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Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship

The Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship is a 12-month ACGME accredited training program devoted to the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care of adult patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery and related invasive procedures.

Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

The Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, cardiology's core fellowship program, is a three year ACGME training program consisting of two clinical years and one research year. Additional years in research are available and encouraged.

Echocardiography Fellowship

The Echocardiography Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital is a two year non-ACGME training program.

Electrophysiology Fellowship

The Electrophysiology Fellowship provides training in managing patients with complex cardiac arrhythmias and performing a wide range of invasive and noninvasive cardiac electrophysiologic and pacing procedures.

Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship

The Heart Failure and Transplant Fellowship provides inpatient and outpatient training in evaluating and treating patients with advanced heart disease, and follow-up of patients after cardiac transplant.

Interventional Cardiology Fellowship

The Interventional Cardiology Fellowship provides training in clinical interventional cardiology where fellows master the skills of percutaneous coronary interventional procedures and gain exposure to a wide variety of structural heart disease percutaneous procedures.

Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship

The Nuclear Cardiology Fellowship Program provides training in all aspects of nuclear cardiology practice, including cardiac PET, stress performance and interpretation and image analysis and interpretation.

Structural Heart Disease Fellowship

The Structural Heart Disease Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center is a one-year program that provides training in structural heart disease procedures for fellows with a completed cardiac catheterization and coronary interventional fellowship.

Vascular Diagnostic and Intervention Fellowship

The Vascular Diagnostic and Intervention Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital is a one-year, non-ACGME training program.

Internal Medicine Residency Program

For more than 75 years, the Department of Medicine Residency Training Program has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous and balanced approach to the training of internal medicine residents.

Surgical Residency Program

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Surgical Residency Program offers extensive clinical training and research opportunities.

Thoracic Surgery Residency

The goal of the residency in Thoracic Surgery is to produce residents who are versed in all contemporary aspects of both cardiac and thoracic surgery.

03/08/2013: Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Systemic Cardiovascular Disease: An Integrated Approach to Treating Heart Failure and Valve Disease, Vascular Disease

Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Systemic Cardiovascular Disease: An Integrated Approach to Treating Heart Failure and Valve Disease, Vascular Disease and Stroke presents evidence-based strategies that will impact your practice performance and improve outcomes for your patients with cardiovascular disease. The expert faculty will provide insights and opinions on methods for providing comprehensive diagnosis, treatment and management of patients while working in an integrated, multispecialty program.

09/29/2012: CME: Management of Carotid Artery Stenosis & Acute Stroke

05/30/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is Eugene Braunwald, MD, and the topic is Adventures in Cardiovascular Research.

05/23/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is Janey Pratt, MD, and the topic is TBA.

05/16/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is TBA and the topic is TBA.

05/09/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is George Beller, MD, and the topic is TBA.

05/02/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is TBA and the topic is TBA.

04/25/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is Elizabeth Nabel, MD, and the topic is Cardiovascular Insights from a Premature Aging Syndrome: A Translational Story.

04/18/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is Sam Tsimikas, MD, and the topic is Biotheranostic Applications of Oxidation-Specific Antibodies.

04/11/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds speaker is William A. Zoghbi, MD, FASE, FAHA, FACC, and the topic is The American College of Cardiology in 2012: Transforming Cardiovascular Care.

04/04/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Christian Mueller and the topic is Clinical Use of High-Sensitive Troponins.

03/21/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Harry Dauerman, MD and the topic is "Evolution of STEMI management: Guideline, mechanisms, and regional approaches".

02/29/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Anthony Rosenzweig, MD and the topic is Can exercise teach us how to treat heart disease.

02/22/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Isaac Samuel Kohane, MD and the topic is Separating the wheat from the chaffe in cardiac genomics.

02/08/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Roger Hajjar, M.D. and the topic is Novel therapies for heart failure based on calcium cycling targeting.

02/01/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is John Spertus, MD and the topic is "Leveraging outcomes research to support personalized medicine".

01/25/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Sheldon Litwin, M.D. and the topic is Obesity and cardiovascular disease: Can weight loss reverse coronary atherosclerosis?

01/11/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Robert Gerszten, MD and the topic is "Metabolomics for Cardiovascular biomarker and pathway discovery."

01/04/2012: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Patrick Ellinor, MD and the topic is Using Genetics to Identify the Molecular Pathways for Atrial Fibrillation.

12/14/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Robert Levine, M.D. and the topic is A Mitral Valve Odyssey: From Morphology to Mechanisms and Beyond.

11/30/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Thomas Suter, MD and the topic is Good for Cancer - Bad for the Heart? Cardiovascular side effects of Cancer Therapeutics.

11/09/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Thoralf Sundt, MD and the topic is "Aortic aneurysm repair - usually BAV - Indications for intervention and options for repair".

11/02/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Jeffrey Popma, MD and the topic is The Present and Future of Percutaneous Aortic Valve Therapy.

10/26/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Keith Aaronson, M.D., M.S. and the topic is Mechanical Circulatory Support in Advanced Heart Failure.

10/19/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker are Rory Weiner, MD and Michael Picard, MD and the topic is Are you ordering your echoes appropriately?

10/12/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is John Kaufman, MD, MS and the topic is Legs to Lungs: Interventions in VTE.

10/05/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is David Milan, MD and the topic is Zebrafish Models of Cardiac Arrhythmias.

09/28/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Willian Dean Carlson, MD, PhD and the topic is TGF/BMP Signaling: The Keys to Regenerative Medicine or Just a BMP in the Road?

09/21/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speakers are Jeremy Ruskin, MD and Moussa Mansour, MD and the topics are "A Practical Clinical Tool for the Assessment and Classification of Atrial Fibrillation-Related Symptoms" and "Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation - Patient Selection, Techniques, Results and Predictors of Success", respectively.

09/14/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is David Scadden, M.D. and the topic is "Stem cells and their niche: Lessons from the blood".

09/07/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Grand Rounds Speaker is Henry Gewirtz, M.D. and the topic is Quantitative PET: Role in Evaluation and Therapy of Heart Faliure.

05/25/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

05/18/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is G. Michael Felker, M.D. MHS, FACC, and the topic is "Treatment of acute heart failure: Something old and something new."

05/11/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Samin Sharma, MD, and the topic is "Complex Coronary Interventional Techniques."

05/04/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Thomas Marwick, MD, PhD, and the topic is "Diabesity and Heart Failure – From A to B"

04/27/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Lionel Opie, MD, and the topic is "Heart Health in Africa".

04/20/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Garry Jennings, AM, MB BS, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FAHA, FCSANZ and the topic is "CVD Health in Indigenous Australians - Closing the gap".

04/13/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Stanley Nattel, MD, and the topic is "New drug therapies for AF: Prospects and realities".

03/30/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Alan R. Shuldiner, MD, and the topic is "Genetics of the Metabolic Syndrome: Lessons from a founder population."

03/23/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Pamela Douglas, M.D. and the topic is "Imaging For CAD Diagnosis: New Clinical and Research Paradigms".

03/16/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is JoAnn Manson, M.D. and the topic is "Vitamin D and prevention of cardiovascular disease: Ready for prime time?".

03/09/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

Randall Starling, M.D., M.P.H. 'The role of cardiac transplantation and ventricular assist devices for heart failure management: Evolving strategies'.

03/02/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Robert Harrington, MD, and the topic is "Clinical Research - Challenges and Oppportunities for Academic Medical Centers".

02/16/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Bruce Mintz, D.O. and the topic is "The cardiovascular specialist in catastrophe (An experience from Haiti one year out)".

02/09/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Blair Grubb, M.D. and the topic is "Autonomic Disorders: A guide for the clinician".

02/02/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Dan Ollendorf, MPH., ARM, and the topic is "Management options for Artial Fibrillation: An Appraisal of Comparative Effectiveness and Value."

01/19/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Nikolaos Stathatos, M.D., and the topic is "Primary Aldosteronism".

01/12/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Tony Rosenzweig, MD, and the topic is "Can Exercise Teach Us How to treat the failing heart?"

01/05/2011: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Ron Waksman, MD, and the topic is "New Frontiers in HDL Therapy."

12/15/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Robert Schainfeld, DO, and the topic is "Venous Compression Syndromes, Has Cinderella Finally Been Invited to the Heart Ball?"

12/08/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Danita Sanborn, MD, and the topic is "Echocardiography in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: An update on the revised diagnostic criteria."

10/15/2010: Heart Disease in Women - 2010 Update

The purpose of this course is to educate clinicians about the unique features regarding the presentation, treatment and prevention of heart disease in women.

09/29/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Spencer B. King, III, MD, and the topic is "What is the role of revascularization in stable ischemic heart disease?"

09/29/2010: Update in Clinical Cardiology

The objective of this course is to provide an extensive review of clinical cardiology emphasizing newer concepts of diagnosis, decision making, pharmacology and therapy. The course is designed primarily for the clinical cardiologist, internist, primary care physician, and allied cardiac care personnel. Instruction is carried out through lectures and open discussions, providing opportunity for questions and answers between student and faculty.

09/22/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Udo Hoffmann, MD, MPH, and the topic is "Clinical Trials and New Developments in Cardiac CT Imaging."

09/15/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Timothy Henry, MD, and the topic is "Options for the no option patient: Is it time for a comprehensive approach to the patient with refractory angina or CLI?"

09/08/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Brian Olshansky, MD, and the topic is to be announced.

05/26/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Gary S. Francis, MD, and the topic is "Cardio-renal syndrome: how the heart and kidneys communicate."

05/19/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, and the topic is, "Radionuclide molecular imaging."

05/12/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Peter C. Block, MD, and the topic is, "Transcatheter valve repair and replacement: do the data so far allow clinical conclusions?"

05/05/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is James E. Lock, MD, and the topic is, "Gathering and acting on relevant clinical data: a new approach."

04/28/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is James E. Lock, MD, and the topic is, "Gathering and acting on relevant clinical data: a new approach."

04/14/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

The Cardiology Grand Rounds topic is to be announced.

04/07/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Robert M. Graham, MD, and the topic is, "Neuregulin and the heart: new tricks for an old dog."

03/31/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speakers are Drs. Patrick Ellinor, Jeremy Ruskin and Moussa Mansour, and the topic is, "Update on Atrial Fibrillation for the Clinician: Genetics, Drugs and Devices."

03/24/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Michael D. Drake, MD, and the topic is, "The future of interventional medicine."

03/10/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Ahmed Tawakol, MD, and the topic is, "PET studies of Atherosclerosis and Inflammation."

03/03/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA, and the topic is, "Government Support of Comparative Effectiveness Research: One Year Later"

02/24/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Joseph E. Parrillo, MD, and the topic is, "Reversible Causes of Myocardial Depression: Sepsis, Ischemia, and Myocarditis."

02/17/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Peter Ganz, MD, and the topic is, "25 Years of Endothelial Research in Humans: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going."

02/10/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Aaron Baggish, MD, and the topic is, "Exercise-Induced Cardiac Remodeling: From Bedside to Bench."

02/03/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Mark Creager, MD, and the topic is, "Peripheral Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Implications for the Cardiologist."

01/27/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Valentin Fuster, MD, and the topic is to be announced.

01/20/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Saumya Das, MD, PhD, and the topic is, "Heart Failure and Ventricular Arrhythmias: Revisiting the Sodium Channel."

01/13/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, and the topic is, "At the Intersection of Metabolism and Angiogenesis: New Lessons for Making Blood Vessels?"

01/06/2010: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Jonathan R. Lindner, MD, and the topic is, "Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Phenotype: New Diagnostic Paradigms on the Horizon."

12/16/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

12/09/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

12/02/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

11/11/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Institute for Health Policy.

11/04/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Michael Simons, MD, Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the topic is about therapeutic arteriogenesis.

10/28/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Rodney Falk, MD, and the topic is, "Marching to a different rhythm: conundrums in the diagnosis and management of cardiac amyloidosis."

10/21/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Catherine M. Otto, MD, and the topic is, "Calcific aortic stenosis: new concepts in disease pathophysiology."

10/14/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Henry Gewirtz, MD, and the topic is an update on quantitative PET for Dx for CAD extent and location.

10/07/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Kenneth L. Baughman, MD, and the topic is about peripartum cardiomyopathy.

10/05/2009: Heart Disease in Women - 2009 Update

This CME course is offered by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education. Upon completion of the course, participating physicians may receive credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.

09/30/2009: Cardiology Grand Rounds

This week's Cardiology Grand Rounds speaker is Mihai Gheorghiade, MD, and the topic is about acute heart failure syndromes.