In our comprehensive one-year Heart Failure Fellowship program, you will gain robust comprehensive inpatient and outpatient training in the specialty of heart failure.

Fellowship Experience

Our one-year fellowship is offered to PGY-4 level candidates for training focused on heart failure management, pulmonary HTN, with cardiology ICU exposure. Fellows develop the ability to recognize and manage heart failure and understand disease progression. This is a non-standard training (NST) program that is not ACGME accredited.  

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 CHF, PH, VAD, 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 over the three-year program.

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 Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiology ICU 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 research.

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