California Chapter Fellows in Training [FIT]

 

American College of Cardiology FIT Center

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Congratulations to These Winners from the Annual Meeting

Case Winner:
Justin Shipman, “Acute Purulent Pericardial Effusion in an Immunocompetent Host: A Blind Tap Saves the World”

Case Runner Up:
Arturo Hernandez, “Steroid-Responsive Fulminant Lymphocytic Myocarditis Mimicking Giant-Cell Myocarditis”

Research Winner:
Yuxiang (George) Wang, “Cardiac Masses (from a 15-Year Experience With 389 Surgical Cases)”

Research Runner Up:
Omar Baqal, “Impact of operator experience on transradial access use in women undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention”

Thanks to all 42 abstract submitters!

Connecting California

Connecting California

Connecting California ACC Article is now published on the ACC.org website

June 8, 2023: CA ACC FIT Sessions Active Duty Clinic

May 25, 2023: CA ACC FIT Sessions

May 11, 2023: Connecting California

April 2023: FIT Career Panel

April 2023: LVAD Clinic Review and Mitral Valve Prolapse

March 2023: Cardiac Amyloid & Women’s Heart Health

February 23, 2023: FIT Networking Event: Beyond the Match System

February 09, 2023: Cardiac Transplant & Post-Covid Cardiology

January 12, 2023: Myocardial Bridge

November 2022: Prevention and Lipid Disorders

Slides and Audio November 2022

Fellowship Type Program Name City PD and or Coordinator Website
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco Jared James Herr MD https://www.suttermd.com/education/fellowship/cpmc-heart-failure-transplant-cardio
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles Michelle Kittleson, MD FACC https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Education/Graduate-Medical-Education/Fellowship-Programs/Advanced-Heart-Failure-and-Transplant/
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Loma Linda University Loma Linda Antoine Sakr, MD TBD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Program La Jolla James T Heywood MD https://www.scripps.org/for-health-care-professionals__graduate-medical-education-gme__fellowship-programs__heart-failure
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Stanford Healthcare Stanford Kiran K. Khush MD
http://med.stanford.edu/cvmedicine/education/ahfc.html
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles Arnold S Baas MD
http://heart.ucla.edu/fellowship-programs
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant UCSD Medical Center La Jolla Dr. Hao Tran MD
https://cardiology.ucsd.edu/education/fellowships/advanced-heart-failure/index.html
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Marc Simon MD https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/ahftc-fellowship
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant University of Southern California Los Angeles Dr. Kruti Pandya https://www.usccardiologyfellowship.com/how-to-apply
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Stanford Healthcare Stanford George K. Lui, MD, FACC, FASE https://med.stanford.edu/cvmedicine/education/ACHD-Fellowship/application-process.html
Adult Congenital Heart Disease UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles Jeannette Lin MD
http://heart.ucla.edu/achdc
Adult Congenital Heart Disease University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Dr. Ian Harris MD
https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/adult-congenital-heart-disease-fellowship
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles Michael M Shehata MD
https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Education/Graduate-Medical-Education/Fellowship-Programs/Clinical-Cardiac-Electrophysiology/
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Kaiser Permanente Southern California (Los Angeles) Program Los Angeles Dr. Mageh F Nageh MD https://residency-scal-kaiserpermanente.org/fellowship/electrophysiology/
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program Loma Linda Dr. Tahmeed Contractor MD https://lluh.org/health-professionals/gme/resident-fellow/cardiology-fellowship
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program Torrance Anil K Bhandari MD http://goodsam.org
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program Stanford Nitish Badhwar http://med.stanford.edu/cvmedicine/affinity-groups/electrophysiology.html
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program Los Angeles Dr. Noel G Boyle MD, PhD
http://heart.ucla.edu/arrhythmia
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology UCSD Medical Center La Jolla Gregory Feld, MD https://cardiology.ucsd.edu/education/fellowships/electrophysiology/apply.html
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Dr. Joshua Moss MD
https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/ep-fellowship
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program Los Angeles Dr. Ivan Ho MD https://www.usccardiologyfellowship.com/
CardioOncology University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco David Moslehi, MD : https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/patient-care/clinical-services/cardio-oncology-and-immunology/fellowship
Interventional Cardiology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program Los Angeles Dr. Babak Azarbal
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/education/graduate-medical/fellowship/interventional-cardiology/application.html
Interventional Cardiology Kaiser Permanente Southern California (Los Angeles) Program Los Angeles Raymond Zadegan MD
https://residency-scal-kaiserpermanente.org/fellowship/interventionalcardiology/
Interventional Cardiology Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program Loma Linda Vinoy Prasad MD https://lluh.org/health-professionals/gme/resident-fellow/cardiology-fellowship
Interventional Cardiology Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program Los Angeles  Joseph Thomas MD https://www.harbor-ucla.org/cardiology/fellowship/interventional-cardiology/
Interventional Cardiology Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Program La Jolla Curtiss T. Stinis MD
https://www.scripps.org/for-health-care-professionals/graduate-medical-education-gme
Interventional Cardiology Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program Stanford David P Lee MD http://cvmedicine.stanford.edu/education/index.html
Interventional Cardiology UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program Los Angeles Ladda Douangvila https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/interventional-cardiology-fellowship
Interventional Cardiology University of California (Irvine) Program Orange Meier Yang https://www.medicine.uci.edu/cardiology/fellowship-programs.asp
Interventional Cardiology University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program La Jolla Dr. Ryan Reeves
https://cardiology.ucsd.edu/education/fellowships/interventional-cardiology/index.html
Interventional Cardiology University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Dr. Thomas A Ports MD
https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/interventional-fellowship
Interventional Cardiology University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program Fresno Mouatou Mouanoutoua MD
https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/interventional-cardiology/
Interventional Cardiology University of California Davis Health Program Sacramento Jason Rogers, MD https://health.ucdavis.edu/internalmedicine/cardio/interventional.html
Interventional Cardiology University of California Riverside School of Medicine/St. Bernardine Medical Center – Dignity Health Program San Bernardino Dr. Ashis Mukherjee MD https://somim.ucr.edu/interventional-cardiology
Interventional Cardiology University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program Los Angeles Dr. Anikumar Mehra MD
https://www.usccardiologyfellowship.com/interventional-cardiology
Cardiovascular Disease California Pacific Medical Center Program San Francisco Dr. Richard Hongo MD
https://www.suttermd.com/education/fellowship/cpmc-cardiology
Cardiovascular Medicine Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program Los Angeles Joshua I Goldhaber M.D.
http://cedars-sinai.edu/Education/Graduate-Medical-Education/Fellowship-Programs/Cardiology/index.aspx
Cardiovascular Medicine HCA Healthcare Riverside Program Riverside Dr. Patrick Hu MD, PhD
http://gme.riversidecommunityhospital.com/
Cardiovascular Medicine Kaiser Permanente Northern California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Jonathan G. Zaroff MD
http://residency-ncal.kaiserpermanente.org/programs/fellowships/cardio/
Cardiovascular Medicine Kaiser Permanente Southern California (Los Angeles) Program Los Angeles Mingsum Lee MD, PhD
https://residency-scal-kaiserpermanente.org/fellowship/cardiology/
Cardiovascular Medicine Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program Loma Linda Liset Stoletniy MD https://lluh.org/health-professionals/gme/resident-fellow/cardiology-fellowship
Cardiovascular Medicine Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program Torrance Dr. Matthew Jay Budoff M.D.
http://www.harbor-ucla.org/cardiology/
Cardiovascular Medicine Scripps Clinic/Scripps Green Hospital Program San Diego Malhar P. Patel M.D.
https://www.scripps.org/for-health-care-professionals/graduate-medical-education-gme
Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program Stanford Dr. Joshua Knowles MD
http://cvmedicine.stanford.edu/education/
Cardiovascular Medicine UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program Los Angeles Karol Watson M.D., Ph.D
https://www.uclahealth.org/heart/cardiology
Cardiovascular Medicine UHS Southern California Medical Education Consortium Program Temecula Jeremy Cox DO https://socalresidency.com/programs/cardiology-fellowship/
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California (Irvine) Program Orange David Donaldson MD
http://www.medicine.uci.edu/cardiology/
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program La Jolla Dr. Daniel G Blanchard M.D. http://cardiology.ucsd.edu
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California (San Francisco) Program San Francisco Dr. Atif Qasim MD
https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/general-cardiology-fellowship
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program Fresno Dr. Teresa Daniele MD
https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/cardiovascular-disease/
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California Davis Health Program Sacramento Gagan D Singh M.D.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/internalmedicine/cardio/fellowship.html
Cardiovascular Medicine University of California Riverside School of Medicine/St. Bernardine Medical Center – Dignity Health Program San Bernardino Ramdas G Pai MD
http://gme.ucr.edu
Cardiovascular Medicine University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program Los Angeles Dr. Helga Van Herle
https://www.usccardiologyfellowship.com/interventional-cardiology
Advanced Imaging Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles Daniel S. Berman, MD https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/graduate-medical/fellowship/cardiac-imaging.html
Advanced Imaging Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Torrance Matthew Budoff, MD https://www.harbor-ucla.org/cardiology/fellowship/cardiovascular-ct/
Advanced Imaging University of California, San Diego La Jolla Anthony DeMaria, MD https://cardiology.ucsd.edu/education/fellowships/advanced-cardiovascular-imaging/index.html
Advanced Imaging University of California, San Francisco San Francisco Theodore Abraham, MD https://ucsfhealthcardiology.ucsf.edu/echocardiography-and-advanced-imaging-fellowship-programs
Advanced Imaging Scripps Clinic La Jolla Steven Romero, MD https://www.scripps.org/for-health-care-professionals/graduate-medical-education-gme/fellowship-programs/cardiovascular-medicine-fellowship-programs/advanced-echocardiography-fellowship-program
Advanced Imaging Stanford University Stanford Christiane Haeffele, MD, FSCAI https://med.stanford.edu/cvmedicine/education/Imaging-Fellowship.html
Advanced Imaging University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program Fresno Ankit Rathod, MD  https://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/advanced-cardiovascular-imaging-fellowship-program/
         

Planning FIT to FACC: Jun 15, 2022

California FIT Financial Planning Open Forum Apr 28, 2022

How to Harness the Power of Social Media – March 2022

CA ACC FIT Jeopardy Competition

November 2021 Education Series

Virtual FIT Bootcamp 2021

Complete 2021 Fellow Bootcamp Series Overview

[October 2021] Our CA ACC FIT bootcamp lecture series has recently completed. Please click here to see all speakers, their photos/bios, and a link to their presentations.

Israeli Heart Society & CA ACC partnership for Fellow Training: A How-To and Success Story

[July 2020] From the Israeli Heart Society and the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. 

From the Israeli Heart Society and the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. The FIT panel via Zoom entitled ” Fellow Training: A How-To and Success Story” discusses exchange of training and ideas between Israeli and California cardiologists. The partnership includes Israeli Fellows-in-Training coming to California to train and the Save a Heart Foundation.

Moderater: Ramin Manshadi, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAHA
CA ACC Past President & Northern California Governor

Participants:
Norman Lepor, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, CA ACC Past President, Southern California Governor

Dr. Yzhar Charuzi, Save A Heart Foundation

Dr. Doron Zahger, Israeli Heart Society President

Lianna Collinge, CAE, Chief Operating Officer, California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology

Prof. Ronen Rubinshtein MD FACC FESC, Israeli Heart Society General Secretary

Dr. Paul J. Wang, MD, FACC, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, Director of the Stanford Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Professor of Medicine and of Bioengineering

CA ACC FIT Jeopardy Team at ACC.19

[March 2019] CA ACC FIT Jeopardy team from UCLA came in second in the nation at ACC.19 in New Orleans.