LUNG TRANSPLANT MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP 2025-2026
Baylor College of Medicine/Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Houston, TX
We are inviting applications for Baylor College of Medicine Lung Transplant Medicine Fellowship for the academic year 2025-2026.
The Baylor College of Medicine/Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX is a national leader in lung transplantation utilizing novel organ preservation and bridge to transplantation techniques as well performing redo lung transplantation and multi-organ transplants. The annual volume consists of 70-80 transplants/year with excellent outcomes. The fellow will be joining a collaborative lung transplant team who provide comprehensive multidisciplinary care to our patients.
Learning Objectives
- Indications/criteria for lung transplant referral and listing
- Absolute and relative contraindications for lung transplantation
- Evaluation of inpatient and outpatient transplant candidates
- Outcomes and survival following transplantation
- Criteria of donor selection, management of donor organs including ex-vivo lung perfusion and other organ preservation techniques, procurement, and implantation
- Continuous Allocation System (CAS)
- Peri- and post-operative management- Cardiopulmonary bypass, Extra corporeal life support (ECLS), mechanical ventilation, transition to floor
- Complications following lung transplantation
- Immunosuppression fundamentals, adverse effects, and common drug-drug interactions
- Opportunistic infections- risks, prevention, and management
- Primary graft dysfunction- risk factors, presentation, and management.
- Acute Lung Allograft Dysfunction- risk factors, presentation, and management
- Acute cellular rejection- risk factors, presentation, and management.
- Antibody mediated rejection- risk factors, presentation, and management.
- Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction- risk factors, presentation, and management.
- Retrospective and prospective clinical research studies, quality improvement projects, and other scholarly activity related to lung transplant medicine.
- Access lung transplant lecture series via American Society of Transplantation comprehensive trainee curriculum.
- Attend and/or present at national and international conferences
- Teaching opportunities for different groups of learners- APPs, residents, and fellows
- Qualify for certification as a Lung Transplant Pulmonologist, based on the requirements of the United Network for Organ Sharing.
Procedures
- Bronchoscopy: Airway examination, broncho-alveolar lavage and transbronchial biopsies. Advanced bronchoscopic training with interventional pulmonologists available
- Thoracentesis and pigtail/percutaneous chest tube placement
- Pleural ultrasound
Rotations
Core Rotations
- Inpatient Lung Transplant Service
- Outpatient Lung Transplant Service
- Bronchoscopy Service
Elective rotations
- Transplant Infectious Diseases
- HLA/laboratory services
- Pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary vascular diseases
- Thoracic pathology
- Thoracic radiology
- Didactic training
Learning will occur through instruction during various rotations, as well as didactics through the following:
- Transplant core curriculum series
- Lung histopathology review
- Weekly Medical Review Board Meeting
- Monthly M&M conference
- Monthly lung transplant journal club
- Research training
Qualifications
- MD, DO, or equivalent degree
- Completion of an ACGME accredited Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship or equivalent there of (for international candidates)
- Board certified or board eligible for PCCM
- Eligible for medical licensure in the state of Texas
For additional information or to submit an application, please send the following to [email protected]:
- Letter of interest
- Curriculum Vitae
- PCCM Fellowship Certificate of Completion
- 3 letters of recommendation (1 needs to be from Program Director)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me via email: [email protected] or cell phone - 216.246.3018
Posted 6/14/24
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