Transplant & MCS · Clinical Fellowship
Heart and Lung Transplantation Fellowship
UCLA Health (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) · Los Angeles, California, United States · Los Angeles · United States
Programme overview
One-year heart and lung transplantation fellowship for board-certified/board-eligible thoracic surgeons. The fellow experiences all aspects of heart transplantation including patient selection, pre- and post-operative management, and harvest and implantation techniques.
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 and lung transplantation
- Duration
- 1 year
- Eligibility
- Board-certified/board-eligible thoracic surgeons
- Required prior training
- Completed general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship
- Application documents
- CV; letter of interest
- Official contact
- Yazmin Lona, ylona@mednet.ucla.edu
- Data quality
- Official institutional source verified 9 Oct 2026
- Source type
- Official institutional or society page
- Registration
- California medical licence required
- Language
- English
- Visa information
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Funding
- Not publicly listed — confirm with the programme
- Participation
- Clinical fellowship; privileges depend on credentialing
- International applicants
- Not publicly listed — confirm with the programme
International applicant check
- Clinical participation
- Clinical fellowship; privileges depend on credentialing
- Registration
- California medical licence required
- Visa
- Not publicly listed — confirm directly with the host.
- Language
- English
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How to apply
Send CV and letter of interest to Yazmin Lona (ylona@mednet.ucla.edu) at least one year before the 1 July start date.
Open official programme page ↗Verification notes
Page states applications and interviews for thoracic surgery fellowships are rolling; no specific cycle deadline beyond 'at least one year in advance'.