Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Fellowship

Fully funded ECMO Fellowship at Vanderbilt University (2 years)

We have a fully funded two-year position as the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Fellow that is open for the upcoming academic year (July 2023) at Vanderbilt University Med Center (VUMC).

The ECMO Fellow is an integral member of the team whose responsibilities include patient selection, cannulation, daily management, administrative responsibilities, and thoracic transplant procurement duties. Initially, the ECMO Fellow will receive didactic instruction and simulation training at the start of the fellowship to understand the physiology of ECMO, cannulation technique, configuration selection and patient management. The training will transition to patient care with an ECMO attending and will include cannulation, while receiving bedside training in patient management. The Fellow works closely with the ICU teams and is expected to round with them on the ECMO patients while extending their knowledge of critical care.

The ECMO Fellow works with the surgical ECMO attendings, Medical ECMO team, critical care teams and perfusionists. Besides clinical duties, the Fellow is expected to participate in quality improvement programs, clinical research, large animal research related to organ recovery and mechanical device development. The position is based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Cardiac Surgery. Previous ECMO Fellows have been instrumental to the ECMO Service and have been extremely productive, successful academically and gone on to secure highly coveted clinical fellowships at programs in cardiothoracic surgery and transplantation. Their work has been published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, ASAIO, and more.

If you have a resident who is looking for such an opportunity, please contact us, or our current ECMO fellows Sean Francois, MD ([email protected]) or William Tucker, MD ([email protected]).

Prerequisites:

We are seeking a highly talented and motivated surgical resident who has completed at least three years of general surgery training in an accredited program or equivalent to join our ECMO Service.

How To Apply:

For interested applicants, kindly contact:

Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, FAIMBE Professor of Surgery [email protected]

Ashish S. Shah, MD Professor of Cardiac Surgery Alfred Blalock Endowed Director and Chairman Department of Cardiac Surgery [email protected]