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Eberhardt Grube Interventional Structural Heart Disease Fellowship

Cardiovascular Medicine
The Eberhardt Grube Interventional Structural Heart Disease Fellowship Program at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital (UM/JMH) is a non-ACGME accredited program offering an additional year of focused structural interventional cardiology training. Directed by Eduardo de Marchena, MD, with the support of Drs. Pedro Cox, Nikolaos Spilias, Carlos E. Alfonso, Michael Dyal, Alan Schob, Cesar Mendoza, and Alexander Ferreira, this unique international training program is an integral component of the subspecialty programs in cardiology, interventional cardiology, and the categorical residency program in internal medicine.

The one-year fellowship is designed to provide advanced training in structural heart disease procedures for fellows with prior experience in cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology. Candidates should be highly qualified physicians with a minimum of 12 months of experience in cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography. The training focuses on the comprehensive acute, chronic, and preventive care of adults, with heart disease being defined as anyone over the age of sixteen. The goal is to equip physicians with a broad perspective in the care of adult patients with complex structural heart disease.

During the year of interventional structural heart disease training, fellows are expected to master the risks, techniques and indications of structural heart disease practice. They will be expected to develop the judgment and experience necessary to select patients and function as independent operators during interventional procedures in patients with a wide variety of structural heart disease including adults with congenital heart disease.

It is our anticipation that the number of structural heart disease interventions performed by each fellow will be sufficient to achieve expertise and procedural independence while in the program. Fellows’ will be primary operators in the majority of these cases.

A major component of the fellowship will involve the performance of procedures in the adult cardiac catheterization laboratories. The UM/JMH comprise two centers with state-of-the-art high-resolution digital fluoroscopy units, which are networked throughout the hospital. A wide variety of diagnostic and interventional procedures are performed in these laboratories.

The fellow will be expected to master the risks, techniques and indications of the following procedures:

  • Transseptal left heart catheterization
  • ASD/PFO closure
  • Alcohol septal ablation
  • LAA exclusion
  • Interventions in congenital heart diseases
  • Percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty
  • Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
  • Percutaneous mitral balloon Valvuloplasty
  • Percutaneous mitral valve repair
  • Percutaneous paravalvular leak closure
  • Miscellaneous (pericardial window, LV punctures, snares)

ACGME Accredited: No
Residents or Fellows per year: 1
Duration: 1 Year
Postgraduate Training Required:
1. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
2. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
3. Graduate of an ACGME-accredited Internal Medicine Residency Program
U.S. Citizenship Required: US citizen, US Permanent Resident/Green Card Holder, and J-1 visa

For further information about the application process and requirements, interested applicants can go to: https://jacksonhealth.org/graduate/international-interventional-structural-heart-disease/