Adult Cardiac · Advanced Subspecialty Fellowship
Advanced Cardiac Surgery Fellowship
Northwestern Medicine · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Chicago · United States
Programme overview
Flexible advanced cardiac fellowship with focused tracks in heart failure/transplant/MCS, aortic/endovascular, or minimally invasive/robotic surgery.
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
- Heart Failure, Aortic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- Duration
- 1–2 years
- Participation
- Supervised operative and perioperative participation
- International applicants
- Applicants must meet Northwestern GME, immigration, licensing and credentialing requirements
- Registration
- Illinois licensure and institutional credentialing requirements apply
- Accreditation
- Advanced fellowship; track-specific recognition should be confirmed
- Positions
- Not publicly listed
- Intake
- Open positions are posted through CTSNet
- Deadline
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
- Funding
- Not publicly listed
- Language
- English
- Visa information
- Not publicly listed
- Fees
- Not publicly listed
- Data quality
- Official institutional source verified 8 Oct 2026
- Application opens
- Not publicly announced
- Eligibility
- Confirm current prior cardiothoracic training requirements with Northwestern
- Required prior training
- Advanced cardiothoracic surgical training
- Application documents
- See official application instructions
- Operative exposure
- Supervised operative and perioperative participation
- Research component
- Not publicly listed
- Salary or stipend
- Not publicly listed
- Benefits
- Not publicly listed
- Accommodation
- Not publicly listed
- Official contact
- ctsurged@nm.org
- Source type
- Official institution
International applicant check
- Clinical participation
- Supervised operative and perioperative participation
- Registration
- Illinois licensure and institutional credentialing requirements apply
- Visa
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Language
- English
This is a source summary, not an eligibility decision. Confirm licensing, immigration, funding and clinical privileges with the responsible institution.
How to apply
Submit the materials listed by Northwestern as a single PDF and state the preferred track.
Open official programme page ↗Verification notes
Northwestern publishes one-to-two-year training, rolling application review and three selectable focus areas; these are represented as one programme rather than inflated into three listings.