Transplant & MCS · Advanced Subspecialty Fellowship
Advanced Lung Failure and Transplant Fellowship
Northwestern Medicine · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Chicago · United States
Programme overview
Two-year advanced thoracic fellowship spanning lung transplantation, ECMO, ex-vivo lung perfusion and advanced lung-failure 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
- Lung Transplantation and Advanced Lung Failure
- Duration
- 24 months
- Participation
- Supervised clinical and operative participation
- International applicants
- Applicants must meet Northwestern GME, immigration, licensing and credentialing requirements
- Registration
- Illinois licensure and institutional credentialing requirements apply
- Accreditation
- Advanced fellowship; confirm current recognition directly
- Positions
- Not publicly listed
- Intake
- Current recruitment information requires confirmation
- Deadline
- Programme page under update; contact Northwestern
- 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 thoracic or cardiothoracic surgical training
- Application documents
- 3 recommendation letters; personal statement; USMLE transcript; CV; residency/fellowship completion certificate; visa documents if applicable
- Operative exposure
- Supervised clinical and operative participation
- Research component
- Not publicly listed
- Salary or stipend
- Not publicly listed
- Benefits
- Not publicly listed
- Accommodation
- Not publicly listed
- Official contact
- Rita Guzman, Education Coordinator; rita.guzman@nm.org
- Source type
- Official institution
- Additional verified source
- https://www.surgery.northwestern.edu/education/fellowships/advanced-lung-failure/index.html
International applicant check
- Clinical participation
- Supervised clinical and operative 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
Email one combined application PDF to Rita Guzman at rita.guzman@nm.org. The published application deadline was 30 June 2026; the page is being updated, so confirm any subsequent intake.
Open official programme page ↗Verification notes
17 Oct 2026: Official page states 24-month programme and published deadline of 30 June 2026. It carries a May 2026 notice that the page is being updated; no later open call is inferred.