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Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Program

General Information

Cedars-Sinai is an academic medical center with a world-renowned faculty and extensive, highly competitive training programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas. Medical education has been a core mission of the Medical Center since its inception. The commitment is to provide gratitude medical education programs that enable physicians in training to develop personal, clinical, and professional competence under the guidance and supervision of the faculty.

The standards of excellence that have made Cedars-Sinai known around the world for its expertise and excellence in patient care and advancement of medical research, have also made Cedars-Sinai a center for the education and training of the physicians of tomorrow. As one of the largest medical centers in the United States, Cedars-Sinai offers residents and fellows exposure to a wide range of procedures and populations. In addition, Cedars- Sinai's facilities are among the most advanced in the world with state-of-the-art equipment and application of new technologies.

The Cardiothoracic Surgery is particularly strong in the areas of growth and future promise in cardiothoracic surgery: surgery for valvular heart disease, minimally invasive surgery, robotics, aortic surgery, general thoracic surgery, and surgery for congenital heart disease.

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship program at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center is ACGME accredited (effective 7/1/09). The Department of Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has a history of commitment to education, research and state-of-the-art clinical practice. The faculty represents a cross section of graduates of the nation elite anesthesia programs.

The volume, complexity, severity of illness and innovative approaches present a clinical challenge to the Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist. It is our hope that during the time with us fellows grow not only in clinical ability and knowledge but they develop their professional and interpersonal skills as well as the confidence to perform as an effective consultant in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology.

The Cardiothoracic Anesthesia faculty is here to assist in any way they can to make your educational experience memorable. It is our hope that you will have a most enjoyable and meaningful year of medicine. Education is a change in behavior based upon experiences. We want to engage you in all the experiences related to our subspecialty.

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Goals

There are three broad goals of our fellowship program:

  1. Development of the required competencies necessary for providing anesthesia services for patients with cardiothoracic disease undergoing cardiothoracic surgery with or without extracorporeal circulation.
  2. Develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the safe conduct of preoperative patient evaluation and interpretation of cardiopulmonary diagnostic data, hemodynamic monitoring, advanced level TEE, management of cardiopulmonary bypass, and perioperative critical care.
  3. Practice the art of cardiothoracic anesthesia in a moral, ethical, and professional manner worthy of the Cedars-Sinai's model of lifelong professional excellence.

The program achieves these goals through a program that integrates educational methods based on clinical experience, didactic faculty lectures, problem-based learning discussions, learning projects including research, debates, journal presentations, and evidence-based reviews, multidisciplinary conferences, and exposure to a high volume of cardiac surgery.

The goals support the department's mission of graduating fellows who are "experts" in the provision of cardiothoracic anesthesia, who are life-long learners, and models of professional excellence with unique skills sets that allows them to make a significant contribution to the field of Cardiothoracic anesthesia.

Clearly, the primary goal in design of our fellowship program is creating an academic environment which provides an exceptional clinical experience, extensive and well organized teaching venues and the opportunity to perform original research with committed and qualified faculty. We have incorporated the critical features necessary for a new program to offer superior training

The Cedars-Sinai Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship training program will allow the anesthesiologist to gain both medical, surgical and anesthesia knowledge, skills required for accurate and appropriate preoperative evaluation, fluency in performance of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, expert cardiac anesthesia management of all patients with cardiothoracic anesthesia. At the end of the fellowship training program the fellow will have completed all technical requirements and will have far exceeded the minimum professional requirements defined by the RRC, Residency Review Committee, and the American Board of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia.

In Addition, the training program is designed to ensure that fellows will not only exceed all the requirements of the American Board of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, but that they will have all the basic science and clinical tools necessary to excel in an academic or practice environment.

A unique experience aimed at developing academic cardiothoracic anesthesia for those interested in research has been planned for a research program (2months electives). The fellows will be expected, and assisted in developing an area of academic interest during their fellowship year with mentoring by the faculty. The fellows will have the opportunity to present their work at national conference and pursue funding for their work.

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Four fellow positions are offered.

The Fellowship consists of twelve months of clinical and didactic teaching.
Year 1.
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A mentoring program is available to guide fellows and to provide continual support from the faculty members.

Ample on-call facilities are provided, Fellows are on call no more than every 3rd night, with one additional weekend day off each week: Fellows receive a calendar month of vacation. The House Staff assistance program offers assignment, evaluations, and referrals for free psychiatric services.

There are computerized systems (Web-VS and Careview) which allow fellows to access patient medical information at all times, even from home.

Libraries

The department of Anesthesia Library in the hospital, also known as our Learning Resource Center (LRC) is located on the 4th floor. It is supplied with current medical text books, journals, CD's, audio cassettes. There are computers with internet access. Our LRC always contains recent anesthesia texts and literature to keep our fellows, residents and faculty abreast of the current literature.

Also located within the hospital is a Medical Library. This is filled with a collection of books emphasizing clinical medicine and is searchable via the Library's electronic catalog. Also available are popular magazines, newspapers, and computers with internet access to health and medical resources.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Anesthesiology Cardiothoracic division at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center is to provide the highest quality anesthesia care to the patients of this institution and to advance the science of the specialty through research and teaching. We are committed to providing our services to the patients of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in a comprehensive and compassionate manner that maintains human dignity and is in conformance with the mission of the Cedar Sinai Medical Center.

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Vision Statement

An academic medical center must provide excellent care that is compassionate and competent, focusing on the needs of the community as well as striving to continuously improve its services.

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Department of Anesthesiology

  • Co-Chair, Julian Gold, MD
  • Co-Chair, Ronald H. Wender, MD

Anesthesiology Residency Program

  • Academic Chair, Ronald H Wender, MD

Core Program Director

  • Roya Yumul, MD, PhD

Cardiothoracic Division Director/Program Director

  • Nicola D'Attellis, MD

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Faculty Listing

  • Behringer, Elizabeth, MD
  • Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Conte, Antonio, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Czer, Lawrence
  • Director of Transplantation Cardiology Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • D'Attellis, Nicola, MD
  • Professor of Anesthesiology
    Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
    Program Director of Cardiothoracic
    Anesthesia Fellowship
  • DeCastro, Maria, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Durra, Omar, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Frantz Robert, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Friedmand, Arnold MD
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Gold, Julian MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
    Co-Chair of Anesthesiology Departmen
  • Hackner, Errol MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Keith Kimble, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Lorraine, Lubin, MD
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Siegel, Robert, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
    Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
  • Taylor, Jamie, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Wender, Ronald, MD
  • Professor of Anesthesiology
    Academic Chair
    Co-Chair of Anesthesiology Department
  • Yumul, Roya, MD, PhD
  • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
    Core Program Director Anesthesiology
    Residency Program
  • Yusufali, Taizoon, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

    • For more information, please contact:

    Olivia Hernandez
    Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Program Coordinator
    8700 Beverly Blvd. Room 8211, NT
    Los Angeles, Ca 90048
    Phone: 310-423-2579
    Fax: 310-423-0387
    Send Us a Message

    Janice Hawk-Smith
    Core Program Coordinator
    8700 Beverly Blvd. Room 8211, NT
    Los Angeles, Ca 90048
    Phone: 310-423-1682
    Fax: 310-423-0387
    Send Us a Message

    Cathy Lobue
    Clerkship Coordinator
    8700 Beverly Blvd. Room 8211, NT
    Los Angeles, Ca 90048
    Phone: 310-423-5846
    Fax: 310-423-0387
    Send Us a Message
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