Accredited by: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

Length of Fellowship:  One Year

Start Date:  July 1st

Positions Available: 6

Application Dates/Deadline: November 11th to March 1st (One year before matriculation)

Applicant Qualifications: Successful completion of ACGME Anesthesiology Residency

San Francisco Match Participant: Yes

Candidates interested in completing training in both adult critical care and cardiothoracic anesthesia at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine over a 24 month period, please contact the Medical Training Coordinator at [email protected] for further information.

Applications are accepted via SF Match (https://www.sfmatch.org) from November 11th to March 1st.

Interviews for selected applications will take place March 12th to April 16th.

Missions, Goals, & Objectives

The mission of The Johns Hopkins Hospital is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in patient care. Diverse and inclusive, The Johns Hopkins Hospital in collaboration with the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University supports medical education and research, and provides innovative patient-centered care to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness.
The overall goal of the Cardiac Anesthesiology and Interventional Echocardiography Fellowship at Johns Hopkins is to develop the future leaders and consultants that will pave the way of our specialty.

By the end of this fellowship, fellows will be able to:

• Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective anesthetic care for adult patients presenting for cardiothoracic surgery;
• Foster a thorough understanding of the breadth and depth of the specialty of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Interventional Echocardiography;
• Develop the skills necessary for research and appraise the medical literature and scientific evidence relevant to the individualized plan of patient care and to advance the specialty.

Curriculum

This fellowship is devoted to the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care of adult patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery and related invasive procedures. With respect to didactic lectures, there are three DIVISIONAL series of lectures as well as some adjunctive lecture series outside of our Division:

• A Cardiac Divisional Conference every Thursday for 45 minutes which encompasses a range of cardiovascular related research and clinical topics. Speakers include faculty from the division, faculty from other JHU departments as well as external faculty.
• A series is a TEE lecture series that consists of lectures focusing on cardiothoracic structures and their pathophysiology based on the content outline of the Advanced Perioperative TEE Examination by the National Board of Echocardiography. As part of the TEE curriculum, we offer basic and advanced level workshops/didactic lectures that utilize an echocardiography simulator. The simulator is housed within our division and when not being used for educational workshops, is available for practice to our fellows.
• There is an additional lecture series that is available online that addresses the curriculum as delineated by the ACGME. In addition, lectures on fatigue; and physician impairment are included. Our fellows also attend at least one TEE conference during their fellowship for which funding is provided. In addition, through the Faculty Development Office, our fellows can participate in grant writing courses as well as other research/clinical courses, free of charge.

The Department of Anesthesiology holds weekly Grand Rounds. In addition, we hold multidisciplinary conferences with the cardiology and cardiac surgery departments. Because several lecture series occur simultaneously at Johns Hopkins within different department/divisions, our fellows are welcome to attend any that are offered at the institution.

Our Fellows are required to complete two academic projects – a Case Report presentation and a Journal Club presentation. Both of these are presented individually during our morning Divisional Grand Rounds. Additionally, our fellows have the opportunity to present their research and ongoing projects at conferences throughout the year.

Rotations

Cardiac Anesthesia: 6-7 months
Cardiac Thoracic Anesthesia: 1 month
Elective: Perfusion, Electrophysiology/ Catheterization laboratory: 2 weeks
Cardiac Surgical ICU: 1 month
Academic Projects 1 month
Transesophageal Echocardiography within the Department of Cardiology: 1 month

Research in Anesthesiology is diverse and develops new dimensions relevant to patient care and fostering state-of-the-art molecular approaches. Our faculty includes world-class investigators (MD, MD/PhD, and Ph.D scientists) conducting multidisciplinary research in a number of research areas with major programs. The majority of the cardiac anesthesiology faculty are NIH and/or AHA funded. Research has traditionally focused on a systems biology approach, consistent with the discipline’s clinical role in monitoring critical systems and ensuring survival during our most vulnerable periods. We strive to achieve true translational research, linking our basic and clinical research programs to deliver novel therapeutics and devices to the bedside, to directly investigate interventions and outcomes in our clinical arenas, and to perform relevant and insightful investigations at the basic, mechanistic level.

One critical aim of the department is to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical medicine by performing research of the highest quality in both areas (translational research). The key aspect revolves around the idea of having clinicians and basic scientists working together in the research laboratory as well as in the clinical facilities.

James (Jake) Abernathy, MD, MPH
Division Chief, Cardiac Anesthesiology 

Promise Ariyo, MD

Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE
Vice Chair for Education
Medical Director, Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Director, Intraoperative and Structural Transesophageal Echocardiography

Charles Brown, MD
Director of Perioperative Clinical Research

Brian Bush, MD

Stephanie Cha, MD

Brian Cho, MD

Wei Dong Gao, MD

Lee Goeddel, MD
Associate Program Director Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) Fellowship
Director of Perioperative Ultrasound Research

Michael Grant, MD
Director of Anesthesiology for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Director of Clinical Operations

Nadia Hensley, MD
Director of Patient Safety and Clinical Quality
Physician Advisor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Roger A. Johns, MD, MHS

Brijen Joshi, MD
Medical Director, Thoracic Anesthesiology

Youn-hoa Jung, MD

Megan Kostibas, MD
Program Director, Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship

Laeben Lester, MD
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Airway Program
Course Director, Mark Rossberg Memorial Multidisciplinary Airway Course

Daniel Nyhan, MD, MMBCh

Sinead Nyhan, MD
Co-Director of Perioperative Medicine, High Risk Cardiovascular Disease

Jochen Steppan, MD, DESA, FAHA
Director of Perioperative Medicine, High Risk Cardiovascular Disease

Joseph Walpole, MD

Giancarlo Suffredini, MD

Multi-Disciplinary Surgical Critical Care Fellows
2024-2025

Avi Dobrusin, MD
Washington University
School of Medicine

Brett Heber, DO
The University of Vermont Medical Center

Tymoteusz Kajstura, MD
The Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine

Gaurav Shrestha, MBBS
The Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine

Emmanuel Tito, MD
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Samira Vithani, MBBS
University of Iowa