Washington University’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship is s 24-month ACGME Accredited clinical fellowship. The program is dedicated to providing excellence and commitment in patient care, cultivating future generations of surgical leaders, embracing diversity, promoting inclusiveness, and simultaneously providing innovative research and education in our community, across geographical borders, and globally for patients with congenital heart disease.
Program Goal
The goal of the Congenital Cardiac Program is provide an introduction to all forms of congenital heart defects, and to provide a graded progression of responsibility in the pre-operative, intraoperative and postoperative management of patients with congenital heart defects. To assure that, upon completion of the full program, the fellow will have had all of the clinical educational experience needed to prepare for successful completion of the certification process by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery in the Sub-specialty of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, and lay the foundation for a lifetime of self-education and improvement in the field. The program provides progression of responsibility in pre-operative, intraoperative and postoperative management of patients with congenital heart defects.
AIMS
- Cultivate self-directed learning strategies for continuing education, improvement, and assessment of knowledge base every academic year.
- Enhance interpersonal and communication skills resulting in effective collaboration.
- Awareness and responsiveness to the larger context of health care and transcribe with other system resources to provide optimal care.
- Assure that upon completion of the program the fellow has all of the clinical educational experience needed to prepare for successful completion of the certification process for a lifetime of self-education and improvement in the field.
- Promote an educational environment entwined in professionalism ethics, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Program Leadership
Jacob Miller, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Program Director, Congenital CT Fellowship Program
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD
Chief, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
