Education

David Lasorda, DO, Program Director

Length of program: 1 year
Number of position(s): 2

The interventional fellowship is a one-year dedicated program for trainees who have completed a three-year approved cardiology fellowship, are fully trained in diagnostic angiography and wish to devote a substantial portion of their careers to interventional cardiology.

A faculty of 20 interventionalists, supervised by the catheterization laboratory director and the division director, are responsible for training and draw selectively on a caseload of roughly 3,600 interventional procedures a year. The performance and progress of the fellow is reviewed quarterly by the Fellowship Committee, based on monthly evaluations by the faculty. Fellows are expected to participate in a very active research program. The clinical training includes:

• balloon angioplasty
• directional, rotational and extraction atherectomy
• use of coronary stents
• Doppler/Prism Wire
• IVUS
• peripheral interventions
• primary angioplasty

Currently, the research components of the program include:

• primary angioplasty for myocardial infarction
• the role of coronary Doppler flow recordings
• intracoronary ultrasound as an adjunct to intervention
• intracoronary radiation
• GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors with interventional procedures

The Interventional Cardiology Fellowship is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.