Division of Cardiology
Leadership
Name:
Rene Alvarez, MD
Position:
- Director, Division of Cardiology
- Director, Jefferson Heart Institute
- Lubert Family Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
Organization:
Department of Medicine
Email:
[email protected]
Contact
Name:
Division of Cardiology
Department:
Department of Medicine
925 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Contact Number(s):
- 215-955-5050
- 215-503-0052 (fax)
Cardiology Fellowships
- Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Fellowship - This is a one-year fellowship that requires fellows to obtain competencies in the six areas as defined by the ACGME. The fellow is integrally involved in the evaluation of these patients and participates in all management decisions. In addition, fellows are required to observe and/or assist in cardiopulmonary exercise studies, mechanical assist device placement, orthotopic heart transplantation and post-heart transplant right heart biopsies.
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship - This fellowship is a two-year accredited program that requires fellows to obtain competencies in the six areas as defined by the ACGME to the level expected of a new CCEP practitioner. It is recognized that the CCEP fellow is a mature individual who will be in his or her seventh year of post-graduate training - designed for the field of clinical electrophysiology is a procedure-based subspecialty. Accordingly, the main emphasis of the CCEP fellowship training is to attain procedural proficiency in all aspects of invasive electrophysiology, become skilled at consultative electrophysiology and provide individualized ambulatory follow-up and troubleshooting for patients with implanted devices.
- General Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship - This three-year ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship p provides broad exposure to the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases. Emphasis is placed on concise ambulatory and inpatient bedside clinical diagnosis and appropriate utilization and interpretation of diagnostic studies and therapeutic procedures, with the integration of all data into the highest level of care focused on the individual patient.
- Interventional Cardiovascular Fellowship - This fellowship is a one-year accredited program that requires fellows to obtain competencies in the six areas as defined by the ACGME. The goal of the interventional fellowship is to prepare the fellow to be a skilled, independent operator in the performance of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures.