Structural Heart Fellowship

Introduction

Our Structural Heart Fellowship program provides an opportunity for professional growth and development through exposure to a comprehensive structural heart program. Our fellows have an appropriate blend of patient centric responsibilities, clinical teaching and supervision, didactic educational events, research opportunities and procedural structural heart volume including TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, PFO/ASD closure, Left atrial appendage occlusion and paravalvular leak closure.

Watch an Introduction to the program by Dr. Talhat Azemi:

Duration

Our fellowship program is a one year dedicated commitment to structural heart disease.

Goals and objectives for training/educational purposes

Our fellowship program focuses on the development of essential knowledge and procedural skills required as a structural heart clinician and proceduralist through a comprehensive patient evaluation, pre-procedural planning, procedural performance and post-procedural follow-up. During the year, our fellows have didactic opportunities which includes participation in our weekly multidisciplinary structural heart team meeting, structural heart morbidity and mortality conference, structural heart council meeting as well as engagement in research projects.

Educational Components

Procedural Experience

Our fellows spend at least 3 days per week in the Hybrid Operating Room and Cardiac Catheterization Lab performing structural heart procedures including TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, PFO/ASD closure, Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion implant and paravalvular leak closure. The educational experience balances hands-on training in real time with direct supervision by both the interventionalist and the cardiac surgeon.

Initial Assessment of Consults and Ambulatory Experience

Our fellows spend 1-2 days per week in an ambulatory structural heart disease clinic and learn the pre procedural assessment process including appropriateness of therapies and evaluation of patients. They are also involved in seeing new inpatient consults and coordinating their structural heart care with the rest of the multidisciplinary team. Fellows integrate multiple imaging modalities to evaluate structural heart disease patients including transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, computed tomography angiography (CTA), and coronary angiography. Upon completion of the patient evaluation, fellows present the patient at our weekly multidisciplinary structural heart conference and become an integral part of the structural team.

Applications

To apply for the Structural Heart Fellowship program, contact:

Talhat Azemi, MD

Program Director

Phone: 860.972.3570
Email: talhat.azemi@hhchealth.org

Andria Jaggroo

Coordinator

80 Seymour Street, Cath Lab
Hartford, CT 06102-5037
Phone: 860.972.3922
Fax: 860.545.2738
Email: andria.jaggroo@hhchealth.org