In our comprehensive one-year advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship program, you will gain robust comprehensive inpatient and outpatient training in the specialty of heart failure with dedicated educational experience in a multidisciplinary environment.

Fellowship Experience

Thank you for your interest in the UAB advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship program. We are very proud of our training program as it provides the foundation of excellence for our clinical programs. This fellowship is offered to those who have completed a general cardiology fellowship (PGY7 level or greater) and are seeking advanced training in the subspecialty of advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support and pulmonary vascular disease.

Our program highlights include access to our dedicated 20-bed Heart Transplant ICU (HTICU), extensive exposure in dual organ transplant including Heart/Lung & Heart/Kidney combined transplant, robust pulmonary hypertension experience with one of the largest PH clinics in the southeast, and experience in our dedicated ECMO program.

Our program provides superior cardiology training in a collaborative environment. We have specialty clinics across our medical campus, which is anchored by our 1,200 bed inpatient center UAB Hospital—the eighth largest public hospital in the nation. The hospital is in close proximity to the Birmingham VA Medical Center, UAB Hospital Highlands campus, The Kirklin Clinic, and Children's Hospital of Alabama where fellows also train.

Clinical Rotations

Our program offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary training within a collaborative environment. We focus on developing our heart failure fellows by expanding their expertise in areas of advanced heart failure, transplant cardiology, mechanical circulatory support, and pulmonary vascular disease through a combination of inpatient and outpatient care.

At the Kirklin Clinic, fellows will engage in specialized clinics for congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, ventricular assistant devices, transplant, and biopsy suites. At the Birmingham VA Medical Center, fellows manage a panel of patients longitudinally throughout their training. They also participate in Block model rotations, covering general cardiology, arrhythmia, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and elective time including adult congenital heart disease.

Our inpatient services are anchored in our heart transplant ICU, where leading-edge clinical programs for heart transplant, VAD, and PH are managed. Our teams work closely with cardiovascular surgery and interventional/structural cardiologist to address cardiogenic shock using temporary MCS techniques like ECMO, Impella, and TandemHeart. Furthermore, we provide exposure to unique clinical programs such as Cardio-Obstetrics, Cardio-Oncology, and Amyloid/infiltrative cardiomyopathies. Our heart failure fellows aid in supporting our team in managing complex valvular diseases. 

Research Opportunities

Our program works closely with the UAB Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center to foster multi-disciplinary and multi-investigator collaborations and programmatic development in cardiovascular research. We strive to enrich our fellows training experience by exposing them to cutting-edge research in basic, clinical, population, and translational cardiovascular science.

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