roberta.hines@yale.edu

CV Anesthesia: Terence Rafferty, MD
Cardiothoracic/Cardiovascular Anesthesia Fellowship Director: Gerard McCloskey, MD
Email: gerard.mccloskey@yale.edu
Mailing Address:
Gerard McCloskey, MD Department of Anesthesiology Yale University School of Medicine 333 Cedar St.
New Haven, CT 06510
Telephone: 203-785-2802
Fax: 203-785-6664

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Request application materials form the Department. Attn: Dr. McCloskey

General Program Information

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

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

Responsibility: Clinical 80% Non-Clinical 20%

Salary: $45,000

Minimum length of training: 12 months

# of CA-4, 5 fellows completing 12 or 24 month cardiovascular training in last five years: 11

Faculty

Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty Research Interest and/or Clinical Expertise

Ala Haddadin, MD
Email: ala.haddadin@yale.edu
Expertise: Intensive Care, TEE

Paul G. Barash
Email: paul.barash@yale.edu
Expertise: Outcomes Research

Raj Modak, MD
Email: raj.modak@yale.edu
Expertise: Intensive Care, TEE, Stress Modulus

Susan Garwood, MD
Email: susan.garwood@yale.edu
Expertise: Renal Function, 3D TEE

Roberta L. Hines, MD
Email: roberta.hines@yale.edu
Expertise: Inodilators, Intensive Care

Gerard McCloskey, MD
Email: gerard.mccloskey@yale.edu
Expertise: TEE, Education

Terrence D. Rafferty, MD
Email: terrence.rafferty@yale.edu
Expertise: O2/CO2 relationships, RVEF

Irena Vaitkeviciute, MD
Email: irena.vaitkeviciute@yale.edu
Expertise: TEE, OP CABG

Qing Bing Zhu, MD
Email: quingbing.zhu@yale.edu
Expertise: TEE, OP CABG

Percent of Cardiac Anesthesia Faculty with NBE Perioperative TEE Certification: 89%

Academic Program

Fellow conferences: 1-2 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: 4 Abstracts, 4 Journal articles, 3 book chapters

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

Dedicated research time: 1 day per week

Echocardiography instruction: TTE: 1 month; TEE: 11 month

Critical care rotation: optional

Maximum length of non-OR rotations: 1 month out of 12 total months

Clinical Program

# of cardiac procedures with CPB per year: 900

# of non-cardiac thoracic cases per year: 300

# of heart, lung and heart/lung transplants per year: 12

# of major vascular cases per year: 400

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

Operating Room equipment available: transesophageal echocardiography, ECG ST segment analysis, continuous cardiac output, various coagulation monitoring devices. One ECHO machine probe in each 5 cardiac OR's (omni plane probes)

Special features, requirements or comments about program:


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