Adult Cardiac · Advanced post-residency clinical fellowship (non-ACGME advanced fellowship track)
Structural Heart and Valve Fellowship
Emory University School of Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Atlanta · United States
Programme overview
Emory's Structural Heart and Valve Fellowship trains cardiac surgery graduates in transcatheter aortic and mitral valve evaluation and TAVR as primary operator, alongside the cardiology-directed TAVR team. Applicants must have completed a cardiac surgery residency.
Associated faculty
Programme relationships are sourced from official material; portraits come from institutional profiles where available. This directory does not infer operative volume or outcomes.
Programme details
- Focus
- TAVR as primary operator, mitral and tricuspid transcatheter devices, TEVAR participation, 3mensio CT planning
- Duration
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Eligibility
- Completed cardiac surgery residency, research involvement during residency, and catheter experience via vascular surgery or cardiology rotations
- International applicants
- Applicants who did not complete residency in the United States must have passed USMLE I, II and III and have an H-1B visa
- Case volume
- Six to ten total transcatheter cases per week expected, including TAVR, mitra-clip, mitral and tricuspid valve prostheses
- Programme directors
- Brent Keeling, MD (surgery); Vasilis C. Babaliaros, MD (cardiology)
- Funding
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Language
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Registration
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Visa information
- H-1B visa required for non-US-trained applicants
- Source type
- Official institutional or society page
- Official contact
- Tiffony Medina, Cardiothoracic Surgery Training Programs; cts.training.programs@emory.edu; +1 404-778-0281
- Application documents
- Advanced-fellowship enquiry: updated CV and statement of interest; include full name and requested fellowship in the email subject
International applicant check
- Licensing
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Visa
- Non-US-trained applicants must have passed USMLE I, II and III and have an H-1B visa
- Funding
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Language
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
This is a source summary, not an eligibility decision. Confirm licensing, immigration, funding and clinical privileges with the responsible institution.
How to apply
Applications are currently closed. For programme enquiries use cts.training.programs@emory.edu. The shared advanced-fellowship application instructions request an updated CV and statement of interest, with full name and fellowship in the email subject.
Open official programme page ↗Sources for updated details
- Official contact, Application documents: Official source ↗ · checked 18 Oct 2026
Verification notes
Read from the official Emory School of Medicine programme page. Duration is not stated on the page. The page states advanced-fellowship applications are currently closed.