Curriculum highlights
The interventional cardiology fellowship at HCA/University of Houston is a one-year ACGME-accredited training program. It is designed to provide a subspecialized training to cardiology fellows with goals to achieve advanced knowledge and expertise necessary to treat patients with coronary artery, peripheral vascular, and structural heart diseases by applying the latest clinical evidence and technologies. Our training program is structured to meet the ACGME six core competencies and organized to offer fellows robust medical knowledge and procedural skills to take care of patients with acute coronary syndromes, complex coronary artery pathologies, peripheral vascular diseases, and structural heart interventions.
Our fellows rotate in three teaching sites and get actively involved in a variety of procedures including percutaneous coronary interventions, intravascular coronary imagings, right and left heart catheterizations, mechanical circulatory support devices, peripheral vascular diseases, pulmonary artery thrombectomy, and structural heart interventions such as PFO closure, ASD closure, VSD closure, left atrial appendage closure, TAVR, mitral balloon valvuloplasty, mitral, and tricuspid valves transcather interventions.
Rotation schedule
- Coronary Interventions – HCA Houston Medical Center – 3 months
- Structural Heart Disease Interventions – HCA Houston Medical Center – 3 months
- Coronary Interventions – HCA Houston Kingwood – 3 months
- Peripheral Vascular Interventions - HCA Houston Kingwood – 3 months